Privacy Policy
Caroline Rose Travel found at https://carolinerosetravel.com(“Caroline Rose Travel”) is governed by the following privacy policy:
Who We Are
Our website address is: https://carolinerosetravel.com. Caroline can be contacted at carolinerosetravel@gmail.com.
What Personal Information Do We Collect and How Do We Use It?
Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website
We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address when you voluntarily submit information to Caroline Rose Travel by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or using the contact form to email Caroline.
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.
An anonymized 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, such as in the comment section, 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.
Contact Forms
When visitors submit a contact form, the information they submit is collected which may include first name, last name, email, message contents and subject. This information is used to contact Caroline Rose Travel, and likewise for Caroline Rose Travel to reply. The visitors contact information will then be stored to receive newsletters, from which the visitor can unsubscribe.
Information We Collect from Others
We may receive information about you from other sources—for instance if you choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Google accounts in the website field when commenting. Caroline Rose Travel may utilize social media commenting systems, so if you choose to comment on post here which has been shared on social media, your comment may appear on the blog post as well.
Automatically-Collected Information
We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access Caroline Rose Travel, usually for analytical purposes.
For example, when you use Caroline Rose Travel, your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed Caroline Rose Travel are all automatically logged, just like any other site with analytical tools. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the website, such as links clicked.
In Caroline Rose Travel’s case, it’s all for the sake of analytics, and knowing what our consumers like and don’t like on the website, to improve the experience for you.
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 last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, 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. It expires after 1 day.
All of these disclosures are common-place, and likely used on any other site you visit during your average day, like Google.com. Caroline Rose Travel vows to do all within our power to protect your information and your privacy, and will never sell your information to a third-party.
Third Party Use Of Information
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.
Analytics
This service tracks Caroline Rose Travel usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on Caroline Rose Travel. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics.
Google Analaytics’ privacy policy can be found here.
Mail Chimp
This service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications. Please refer to Mail Chimp’s privacy policy for further information.
At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time in Caroline Rose Travel’s sole discretion.
Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.
Youtube
Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.
If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.
If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.
Google Web Fonts
For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.
For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our plugin. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.
Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Askimet
We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
Anonymous Data
From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.
How Your Information May Be Used
To operate and maintain Caroline Rose Travel;
To create your account, identify you as a user of the website, and customize the website for your account;
To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
To respond to your comments or inquiries;
To provide you with user support;
To track and measure advertising on the Caroline Rose Travel;
To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.
Publicly Visible Information
If you leave a comment on the website, certain information like your name may be publicly visible. Your email address will never be available publicly. At your option, you may also add an avatar, a profile description, and a link to your website.
Users may see your username, avatar, profile description and website information.
Cookies
Caroline Rose Travel uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.
Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of Mamas and Mantras may be entirely usable.
Advertising
Display Ads
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit Caroline Rose Travel, which may use cookies, as noted above.
Retargetings Ads
From time to time, Caroline Rose Travel may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to Caroline Rose Travel.
Affiliate Program Participation
Caroline Rose Travel may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.
Newsletters
On the Caroline Rose Travel, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. Newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns.
Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where We Send Your Data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
How long We retain your data
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.
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). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Sensitive Personal Information
At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
Children's Information
The website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that Caroline Rose Travel has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at carolinerosetravel@gmail.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Travel Payouts
Travelpayouts is a digital partnership platform dedicated to all things travel. Trusted brands like Booking.com, Tripadvisor, and GetYourGuide work together with over 300,000 bloggers and content creators around the world to bring people the best travel deals.
I use their platform and Emerald AI tool in my blog posts. See their terms here.
Contact Information
Caroline Rose Travel can be contacted at carolinerosetravel@gmail.com regarding this Privacy Policy or other concerns.
