Last Updated 13 November 2019
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Please read these Terms of Service (“Terms”, “Terms and Conditions”, “Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policy, Affiliate Disclaimer, and Copyright”) carefully before using SimplySeeTheWorld.com website (“site”) operated by SimplySeeTheWorld.com (“Simply See The World”, “us”, “we”, “our”).
Personal Information, Privacy, and Cookie Policies
SimplySeeTheWorld.com is an Internet-based endeavor. As such, we do take reasonable efforts to protect visitors’ personal information, including HTTPS Secure encryption.
In the following paragraphs we explain how personal information is used for visitors of SimplySeeTheWorld.com. Personal information of users can be collected, used, retained, or potentially disclosed depending on the context of a user’s dealings with and relationship to SimplySeeTheWorld.com
Please note that this explanation is solely for SimplySeeTheWorld.com, any third parties or outside websites which are linked from SimplySeeTheWorld.com will have their own unique privacy policies. As such, SimplySeeTheWorld.com insists that users refer to the privacy polices of any website a user should visit.
Note that your personal information as a user of SimplySeeTheWorld.com may be used and processed in various countries. Users of SimplySeeTheWorld.com must understand that personal privacy and cookie regulations vary by country and region, and it is possible for a user’s information to be used in countries that have increased or decreased stringency of regulations at it pertains to personal privacy.
Users of SimplySeeTheWorld.com must read our privacy policy carefully and full agree to it in order to use the site. If a user does not agree fully to our privacy policy the user must discontinue use of SimplySeeTheWorld.com immediately. By using SimplySeeTheWorld.com or by clicking “accept” or “agree” to the Terms of Service when they are presented to you, you agree and are bound to the Copyright, Terms & Conditions, Affiliate Disclaimer, and Privacy Policy contained herein. It is also important to know that the privacy policy changes periodically as the content of SimplySeeTheWorld.com grows and evolves.
Personal information collected by SimplySeeTheWorld.com can include the following depending on the activities performed by users of the site while visiting SimplySeeTheWorld.com and the relationship of the user to SimplySeeTheWorld.com.
Examples:
For example, if a user signs up for our email list, the user’s name and email will be collected.
Alternatively, if a user purchases an item from our online store, additional information will be needed to process the transaction. In this instance, Name, Phone, email address, Address, and Credit Card information would be necessary.
SimplySeeTheWorld.com uses cookies, as does nearly ever website today. Cookies allow SimplySeeTheWorld.com to identify users who are visiting the site again after an initial visit or basic demographic information that is non-personal in nature. SimplySeeTheWorld.com may also us cookies that communicate a user’s browsing history, or a user’s general location as determined by IP (Internet Protocol) address. Also, SimplySeeTheWorld.com may use third party companies that provide SimplySeeTheWorld.com with advertising and marketing that uses non-personal browsing information from your use of SimplySeeTheWorld.com to offer you goods and services that might be of interest.
Readers of this policy should know that using “Incognito Mode” or other such ways of visiting websites reduces or complete eliminates the collection of various types of cookies. Users of SimplySeeTheWorld.com are welcome to use such techniques and features of their web browser when visiting SimplySeeTheWorld.com; however, it is possible that certain features of SimplySeeTheWorld.com might not work properly when such methods are used.
SimplySeeTheWorld.com may use your information to send newsletters; in the conducting of online contests or promotions; or to reply to a query submitted by you. SimplySeeTheWorld.com also could use your information to inform changes to our website and may use your information in a database of our clients.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold 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. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Information Security
SimplySeeTheWorld.com makes all reasonable efforts to protect user’s personal information. We have upgraded to HTTPS Secure which allows for all communications your browser and SimplySeeTheWorld.com to be encrypted.
Only administrators of SimplySeeTheWorld.com have access to users’ data. Administrators are provided with training regarding privacy laws and make every effort to comply with those edicts. Despite the best efforts of SimplySeeTheWorld.com to protect users’ personal information, Internet communications and interactions are never fully protected from interference that can compromise security and privacy. Subject to this, you, the user, hereby acknowledge and accept the potential risk of your personal data being breached by a nefarious actor. Furthermore, the laws of certain countries in which our service providers may be located allow for government officials to access the personal data of such third parties’ users pursuant to local laws. This is outside of the control of SimplySeeTheWorld.com.
Please discontinue use of SimplySeeTheWorld.com immediately if you have concerns about any of the above personal privacy information. By using SimplySeeTheWorld.com you agree to all the terms and conditions contained within this document.
Spam
SimplySeeTheWorld.com never intends to send spam and acts in accordance with anti-spam laws. If at any time you wish to discontinue your relationship with SimplySeeTheWorld.com or to opt out of email communication, you are welcome to Unsubscribe. This can be done through clicking “Unsubscribe” in an email communication you have received from SimplySeeTheWorld.com. Please allow 72 hours for us to process your request.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be used. After approval of your comment, your profile picture will become visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website. Also, be advised, that comments you post to SimplySeeTheWorld.com are publicly viewable by other users. SimplySeeTheWorld.com cannot control how others will use content you submit to public areas of our website.
We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update
We use Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
We use Disqus Comments widget at our website for you to be able to comment at our webpages using Disqus commenting system. Disqus may collect information about you when you register for and use the Service. Such information may include “Personally Identifiable Information” which means information that identifies you as an individual, such information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, telephone number, username or account ID, and “Non-Personally Identifiable Information” which means information that does not identify you as an individual. Non-Personally Identifiable Information may include, but is not limited to, information about your browser, your IP address, device ID, what pages you visit on our Partner Sites, which website you came from, what advertisements you clicked on, whether on our Partner Websites, the Service or other third party websites, and other information about your online activity that does not identify you as an individual, in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://help.disqus.com/terms-and-policies/disqus-privacy-policy
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. However, SimplySeeTheWorld.com does not control other web pages nor their unique policies. SimplySeeTheWorld.com encourages users of to visit the specific polices of each website they choose to visit.
Analytics
SimplySeeTheWorld.com uses Google Analytics, which is a service offered by Google Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to analyze how you use SimplySeeTheWorld.com. Google will use an anonymous version on your IP address to determine how you use SimplySeeTheWorld.com; this information can be compiled into reports that can inform SimplySeeTheWorld.com and advertising and marketing partners of SimplySeeTheWorld.com about your web activity and Internet usage.
IP addresses from certain regions of the world (such as the EU) typically are truncated before being sent to Google’s servers, which are located in the United States.
Users may refuse the use of cookies via settings on their web browser, however, this can cause the functionality of SimplySeeTheWorld.com to be greatly reduced or not work as intended.
More information about Google Analytics can be found by searching the web for
“Google Analytics Terms of Service”.
Accuracy of Information
SimplySeeTheWorld.com strives to provide accurate information; however, we cannot offer a warranty on any information contained at SimplySeeTheWorld.com. Information such as exchange rates, prices of goods and services, accommodation, and many other types of information is dynamic in nature and change often. As such, SimplySeeTheWorld.com cannot be held liable for changes in information on our website, but will endeavor to create and update content with the most accurate information possible. Users of SimplySeeTheWorld.com are solely responsible to perform their own research and due diligence for all information.
How to Contact SimplySeeTheWorld.com
The administrators of SimplySeeTheWorld.com are Chris Bultman and Raychelle Bultman. If you have concerns about content of SimplySeeTheWorld.com please contact us directly at: team@SimplySeeTheWorld.com
