Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.psychologyoftravel.com

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

When you leave a comment on this website, you are giving implied consent for this comment and your information to appear on our website. In leaving a comment, your name and email address will not be shared with any third party. We may use your email address solely to respond to your comment. However, we are not liable or responsible for the actions of other individuals and the unauthorized use by such information that you voluntarily share.

We have public social media accounts and social sharing options on our website. If you choose to interact on social media with us or our accounts, you are advised that any interactions on those accounts are publicly available.

An anonymous string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.  Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies are enduring for less than six months, though you can always delete these cookies at any time from your browser. If you log out of your account (if any), the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Other Personal Data Information

Wherever possible, you can elect to remain anonymous or use a pseudonym in interacting with us such as commentary.

From time to time, we may ask you to supply personal information such as your name or e-mail address.

For example, we ask for your contact information when you sign up for an online electronic product or download, respond to an email offer, participate in community forums (if any), join us on social media, or contact us with questions or request support.

If you don’t want to provide us with personal data, you don’t have to, but it might mean you can’t use some parts of our websites or services.

Under no circumstances will we request any information from you that may disclose your:

• political, religious or philosophical opinions, beliefs, associations or affiliations;
• health and sexuality;
• racial or ethnic origin;
• membership of a trade union
• criminal records.

We may also conduct surveys or market research and may seek other information from you on a periodic basis. These surveys will provide us with information that allows improvement in the types and quality of services offered to you, and the manner in which those services are offered to you.

We attempt to collect, store, use and secure personal data consistent with Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Data Retention

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

What rights you have over your data

You can request that we update or erase personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes or as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username, if established at any registration). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Additional information

Analytics

There may also be other types of cookies created after you’ve visited this website, such as related to analytics like Google Analytics, a popular web analytics service that uses cookies to help to analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of another website, compiling reports on website activity, and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google undertakes not to associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Third Party Advertising

This site may use third-party advertising companies serving ads to you when you visit. These companies may store information about your visits here and to other websites in order to provide you with relevant advertisements about goods and services. For example, if they know what ads you are shown while visiting this site, they can be careful not to show you the same ones repeatedly.

These companies may employ cookies and other identifiers to gather information which measures advertising effectiveness. The information is generally not personally identifiable unless, for example, you provide personally identifiable information to them through an ad or an email message.

They do not associate your interaction with unaffiliated sites with your identity in providing you with interest-based ads.

This site does not provide any personal information to advertisers or to third party sites. Advertisers and other third-parties (including the ad networks, ad-serving companies, and other service providers they may use) may assume that users who interact with or click on a personalized ad or content are part of the group that the ad or content is directed towards (for example, readers in the US Southwest who read certain types of articles). Also, some third-party cookies may provide them with information about you (such as the sites where you have been shown ads or demographic information) from offline and online sources that they may use to provide you more relevant and useful advertising.

This content may include affiliate links from advertisers.  It may earn a commission from actions readers take on these links (at no cost to you), such as a click, purchase, or subscribe. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.  See our Disclosure Statement for more information.

To learn more about what options you have about limiting the gathering of information by third-party ad networks, you can consult the website of the Network Advertising Initiative.

You can opt out of participating in interest-based advertising networks, but opting out does not mean you will no longer receive online advertising. It does mean that the companies from which you opted out will no longer customize ads based on your interests and web usage patterns using cookie-based technology.

Sharing Information

This site does not sell, rent, or disclose to outside parties the information collected here, except as follows:

(a) Affiliated Service Providers: This site has agreements with various affiliated service providers to facilitate the functioning of the site. For example, the site may share your credit card information with the credit card service provider to process your purchase. All administrative service providers that this site uses are required to have the same level of privacy protection as this site does, and therefore your information will be handled with the same level of care. Additionally, for example, this site may use analytic or marketing services such as Google Analytics, Google Adsense, Taboola, or RevContent, to which collection you hereby unconditionally consent. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

(b) Where required by law: This site may share the collected information where required by law, specifically in response to a demand from government authorities where such demand meets the legal requirements.

(c) Statistical Analysis: This site may share Non-Personal Information and aggregated information with third parties, including but not limited to for advertising or marketing purposes. No Personal Information will be shared in this manner.

(d) Transactions: In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition, or in any other situation where Personal Information may be disclosed or transferred as a business asset.

Our Third Party entities who may place cookies and tracking technology on your computer or device include, but are not limited to:

• Google Analytics – providing traffic analytics and demographics
• Mailchimp – help us collect information for email subscribers; Mailchimp’s privacy policy.
• Amazon – tracks products we promote via affiliate links on our site
• Commission Junction –  tracks products we promote via affiliate links on our site
• Facebook – user analytics and advertising tracking
• Twitter  – user analytics and advertising tracking

Security of Personal Information

We are committed to keeping your personal information secure regardless of the format in which we hold it and we take reasonable steps to protect your information from misuse, interference, loss, and unauthorized access, modification or disclosure. However, you use the Website at your own risk and we accept no responsibility, whether we are deemed to have been negligent or not, in the event of a security issue that affects your privacy.

Please note that no information transmitted over the Internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. We will seek to protect your personal information as best as possible, but we cannot guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to us, or receive from us. The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk.

How To Opt Out Of Interest-Based Advertising

Opting Out of Interest-Based Advertising Services: This website adheres to the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) Self-Regulatory Principles. For a description of the DAA Program, please visit the DAA website.

Opting Out of Interest-Based Advertising by Third Parties: To find out more about interest-based advertising on the internet and how to opt out of information collection for this purpose by companies that participate in the Network Advertising Initiative or the Digital Advertising Alliance, visit NAI’s opt-out page or DAA’s Consumer Choice Page.

California Privacy Rights

This notice to California residents is provided under California law, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), Cal. Civ. Code 1798.100, et seq. This helps by explaining your privacy rights if you are a California resident and providing certain mandated disclosures about our treatment of California residents’ information.

We collect these categories of personal information when you interact with us: identifiers/contact information, demographic information, payment card information associated with you (if applicable), commercial information, Internet or other electronic network activity information, geolocation data, audio, electronic, visual or similar information, and data related to the above.

We also make the following disclosures for purposes of compliance with the CCPA:

• We collected the following categories of personal information in the last 12 months: identifiers/contact information, demographic information (such as gender and age), payment card information associated with you, commercial information, Internet or other electronic network activity information, geolocation data, audio, electronic, visual or similar information, and data related to the above.
• The sources of personal information from whom we collected are: directly from our guests, third-party sites or platforms that you directly link, analytics tools, social networks, advertising networks, and third-party services that update or supplement information we hold about you.
• The business or commercial purposes of collecting personal information are described in more detail in our Privacy Policy.
• We may have disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose in the last 12 months: identifiers/contact information, demographic information, payment card information associated with you (if applicable), commercial information, Internet or other electronic network activity information, geolocation data, audio, electronic, visual or similar information, and data related to the above. We disclosed each category to third-party business partners and service providers, third-party sites or platforms such as social networking sites, and other third parties.
• As the term is defined by the CCPA, we may have “sold” the following categories of personal information in the last 12 months: identifiers/contact information, Internet or other electronic network activity information, and inferences drawn from the above. We may have “sold” each category to advertising networks, data analytics providers, and social networks.
• The business or commercial purposes of “selling” personal information is for third-party companies to perform services on our behalf, such as marketing, advertising, and audience measurement.
• We do not “sell” personal information of known minors under 16 years of age.

Right to Access
If you are a California resident, you have the right to request, up to two times each year, access to categories and specific pieces of personal information about you that we collect, use, disclose, and sell.

Right to Delete
If you are a California resident, you have the right to request that we delete personal information that we collect from you, subject to applicable legal exceptions.

Right to Opt Out of Sale of Personal Information
If you are a California resident, you have the right to “opt out” of the “sale” of your “personal information” to “third parties” (as those terms are defined in the CCPA).

Process to Make a CCPA Request

To make an access or deletion request, please visit psychologyoftravel.com.

You may also use an authorized agent to submit an access or deletion request on your behalf.  An authorized agent must have your signed permission to submit a request on your behalf or provide proof that they have power of attorney in accordance with California probate law. Authorized agents that are business entities must be registered with the California Secretary of State to conduct business in California. Before completing requests from authorized agents, we may contact you directly to confirm you’ve given your permission and/or to verify your identity.

To submit a request to opt out of the sale of your personal information, you may send an email to psychoftravel@gmail.com with the subject line “do not sell info.”  You may also use an authorized agent to submit a request to opt out on your behalf if you provide the authorized agent signed written permission to do so.  You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for the exercise of your privacy rights conferred by the CCPA.

Shine the Light Act
If you are a California resident, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request information regarding the disclosure of certain of your personal information. Pursuant to California Civil Code Section 1798.83(c)(2), we do not share guests’ personal information with other companies for those parties’ direct marketing use unless a guest elects that we do so.

To make such a request, please send an email to psychoftravel@gmail.com or write us at:

Psychology of Travel
516 E. Byron Nelson Blvd
PO Box 1076
Roanoke, TX 76262

Removal of Content
If you are a California resident under the age of 18, and a registered user of any site where this policy is posted, California Business and Professions Code Section 22581 permits you to request and obtain removal of content or information you have publicly posted.

• To make such a request, please send an email with a detailed description of the specific content or information to psychoftravel@gmail.com. Please be aware that such a request does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or information you have posted and that there may be circumstances in which the law does not require or allow removal even if requested.