Privacy Policy

Effective: 28 April 2022

Who we are

Bucket List Travellers (“Website https://jjbucketlisttravellers.com”) are committed to safeguarding your privacy when you visit our website. You are able to access and browse the website without disclosing any of your personal information. Bucket List Travellers do not collect any personal information about individuals, such as names or email addresses unless it is knowingly provided by the individual and they have agreed to the terms that under which Bucket List Travellers will use it. The privacy policy outlined below (“Privacy Policy”) sets out the guidelines that we follow to keep your privacy safe.

Definitions

Personal Data– any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Processing – any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data.
Data subject – a natural person whose Personal Data is being Processed.
Child – a natural person under 18 years of age.
We/us (either capitalized or not) – Bucket List Travellers.

Disclosure of Information

Bucket List Travellers will not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others. We do not automatically log personal, identifiable data nor do we link information automatically logged by other means with personal data about specific individuals.

Information that we collect from you

Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website

We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to our newsletter, or emailing us directly.

Please note by posting a comment on this Site you consent to the posting of any Personal Information that you provide. You should be aware that such Personal Information can be read, collected, or used by other visitors to these public areas. We have no control over how these visitors use your Personal Information.

When you leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also your 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, Gravatar enables your profile picture to be visible to the public in the context of your comment.

You may also choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google Account and as such users may see your username, avatar, profile description and website information.

Automatically Collected Information

We do automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.

We may use IP addresses to compile and provide aggregate statistics about our visitors, traffic patterns, and administer the site. This statistical information may also be related to third parties, including but not limited to Google Analytics, Google Webmaster Console, ConvertKit, Amazon Affiliate Program and other affiliate programs we are members of.

IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. We collect only the personal data that you may volunteer while using our services. We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organisations.

Bucket List Travellers may release account information when such release is reasonably necessary to comply with the law; enforce the terms of any of our user agreements; or protect the rights, property, and safety of Bucket List Travellers, the users of its site, or others.

Our Commitment to Children’s Privacy

Protecting the privacy of the young children is important to us. For that reason, Bucket List Travellers does not collect or maintain information on our site from those we actually know are under 18, and no part of our site is structured to attract anyone under 18.

If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at [email protected].

Cookies

We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. The purpose of cookies is to provide you with a more personalised experience on the Website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted. For example, 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.

How We Use Your Information

We use personal information collected via our Website for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests (“Business Purposes”), in order to enter into or perform a contract with you (“Contractual”), with your consent (“Consent”), and/or for compliance with our legal obligations (“Legal Reasons”).

• We may process the information we collect from you in the following ways:
• To personalise your experience on the Website and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested;
• To identify you as a user of the Website;
• To continuously improve our website in order to better serve you;
• To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature;
• To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
• To respond to your comments or inquiries;
• To track and measure advertising on the Website;
• To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorised or illegal activity;
• To operate and maintain the Website.

How long we keep your data

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements).

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

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.

Third Party Use of Information

We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information. Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website.

Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent. Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.

If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent.

Third Party Links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies.

We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Embedded Content From Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.) from sites such as YouTube and Instagram. 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.

Affiliate Disclaimer

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 purposes of commissions. Bucket List Travellers 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 part of this Amazon Associates program, the Website 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.

Advertising

Display Ads

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies, as noted above. We are currently registered with Google Adsense and Ezoic. The use of advertising cookies enables Google and Ezoic to you based on your visits to our site and other sites on the internet. You can opt out of personalised ad settings by visiting adsettings or visiting optout.aboutads.info. For more information about Google’s privacy policy you can go here and for Ezoic’s privacy policy that applies specifically to our site you can go here .

Retargeting Ads

From time to time, the Website 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 the Website.

Data Protection

We do our best to keep your personal data safe and will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure. We commercially reasonable methods to ensure the security of the information you provide to us and the information we collect automatically. This includes using standard security protocols and working only with reputable third-party vendors. Bucket List Travellers monitor their site traffic and for unauthorised activity using software programs for the purpose identifying vulnerabilities and preventing attacks. Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email. However, doing so is allowed, but at your own risk.

Rights Related To Your Personal Information

We aspire to comply to the fullest extent possible with applicable data protection regulations, in particular the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’) and ePrivacy Directive, where applicable. There 8 key user rights under GDPR are as follows:

1. The right to be informed
2. The right of access
3. The right to rectification
4. The right to erasure
5. The right to restrict processing
6. The right to data portability
7. The right to object
8. Rights related to automated decision-making and profiling

If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Please note however that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record-keeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

European Economic Area Residents

If you are resident in the European Economic Area and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You can find their contact details here:
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm

California Residents

If you are a resident of California, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal information, according to the California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law. This law permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us at [email protected].

If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with the Website, you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the Website. To request removal of such data, please contact us using the contact information provided below, and include the email address associated with your account and a statement that you reside in California. We will make sure the data is not publicly displayed on the Website, but please be aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from our systems.

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.

Changes

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we do, we will let you know by revising the date at the top of the policy.

Contact Information

If you have any concerns or questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact [email protected]