Last updated: 5 September 2021
At the Focused Travels Site (this ‘Site’) we are dedicated to protecting your data and privacy.
We recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use this Site, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.
This site strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our customers’ and online visitors’ privacy on this Site.
About Our Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that this Site stores on your computer, which your browser provides to this Site each time you return to the site. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their use of our this Site, and their this Site access preferences.
Google Analytics Cookies
This Site uses Google Analytics to analyze the use of this Site. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about this Site use, through cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. We share this information with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
This Site uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to this Site, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies. We use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to this Site to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow us to update the site and improve your usage of it.
If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on available at this link.
Advertising Cookies
We use third-party advertising companies, such as Ezoic or AdSense to serve ads on this Site. These companies use cookies and web beacons in their ads to find out how many times you’ve seen an advertisement. We share this information with these companies, but do not provide them with any personally identifiable information for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information from this Site.
You may opt-out of personalized ads for over 125 different ad networks. Click here to do that.
Google serves some third-party advertisements. Google’s cookie enables it to serve ads to our visitors based on their visits to other sites on the Web. You may opt-out of personalized ads by visiting the Google ad opt-out page.
This link from Google provides more information about how Google manages data in its ad products.
Affiliate Products and Services
We receive an affiliate commission for some products/services sold on this Site.
The affiliate services platforms we use are Amazon, ShareASale, Commission Junction, TravelPayouts, etc.
By clicking on a product or service link, you consent to that platform’s use of cookies, as outlined in the link below.
Commission Junction privacy policy
Refusing Cookies
You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of our site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.
If you choose to refuse this Site’s cookies, you may not fully experience the interactive features of the site.
California Consumer Privacy Act Statement
This Site has sold no personal information from visitors to the site in the past 12 months.
Personally Identifiable Information
This Site may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:
- To run and operate our site.
- To display content on the site correctly.
- To improve customer service.
- To help us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
- To personalize your user experience.
- To understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our site.
- To improve our site.
- To improve our products and services.
- To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.
- To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics we think will interest you.
- To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails.
- To respond to your enquiries, questions, and/or other requests.
This Site may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.
Specifically, if you subscribe to our newsletter, we will ask for your first name and will require your email address.
If you complete a form, we will require your name and your email address and will ask for information relevant to the purpose of the form.
If you purchase a product or service from us, we will collect your name, email address, billing address and credit card number. We may store this information on a third-party’s servers.
This site lets you share content with your friends and followers on various social media platforms. Below are links to the privacy policies of Social Warfare.
You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.
If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. We will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.
We also collect each visitor’s IP address, which helps us combat spam and fraud. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.
This Site contains links to other sites that may interest you. However, once you have used them to leave our site, we do not control that other site. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites. This privacy statement does not govern these sites. Always exercise caution by reviewing the privacy statement of this site in question before continuing to use it.
Non-personally Identifiable Information
We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.
Children’s Privacy Protection
We directed this Site to adults. We do not direct it to children under the age of 16. We operate our site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must have a parent or guardian provide consent to use this site. We do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.
Release of Information
If we sell this site, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through this Site of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honours any opt-out requests you might make.
How You Can Correct or Remove Information
We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted personally identifiable information through this Site and would like to download and review that information, click on this link.
Updates and Effective Date
This Site reserves the right to change this policy. If there is a material change in our cookie and privacy practices, we will show on our site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.
Agreeing to Terms
If you do not agree to this Site’s privacy policy as posted here on this Site, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.
Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.