Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policy, Affiliate Disclaimer, and Copyright
Last Updated 13 November 2019
© 2019 Simply See The World ®. All rights reserved.
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”).
Who We Are
The administrators of SimplySeeTheWorld.com are Chris Bultman and Raychelle Bultman. For any concerns about any content on SimplySeeTheWorld.com please read this document first as your concern is likely address herein. If you still have concerns please find our contact information at the bottom of this document.
Users of SimplySeeTheWorld.com must agree to all Terms of Service to use SimplySeeTheWorld.com. If you do not agree with all Terms of Service you must discontinue the use of SimplySeeTheWorld.com immediately.
Purpose of SimplySeeTheWorld.com
The intent of the content of SimplySeeTheWorld.com is for general information and entertainment. The founders do not claim to be in advisors in the legal or financial fields. As such, SimplySeeTheWorld.com makes no warranties, expressed or implied, about the content of SimplySeeTheWorld.com website. The information contained within SimplySeeTheWorld.com is not to be used for financial, legal, or professional advice of any nature. As such, SimplySeeTheWorld.com will not be held responsible for legal, financial, or professional injuries or damages. Information from SimplySeeTheWorld.com is never a substitute for professional advice from lawyers, financial advisors, and other professionals. Users of SimplySeeTheWorld.com take full responsibility for any decisions made in their own affairs.
SimplySeeTheWorld.com is not liable for direct or indirect losses of any visitor to SimplySeeTheWorld.com including: loss of data, loss of goodwill, loss of anticipated savings, loss of revenue and income, and loss of business.
Links contained on SimplySeeTheWorld.com to websites outside of SimplySeeTheWorld.com are intended for general information only. Since SimplySeeTheWorld.com has no control over the content of such websites, SimplySeeTheWorld.com cannot be held liable for the content of such websites. Consequently, SimplySeeTheWorld.com will not be held liable for losses or damages from outside webpages, even if the link to such a website appears on SimplySeeTheWorld.com.
SimplySeeTheWorld.com is intended for adults 18 years of age or older. We do not intend or wish to collect data or interact whatsoever with any persons under the age of 18. SimplySeeTheWorld.com encourages parents and guardians to monitor any online behavior, browsing, and interests of children and minors. If you feel we have obtained information from someone under the age of 18 please let us know via email at team@SimplySeeTheWorld.com and we will remove it immediately.
Termination and Access Restriction
SimplySeeTheWorld.com solely reserves the right to terminate your access to SimplySeeTheWorld.com at any time, without notice.
Copyright and Intellectual Property
The founders of SimplySeeTheWorld.com are Chris Bultman and Raychelle Bultman, and unless otherwise stated, are the legal copyright holders of all content on SimplySeeTheWorld.com. Copyright laws and treaties protect these works globally. All rights reserved.
All images are intellectual property of SimplySeeTheWorld.com unless otherwise noted. Images are not to be used or reproduced without express written consent from the founders of SimplySeeTheWorld.com.
No materials from SimplySeeTheWorld.com may be downloaded or printed for commercial pursuits unless obtaining express written consent from SimplySeeTheWorld.com. Any such materials will be subject to a licensing fee to be paid to SimplySeeTheWorld.com
Affiliate Marketing
Simply See The World participant in the Amazon Associates Program available through Amazon Services LLC. The Amazon Associates Program, offers websites (such as SimplySeeTheWorld.com) a means by which associates can earn advertising fees through advertising that links to Amazon.
When a user of SimplySeeTheWorld.com purchases items from Amazon from a link housed on SimplySeeTheWorld.com, the founders receive a commission (a percentage of the purchase price) at no extra cost to the purchaser.
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
