Privacy Policy

About Us

We Travelinch are committed to protect privacy of your data. This Privacy Policy explains more specifically what Personal Information Travelinch collects(personal data means information relating to you or another identifiable person). Our products or services may contain links to other companies websites and services which have their Privacy Policy of their own. Those Privacy Policies should be read as well. Also, you should read Google Privacy Policy regarding Ads personalisation and how Google uses information, in addition, Facebook Cookie, Privacy Policies and how to control your cookies.

We have a few main principles when collecting your personal information:

  • We are thoughtful about the personal information we ask you to provide and the personal information that we collect about you through the operation of our services.
  • We store personal information for only as long as we have a reason to keep it.
  • We aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what information on your website is shared publicly (or kept private), indexed by search engines, and permanently deleted.
  • We help protect you from overreaching government demands for your personal information.
  • We aim for full transparency on how we gather, use, and share your personal information.

Below is our Privacy Policy, which incorporates and clarifies these principles.

What information we collect?

We collect following types of information:

  • Subscriber information. We ask for basic information from you in order to set up your account. If you have an account with us, we collect the information that you provide for your public profile. our public profile information is just that–public–so please keep that in mind when deciding what information you would like to include.
  • Transaction and Billing Information. If you buy something from us, you will provide additional personal and payment information that is required to process the transaction and your payment, such as your name, credit card information, and contact information.
  • Log Information. We collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information. We collect log information when you use our Services.
  • Usage and device Information. We collect information about your usage of our Services and what happens when you use them, such as, page views, searches, features enabled on our website and interactions with our other parts of our Services along with information about number and type of devices (e.g., screen size, name of cellular network, operating system and mobile device manufacturer). We use this information to, for example, provide our Services to you, as well as get insights on how people use our Services, so we can make our Services better.
  • Location information. We may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We collect and use this information to calculate how many people visit our Services from certain geographic regions.
  • Information from Cookies & Other Technologies. A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on websites and emails. Travelinch uses cookies and other technologies like pixel tags to help us identify and track visitors, usage, and access preferences for our Services, as well as track and understand email campaign effectiveness and to deliver targeted ads. For more information about our use of cookies and other technologies for tracking, including how you can control the use of cookies, please see our Cookie Policy.
  • Information We Collect from Other Sources. We may also get information about you from other sources. The information we receive depends on which services you authorize and any options that are available. We may also get information, such as a mailing address, age, gender, and interests from third party services about individuals who are not yet our users, which we may use, for example, for marketing and advertising purposes like postcards and other mailers advertising our services.

How And Why We Use Information

We use information about you as mentioned above and for the purposes listed below:

  • To ensure our Services (to set up and maintain your account or charge you for any of our paid Services);
  • To develop and improve our Services (to add new features that we think our users will enjoy);
  • To monitor and analyze trends (to better understand how users interact with our Services, which helps us improve our Services and make them easier to use);
  • To measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising, and better understand user retention and attrition (to analyse how many individuals purchased our or partners services after receiving a marketing message or the features used by those who continue to use our Services after a certain length of time);
  • To monitor and prevent any problems with our Services (to ensure the security of our Services and your personal information, detect and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities, such as spam, and protect the rights and property of others, which may result in us declining a transaction or the use of our Services);
  • To communicate with you (to communicate through an email, about offers and promotions offered by Travelinch and others we think will be of interest to you, solicit your feedback, or keep you up to date on our products);
  • To personalize your experience using our Services (to provide content recommendations, target our marketing messages to groups of our users, and serve relevant advertisements).

Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information

A note here for those in the European Union about our legal grounds for processing information about you under EU data protection laws, which is that our use of your information is based on the grounds that:

  • (1) The use is necessary in order to fulfil our commitments to you under our Terms of Service or other agreements with you or is necessary to administer your account–for example, in order to enable access to our website on your device or charge you for our services; or
  • (2) The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or
  • (3) The use is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those of another person; or
  • (4) We have a legitimate interest in using your information, to provide and update our Services, to improve our Services so that we can offer you an even better user experience, to safeguard our Services, to communicate with you, to measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising, and better understand user retention and attrition, to monitor and prevent any problems with our Services, and to personalize your experience; or
  • (5) You have given us your consent. Before we place certain cookies on your device and access and analyse them later on, as described in our Cookie Policy.

Sharing Information

How We Share Information

We do not sell your personal information to any third-party company or website.

We share information about you in the limited circumstances spelled out below and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy:

  • Subsidiaries, Employees, and Independent Contractors: We may disclose information about you to our subsidiaries, our employees, and individuals who are our independent contractors that need to know the information in order to help us provide our Services or to process the information on our behalf. We require our subsidiaries, employees, and independent contractors to follow this Privacy Policy for any kind of your personal information that we share with them.
  • Third Party Vendors: We may share information about you with third party vendors who need to know information about you in order to provide their services to us, or to provide their services to you or your site. This group includes vendors that help us provide our Services to you (for example, payment providers that process your credit or debit card information, fraud prevention services that allow us to analyse fraudulent payment transactions, postal and email delivery services that help us stay in touch with you, customer chat and email support services that help us communicate with you, registrars, registries), those that assist us with our marketing efforts (e.g. by providing tools for identifying a specific marketing target group or improving our marketing campaigns), those that help us understand and enhance our Services (like analytics providers), and companies that make products available on our websites, who may need information about you in order to, for example, provide technical or other support services to you. We require vendors to agree to privacy commitments in order to share information with them. Other vendors are listed in our more specific policies (e.g. our Cookie Policy).
  • Legal Requests: We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request.
  • To Protect Rights, Property, and Others: We may disclose information about you when we believe in common sense that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Travelinch, third parties, or the public at large. For example, if we have a good faith belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury, we may disclose information related to the emergency without delay.
  • Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or in the unlikely event that Travelinch goes out of business, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Policy would continue to apply to your information and the party receiving your information may continue to use your information, but only consistent with this Privacy Policy.
  • With Your Consent: We may share and disclose information with your consent or at your direction. For example, we may share your information with third parties with which you authorize us to do so, such as the social media services.
  • Aggregated or De-Identified Information: We may share information that has been aggregated or reasonably de-identified, so that the information could not reasonably be used to identify you. For instance, we may publish aggregate statistics about the use of our Services and we may share a hashed version of your email address to facilitate customized ad campaigns on other platforms.
  • Published Support Requests: And if you send us a request (for example, via a support email or one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish that request in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users.

Information Shared Publicly

Information that you choose to make public is disclosed publicly.

Information like your public profile, posts, other content that you make public on this or any other third-party website, for example “Likes” and comments, are all available to others. The photo that you upload to your public profile, or a default image if you haven’t uploaded one, is your Globally Recognized Avatar, along with other public profile information, will display with the comments and “Likes” that you make.

Public information may also be indexed by search engines or used by third parties.

Please keep all of this in mind when deciding what you would like or share.

How Long We Keep Information

We generally discard information about you when we no longer need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it–which are described in the section above on How and Why We Use Information–and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. We keep the web server logs that record information about a visitor to Travelinch website, such as the visitor’s IP address, browser type, and operating system, for up to 1 year, then we will request to renew your given consent to us. We retain the logs for this period of time in order to, among other things, analyse traffic to Travelinch website and improve our Services.

Security

While no online service is 100% secure, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so, such as monitoring our Services for potential vulnerabilities and attacks.

Choices

You have several choices available when it comes to information about you:

  • Limit the Information that You Provide: If you have an account with us, you can choose not to provide the optional account information, profile information, and transaction and billing information. Please keep in mind that if you do not provide this information, certain features of our Services might no be available.
  • Limit Access to Information On Your Mobile, PC or other Device: Your mobile device operating system should provide you with the ability to discontinue our ability to collect stored information or location information.
  • Opt-Out of Electronic Communications: You may opt out of receiving promotional messages from us. Just follow the instructions in those messages. If you opt out of promotional messages, we may still send you other messages, like those about your account and legal notices.
  • Set Your Browser to Reject Cookies: At this time, Travelinch does not respond to “do not track” signals across all of our Services. However, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies before using Travelinch website, with the drawback that certain features of our website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Your Rights

If you are located in certain countries, including those that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), data protection laws give you rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:

  • Request access to your personal data;
  • Request correction or deletion of your personal data;
  • Object to our use and processing of your personal data;
  • Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data; and
  • Request portability of your personal data.
  • You can usually access, correct, or delete your personal data using your account settings and tools that we offer, but if you aren’t able to do that, or you would like to contact us about one of the other rights.
  • EU individuals have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.

How to Reach Us

If you have a question about this Privacy Policy, or you would like to contact us about any of the rights mentioned in the Your Rights section above, please Contact us.

Other Things You Should Know

Transferring Information

Since Travelinch Services use third-party companies or websites worldwide, the information about you that we process when you use the Services in the EU may be used, stored, and/or accessed by individuals operating outside the European Economic Area (EEA) who work for us, other members of our group of companies, or third party data processors. This is required for the purposes listed in the How and Why We Use Information section above. When providing information about you to entities outside the EEA, we will take appropriate measures to ensure that the recipient protects your personal information adequately in accordance with this Privacy Policy as required by applicable law.

These measures include:

  • In the case of US based entities, entering into European Commission approved standard contractual arrangements with them, or ensuring they have signed up to the EU-US Privacy Shield; or
  • In the case of entities based in other countries outside the EEA, entering into European Commission approved standard contractual arrangements with them.

You can ask us for more information about the steps we take to protect your personal information when transferring it from the EU.

Ads and Analytics Services Provided by Others

Ads appearing on any of our Services may be delivered by advertising networks. Other parties may also provide analytics services via our Services. These ad networks and analytics providers may set tracking technologies (like cookies) to collect information about your use of our Services and across other websites and online services. These technologies allow these third parties to recognize your device to compile information about you or others who use your device. This information allows us and other companies to, among other things, analyse and track usage, determine the popularity of certain content, and deliver advertisements that may be more targeted to your interests. Please note this Privacy Policy only covers the collection of information by Travelinch and does not cover the collection of information by any third party advertisers or analytics providers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Travelinch may change its Privacy Policy from time to time. Travelinch encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the change log below, and, in some cases, we may provide additional notice (such as adding a statement to our homepage, or sending you a notification through email or your dashboard). Your further use of the Services after a change to our Privacy Policy will be subject to the updated policy.

 

This Privacy Policy was prepared in accordance with Automattic guidelines and Travelinch main principles.

If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy or our Cookie Policy, do not use our products and services or provide any kind of your personal information here.