SYDNEY BROWN TRAVELS PRIVACY POLICY

Thanks for stopping by the Sydney Brown Travels Privacy Policy. Here you will find information about all things related to privacy, data, and affiliate disclosures.

Sydney Brown Travels, sydneybrowntravels.com, (“Website”) is governed by the following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”).

We respect your privacy and we are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you of the data we may collect and how it may be used. This statement and its contents only applies to this Website.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT AND HOW IS IT USED?

  • Information You Voluntarily Submit: We may collect personal information from you such as your name and email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit your information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form in one of our posts or on a page.
  • Automatically-Collected Information: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access this Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as any links clicked.
  • Cookies: We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.
  • Google Analytics: We use Google analytics to record information about the pages a user has seen, for example the URL of the page, time of day, device used, etc. The information that we collect is anonymized and sent to Google Analytics for analysis. Google Analytics mainly uses first-party cookies to report on visitor interactions on this website. Users may disable cookies or delete any individual cookie. Google Analytics also collects Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to provide and protect the security of the service, and to give website owners a sense of which country, state, or city in the world their users come from (also known as “IP geolocation”). See this page for Google Analytics security and usage of data: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

HOW YOUR INFORMATION MAY BE USED

We may use the information collected in the following ways:

  • To operate and maintain the Website;
  • To send you promotional information, such as newsletters (only with your consent!)
  • To respond to your comments or inquiries;
  • To track and measure advertising on the Website;
  • To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data this Website holds about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

THIRD-PARTY USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

This Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.

This Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:

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. This information is retained indefinitely for the purposes of tracking key metrics associated with site growth and development to inform future site strategy.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Third parties have access to your data as noted within this agreement.

The data collected may be shared with service providers and others who help with our business operations and assist in the delivery of our products and services including, but not limited to, application development, site hosting, maintenance, data analysis, infrastructure provision, IT services, customer service, email delivery services, payment processing, marketing, analytics, and enforcement of our Terms of Service Agreement and other agreements. Additionally, any third parties as we believe necessary or appropriate, in any manner permitted under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence. We do this to comply with legal process, respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence, enforce our Terms of Service Agreement and other agreements, protect business operations, protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others, and allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.  We will never sell, rent, or lease your personal data to a third party.

PUBLICLY VISIBLE INFORMATION

If you leave a comment on this Website, certain information may be publicly visible.  To leave a comment, you may be required to input personal information, including your name or email address. Your email address will never be available publicly. You may also be able to add a link to your website in your associated comment, should you choose to do so.

COOKIES

This Website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, 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, as described in this Privacy Policy.

Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is a feature available on all popular Internet browsers. 

ADVERTISING

Affiliate Program Participation

This Website and Sydney Brown Travels LLC may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.

Sydney Brown Travels 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, this Website will 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.

Sydney Brown Travels is also a participant of other affiliate programs such as Viator, GetYourGuide, Booking.com, and others.

This Website may contain banners, widgets, and paid advertisements that are generated and managed by a third-party network. This Website and content therein within may also include affiliate links or affiliate links associated with a widget, banner, icon, or other media. Clicking on these affiliate links or associated media and purchasing something does not result in any additional cost to you for utilizing them, and the affiliate money we earn helps pay the fees to keep this site up and running. Affiliate links are disclosed in accordance with the FTC regulations, and appear at the beginning of each blog post they are included in.

Newsletters

On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All 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. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This data will not be passed on to third parties.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

We will retain your Personal Data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law.

We use reasonable and appropriate physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards to protect personal data from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction, taking into account the nature of the Personal Data and risks involved in processing that information.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may change this Privacy Policy at any time. The most recent version of the Privacy Policy is indicated by the “Last Updated” date at the top of the Privacy Policy. All changes are effective immediately upon posting. Please review this Privacy Policy frequently to stay updated on changes that may affect you. Your continued use of this website signifies your continuing consent to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Please contact me at sydney@sydneybrowntravels.com for queries related to this Privacy Policy or its contents.

Mailing Address
2312 3rd Avenue Unit 433, Seattle, Washington 98121