Traveling with the Trapps

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PRIVACY POLICY

If you have any questions, concerns or are unclear about any part of this policy please contact us by viewing the Contact Information section at the bottom of the page. We realize that everyone has a different view on privacy.

GENERAL OVERVIEW

Traveling with the Trapps created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting your privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a prominent notice on our login page. Privacy Policy changes will apply to the information collected from the date we post the revised Privacy Policy to the site, as well as to existing information held by us.

By accepting the following terms, you consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the guidelines of our Terms of Use. This Privacy Policy is effective upon registration for new users, and is otherwise effective on July 4, 2024.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect personal information in order to provide you with a safe, customized, and efficient experience. This allows us to offer specialized features and services that may accommodate your unique circumstances. We only collect the necessary information for achieving this purpose.

During the registration process, we ask you to provide us with Personally Identifiable information so we can identify you. This information includes your first name, last name, and email address.

We automatically track certain information based upon your behavior on the site. We use this information to do internal research on our users’ demographics, interests, and behavior in order to better understand our customers. This information may include the URL that you last visited, the URL you got to subsequently, your computer browser information, and your IP address. None of this information is tied to your personal information directly.

“Cookies” are pieces of information that are passed to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive. We use cookies to recognize repeat visitors, to automatically enter your login ID in our login form, and to provide additional features to make navigating our site easier and more efficient. If you do not wish to receive cookies, you can turn them off using your browser’s settings. Some of our business partners (e.g., tracking utility company) use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by our company only and does not cover the use of cookies by any third parties.

Our Web pages contain electronic images known as Web beacons (sometimes called single-pixel gifs) and are used along with cookies to compile aggregated statistics to analyze how our site is used and may be used in some of our emails to let us know which emails and links have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of our customer communications and marketing campaigns.

INFORMATION USAGE

We use personal information in order to provide and enhance the services offered on our site. Traveling with the Trapps does not sell, rent, or lease its customer lists to third parties.

We give you the ability to receive information via email about our Products and Services, updates to our site, and promotions that are targeted to your specific interest. If you do not opt-out of receiving these communications about our site, we will send them to you.

From time to time, we might contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. You will have the opportunity opt-out of receiving these type of offers sent on behalf of third parties. You will also have the choice to respond to the offer or not. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information, such as your name and email address, is not transferred to the third party.

We will send you service-related announcements on occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature.

At any time, you may change the communications you wish to receive or not, by updating your profile. In addition, in our emails and other communications, we will include instructions on how to unsubscribe and inform us of preferences if you decide you do not want to receive any future marketing or promotional emails from us. 

For your convenience, our site provides links to other sites. When you click on one of these links, you are leaving our site and entering another site. We are not responsible for such third party sites. You should carefully review the privacy statements of any other sites you visit, because those privacy statements will apply to your visit to such other sites.

Traveling with the Trapps will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with judicial or legal process served on Traveling with the Trapps or the site such as a court order or subpoena; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Traveling with the Trapps, and that of our site; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Traveling with the Trapps its web sites, or the public.

INFORMATION SECURITY

Traveling with the Trapps employs Industry standard protocols to help protect the confidentiality and integrity of personal information and to reduce the risk of loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, or modification of personal information. If you choose to contact Traveling with the Trapps through the site, you should be aware that any information transmitted electronically via the World Wide Web might not be 100% secure. Traveling with the Trapps assumes no liability for the loss of any information that you transmit to us via the World Wide Web. In communicating with you, we may send email as unencrypted plain text because we are aware that most Members, Guests, or Subscribers cannot readily process encrypted email. This is done for your convenience, but with the security concern that, if misrouted or intercepted, it could be read more easily than encrypted email.

Should you choose to pay by credit card / electronic check when signing up for one of our premium services, you will be directed to one of our online merchants (PayPal or Stripe). Once your transaction is completed, the only information the merchant shares back with Traveling with the Trapps is transactional information. Traveling with the Trapps does not receive financial information such as your credit card number.

TRANSFER OF DATA

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to – and maintained on – computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the United States and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Traveling with the Trapps will take all the steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

SERVICE PROVIDERS

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), provide the Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services or assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We endeavor to ensure that Personal Information is as accurate, complete, and current as necessary for the purposes for which we use that information. 

If you or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services, contact us. We will only retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING PERSONAL DATA UNDER THE GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (GDPR)

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), Traveling with the Trapps 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.

Traveling with the Trapps may process your Personal Data because:

  • You have given us permission to do so
  • The processing is in our legitimate interests and it is not overridden by your rights
  • For payment processing purposes
  • To comply with the law

AFFILIATE DISCLOSURE STATEMENT:

This site contains product affiliate links. We may receive a commission if you make a purchase after clicking on one of these links.

Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links, meaning I get a commission if you decide to make a purchase through my links. This would be at no cost to you. 🙂

YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS UNDER THE GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (GDPR)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. Traveling with the Trapps aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your Personal Data.

If you wish to be informed about what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us. In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

  • The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you: Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you.
  • The right of rectification: You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • The right to object: You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.
  • The right of restriction: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
  • The right to data portability: You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.
  • The right to withdraw consent: You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where Traveling with the Trapps relied on your consent to process your personal information.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions or concerns about (a) access to personal information, (b) the collection, use, management, or disclosure of personal information, (c) this policy or our information handling practices, or if you need further assistance with respect to our Privacy Policy, you may contact our Privacy Officer as indicated below. We will attempt to respond to your questions or concerns promptly after we receive them.

E-mail Address:

jtrapp@travelingwiththetrapps.com