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Time Off Travelers is a personal travel blog that is written and edited by us. We claim no responsibility for any bookings, actions, or travel plans related to information found on this site. Responsibility for any travel plans created in relation to any information found on this blog are solely the responsibility of the reader. We retain no responsibility whatsoever. Reading and using this website (blog) means you understand that.

On occasion, Time Off Travelers blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation. The blog also contains affiliate links with partners in various industries. Any purchases made from affiliate links are at no cost to you the purchaser.

Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites when linked to. We encourage our users to be aware that if you leave www.timeofftravelers.com, that you read the privacy statements of each web site that might collect personally identifying information.

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Affiliate links

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Time Off Travelers (Lucy & Kevin) is seeking to be 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 linking www.amazon.com. Time Off Travelers is also seeking to be a participant of Booking.com and Hotwire.com. We may earn a small commission for our endorsement, recommendation, testimonial, and/or link to any products or services from these websites. Your purchase helps support our work.

GDPR compliance

We promise that we take data safety seriously and we use your private data only to offer a personalized experience. We use cookies to track analytics as well to personalize ads. Cookie data is shared with our advertising company, Google Adsense. We use Mailchimp for our newsletter, which you can opt out of, and Google Analytics for analyzing website data. If you subscribed to our newsletter, you will receive our newsletters. You can always unsubscribe by following the link in email or by emailing us. If you gave us your name, it will only be used to personalize the newsletters. We have never sold, we are not selling, and we will not sell any of your personal data provided to us. All of our affiliates are GDPR compliant.

You have the right to:
– be informed regarding how the data is collected and used
– have access to the data about you
– ask us to change the data about you
– ask us to delete the data about you
– ask us to stop sending your newsletters

Time Off Travelers abides by GDPR regulations, so if you wish to have your information (e.g. comments removed) and you’re an EU resident, please get in touch with us. We are happy to amend/remove your information/comments/email from the mailing list if you contact us. We do not retain secondary copies of commenters/reader contact information without permission. Similarly, we do not resell or share your contact information with third parties. Similarly, once you opt out of the mailing list, you are permanently removed.

Privacy Policy

Time Off Travelers found at https://www.timeofftravelers.com (“Website”) is governed by the following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information we may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this Website.

What information we collect

Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website: We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form.

Automatically-Collected Information: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the 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 links clicked. Your information has been anonymized and only is viewed aggregately.

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, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.

How your information may be used

To operate and maintain the Website;
To send you newsletters. Each email promotion will provide an easy opt-out button;
To respond to your comments or inquiries;
To track and measure statistics/advertising on the Website;
To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.

Third-party use of information

We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information. Additionally, the 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 by Google Analytics. We have anonymized our Google Analytics data and never look at non-aggregated data.

MailChimp – this service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications. Please refer to MailChimp’s privacy policy for further information.

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, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.

The Website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, 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 herein.

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 possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.

Sensitive personal information

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

Children’s information

The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately. We will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.