Who we are (https://touristvisaservices.com)
Effective Date: December 20, 2023
Introduction
Welcome to Tourist Visa Services! We understand that your privacy is important, and we are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and store your personal information when you visit and interact with our blog.
Information We Collect
We collect the following types of information from you:
- Personal Information: This includes information that can be used to identify you directly, such as your name, email address, IP address, and browser type. We may collect this information through various ways, such as:
- When you subscribe to our email list
- When you leave a comment on a blog post
- When you use our contact form
- When you click on an advertisement on our blog
- Non-Personal Information: This includes information that cannot be used to identify you directly, such as your geographical location, demographic information, and browsing behavior. We may collect this information automatically through cookies and other tracking technologies.
How We Use Your Information
We use your personal information for the following purposes:
- To provide and improve our blog
- To send you newsletters and other updates
- To respond to your comments and inquiries
- To personalize your experience
- To analyze how our blog is used
- To comply with the law and our advertisers’ policies
Sharing Your Information
We may share your personal information with third-party service providers who help us operate our blog and fulfill our obligations to you. These service providers are bound by contractual obligations to keep your information confidential and secure.
We may also disclose your personal information if required by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to:
- Protect our rights or property
- Prevent or mitigate fraud
- Comply with a court order or subpoena
Your Choices
You have the following choices regarding your personal information:
- You can unsubscribe from our email list at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in our emails.
- You can delete your cookies by following the instructions provided by your web browser.
- You can contact us at privacy@touristvisainformation.com to request that we delete your personal information from our records.
Data Security
We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no website or internet transmission is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your information.
International Transfers
Your personal information may be transferred to and processed in countries other than your own. These countries may have different data protection laws than your own country.
Children’s Privacy
Our blog is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at privacy@touristvisainformation.com
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes on our blog so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
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 provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
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.
Cookies
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.
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.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
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.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@touristvisainformation.com.
Compliance with Regulations
This Privacy Policy is intended to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the ePrivacy Directive (EPD), the Data Management Act (DMA), the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA), as well as Google AdSense policies.