In General
Protecting user privacy is important to Where Tiana Travels (“we”, “us” or “our”). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and disclose information about you. This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect when you use our website (including all domains and sub-domains of wheretianatravels.com), web applications, mobile applications, application programming interfaces (APIs), and other products and services (collectively, the “Products”) or when you otherwise interact with us whether in electronic, paper, or verbal format.
The information we collect is governed by United States (“US”) law. By accessing or using our Products or otherwise providing information to us, you consent to the processing and transfer of information in and to the US and other countries.
For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” is defined as information that (1) is recorded in any form; (2) is about, or pertains to a specific individual; and (3) can be linked to that individual.
Advertising.
This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://cafemedia.com/publisher-advertising-privacy-policy
Information We Collect
When you use our Products, we collect the following types of information:
Personal information: Your name, e-mail address, telephone number and information collected by tracking technologies as described below that may identify you as an individual or allow online or offline contact with you.
Account information: When you use our Products you may need to create an account with us. In order to create an account, you will need to provide us with login credentials (which include your username and password), your name, email address, postal address, and phone number.
General usage data: When you use our Products we may collect information about the technical properties of hardware and software you use in conjunction with our Products. For example, we may collect the type and model of hardware and/or web browser you are using, referring or exit web pages, and the operating system version you are using.
When you use our Products we may also collect information about how long you use our Product in each session, features you use in our Products, how long you use our Products overall, the time and day you accessed our Products, etc.
We may record mouse clicks, movements, and other interactions with our pages or features to help us improve usability.
Location information: When you use our Products, enable data services, use the browser or location-based functionality on your device, location information associated to your device (e.g. Global Positioning System (GPS) or similar satellite triangulation information, Internet Protocol address (IP address) information, carrier or tower ID, the BSSID (Broadcast Service Set Identifier) and MAC address (Media Access Control address) of Wi-Fi access points, and signal strength of visible Wi-Fi hotspots or wireless towers) may be communicated to the Company or our service providers. If we collect and subsequently store such information, it will be in a form that does not personally identify you (e.g. we do not maintain a system that would link specific individuals to a BSSID). We may process such information to provide you with or facilitate the provision of information and location-based services (e.g. mapping services, measuring traffic congestion, location-sensitive promotions or coupons). If you choose to use location-based services, you agree that such geographic location information may be processed to provide you with such services. If you choose to use location-based services or other applications to disclose your location to other persons or entities, you assume responsibility for the risks involved in doing so, and it is your responsibility to use them appropriately and according to applicable law. If you use third party products which provide location-based services, please review the third party’s terms and conditions and privacy policy regarding how your location and personal information will be processed, and how to opt-out of any location-based services and advertising provided by the third party.
Third party information: If necessary to fulfill our identified purposes, we may combine the information you submit to us with information obtained from other sources or third party offerings. For example, we may receive personal information about you from third parties involved in providing you with the products, services, hardware, software, and websites you are utilizing, such as from your email, social media, and online file storage provider to facilitate the integration of those products, services, software, and websites with our Products. We treat all such personal information in accordance with this Policy and the terms and conditions between us and such third parties, if any, may also apply. However, the third party’s own use of your personal information in such cases will be determined by your agreement(s) with the third party, unless that third party is one of our service providers.
We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Quality assurance and customer service: Your customer service telephone calls and emails with us and our service providers, if any, may be recorded, logged, and/or monitored for quality assurance and customer service purposes such as to assist in addressing your inquiries, troubleshooting, training and analytics to identify trends and make improvements to our Products and customer service. As part of the recording and logging of the calls and emails, we will collect information like the identity of the caller or sender of email, the date and time of the call or email, and the subject and resolution of the issue.
Cookies: We collect certain information about your use of our Products as described below under the heading “Our Use of Cookies, Log Files, Web Beacons, and Embedded Scripts.
Some of this information would not by itself identify you to us or be personally identifiable and is therefore considered non-personal information. If we combine any such non-personal information with other personal information available to us, the combined information will be treated as personal information in accordance with this Policy.
Purchase and Payment Information: We do not collect payment information via our website. All payment arrangements are done off-line. While payments may be processed through a third party, we may collect information to administer, manage, and fulfill the purchases you make. For example, we may collect your name, email address, account information, what is ordered, the date and time of the order, whether payment was made, method of payment, and purchase history.
Our Use of Information We Collect
We use the personal information we collect about you:
- To understand and meet your needs and preferences, and/or to provide you with our Products, for example:
- for purposes related to the billing, activation, provision, maintenance, support, troubleshooting, resolving of disputes, deactivation, upgrade, or update of Products;
- to process and fulfill your order, send you emails and newsletters to communicate with you about our services, and allow you to pay for services you order;
- to ensure our web site and other Products are technically functioning as intended and to help us identify and troubleshoot issues;
- to fulfill or enforce any agreements you enter into with us; and
- to manage or respond to your inquiries;
- To enhance and upgrade our Products, and to communicate with you about our services and any enhancements and upgrades to our Products;
- To manage and develop our business and operations, for example;
- to detect, monitor, investigate, mitigate or attempt to prevent fraud and technical or security issues or to protect our property;
- to allow for business continuity and disaster recovery operations;
- to enforce our legal rights;
- for statistical purposes;
- if we believe your actions are inconsistent with the spirit or language of our Terms and Conditions of Service, User Agreements or policies; and
- in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of our assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another entity;
- To fulfill our legal obligations and regulatory requirements and to respond to emergency situations, for example:
- to respond to court orders, warrants or other lawful requests or legal processes;
- to provide emergency assistance in situations that may threaten the life or physical safety of you or others; or
- for any other purposes for which you have consented, such as those that may be set out in Notices, and other purposes as permitted or required by any applicable law.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Policy, we may remove personal identifiers from your information and maintain and use it in a de-identified form that may be combined with other information to generate aggregated information. Such de-identified and/or aggregated information is owned by us and we shall have unrestricted rights, title, and interest in and to the de-identified and/or aggregated information. This may include, without limitation, the right to use, distribute, transmit, transfer, license, trade, rent, share, assign, and sell the de-identified and/or aggregated information.
We will retain your personal information as long as necessary for the fulfillment of the foregoing purposes or as otherwise necessary to comply with applicable laws.
To whom we Disclose your Personal Information
In accordance with this Policy, we may share your personal information:
- To our personnel who need access to that information for any of the purposes described above and/or with our service providers such as a cloud service provider or data storage provider;
- With our financial, insurance, legal, accounting or other advisors that provide professional services to us;
- If we have your consent;
- With third parties that help us provide our services to you, including but not limited to payment processors;
- To legal or governmental authorities in order to fulfill our legal obligations, including for example to respond to a subpoena, court order or government request;
- To protect, establish or exercise our legal rights or defend legal claims brought against us;
- To investigate, detect, suppress, prevent or take action regarding illegal or prohibited activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the reputation or physical safety of any person; and
- With any acquirer or potential acquirer of our business if we are in talks to be sold, merged, or amalgamated or substantially all of our assets are to be sold or disposed of. We will use reasonable efforts to direct any potential or actual acquirer of our business to use personal information you have provided to us in a manner that is consistent with this Policy. Following any such a sale or transfer, you may contact the entity to which we transferred your personal information with any inquiries concerning the processing of that information.
In addition, we may share information about your use of the Products and our services with your employer or its agents if your employer has provided you with access to the Products.
Your Decisions About Your Personal Information
You can contact us at any time to: stop receiving emails from us; review the personal information held by us in connection with your account; withdraw your consent for our use and disclosure of your information; request a list of third parties to which we may have provided your personal information; close your account; and amend your personal information, by contacting us by e-mail at [email protected]. You can always unsubscribe from receiving promotional emails from us by simply clicking the “unsubscribe” link provided at the bottom of every promotional email from us.
If you contact us to do any of the things listed above, we may require you to provide sufficient personal information to allow us to identify you and tell you about the existence, use and disclosure of your personal information and this personal information will only be used for this purpose. If you contact us about your personal information, we will respond to your request within a reasonable time and at minimal cost or no cost to you in accordance with applicable laws.
Generally, you may withdraw at any time your consent for us to collect, use, and disclose your personal information in accordance with this Policy, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice. As such, we may continue to collect, use, and disclose your personal information as may be required to provide you with our Products, and to the extent that we are contractually obligated to do so or as necessary to enforce any contractual obligations you may have with us. If you refuse to provide us with the information we require or later contact us to withdraw your consent for us to use and disclose your personal information, we may no longer be able to provide you with our Products.
Our Use of Cookies, Log Files, Web Beacons, and Embedded Scripts
When you visit our website, we collect certain information by automated means, such as through server log files, cookies (text files sent to and stored on your device when you access the website), web beacons (also known as clear GIFs and pixel tags, which may be used to transmit information back to us), and embedded scripts (programming code that is designed to collect information about your interactions with our Products, such as the links you click on, and which is active only when you are accessing the Products).
The information we collect in this manner may include details about the computer, mobile phone, or other device you use to access our Products (such as browser type, operating system, and IP address), referring URLs and information on actions taken or interaction with our digital assets.
We may use third-party web analytics services to help us analyze how visitors use our Products. We may permit these third parties to operate directly on our website, use their own technology (such as cookies or web beacons), and collect information about you on our behalf.
We use the information we collect in this manner is collected to enhance the user experience for persons that use our Products and to improve and add to the services we offer.
When you visit our website, we may allow some third parties (such as advertising networks and data analytics companies) to collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites. Your browser settings may allow you to automatically transmit a “Do Not Track” signal to websites and online services you visit. However, there is no consensus among industry participants as to what “Do Not Track” means in this context. Like many websites and online services, we currently do not alter our practices when we receive a “Do Not Track” signal from a visitor’s browser.
In some instances, we may also combine information we receive about you from third parties with information we collect through our Products.
Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, our web applications, mobile applications, or certain features thereof, may no longer function.
Security
Our goal is to provide you with a safe user experience. We have in place certain physical, technical, and administrative safeguards designed to appropriately protect the security and privacy of your personal information against loss, theft, and unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification. Please note, however, that we cannot guarantee that the measures we maintain will guarantee the security of the information.
We limit access to your personal information within our company to individuals with a need to know.
Links to Other Sites
We may provide links on our website to third-party sites we think you will enjoy. These sites operate independently of us and may have established their own privacy and security policies. Any personal information you provide on linked pages or other sites is subject to that third party’s privacy policy. We strongly encourage you to review these policies at any site you visit. This Policy does not apply to such linked pages or other sites, and we are not responsible for the content or practices of any linked websites which are provided solely for your convenience.
Children’s Online Privacy Protection
Our Products and services are not intended for use by children under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect or use any personal information from any children under 13 years of age. If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will make commercially reasonable efforts to delete such personal information from our database.
Questions or Comments
If you have any questions or comments or wish to make a complaint about this Policy, please feel free to contact us by email at [email protected]. If you contact us about your personal information, we will respond to your request within a reasonable time and at minimal cost or no cost to you in accordance with applicable laws. Depending on the circumstances and applicable laws, we may refuse to process certain access requests (for example, access requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, would be extremely impractical or require disproportionate technical effort).
(For California Residents) Your California Privacy Rights
California law permits residents of California to request certain details about how their information is shared with third parties for direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please email us at [email protected]. However, please note that under the law, services such as ours that permit California residents to opt in to, or opt out of, this type of sharing are not required to provide such information upon receiving a request, but rather may respond by notifying the user of his or her right to prevent the disclosure. To opt out of having information about you shared with third parties for direct marketing purposes, please email us at [email protected].
(For Nevada Residents) Your Nevada Privacy Rights
If you are a Nevada resident who visits our website you may review and request changes to any of your personal information that is collected on our website. Please refer to this Policy for information regarding information available to third parties from your activities on our website. To exercise this right, please e-mail us at [email protected]. Any revision to this Notice required by changes to Nevada law will be posted on this website, so you are advised to review each time there is an update posted.
GDPR
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area and subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the following rights with respect to the Personal Information we hold about you, (i) Right of access; (ii) Right of portability; (iii) Right to rectification; (iv) Right to erasure; (v) Right to restriction; (vi) Right to withdraw consent; and (vii) Right to object.. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us via email at [email protected].
You also have the right to lodge a complaint to your local data protection authority. Information about how to contact your local data protection authority is available here (https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/items/612080). Due to the confidential nature of data processing, we may ask you to provide proof of identity when exercising the above rights.
Modifications to this Privacy Policy
We may make modifications, deletions, and/or additions to this Privacy Policy at any time. Users are advised to check the date listed at the top of this Privacy Policy for any new updates. By using our Products you will be deemed to have agreed to the terms of this Privacy Policy as modified, so you are advised to review each time there is an update posted.
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.
Contact Us
Questions, comments, or complaints regarding Where Tiana Travels’ Privacy Policy or data collection and processing practices can be emailed to [email protected].
Effective Date: March 22, 2023