Welcome to my blog! I love travel, culture, food, and photography and created the TG blog to share it with the Internet. I am a reading specialist at a middle school in the USA and spend the rest of my time seeking out adventures across the world. I share those adventures and experiences here at the TG. I hope you enjoy this little space!
Effective Date: 29 November 2018
The Traveling Ginger (“us”, “we”, “I”, “my” or “our”) operates the https://www.thetravelingginger.com website.
If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at Contact.
At http://www.thetravelingginger.com we consider the privacy of our visitors to be extremely important. This privacy policy document describes in detail the types of personal information is collected and recorded by http://www.thetravelingginger.com and how we use it.
Contact us via the email address above if you have any questions or problems regarding the use of your personal data and we will be happy to help you.
By using this site and our services, you are consenting to the processing of your personal data described in this Privacy Policy.
This privacy policy is also a part of our Terms and Conditions: by agreeing to our Terms of Condition, you also agree to this Privacy Policy.
Definitions used in this policy:
Personal Data: any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person
Processing: any operation or set of operations, which is performed on personal data or sets of personal data.
Data subject: a natural person whose personal data is being processed
Child: a natural person under 16 years of age.
Usage data: data collected automatically either generated by the use of any services or the infrastructure itself (e.g., visiting a page on The Traveling Ginger)
Cookies: small files stored on your device (computer device or mobile device)
The Traveling Ginger collects several types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our service to you and your experience with us.
Personal information you have provided us with:
When using our service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally, identifiable information may include, but is not limited to, your email address, first and last name, etc.
Information automatically provided by you:
Cookies and other session tools automatically store this information. This website does use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our service, and we do store certain information. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer and may contain a unique anonymous identifier. Cookies are sent from a website to your browser and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies may also be used such as beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information to improve and analyze our service. Cookies store information to help improve your experience on a website. You can control your browser and instruct it to refuse all cookies, however, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service and website. You can remove cookies stored in your computer via your browser settings.
Examples of cookies we use:
Session Cookies: we use session cookies to operate our service
Preference cookies: we use preference cookies to remember your preferences and various settings
Security cookies: we use security cookies for security purposes.
Other usage data may also be collected, such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our service you visit, time and date of visit and other diagnostic data.
The Traveling Ginger uses the collected data for various purposes:
• to provide and maintain our service
• to notify you about changes to our service and website
• to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service when you chose to do so
• to provide customer care and support to users
• to provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the service
• to monitor the usage of the service
• to detect prevent and address technical issues
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to and maintained on computers that are located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may be different to those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside of the United States and chose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data to the United States and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your voluntary submission of such information represents your agreement to the transfer.
The Traveling Ginger will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization of a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
Legal Requirements
The Traveling Ginger may disclose your Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
• Comply with a legal obligation
• To protect and defend the rights or property of the Traveling Ginger
• To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with services
• To protect the personal safety of users of the service or the public
• To protect against legal liability
Security of your data is important to The Traveling Ginger but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage methods is 100% secure. While the Traveling Ginger strives to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate the Traveling Ginger services, to provide services on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our service is used. These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purposes.
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt-out of having made your activity on the service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript from sharing information with Google analytics about visits activity.
For more information about the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy and Terms webpage
To opt out of tracking by Google Analytics, you can also visit the Google Analytics opt-out page.
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on The Traveling Ginger. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to visitors to the site based upon their visit to thetravelingignger.com and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting Google ad and content network policy.
We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associate Program, an affiliate advertising program to provide a means for us to earn fees linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on the site. Our advertising partners include:
• Amazon
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Each of these advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their site. Please see the following links for each advertiser’s privacy policy or refer to this list here: Privacy Policies
These third-party ad servers use technology in their respective advertisements and links that appear on the site and are sent directly to your browser. They will automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies, like Cookies or JavaScript, for example, may also be used by our site’s third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their campaigns and or personalize the content you see on the site. The Traveling Ginger has no access or control over how third party advertisers use these cookies.
The Traveling Ginger website may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
We believe it is important to provide added protection for children online. We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children to observe, participate in and/or monitor and guide their online activity. The Traveling Ginger does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 18. If a parent or guardian believes that www.thetravelingginger.com has in its database the personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 18, please contact us immediately, and we will use our best efforts to remove such information from our records promptly.
We may update the Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our service, before the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review the Privacy policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted to this change.
Should we update, amend or make any changes to our privacy policy, those changes will be posted here.