Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

xploreeightyone.com is governed by the following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”).

Xploreeightyone.com respects your privacy and therefore I will explain what personally identifiable information we may collect and how it may be used.

In the following, xploreeightyone.com is referred to as the Website.

Sensitive Personal Information

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes 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 at info@xploreeightyone.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records

Affiliate marketing

Many of the posts on this site contain links to companies and brands.

The majority of the blog posts contain affiliate links, which means I earn a small commission if you click through and buy from them. For you nothing changes and won’t cost you anything extra.

Happy to explain everything about and when you have questions don’t hesitate to contact me through email.

Amazon Associate Disclosure

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Information You Voluntarily Submit to xploreeightyone.com

We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to xploreeightyone.com by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form.

 

 Information Collected from Others:

We may receive information about you from other sources. You may post and share this site on your Facebook, Instagram, and/or Google accounts. If you choose to post to your Facebook, Instagram, and/or Google accounts, we may receive your name, email address and profile picture associated with that account. Xploreeightyone.com may utilizes the Facebook commenting system, so if you choose to comment on a Website post, your profile picture may appear.

Automatically-Collected Information: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access xploreeightyone.com. 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.

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 maybe be used

The information collected could be used in the following ways:

  • To operate and maintain the Website;
  • To create your account, identify you as a user of the Website, and customize the Website for your account; (When applicable)
  • To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings.
  • To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts.
  • To respond to your comments or inquiries.
  • To provide you with user support.
  • To track and measure advertising on the Website.
  • To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.

Third-Party Use of Personal 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.

The 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.

Anonymous Data

From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.

Publicly Visible Information

If you create a user profile on the Website or leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible.  To create a user profile, you must choose a username and password and input your email address for profile confirmation.  Your email address will never be available publicly.  At your option, you may also add an avatar, a profile description, and a link to your website.

If you choose to leave a comment, people will see your, avatar, name and any website information you leave.

Cookies

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.