Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is intended to provide you with information about what personal data Our Globetrotters collects about you and how it is used.

By using the Our Globetrotters website (the Website), you are deemed to have agreed to these terms and conditions of use.  Our Globetrotters has the right to change or modify these terms and conditions at any given time and without actual notice to you. Every change will be published on this page.

By using Our Globetrotters after changes have been made, you agree to accept those changes whether or not you have reviewed them. Our Globetrotters advises you to check this page regularly.

Personal Information & Newsletters

All Our Globetrotters readers are given the option to subscribe to our email newsletter. In doing so we may collect and store personal information from you, such as your name and email address. Newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns.

Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. This also allows us to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behaviour will not be passed on to third parties. You can request to be removed from our list at any time by following the unsubscribe links in the emails or contacting us at keri@ourglobetrotters.com.

Our Globetrotters emails are serviced by Mailchimp and you can refer to their privacy policy for further information.

At any time you have the following options relating to your personal information.

Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at keri@ourglobetrotters.com to be removed from our mailing list.

Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to keri@ourglobetrotters.com.

Amend – You may contact us at keri@ourglobetrotters.com to amend or update your personal information.

Forget – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to keri@ourglobetrotters.com.

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

Use of Cookies

Our Globetrotters uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends.

Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics. This service tracks website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics. Read more about how Google uses data when you use their partners’ sites or apps.

We do not share any personal information with third-parties nor do we store any information about your visit to this website other than to analyze and optimize the content and improve your reading experience through the use of cookies. You can turn off the use of cookies at any time by changing your specific browser settings.

Advertising

Raptive Advertising

Our Globetrotters is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) for the purposes of placing advertising on our website. 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

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 Mediavine Partners.

Affiliate Program Participation

Our Globetrotters engages in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the website. If you click on a link to an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.

Our Globetrotters 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, we will sometimes 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.

Our Globetrotters uses Affilimate which tracks clicks on affiliate links from this site. You can read their privacy policy here.

Our Globetrotters often provides links to other websites for the reader’s benefit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party websites or services.

Terms of Use

We do our best to provide honest and accurate information on Our Globetrotters. However, we are not liable for any errors or omissions in this information. The owner will not be liable for any losses, injuries, or damages from the display or use of this information. We are not responsible for republished content from this blog on other blogs or websites without our permission.

No part of this website or any of its contents may be reproduced, copied, modified or adapted, without the prior written consent of Our Globetrotters unless otherwise indicated for stand-alone materials.

You may share this website by any of the following means:

  1. Using any of the share icons at the bottom of each page, or via other Social Media means;
  2. Providing a back-link or the URL of the content you wish to disseminate; and
  3. You may quote extracts from the website with attribution to ourglobetrotters.com

Contact

You can contact us at any time with questions related to this privacy policy at keri@ourglobetrotters.com

This privacy policy is subject to change without notice and was last updated on 16 May 2023.