Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. At Dave’s Travel World, we have a few fundamental principles:

• We are thoughtful about the personal information we ask you to provide and the personal information that we collect about you through the operation of our web blog.

• We store personal information for only as long as we have a reason to keep it.

• We aim for full transparency on how we gather, use, and share your personal information.

Below is our Privacy Policy, which incorporates and clarifies these principles.

What Does This Policy Cover

This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect about you when you use our website (DavesTravelWorld.com)

Throughout this Privacy Policy we’ll refer to our website as “Services.”

Below we explain how we collect, use, and share information about you, along with the choices that you have with respect to that information.

Personal Information We Collect

We only collect personal information about you if we have a reason to do so.

In addition such information will only be collected if you have consented to it being collected.

We collect or use the following personal information for service updates or for service marketing purposes:

• Names and email based contact details

• Records of consent, where appropriate

Where We Get Personal Information From

• Directly from you

How and Why We Use Personal Information

We use personal information about you solely for the purpose of communicating with you to inform you that new information has been added to our website. This information may be in the form of new website pages, new posts or newsletters.

All information circulated in such communications will relate solely to travel related issues discussed within the website or, in rare instances, to provide you with an updated version of this Privacy Policy.

Usage of Cookies and Other Technologies

In addition to the collection of personal data as set out above we and our partners may also use technology such as cookies to store and / or access device information as part of the provision of our services.

The information collected from these cookies and other technologies are used to provide you with a more personal user experience.

If you consent to the deployment and use of these cookies and other technologies it will allow us and our partners to process additional personal data such as IP address, unique ID, and browsing data relating to the services provided on this website.

You will be asked to consent to the deployment of such cookies and other technologies upon accessing our services for the first time and also upon accessing our services at some other times in the future

If you consent, we and our partners may use your data in the following forms and for the following purposes:

• To store and / or access information on a device

• Measurement

• Essential

• Precise geolocation data

• Identification through device scanning

• Personalised advertising and content

• Advertising and content measurement

• Audience research and services development

Full details of our deployment and use of cookies and other technologies can be found in our accompanying Cookies Policy

Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information

Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK(GDPR)). You can find out more about lawful basis on the ICO’s website.

Our lawful basis for the collection and use of your data

Our lawful basis for collecting or using personal information for service updates or marketing purposes are:

• Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Sharing Information

No data collected as part of the provision of our Services will be passed on to any third party organisation for the purpose of either commercial or non-commercial usage.

How Long We Keep Information

We will discard information about you when it’s no longer needed for the purposes for which we collect and use it, as described in the section above on How and Why We Use Information

Security

While no online service is 100% secure, we work hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so.

Your Rights

If you are located in certain parts of the world, including the United Kingdom, some US states and countries that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (aka the “GDPR”), you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, like the right to request access to or deletion of your data.

United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK(GDPR))

If you are located in a country that falls under the scope of the United Kingdom GDPR, these data protection laws give you certain rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:

which are set out in brief below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:

• Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. You can request other information such as details about where we get personal information from and who we share personal information with. There are some exemptions which means you may not receive all the information you ask for. Read more about the right of access.

• Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete. Read more about the right to rectification.

• Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information. Read more about the right to erasure.

• Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information. Read more about the right to restriction of processing.

• Your right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data. Read more about the right to object to processing.

• Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you. Read more about the right to data portability.

• Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Read more about the right to withdraw consent.

You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:

If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.

European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are located in a country that falls under the scope of the European GDPR, data protection laws you have certain rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the European law, including the rights to:

• Request access to your personal data;

• Request correction or deletion of your personal data;

• Object to our use and retention of your personal data; and

• Request that we limit our use of your personal data

You also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.

US Privacy Laws

Laws in some US states require us to provide residents with additional information about the categories of personal information we collect and share, where we get that personal information, and how and why we use it.

You’ll find that information set out elsewhere in this privacy policy (if you are a California resident, please note that this is the Notice at Collection we are required to provide you under California law).

In the last 12 months we only collected the following categories of personal information:

• Identifiers (contact information);

In some US states you have additional rights subject to any exemptions provided by your state’s respective law, including the right to:

• Request a copy of the specific pieces of information we collect about you and, if you’re in California, to know the categories of personal information we collect.

• Request deletion of personal information we collect or retain;

• Request correction of personal information we collect or retain;

• Receive a copy of your information in a readily portable format; and

• Not receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your rights.

Contacting Us About These Rights

You can access, correct, or delete your personal data by contacting us at the email address listed under “How to Reach Us”.

When you contact us about one of your rights under this section, we’ll need to verify that you are the right person before we disclose or delete anything. For example, we will need you to contact us from the email address listed in our mailing database. You can also designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf by giving us written authorization.

Controller and Responsible Body

The owner of the Dave’s Travel World website (DavesTravelWorld.com) is the controller of personal information, which means that they are the body responsible for collecting and retaining that information.

How to Reach Us

If you have a question about this Privacy Policy, or you would like to contact us about any of the rights mentioned in the “Your Rights” section above, please contact us by email at Dave@DavesTravelWorld.com.

Other Things You Should Know

The DavesTravelWorld.com website is hosted on the WordPress.com platform and in so as their hosting service may interact with data held within the DavesTravelWorld.com website the Privacy Policy of that organisation shall also apply.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although changes are unlikely and if made are likely to be minor, Dave’s Travel World may change its Privacy Policy from time to time. Dave’s Travel World encourages visitors to regularly check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If we make changes we will also notify you by email that such changes have been made.

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