Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting our website. We at Breathing Travel (“we”, “us”) take your privacy very seriously and want you to understand what, how and why we collect, use, and share data about you.

This Privacy Policy covers our data collection practices and describes your rights to access, correct, or restrict our use of your personal data.

Unless we link to a different policy or state otherwise, this Privacy Policy applies when you visit or use the Breathing Travel website.

By using our website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. You shouldn’t use the website if you don’t agree with this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

We collect certain data from you directly, like the information you enter yourself such as data about enquiries or sign-ups to freebies. We also collect some data automatically, like information about your device and what parts of our website you interact with or spend time using.

(a) Information you provide to us

The information you voluntarily provide to us: When you sign up for our newsletter, send us an email, post on our blog, or communicate with us in any way, you are voluntarily giving us information that we collect. That information may include either your name, email address, IP address, phone number, credit card information, as well as details including information about your own business. By giving us this information, you consent to this information being collected, used, disclosed, transferred to the United States and stored by us, as described in this Privacy Policy.

(b) Information we collect automatically

When you browse this website, we may collect information about your visit, your usage of the web pages, and your web browsing. That information may include your IP address, your operating system, your browser ID, your browsing activity, and other information about how you interacted with our website. We may collect this information as a part of log files as well as through the use of cookies or other tracking technologies.

2. How We Get Information About You

We use tools like cookies, analytics services, and advertising providers to gather the data listed above. Some of these tools offer you the ability to opt out of data collection.

(a) Cookies

Breathing Travel and service providers acting on our behalf (like Google Analytics and third party advertisers) use server log files and automated data collection tools like cookies, tags, scripts, customized links, device or browser fingerprints, and web beacons (together, “Data Collection Tools”) when you access and use this website. These Data Collection Tools automatically track and collect certain System Data and Usage Data. In some cases, we tie data gathered through those Data Collection Tools to other data that we collect as described in this Privacy Policy.

We use cookies (small files that websites send to your device to uniquely identify your browser or device or to store data in your browser) for things like analyzing your use of the website, personalizing your experience and recognizing you when you return. We use web beacons (small objects that allow us to measure the actions of visitors and users using the website) for things like identifying whether a page was visited, identifying whether an email was opened, and advertising more efficiently by excluding current users from certain promotional messages.

You can set your web browser to alert you about attempts to place cookies on your computer, limit the types of cookies you allow, or refuse cookies altogether. If you do, you may not be able to use some or all features of this website, and your experience may be different or less functional.

Some of the third-party partners who provide certain features on our site may also use Local Storage Objects (also known as flash cookies or LSOs) to collect and store data.

(b) Analytics

We use third-party browser and mobile analytics services like Google Analytics on this website. These services use Data Collection Tools to help us analyze your use of the website, including information like the third-party website you arrive from, how often you visit, events within the website, usage and performance data. We use this data to improve the website, better understand how this website performs on different devices, and provide information that may be of interest to you.

(c) Online Advertising

We use third-party advertising services like Facebook and Google’s ad services, and other ad networks and ad servers to deliver advertising about our website on other websites and applications you use. The ads may be based on things we know about you, like your usage data, and things that these ad service providers know about you based on their tracking data. The ads can be based on your recent activity or activity over time and across other sites and services and may be tailored to your interests.

Depending on the types of advertising services we use, they may place cookies or other tracking technologies on your computer, phone, or other devices to collect data about your use of our website, and may access those tracking technologies in order to serve these tailored advertisements to you.

3. What We Use Your Information For

We use your data to do things like communicating with you, improve and update our website and analyze how people use our website and serve personalized advertising.

We may use your information only for the following purposes:

1. To promote the use of our services to you and others.
2. To send you informational and promotional content in accordance with your marketing preferences.
3. To bill and collect money owed to us.
4. To improve this website and develop new services, and products.
5. Learn more about you by linking your data with additional data through third-party data providers or analyzing the data with the help of analytics service providers.

4. Sharing Of Information

We may partner with third-party advertising networks and exchanges to display advertising on our website or to serve our advertising on other sites and may share personal information with them for this purpose. All third parties with which we share this information are required to use your personal information in a manner that is consistent with this policy.

We and our third party partners may use cookies and other tracking technologies, such as pixels and web beacons, to gather information about your activities on our website and other sites in order to provide you with targeted advertising based on your browsing activities and interests.

5. Third-Party Websites

Our websites include social media features These features may collect information about your IP address and which page you are visiting on our website, and they may set a cookie to make sure the feature functions properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our website.

We also maintain presences on social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram. Any information, communications, or materials you submit to us via a social media platform is done at your own risk without any expectation of privacy. We cannot control the actions of other users of these platforms or the actions of the platforms themselves. Your interactions with those features and platforms are governed by the privacy policies of the companies that provide them.

Our Websites include links to other websites, whose privacy practices may be different from ours. If you submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any website you visit.

6. Security

We take appropriate measures to protect your information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction, taking into account the risks involved in the processing and the nature of the personal information.

If you have any questions about the security of your personal information, you may contact us at [email protected].

If a security breach causes an unauthorized intrusion into our system that materially affects you, then Breathing Travel will notify you as soon as possible and later report the action we took in response.

7. Your Rights

You have certain rights around the use of your data, including the ability to opt out of promotional emails, cookies, and collection of your data by certain analytics providers. You can update or terminate your account from within our website, and can also contact us for individual rights requests about your personal data.

To request to access, correct, or delete your personal data, email [email protected].

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

• IP Address
• Operating System type
• Operating System version
• Device Type
• Language of the website
• Web browser type
• Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

Updates & Questions

From time to time, we may update the policies above. If we do, we’ll notify you by posting the policy on our site with a new effective date.

If you have any questions, concerns, or disputes regarding our Privacy or Cookie Policy, please contact us at [email protected].

This Privacy Policy was last updated on July 7, 2020.