Privacy Policy

This policy applies to any online and mobile website, application and service of Our Vacation Journal which displays the policy. We use “Our Vacation Journal”, “we”, “us” and “our” to refer to Our Vacation Journal.

Here at Our Vacation Journal we take personal privacy very seriously. As a general rule Our Vacation Journal does not collect your personal information unless you choose to provide that information to us. When you choose to provide us with your personal information, you are giving Our Vacation Journal your permission to use that information for the stated purposes listed in this privacy policy. If you choose not to provide us with that information, it might limit the features and services that you can use on this website.

Generally, the information requested by Our Vacation Journal will be used to provide a website feature or service to you, such as future content better tailored to your interests. A description of Our Vacation Journal’s intended use of that information, how that information is collected, security measures Our Vacation Journal takes to protect that information, and how to grant or revoke consent for collection and use of that information will be fully described in the “Privacy Notice” section of this privacy policy.

Privacy Notice

Our Vacation Journal uses social media plug-ins and third-party websites. We use those third-party services to interact with visitors and to build our community on social media. We also use these third-party services to measure the number of visitors to our website and to make our website more useful to visitors.

In such cases, the third-party application may request an email address, username, password, internet protocol (IP) address, and geographic location for account registration or sign-in purposes. Our Vacation Journal does not use those third-party websites or services to collect personal information from individuals. Any personal information collected by the third-party website will not be stored or transmitted by Our Vacation Journal. Our Vacation Journal has no control over or access to specific login information or any other sensitive personal information provided to third-party websites.

Our Vacation Journal uses cookies to provide a customized user experience on the site. A cookie is a small file that a website transfers to your computer to allow your browser to remember information about your last session on that website. Your computer only shares information in the cookie with the specific website that provided it, and no other website can request that information. Our Vacation Journal also uses third-party analytics services (like Google Analytics) to gather this information for analysis. We also use services like Google AdSense for advertising that are using cookies to ensure you do not get the same ads and also that you get targeted ads.

Our Vacation Journal collects and temporarily stores certain information about your visit to help us to better align our content and website design with your needs. The information these cookies collect includes:

1. The domain you access our website from
2. Your computer’s IP address
3. The date and time you accessed the site
4. The operating system of your computer
5. The browser you’re using to access our site
6. The Universal Resource Locators (URLs) of the pages you visit on our website
7. The URL of the site you came from, if you clicked a link there that brought you to our website

We may share this information internally with Our Vacation Journal employees or third-party contractors as needed. This information is only used to improve the website and enhance our visitors’ experience. Raw data logs are only retained temporarily for site management purposes.

Security

Our Vacation Journal takes the security of your personal information very seriously. We take many precautions to ensure that the information we collect is secure and inaccessible by anyone outside of our organization. These precautions include advanced access controls to limit access to that information to only internal personnel who require access to that information. We also use numerous security technologies to protect all data stored on our servers and related systems. Our security measures are regularly upgraded and tested to ensure they are effective.

We take the following specific steps to protect your information:

1. Use internal access controls so only limited personnel have access to your information
2. Anyone with access to user information is trained on all relevant security and compliance policies
3. All information is secured through modern security technologies like encryption, firewalls and secure passwords

All access safeguards described above are in place to prevent unauthorized access by outsiders to information stored on or transmitted by our systems.

Choice, Access and Redress

You can do the following at any time by contacting us via our Facebook page:

1. Ask for a list of personal information we have about you, if any
2. Request a change, correction, or deletion of your personal information
3. Request that we avoid collecting anything in the future (opt-out)

If you do not wish to have cookies stored on your machine, you have the option to turn cookies off in your browser. However, keep in mind that turning off cookies may impact how this website functions. Disabling browser cookies will also impact how other websites you visit store browser cookies as well.

If you believe at any point that we are not following this privacy policy as stated, please contact us immediately on our Facebook page.

Changes

Our Vacation Journal may change this policy from time to time by updating this page, and by providing any information to Our Vacation Journal you’re accepting such changes. You should check this page from time to time for any changes.

This policy is effective from 13/06/2019.