Below you will find a complete disclosure and privacy policy to keep you informed on how I generate income from this website and how this website tracks and collects user data and information.
I take my recommendations and travel advice seriously. Read my Publishing Principles for my guidelines, ownership information, actional feedback, corrections, and ethics policies.
Who is We Seek Travel?
This website is https://www.weseektravel.com/.
For more information about our services and our terms, visit our Terms and Conditions.
What is this Privacy Policy & Affiliate Disclosure For?
The purpose of this privacy policy and affiliate disclosure is to inform you of how we collect and handle your personally identifiable information and what we may use it for. I will also offer full transparency on how I earn an income from this website through affiliate marketing and display advertising.
What personal data Do We collect and why Do we collect it?
The below is a summary of the type of personal information that may be collected on this site.
Comments
When website visitors leave a voluntary comment on this website, we can collect the data that is entered into the comment form. In addition, this website tracks the commenter’s public IP address and the browser user agent string in order to detect spam comments.
Cookies
Since leaving comments are the main form of uploading visitor information to this website (much like most other blogs), visitors should know that cookies are saved and to record the information you entered. This cookies are for your convenience so that you don’t need to enter the same details the next time you comment. The cookie expiry is 12 months.
Please see the affiliate disclosure below for more cookie information.
Media & Sensitive data
Please avoid uploading images to this website that contain embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Other visitors are able to download and extract this information. We are not responsible for the media and information you voluntarily upload to this website.
At no time should you submit any sensitive or personal information you do not want shared. This includes all government information, identity information, social security numbers or country identification, information regarding ethnicity or race, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal information, or union membership. If you do upload any of this type of sensitive information, it will be collected as part of this Privacy Policy.
Furthermore, at no time does this website purposely collect any sensitive or private information from children under the age of 16. As always, if a carer, parent, or guardian of a child believes that their child has entered any personal information on this website, please immediately contact [email protected] to have it removed.
Embedded content from other websites
As part of sharing online content, I will from time to time embed content (including videos, images, map embeds etc) from other websites. Since embedded content is often dynamic, the content will behave the same way as it would on the host’s website and can change after we have published our post.
Remember that the host is in control of this embedded content and these websites may collect your data or information, use cookies, use third-party tracking, or monitor your interaction with the embedded content in question. Also remember that if you are logged into the website of the embedded content, the website can see that. An example is Youtube embeds or Google Maps embeds but are not limited to these examples.
We strive to only embed content from reputable sources.
Data and Usage Analytics
This website tracks usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the site. Google Analytics may capture your IP address and IP location data.
Newsletter Signups
There may be an option to voluntarily subscribe to our newsletter on this website. This may be used for advertising purposes and all newsletters may contain tracking pixels. These pixels may be embedded in the emails to allow us to analyze campaigns.
Due to these pixels, you need to be aware that we can see if you open an email and which links you clicked. This allows us to adapt our newsletter content to better suit the interests of our readers. This behavior is not passed on to third parties.
How long Do We retain your data?
Comment data is retained indefinitely in order to recognize any future comments from that IP address. This is a convenience to you.
All Google-signals data is retained for 26 months by Google.
All newsletter signup information is retained indefinitely so that we can continue to provide you with updated newsletters.
What We Use Your Data For
The main use of your data is to retain comment information. However, other personal information voluntarily or automatically collected under this policy may be used for the following:
- To operate and maintain this website;
- To send you promotional information, including newsletters. Every email promotion will provide information on how to opt out of future emails;
- To respond to your comments or messages;
- To provide user support if necessary;
- To track and measure advertising on this website (please see PROGRAMMATIC ADVERTISING Notice below);
- To protect, investigate, and deter against the unauthorized or illegal activity.
Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your personal information to third parties without your consent. However, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through this website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business. This may be in the result of a merger, a purchase, acquisition, or consolidation of a part or all of our assets. This also applies to any connection with bankruptcy or reorganization proceedings brought by or against us.
What rights Do You have over your data?
We Seek Travel believes in internet privacy.
If you have an account on this website, or if you’ve left comments or uploaded media, then you can request to receive a file containing all the information and the personal data that we hold about you.
Additionally, you can make a request that we erase that data and we will delete it within our power. However, this does not include any data that is necessary to retain or keep for legal, administrative, or security reasons.
Where we send your data
Visitor comment is checked through a third-party spam-check automation service.
Affiliate Disclosure
We Seek Travel is a for-profit business meaning that I do receive an income from this website. We Seek Travel is a member of several affiliate programs with direct and redirected links that may provide commission from your clicks. My recommendations come from my real world experience and extensive travel expertise. My word is my career, and I take every single recommendation seriously. Unlike many other travel blogs out there, I prioritize the experience of my readers first and foremost.
If you (the reader) click on any of these links then a cookie may be embedded into your browser. Then, if you go on to purchase a product or service, I may receive a small commission between 4% to 15% of the sale. This is always at absolutely no extra cost to you and you will always pay exactly the same amount as if you were to visit the website directly.
Since we have been operating since 2018 and have written over 600 comprehensive guides, it’s more convenient to assume that we may be compensated when you click on any links on our website.
These affiliate links help me stay on the road and allow me to continue publishing free adventure travel articles for my readers.
Obviously, not all links on this blog are affiliate links, but to help with compliance, it’s better for both my readers and I to assume that I will receive a commission from your clicks.
BOOKING.COM AFFILIATE PROGRAM
I am a participating member of the Booking.com Affiliate Program.
I include accommodation recommendations in many of my travel and destination articles. These help my readers find great deals on the best places to stay for their travels.
If you do click through one of my Booking .com links and proceed with an accommodation booking, I will receive a small commission made from that booking and at no extra cost to you.
AMAZON ASSOCIATES AFFILIATE PROGRAM
We Seek Travel is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. As part of this Amazon Associates program, We Seek Travel will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales. When you click on the Amazon affiliate links to purchase an item, it allows me to earn a small commission, at no additional cost to you.
All efforts are made to ensure that affiliate links are disclosed in accordance with the FTC and GDPR.
Other Affiliate Programs and Sponsorships
We Seek Travel is affiliated with a range of other leading travel brands. Clicking on links to these sites may or may not result in us earning a commission for your click or qualified purchase. These include but are not limited to:
- 12Go
- Adobe
- Agoda
- Atlas Packs
- Avantlink
- Grayl
- Nomatic
- REI
- AWIN
- Bookaway
- CJ and some associated programs
- Commission Factory and some associated programs
- DJI
- F-Stop
- Four Elements
- GetYourGuide
- HeyMondo
- Himalayan Masters
- Impact and some associated programs
- Insta360
- Kickbooster and some associated programs, including HEIPI
- Partnerize and some associated programs
- Hostelworld
- Hotels.com
- Stay22
- Polarpro
- ShareASale and some associated programs
- BackpackerDeals
- TravelPayouts and some associated programs
- Travellers Autobarn (USA, NZ, and AU markets)
- Viator
- Spaceships Rentals
- DiscoverCars
- RentalCars.com
- Safetywing
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.
Payment Processing
Secure Online Payments At We Seek Travel, we understand the importance of secure online transactions. To ensure that your financial data is protected, we use Stripe, a leading global payment processor renowned for its robust security measures. When you book tours or services through our website, your payment details are processed directly by Stripe, ensuring that your information is handled with the highest security standards.
How We Use Stripe for Payments
- Transaction Processing: When you make a payment on We Seek Travel, Stripe handles the transaction. Your credit card and payment information are never stored on our servers. Instead, Stripe processes and analyzes your payment details on their secure platform.
- Data Security: Stripe is certified to PCI Service Provider Level 1, the most stringent level of certification available in the payments industry. All transactions are encrypted using SSL technology.
- Privacy: We do not have access to your credit card details. Stripe provides us only with information regarding the transaction status, such as whether it was successful, declined, or requires further authentication.
- Refunds and Cancellations: Should you need to cancel a booking or request a refund as per our Refund Policy, transactions will be processed by Stripe according to the payment details originally provided by you. Refunds may take several days to reflect in your account, depending on your bank’s processing times.
What We Collect and Why
- Necessary Details: For payment processing, we collect details such as your credit card number, expiration date, and CVV code. These details are required to complete your booking and are directly processed by Stripe.
- Transaction Data: We collect information about the transaction, including date, time, payment amount, and booking details. This information is used for internal accounting and regulatory compliance.
Our contact information
We Seek Travel
Address retracted to avoid bot scraping.
Please contact us via email for more information.
Email Address: [email protected]
Please contact us at any time for more information regarding this Privacy Policy. We will do our very best to get back to you within 10 business days.
Last updated: 15 Apr 2023