PRIVACY POLICY
Note for California Residents: This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, sell, share, and retain your personal information on our Website when you purchase our digital products, as well as your rights and choices over processing your personal information. The section Your Privacy Choices and Rights; Submitting Requests Under Applicable Local Laws below contains specific details related to your rights under California law, including your right to opt-out of "sales" and/or "sharing" of personal information and limiting the use and disclosure of your personal data.
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This Privacy Policy describes how Travelbliss LLC (the "Travelbliss", "Website", "we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit, use our services, or make a purchase from www.travelbliss.co (the "Website") or otherwise communicate with us (collectively, the "Services"). For purposes of this Privacy Policy, "you" and "your" means you as the user of the Services, whether you are a customer, website visitor, or another individual whose information we have collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using and accessing any of the Services, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Table of Contents
1. Data Collection and Use
2. Types of Data Collected
3. Cookies Data
4. Third Party Data
5. Data Usage
6. Processing Personal Data under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - Legal Basis
7. Data Disclosure
8. User Generated Content
9. Third Party Websites and Links
10. Children
11. Analytics
12. Advertising
13. Data Security and Retention
14. Data Rights and Choices
15. Privacy Choices and Rights under the Applicable Local Laws
16. Complaints
17. Contact Us
18. Changes to This Policy
1.Data Collection and Use
The data we collect and use varies depending on how you interact with us.
In addition to the specific uses set out below, the collected data is to communicate with you, provide the Services, comply with any applicable legal obligations, enforce any applicable terms of service, and protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.
2. Types of Data Collected
The types of personal data we obtain about you depend on how you interact with our Website and use our Services. When we use the term "personal data", we refer to information that identifies, relates to, describes, or can be associated with you.
Personally identifiable data may include, but is not limited to:
Information you directly submit to us through our Website may include: Basic contact details including your first and last name and email.
Applicable only to digital guides purchase: first and last name, billing address, payment confirmation, email address, and phone number.
3. Cookies Data
Like many websites, we use Cookies on our website. With your consent, we use Cookies to help us power, analyze, secure, and improve our Website and our Services, to run analytics that enhance your browsing experience.
Certain data about your interaction is also automatically collected with the Services ("Usage Data"). To do this, we may use cookies, pixels, and similar technologies ("Cookies"). Usage Data may include information such as your computer's browser type, browser version, the pages of our Website you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data. For more information, please access our Cookie Policy.
4. Third Party Data
Third parties including service providers may collect information on our behalf, such as:
Companies who support our website, such as Squarespace.
Applicable only to digital products: Our payment processors, collect payment information (e.g., bank account, credit or debit card information, billing address) to process your payment in order to fulfill your orders and provide you with Services you have requested.
When you visit our Website, open or click on emails we send you, or interact with our Services or advertisements, we, or third parties we work with, may automatically collect certain information using online tracking technologies such as cookies.
Any information we obtain from third parties will be treated following this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible or liable for the accuracy of the information provided to us by third parties and are not responsible for any third party's policies or practices. For more information, see the section below, Third Party Websites and Links.
5. Data Usage
Travelbliss uses the collected data for various purposes:
Providing Products and Services. To provide and maintain our Website and allow you to participate in interactive features of our Website when you choose to do so, such as the comments section on our blog.
Marketing and Advertising. To gather analysis and valuable information while monitoring the usage and improving our Website. This may include better tailoring the Services and advertising on our Website and other websites.
Security and Fraud Prevention. To detect, investigate, or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal, or malicious activity.
Communicating with you. To provide you with news, offers, and general information that we think you will be interested in.
6. Processing Personal Data under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - Legal Basis
If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), Travelbliss' legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.
Travelbliss may process your Personal Data because:
We need to perform and/or provide a Service or Services to you
You have given us permission to do so
The processing is in our legitimate interests and it is not overridden by your rights
To comply with the law
7. Data Disclosure
In certain circumstances, Travelbliss may disclose your Personal Data for legitimate purposes subject to this Privacy Policy. Such circumstances may include:
With vendors or other third parties who perform services on our behalf (e.g., IT and Website management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, or cloud storage) preventing or investigating possible wrongdoing in connection with our Website.
With business and marketing partners. When we are part of an affiliate network, in our legitimate interest to run a successful business. Our partners will use your data in accordance with their own privacy notices.
To protect the personal safety of users of our Website or the public and against legal liability. When users directly consent us to disclose certain information to third parties, such as purchasing digital products through our social media widgets or login integrations.
8. User Generated Content
The Services may enable you to comment on blogs and other user-generated content. If you choose to submit user-generated content to any public area of the Services, this content will be public and accessible to anyone.
We do not control who will have access to the information that you choose to make available to others and cannot ensure that parties who have access to such information will respect your privacy or keep it secure. We are not responsible for the privacy or security of any information that you make publicly available, or for the accuracy, use, or misuse of any information that you disclose or receive from third parties.
9. Third-Party Websites and Links
Our Website may provide links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you follow these links, we strongly advise you to review their Privacy and Security Policy. We do not guarantee and are not responsible for the privacy or security of any third-party websites, including the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of information found.
10. Children
Recognizing the importance of protecting the privacy and safety of children. Our Services are not intended to be used by children. We do not knowingly collect data about children under the age of 13 or minors otherwise defined in local law or regulation without verifiable parental consent.
If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with their personal information, you may email us at contact@travelbliss.co to request that it be deleted.
11. Analytics
We may use third-party Website providers to monitor, improve, and analyze the use of our Website.
Google Analytics: A Google web analytics Website that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Website. This data is shared with other Google Websites. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Website available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms.
12. Advertising
We may use third-party providers and the following tools to show advertisements related to our Website and our Services.
Display Ads. Third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit our Website, which may use cookies, as described above.
Retargeting Ads. From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Pinterest, or Instagram, in order to promote the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.
Affiliate Partnerships. Travelbliss may engage in affiliate marketing agreements, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie may be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of business commissions.
Newsletters. On the Website, you may subscribe to the newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. The 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 enhance the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This data will not be passed on to third parties.
13. Data Security and Retention
Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee "perfect security." We use best practices to help keep your data safe. However, there is always some risk when storing data or sending it over the internet. As such, we cannot guarantee the security of your data, and you should know that sharing it is done at your own risk. We recommend that you do not use insecure channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information to us.
How long we retain your personal information depends on different factors. To determine how long we need to keep your data, we consider:
The amount of data,
The type of data,
The risks that unintended use or disclosure could bring, and
Whether we can do what we need to by using less data.
Additionally, we may also keep and use your data for as long as it is needed for providing the Services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, fraud prevention, and security.
14. Data Rights and Choices
You can make certain choices about the way we collect, use, store, and share your data.
Sometimes these choices apply to everyone who uses a Service (for example, anyone who gets a newsletter from us can opt-out of future emails); other times these choices may apply only in certain circumstances and, in certain cases, there may be legal reasons why we cannot complete all requests.
To make these choices about your data and how we communicate with you, you can use the form here to submit a request.
Right to Access / Know. You may have a right to request access to personal data that we hold about you, including details relating to how we use and share your information.
Right to Correct. You may have a right to request that we correct inaccurate personal data we maintain about you.
Right to Delete. You may have a right to request that we delete personal data we maintain about you.
Withdrawal of Consent: Where we rely on consent to process your personal information, you may have the right to withdraw this consent.
Managing Communication Preferences: We may send you promotional emails, and you can opt-out of receiving these at any time by using the unsubscribe option displayed in our emails to you. If you opt-out, we may still send you non-promotional emails.
Objecting to certain uses: If there is something you do not agree about how we use your data, please contact us. We will listen and try our best to make changes. For instance, can opt-out of targeted advertising by using our cookie controls.
You may exercise any of these rights where indicated on our Website or by contacting us using the contact details provided below, yet, we will not completely alter how we provide our Services to you.
To protect your data we may need to collect information from you to verify your identity, before providing a substantive response to the request. In accordance with applicable laws, we will respond to your request in a timely manner.
If you want to make any of these choices but prefer not to use our online form, you can contact us by email or post, using the details below.
Email: contact@travelbliss.co
Mail: Travelbliss LLC, 30 N Gould St, Ste N, Sheridan, WY 82801 USA
Authorized agents: If someone else, like the parent or guardian of individuals aged between 16 and 18, needs to make these choices for you, they can do it too. Please, just follow the same steps mentioned above.
15. Privacy Choices and Rights under the Applicable Local Laws
If you are a California resident, you may have certain data protection rights, or data subjects if you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom (UK), and/or Switzerland. Travelbliss aims to take the necessary steps regarding your rights and our processing, allowing you to correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your Personal Data.
Generally, we collect information from users in the EEA/UK in a similar manner, and for legitimate business purposes. If you wish to be informed about what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our databases, please contact us.
Data Retention
As mentioned above in the “Data Security and Retention”, we will hold your personal data as it is necessary for the purpose for which it was originally collected, and in accordance with the local law. When assessing retention periods, we first examine whether it is necessary to retain the personal data collected, and, if retention is absolutely required, we will work to retain the personal data for the shortest possible period permissible under the applicable law.
In addition to your Data Rights and Choices described above, if you are a California resident, you may have certain other rights. EEA, UK, or Switzerland residents may have other certain rights defined in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the UK GDPR / Data Protection Act 2018.
The following rights are under applicable local law:
Consent Withdrawal: You have the right to withdraw your consent in relation to our processing of your personal data based on your consent:
Opt-out: You can unsubscribe from our communication and/or marketing e-mails at any time by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link. You have the right to opt-out of “sales” of personal data or “sharing” of personal data for cross-contextual behavioral advertising purposes as well as for targeted marketing and/or advertising.
European Union: If located in the United Kingdom or European Union, you can opt out of EDAA members’ online advertising networks and behavioral advertising according to the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA)'s through our contact form here.
Restriction of processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your data in certain circumstances.
Object to Processing: You have the right to object to the use or disclosures of your personal data.
Data Portability: You have the right to request we transmit your personal data to you or another company in certain circumstances.
We process all requests in accordance with the law. Please e-mail us at contact@travelbliss.co if you wish to make your request. You are not required to pay any fees to exercise your rights.
Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before processing these types of requests.
You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).
California Online Erasure. California’s "Online Erasure" law, Business and Professions Code §§ 22580-22582, requires operators of certain websites and online services to allow registered users who are under the age of 18 and residents of California to request removal of content posted. If you fit that description and posted content on a section of our Website such as a comment or similar, that is directed to California residents at least 13 and younger than 18 years of age, you may request removal of the content by emailing us at contact@travelbliss.co. Please notice that in response to your request, we may elect to make that content invisible to the public (instead of deleting it entirely), in that case, the content may remain on our databases and/or may be available elsewhere if a third party copied and reposted the content.
International Transfers
Please note that we may transfer, store, and process personal data outside of the EEA/UK, including the United States; using applicable approved data transfer mechanisms to ensure your personal data are adequately safeguarded.
16. Complaints
Please contact us using the contact details provided below in case you want to address a complaint. We would appreciate it if you gave us a chance to review any complaints you may have. For detailed information, you may also contact your local regulator.
17. Contact Us
When you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise any of the rights available to you, contact us.
Email: contact@travelbliss.co
Mail: Travelbliss LLC, 30 N Gould St, Ste N, Sheridan, WY 82801 USA
18. Changes to This Policy
From time to time, changes need to be made to how we collect, use, and protect your data. When we do, we will let you know by updating this policy. If the changes we make are relevant, we will also post a special notice on our website.
The changes will usually only affect the data we collect after the new policy has been published. Any data we collected before the changes will still be covered by the old policy. We will also let you know when we last made these changes by publishing the date we last changed it.
Latest Update: July 10, 2024.