Last updated 24/09/2023
Welcome to https://makecentsoftravel.com (referred to as Make Cents of Travel, the Website or the Site).
Eva & Tim Mitchell are the sole owners and creators of Make Cents of Travel. We both understand that your privacy online is important and this statement governs our privacy policies and is inclusive of users of the Make Cents of Travel site who visit and also users who make use of the various services offered by the Site.
This Privacy Policy explains the rights you have over your personal information and how you can opt out of certain uses and disclosures of your personal information, and, as a courtesy, provides a number of useful links to third party information regarding privacy protection.
We may collect your email address, name, or your website (if you are wanting to work with us) but only if you voluntarily provide it to us. This may occur, for example, if you sign up to receive an email newsletter, enter a promotion, leave a comment, or to receive our freebies.
When visitors leave comments on the Site, we collect the data shown in the comments form (name, email, and your comment) and also the users’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection and to identify the comment owner. At your option, you may also add a profile picture to your comment. Please note that only your name, the content of the comment, and the profile picture (if chosen) will be displayed publicly on the website indefinitely, or until a time that you contact us to remove a comment.
You can request to have your comment(s) removed at anytime by contacting us via our web Contact Form with your name, email address and the comment(s) you want removed.
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.
We use cookies for a variety of reasons set out below:
Users who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the Site, with the drawback is that certain features of website may not function or be available to you without the aid of cookies.
On the Site, you have the option to subscribe to our newsletter, which may contain promotional and informational content. Our newsletters may include tracking pixels, which are small, transparent images embedded in emails. These tracking pixels help us analyze the effectiveness of our online marketing campaigns and improve the content we provide to our subscribers.
Here's how these tracking pixels work:
The data collected through tracking pixels is used solely for the purpose of improving our newsletter content and the user experience. We do not share this data with third parties.
Currently, we use third-party services to manage our newsletter database and deliver emails. These services include, but are not limited to, Klayvio, MailChimp, and HubSpot. These companies have their own privacy policies, which you can review on their respective websites if you have any concerns about how they handle your data.
If you have signed up to our awesome Our Two Cents Newsletter, we promise to use it only for the purposes for which it is provided.
When you communicate with Make Cents of Travel via email, whether it's by sending us a message through our website contact forms or directly to our email addresses, please be aware of the following:
We may use third-party advertising companies to show content and ads when you visit our site. They may use cookies for a smoother experience, but we never share your personally identifiable information with them.
We may partner with companies like Google, Facebook, or Instagram for marketing purposes. They use cookies to display ads to people who've visited our site before.
This Website may collaborate with influencer networks, brands, and agencies to run sponsored campaigns. We want to assure you that all sponsored content is transparently disclosed in compliance with the FTC's guidelines. Occasionally, these sponsored campaigns may involve the use of tracking pixels, also known as web beacons. These tracking pixels may utilise cookies to gather data related to usage and audience engagement.
The Website 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 the purpose of commissions.
These affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to our affiliates. This means that when you click on certain links on our Website that lead to products or services on affiliate websites, we may earn a commission if you make a purchase at no extra cost to you.
The cookies used for affiliate tracking are typically provided by third-party affiliate networks. These cookies are subject to the privacy policies of the respective affiliate networks. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings.
We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
When you interact with embedded content on our site, these external websites have the potential to collect data about your activities. This data collection may involve the use of cookies, and additional third-party tracking mechanisms. If you have an account with one of these websites and are logged in while engaging with the embedded content, they may trace and associate your interaction with your account.
We may process information relating to transactions, including purchases of goods and services, that you enter into with us and/or through our Site]. The Transactional Data may include your contact details, your card details and the transaction details. The transaction data may be processed for the purpose of supplying the purchased goods and services and keeping proper records of those transactions.
Payment processing on our Site is through Stripe. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed onto Stripe, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information. Please see the Stripe Privacy Policy for more details.
Make Cents of Travel does not knowingly collect contact or personal information from children under 18. Nor are any of our Services or content targeted to Children under the age of 18. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received information from a child, we will delete such information from our records. If you want to notify us of our receipt of information by children under 18, please do so by emailing us via our web Contact Form.
Your email address, name, any comments are stored on our server. We have implemented security measures to protect this data from unauthorized access, breaches, or misuse.
Sensitive information, such as credit card numbers are stored in third party service vendors (i.e. Stripe Payment Gateway). Refer to the third party service vendor privacy, and security policies.
If you have subscribed to this site, or left comments, you can request to receive the personal information we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request to 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.
If you believe that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection.
In the unlikely event of a data breach, we are committed to complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and taking all necessary steps to address the breach promptly and notifying any affected individuals.
We will let our users know about changes to our privacy policy by posting such changes on the Site.
For any Privacy related concerns please contact us via our web Contact Form.