Updated September 26, 2023
Who we are
Appetites Abroad is a travel blog that provides information to users around the world on how to travel. Our website address is: https://www.appetitesabroad.com.
Acceptance of Terms & Privacy Policy
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before using this website. By using this website, or by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms of Use when this option is made available to you, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, you must not continue to access or use this website.
Your continued use of this website following the posting of any changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s 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, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Email Addresses
When Subscribers or other website visitors send email inquiries to Appetites Abroad, the return email address (and other personal information provided in the inquiry) is used to answer the email inquiry received, and is stored in a password-protected email account.
Contact Forms
Contact Form via Jetpack by Automattic: Contact form submission data — IP address, user agent, name, email address, website, and message — is submitted to the Akismet service (also owned by Automattic – privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/) for the sole purpose of spam checking. The actual submission data is stored in the database of the site on which it was submitted and is emailed directly to the owner of the form (i.e. the site author who published the page on which the contact form resides). This email will include the submitter’s IP address, timestamp, name, email address, website, and message.
Cookies
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.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Email Provider
Appetites Abroad uses Mailchimp to send emails and newsletters to subscribers. Information stored in Mailchimp includes names and email addresses. Subscribers can opt out and unsubscribe from receiving these email updates at any time. For more information, see Mailchimp’s Legal Policies.
Embedded content from/links to other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Please note that this site also contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage users to be aware that when they leave our site, you read the privacy statements of each website that might collect personally identifying information.
Analytics
Jetpack by Automattic WordPress.com Stats
Data Used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. Important: The site owner does not have access to any of this information via this feature. For example, a site owner can see that a specific post has 285 views, but he/she cannot see which specific users/accounts viewed that post. Stats logs — containing visitor IP addresses and WordPress.com usernames (if available) — are retained by Automattic for 28 days and are used for the sole purpose of powering this feature.
Activity Tracked: Post and page views, video plays (if videos are hosted by WordPress.com), outbound link clicks, referring URLs and search engine terms, and country. When this module is enabled, Jetpack also tracks performance on each page load that includes the Javascript file used for tracking stats. This is exclusively for aggregate performance tracking across Jetpack sites in order to make sure that our plugin and code is not causing performance issues. This includes the tracking of page load times and resource loading duration (image files, Javascript files, CSS files, etc.). The site owner has the ability to force this feature to honor DNT settings of visitors. By default, DNT is currently not honored.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics collects data in order to track page views, visitor counts, outbound link clicks, search engine terms, country of origin, etc. for the purpose of tracking and analyzing statistics to help grow this blog. For a full description of information collected by Google Analytics, please view their Privacy Policy info here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
Affiliate Disclaimer
This site 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 linking to Amazon.com. For further information on Amazon’s privacy policy, please view their Privacy Policy.
Appetites Abroad is also a participant in other affiliate programs designed to provide means for websites to earn advertising fees by linking to websites where products can be purchased, including the following:
- AWIN – For more information, see AWIN’s Privacy Policy
- Booking.com – For more information, see Booking.com’s Privacy Policy
- Travel Payouts – For more information, see Travel Payouts’ Privacy Policy
- Stay 22 – For more information, see Stay 22’s Privacy Policy
- HUB | Skimlinks – For more information, see Skimlinks’ Privacy Policy
Advertising
Appetites Abroad participates in Google AdSense, which uses cookies to serve ads based on users’ visits to Appetites Abroad or other websites. Users can customize their Google ad settings here. For more information, visit the Google Privacy & Terms.
How long we retain your data
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.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request 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.
Contact information
For any questions or concerns regarding this website or its privacy policy, please contact Moani Hood at appetitesabroad@gmail.com.
