INTRODUCTION

Journeys Across the Globe (“Journeys”) takes your privacy seriously when you visit the website www.journeysacrosstheglobe.com (“Website”), and we strongly believe in keeping your personal information confidential. You can access Journeys and browse the site without disclosing any of your Personal Information (“Personal Information” is data from an individual such as name and email address). We do not collect Personal Information, unless it is knowingly provided by individuals, and the individual has agreed to the terms under which Journeys use the information. 

Please read the Privacy Policy carefully before you use the Website. By using the Website you accept and agree to be bound and abide by the Privacy Policy. If you do not want to agree to the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website.

INFORMATION COLLECTED

Each time a user visits the Website, we automatically collect certain information about you including the internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer, browser type and version, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform. Information about your visit to the Website, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, dates/times when accessed the Website, content viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.

We collect Personal Information from you, such as name and email address, when you voluntarily submit information on the Website by subscribing to newsletters, or comment. You should be aware that such Personal Information on comments 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.

You may subscribe to Journeys newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. We will only send you a newsletter if you have chosen to receive them from us. You may unsubscribe from our email newsletters at any time. We do not share your email addresses onto third parties, nor are shared with companies outside of the company that operates this website. Email newsletters published by Journeys may contain tracking facilities within the email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation, such activity may include; opening of emails, forwarding of emails, clicking of links within the email content, dates, times and frequency of activity.

USE OF YOUR INFORMATION

Pages on this site may include embedded content, like YouTube videos, for example. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you visited the other website.

Journeys may use the information collected in the following ways, to;

• Operate and maintain the Website;
• Improve your experience on this Website;
• Respond to your comments and inquiries;
• Provide you with user support;
• Send you promotional information about content, products, services, surveys, offers, promotions, rewards, events, news and information we think will be of interest to you;
• Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
• Monitor and analyze trends, usage and activities on the Website;
• Protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.

COOKIES

The Website uses cookies – very small text files to store visitor information about your computer use. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information and provide anonymized tracking data. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics. Cookies generally exist to make your browsing experience better. 

The website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Website and to monitor your actions and the pages you visit while you use our website. This helps Journeys to provide you with a great experience when you browse the Website, ensuring visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customise Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. 

Many websites won’t be able to function properly without access to cookies and rest assured cookies do not hold personal information about you, your payment details or your address. They are based on your computer usage and are commonly used online.

You may at any time, disable cookies on this Website and on other sites. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the help section of your browser.

THIRD PARTY SITES

Some content or applications, including advertisements and social media on the Website contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these third party websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

These third party 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. The information they collect may be associated with your Personal Information or they may collect information of 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 third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

YOUR DATA RIGHTS

You have a right to access the Personal Information that is held about you. To obtain a copy of the Personal information Journeys holds about you, or to request that your data be deleted, please contact us through our Contact form.

You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe link in our emails. You may also notify us through our Contact form to be removed from our mailing list.

Your privacy is critically important to us. Journeys permit residents of the European Union to use the services which comply with the European General Data Protection Regulation EU GDPR Information Portal

Journeys may post links to third party websites on this Website. These third party websites are not screened for privacy or security compliance, and you release us from any liability for the conduct of these third party websites. Journeys bear no responsibility for the information collected or used by any advertiser or third party website. Please review the privacy policy and terms of service for each site you visit through third party links.

AMENDMENTS

We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we amend the Privacy Policy, we will update this page accordingly and encourage you to review this Privacy Policy when you access our Website or interact with us. We require you to accept the amendments in order to be permitted to continue using our Website and services.

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, you may contact Journeys through our Contact form.