Privacy Policy

Global Viewpoint Privacy Policy

Privacy policy: Last updated on January 8, 2020

This page highlights my privacy policy and terms of use. Please read these items carefully before using this site.

This privacy policy applies to the following website address, including all articles and webpages contained therein: https://www.myglobalviewpoint.com.

POLICY OVERVIEW

• Cookies & Privacy
• Contact Forms & Comments
• Embedded Content & Hyperlinks
• Affiliate Links
• Third Party Advertising
• Disclaimer
• Intellectual Property
• Terms & Conditions

COOKIES & PRIVACY POLICY

Our website collects information from visitors, known as cookies, to enhance the overall user experience. The information collected is mainly used for analyzing trends and monitoring behavior around certain topics. Moreover, this information in the aggregate helps us to create content that best serves this travel community.

Hence, cookies allow us to track the usage of this website to provide the best possible content and articles. They are also used to provide anonymous tracking data to Google Analytics.

The following types of information may be collected for such purposes: browser type, IP address, operating system, country, and date/time visitors access our website. If you would prefer to disable cookies in your browser, it’s advisable to consult the “Help” section of your browser. Furthermore, the About Cookies website provides insightful guidance on this topic.

CONTACT FORMS & COMMENTS

During page sessions, users may submit information through this website’s contact forms to subscribe to newsletters and post notifications. The information contained therein will never be shared with third-parties.

Upon subscribing to this website, we may send you free newsletters and emails that promote the use of this site. When you receive such emails, you always have the option to stop receiving communications from us. You can do so by clicking the “unsubscribe” button at the bottom of the email.

At the end of my articles, users have the ability to leave comments. All comments submitted by users who have not been previously approved will be held in moderation. Anything deemed as spam or offensive will not be published on this site. To leave a comment, personal details such as name or email address are not required.

EMBEDDED CONTENT & HYPERLINKS

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites acts in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. Hence, this means that websites may collect data, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that content if you have an account and are logged into that website.

External links are sometimes used on this site to direct you to further information regarding a particular topic. We accept no responsibility for the content in these links, as they are solely provided as an additional resource. When you choose to access these links, we encourage you to carefully read the privacy statements of each website.

AFFILIATE LINKS

As a travel blogger, I always strive to provide the best tips and recommendations to assist you with your travels. In doing so, I sometimes include affiliate links to other websites that provide certain products or services relating to traveling. I only do this when I genuinely believe a brand’s products or services are useful and in alignment with the interests of this travel community.

In particular, this site is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program that links directly to Amazon products. As is the case with all other affiliate links in my website content, I only recommend products and services that I find useful for like-minded travelers. Though I may be compensated if you choose to utilize the links and make purchases linking from this content, you are in no way obligated to click on any link or buy any products that are advertised.

Our affiliate partners may use tracking information and cookies to track sales you make as a result of clicking on the links. I may earn commission on the sales of such products or services.

Third Party Advertising

This website uses Mediavine to manage all third-party advertising. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit this website, which may use cookies. Mediavine may collect IP addresses and location to serve personalized ads. Therefore, 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 http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising

The Website uses Mediavine to manage all third-party advertising 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. The cookie may collect information relating to your use of the Website, information about your device such as the device’s IP address and browser type, demographic data and, if you arrived at the Website via a link from a third-party site, the URL of the linking page.

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 www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-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.

The Website may collect IP addresses and location information to serve personalized ads and pass it to Mediavine. 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 http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. You may also visit http://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and http://optout.networkadvertising.org/# to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

Mediavine partners with the following data processors:

1. Pubmatic. You may find Pubmatic’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Pubmatic and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Statistical information and other non-cookie technologies (such as eTags and web or browser cache) may be used by third parties on this Website. Browser settings that block cookies may have no effect on these technologies, but you may clear your cache to delete such trackers. Data collected from a particular browser or device may be used with another computer or device that is linked to the browser or device on which such data was collected.
2. Criteo. You may find Criteo’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Criteo and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Criteo may collect, access, and use non-identifying data to improve the Criteo Technology and other Criteo products, programs, and/or services. This non-identifying data may include on-site user behavior and user/page content data, URLs, statistics, or internal search queries. The non-identifying data are collected through the ad call and stored with a Criteo cookie for a maximum period of 13 months.
3. Pulsepoint. You may find Pulsepoint’s privacy policy through this link.
4. LiveRamp. You may find LiveRamp’s privacy policy through this link. When you use the Website, we share information that we may collect from you, such as your email (in hashed, de-identified form), IP address or information about your browser or operating system, with LiveRamp Inc, and its group companies (‘LiveRamp’). LiveRamp may use a cookie on your browser and match your shared information to their on- and offline marketing databases and those of its advertising partners to create a link between your browser and information in those other databases. This link may be shared by our partners globally for the purpose of enabling interest-based content or advertising throughout your online experience (e.g. cross device, web, email, in-app, etc.) by third parties unaffiliated with our website. These third parties may in turn link further demographic or interest-based information to your browser. To opt out of LiveRamp’s targeted advertising, please go here: https://liveramp.com/opt_out/
5. RhythmOne. You may view RhythmOne’s privacy policy through this link. RhythmOne uses cookies and similar tracking technologies (such as mobile device identifiers and digital fingerprinting) to provide its services. RhythmOne may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please visit the following webpage: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
6. District M. You may find District M’s privacy policy through this link.
7. YieldMo. You may find YieldMo’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt out of receiving interest based ads from Yieldmo or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link.
8. The Rubicon Project. You may find Rubicon’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt out of receiving interest based ads from Rubicon or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page.
9. Amazon Publisher Services. You may find Amazon Publisher Services’ privacy policy through this link.
10. AppNexus. You may find the AppNexus privacy policy through this link.
11. OpenX. You may find OpenX’s privacy policy through this link.
12. Verizon Media formerly known as Oath. You may find Verizon Media’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
13. TripleLift. You may find TripleLift’s privacy policy through this link. To opt out of receiving interest-based advertising (including retargeting) from TripleLift’s services through the use of cookies in your current browser and for more information on what it means to opt-out, please go to www.triplelift.com/consumer-opt-out.
14. Index Exchange. You may find Index Exchange’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
15. Sovrn. You may find Sovrn’s privacy policy through this link.
16. GumGum. You may find GumGum’s privacy policy through this link. GumGum may (i) use place and use cookies on end users’ browsers or use web beacons to collect information about end users who visit such Publisher Websites and (ii) link such collected end user information to other end user information provided by third parties in order to deliver targeted Advertisements to such end users.
17. Digital Remedy. You may find Digital Remedy’s privacy policy through this link.
18. MediaGrid. You may find MediaGrid’s privacy policy through this link. MediaGrid may collect and store information about end-user interactions with this website through cookies, advertising IDS, pixels and server-to-server connections. MediaGrid was receive the following information: the page an End-User has requested and the referring/exit pages; Timestamp information (i.e., the date and time the End-User has visited the page); IP address; mobile device identifier; device model; device operating system; browser type; carrier; gender; age; geolocation (including GPS coordinates); clickstream data; cookie information; first-party identifiers’; and hashed email addresses; demographic and inferred interest information; and post-conversion data (from both online and offline behaviour). Some of this data is gathered from this website and others is gathered from advertisers. MediaGrid uses this data to provide its services. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising or review their privacy policy for more information.
19. RevContent – You may find RevContent’s privacy policy through this link. RevContent may collect information about your browser or device, including browser type, IP Address, device type, user agent string, and operating system. RevContent also collects information about the websites you visit through their services, such as date and time of access and specific pages accessed and the content and ads you click on. You may opt-out of any personalization track by opting-out of RevContent’s data collection.
20. Centro, Inc. – You may find Centro’s privacy policy through this link. You may find opt-out information for Centro’s services through the privacy policy link.
21. 33Across, Inc. – You may find 33Across’s privacy policy through this link. To opt-out of personalized advertising, please visit https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1.
22. Conversant. LLC – You may find Conversant’s privacy policy through this link. Conversant uses information that does not directly identify you, such as information about your browser type, time and date of visit, your browsing or transaction activity, the subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over, and a unique identifier (such as a cookie string, or a unique advertising identifier provided by your mobile device) during your visits to this and other websites and apps in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. Conversant may use technologies such as cookies and other tracking technologies to collect this information. To learn more about interest-based advertising, or to opt-out, you can visit www.youronlinechoices.eu or https://www.networkadvertising.org/.

DISCLAIMER

As a travel blogger, I sometimes write about places that I have visited through my work. Therefore, I may receive compensation or discounted services for my media coverage of certain destinations and brands. However, any articles or ideas posted on this blog are always my own opinion and aren’t influenced by other parties. I take my job as a travel writer very seriously, and will never recommend things that I don’t enjoy or otherwise find worthy of posting.

Intellectual Property Rights

Unless otherwise noted, all written content on this site is owned by Jon Miksis and his affiliates or licensors. They are protected by copyright, trademark, and intellectual property laws. Furthermore, you may not use this site or the contents therein in a manner that constitutes infringement of applicable rights and laws. Additionally, you may not modify, copy, reproduce, upload, post, translate, distribute, or sell any material from this website without prior permission.

TERMS & CONDITIONS

By using this website, you are doing so at your own free will. Information in these articles could be outdated. Hence, we accept no responsibility for any incorrect or misleading information, and recommend that you research additional sources for up-to-date information. All travel advice on this website comes from personal experiences and preferences. Therefore, it should only be used as a general guide for your adventures.

This website makes no representations or warranties regarding the completeness, accuracy, availability, or suitability of the information contained within it. By using this website, you agree to do so at your own discretion.

By using this website, you agree not to share any sensitive personal information (i.e. via comments or contact forms).

This policy is subject to change. If you have questions regarding any of the information contained on this page, you can email me at info(at)myglobalviewpoint.com.

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