Disclosure and Privacy Policy

**Trimm Travels is a travel blog owned and operated by Trimm Travels LLC.**

This policy is valid from August 1, 2016, and last edited on June 30, 2020.

Terms of Use

The following terms (“Terms of Use”) constitute an agreement between Trimm Travels LLC, owner of this Website Trimm Travels (“Trimm Travels”), and you that governs your use of this Website and all of its associated services, content, and functionality. This policy applies to the Website administered by Trimm Travels LLC located at https://trimmtravels.com (“Website”).

Your use of this Website constitutes your acceptance of, and agreement to, the following Terms of Use. Trimm Travels reserves the right to modify, alter, amend or update its Website, policies, and these Terms of Use. These Terms of Use are subject to change without notice. If you do not agree with or do not accept any part of these Terms of Use, you must not use this Website.

Disclosure

Trimm Travels is a personal blog written and edited by me, Heather Trimm. For questions about this Blog, please contact me by using the Contact Page.

Unless otherwise noted, all photos on this Website are taken by me, Heather Trimm, and all rights are reserved. If in a rare occurrence, a photo not taken by me is posted on this Website, the owner of that photo will be fully credited.

Unless otherwise noted, all videos on this Website are produced and edited by me, Heather Trimm, and all rights are reserved. If in a rare occurrence a video not taken by me is embedded on this Website, the owner of that video will be fully credited.

This Blog sometimes accepts sponsored posts or advertisements, paid insertions, or other forms of compensation.

This Blog abides by word of mouth marketing standards. I believe in honesty of relationship, opinion, and identity. The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics, or posts made on this Blog. That content, advertising space, or post will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content in accordance with the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

I may be compensated to provide opinions on products, services, websites, and various other topics through this Blog. Even though I may receive compensation for my posts or advertisements, I always give my honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this Blog are purely my own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider, or party in question.

This Blog does not contain content which might present a conflict of interest.

Trimm Travels LLC is 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 to amazon.com and affiliated sites.

Privacy Policy

Trimm Travels is committed to safeguarding your privacy. Contact us by using the Contact Page if you have any questions or problems regarding the use of your Personal Data and we will gladly assist you.

By using this Website and/or our services, you consent to the Processing of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.

Definitions used in this Policy
Data protection principles we follow
What rights do you have regarding your Personal Data
What Personal Data we gather about you
How we use your Personal Data
Who else has access to your Personal Data
How we secure your data
Information about cookies
Contact information

Personal Data – any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Processing – any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data.
Data subject – a natural person whose Personal Data is being Processed.
Child – a natural person under 16 years of age.
User/you – anyone who accesses the Trimm Travels website (https://trimmtravels.com, www.trimmtravels.com or just trimmtravels.com)
We/us (either capitalized or not) – Trimm Travels travel blog (https://trimmtravels.com, www.trimmtravels.com or just trimmtravels.com).
Website/Blog – Trimm Travels travel blog (https://trimmtravels.com, www.trimmtravels.com or just trimmtravels.com).

We promise to follow the following data protection principles:

Processing is lawful, fair, transparent. Our Processing activities have lawful grounds. We always consider your rights before Processing Personal Data. We will provide you information regarding Processing upon request.
Processing is limited to its purpose. Our Processing activities fit the purpose for which Personal Data was gathered.
Processing is done with minimal data. We only gather and Process the minimal amount of Personal Data required for any purpose.
Processing is limited to a time period. We will not store your personal data for longer than needed.
We will do our best to ensure the accuracy of data.
We will do our best to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of data.

The Data Subject has the following rights:

Right to Information – meaning you have to right to know whether your Personal Data is being processed; what data is gathered, from where it is obtained, and why and by whom it is processed.
Right to Access – meaning you have the right to access the data collected from/about you. This includes your right to request and obtain a copy of your Personal Data gathered.
Right to Rectification – meaning you have the right to request rectification or erasure of your Personal Data that is inaccurate or incomplete.
Right to Erasure – meaning in certain circumstances you can request for your Personal Data to be erased from our records,
Right to Restrict Processing – meaning where certain conditions apply, you have the right to restrict the Processing of your Personal Data.
Right to Object to Processing – meaning in certain cases you have the right to object to Processing of your Personal Data, for example in the case of direct marketing.
Right to Object to Automated Processing – meaning you have the right to object to automated Processing, including profiling; and not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated Processing. This right you can exercise whenever there is an outcome of the profiling that produces legal effects concerning or significantly affecting you.
Right to Data Portability – you have the right to obtain your Personal Data in a machine-readable format or if it is feasible, as a direct transfer from one Processor to another.
Right to Lodge a Complaint – in the event that we refuse your request under the Rights of Access, we will provide you with a reason as to why. If you are not satisfied with the way your request has been handled please contact us.
Right for the Help of Supervisory Authority – meaning you have the right for the help of a supervisory authority and the right for other legal remedies such as claiming damages.
Right to Withdraw Consent – you have the right to withdraw any given consent for Processing of your Personal Data.

To opt-out, access, rectify or erase your personal data please see this Website’s Privacy Tools or submit a request to heather@trimmtravels.com. In addition, you can always opt-out of future emails by following the unsubscribe links in our emails or notifying us at heather@trimmtravels.com to be removed from the mailing list.

Information you have voluntarily provided us with
This might be your e-mail address, name, billing address, home address, etc – mainly information that is necessary for delivering you a product/service or to enhance your customer experience with us. We save the information you provide us with in order for you to comment or perform other activities on the Website. This information includes, for example, your name and e-mail address.

Information automatically collected about you
This includes information that is automatically stored by cookies and other session tools. When you use our services or look at the contents of our Website, your activities may be logged. For example, logging of your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages viewed as well as dates/times you accessed this site. This information is used to improve your user experience. This Website may also collect information about actions you take when using this site, such as links clicked.

Cookies
This Website may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by this site. This Website 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 this site.

Information from our partners
We gather information from our trusted partners with confirmation that they have legal grounds to share that information with us. This is either information you have provided them directly or that they have gathered about you on other legal grounds. (We currently do not gather information in this way from any partners. Should this change in the future, we will disclose and update that information here.)

Publicly available information
We might gather information about you that is publicly available.

We use your Personal Data in order to:

operate and maintain this Website
provide our service to you. This includes, for example, registering your account; providing you with other products and services that you have requested; providing you with promotional items at your request such as newsletters and communicating with you in relation to those products and services; communicating and interacting with you; notifying you of changes to any policies or services. Each email promotion will contain information on how to opt-out of any future emails.
enhance your customer experience including but not limited to providing user support
track and measure advertising on this Website
fulfill an obligation under law or contract. For example, to protect and investigate unauthorized or illegal activity.

We use your Personal Data on legitimate grounds and/or with your Consent.

On the grounds of entering into a contract or fulfilling contractual obligations, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

to identify you
to provide you a service or to send/offer you a product
to communicate either for sales or invoicing
to get back in touch with you after you have first contacted us

On the ground of legitimate interest, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

to send you personalized offers (from us and/or our carefully selected partners)
to administer and analyze our client base (purchasing behavior and history) in order to improve the quality, variety, and availability of products/ services offered/provided
to conduct questionnaires concerning client satisfaction

As long as you have not informed us otherwise, we consider offering you products/services that are similar or the same to your purchasing history/browsing behavior to be our legitimate interest.

With your consent we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

to send you newsletters and campaign offers (from us and/or our carefully selected partners)
for other purposes we have asked your consent for

We Process your Personal Data in order to fulfill obligation rising from the law and/or use your Personal Data for options provided by law. We reserve the right to anonymize Personal Data gathered and to use any such data. We will use data outside the scope of this Policy only when it is anonymized. We save your billing information and other information gathered about you for as long as needed for accounting purposes or other obligations deriving from the law, but not longer than 26 months.

We might process your Personal Data for additional purposes that are not mentioned here but are compatible with the original purpose for which the data was gathered. To do this, we will ensure that:

the link between purposes, context, and nature of Personal Data is suitable for further Processing
the further Processing would not harm your interests and
there would be an appropriate safeguard for Processing

We will inform you of any further Processing and purposes.

Third Parties

We do not share your Personal Data with strangers. Personal Data about you is in some cases provided to our trusted partners in order to either make providing the service to you possible or to enhance your customer experience. We share your data with:

Google Analytics: We use this third party to measure traffic on our Website. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of this Website. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our Website. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our Website, we will be upfront about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it. Google has their own Privacy Policy which you can review here. If you’d like to opt-out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page.
WordPress: We use WordPress.org to publish this Blog and allow comments on our Website. WordPress requires visitors who want to post a comment to enter a name and email address.
- Data Collected: IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. Important: The site owner does not have access to any of this information via this feature. For example, a site owner can see that a specific post has 285 views, but he/she cannot see which specific users/accounts viewed that post. Stats logs — containing visitor IP addresses and WordPress.com usernames (if available) — are retained by Automattic for 28 days and are used for the sole purpose of powering this feature.
- Activity Tracked: Post and page views, outbound link clicks, referring URLs, search engine terms, and country. When this module is enabled, Jetpack also tracks performance on each page load that includes the Javascript file used for tracking stats. This is exclusively for aggregate performance tracking across Jetpack sites in order to make sure that our plugin and code is not causing performance issues. This includes the tracking of page load times and resource loading duration (image files, Javascript files, CSS files, etc.). The site owner has the ability to force this feature to honor DNT settings of visitors. By default, DNT is currently not honored.For more information about how WordPress processes data, please see the WordPress.org Privacy Policy.
- Jetpack: In addition to the above, we use Jetpack to allow you to follow response comments after you have commented on this Website. If you opt-in to follow the comments, Jetpack stores your name, email address, site URL (if provided via the comment form), timestamp, and IP address.
- Gravatar: 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.
MailChimp: We use this third party email service to deliver our weekly updates (sometimes referred to as a “newsletter”) and other correspondence. We gather statistics around email opening and click-throughs within the emails to help us monitor and improve our updates. For more information, please see MailChimp’s Privacy Policy.
Mediavine: This service is used to manage this Website’s display advertisements. To provide personalized advertising options, Mediavine may track your IP address or location. This information is not stored on this Website.
Simple Share Buttons: This service is used to allow all users to share this Website’s content on user’s social channels. Simple Share Buttons will connect using the user’s social channels, but no information is stored on this Website. For more information, please see Simple Share Buttons’ (Share This) Privacy Policy.

Our Processing Partners:

SiteGround, our web hosting provider, is a data processor. They own the servers where our customers’ data is stored, so they also have access to this data. SiteGround, as a web hosting provider, may occasionally need to process the data, whether manually (fixing a problem somewhere) or automatically (creating backups). You can read SiteGround’s full Privacy Policy here.
SurveyMonkey: We use SurveyMonkey to send out our annual reader surveys and other isolated surveys. They process data such as IP addresses, email addresses (when optionally provided), survey patterns, opening of the surveys as well aggregation of the data you submit in the survey itself. For more information please read SurveyMonkey’s Privacy Policy here.
PromoSimple: We use PromoSimple to host occasional giveaways. They process data such as IP addresses to monitor entry activity, email addresses when provided, and the data you submit as part of the giveaway requirements. For more information read PromoSimple’s Privacy Policy here.

Anonymous Data

From time to time, Trimm Travels 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.

Advertising:

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising

This Website uses Mediavine to manage all third-party advertising on the website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit this 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 this site. The cookie may collect information relating to your use of this Website, information about your device such as the device’s IP address and browser type, demographic data, and if you arrived at this 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 this site 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 this Website’s content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our site.

This 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 https://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. You may also visit https://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and https://optout.networkadvertising.org/# to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at https://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:

Pubmatic: You may find Pubmatic’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on our 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 site. 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.
Criteo: You may find Criteo’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on our 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.
Pulsepoint: You may find Pulsepoint’s privacy policy through this link.
LiveRamp: You may find LiveRamp’s privacy policy through this link. When you use this 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/
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: https://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
District M: You may find District M’s privacy policy through this link.
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.
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.
Amazon Publisher Services: You may find Amazon Publisher Services’ privacy policy through this link.
AppNexus: You may find the AppNexus privacy policy through this link.
OpenX: You may find OpenX’s privacy policy through this link.
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.
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.
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.
Sovrn: You may find Sovrn’s privacy policy through this link.
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.
Digital Remedy: You may find Digital Remedy’s privacy policy through this link.
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 may 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 behavior). 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.
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.
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.
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.
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/.

Retargeting Ads

From time to time, this Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market this Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to this Website.

Affiliate Advertising and Partners:

Some of our advertising partners and/or affiliate programs may use cookies and web beacons on our Website. Trimm Travels LLC has no access to or control over cookies that are used by third-party advertisers and affiliates. Some of the affiliate or referral programs we use operate by use of a referral link. When the link is clicked, any purchases made by a visitor can be tracked back to Trimm Travels and its owner in order to provide us payment for the referral. Our advertising partners/affiliate programs include:

Amazon Associates: (Affiliate Partner and Native Site Ads.) Trimm Travels is 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 to amazon.com and affiliated sites. You can read Amazon’s Privacy Policy here.
CJ Affiliates: (Affiliate Partner) Trimm Travels is a participant with CJ Affiliates which is an affiliate network platform that provides a means for sites to earn commission by linking to affiliated sites and products. You can read CJ Affiliate’s Privacy Policy here.
Awin: (Affiliate Partner) Trimm Travels is a participant with Awin which is an affiliate network platform that provides a means for sites to earn commission by linking to affiliated sites and products. You can read Awin’s Privacy Policy here.
Rakuten Marketing: (Affiliate Partner) Trimm Travels is a participant with Rakuten Marketing which is an affiliate network platform that provides a means for sites to earn commission by linking to affiliated sites and products. You can read Rakuten Marketing’s Privacy Policy here.
Booking [dot] com: (Affiliate Partner) Trimm Travels is a participant with Booking [dot] com which is an affiliate program that provides a means for sites to earn commission by linking to affiliated sites and products. You can read Booking [dot] com’s Privacy Policy here.

Note: Each advertising partner and affiliate program has its own privacy policy in place. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices.

We do our best to only work with third parties that will keep your Personal Data safe but can not make any guarantees in this respect. Again, you should consult the respective privacy policies of third-party advertisement partners and affiliate programs for more information on their practices and for instructions on how to opt-out of certain practices.

We disclose your Personal Data to third parties or public officials when we are legally obliged to do so. We might disclose your Personal Data to third parties if you have consented to it or if there are other legal grounds for it.

Newsletters

On this website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, Trimm Travels may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows Trimm Travels to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.

Embedded Links to Other Websites

Trimm Travels contains links to outside websites. Once you have left our website, be aware that each individual website will have its own privacy policy and terms and conditions that are not governed by the Trimm Travels Privacy Policy. We have no control over how an outside website will use information that you provide. Therefore, proceed with caution, and only provide information to outside websites once you have read and understood their privacy policy and terms and conditions.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this Website 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

An example of embedded content on Trimm Travels includes (but is not limited to) our YouTube videos.

We do our best to keep your Personal Data safe. We use safe protocols for communication and transferring data (such as HTTPS). We use anonymizing and pseudonymizing where suitable.

SSL Certificate: A service provided and installed through our web host, SiteGround. Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website you are connected to. The “S” at the end of HTTPS stands for “Secure” meaning all communication between your browser and the website are encrypted.

We monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks in the following ways:

SG Site Scanner: A service provided through our web host, SiteGround, scans Trimm Travels daily for malware and other possible vulnerabilities and attacks.

Wordfence: We use this security plugin for real-time monitoring and scanning of Trimm Travels. Wordfence is an endpoint firewall and integrated malware scanner. The service also defends against brute force attacks by limiting login attempts, enforcing strong passwords, and providing two-factor identity authentication when logging in to the Trimm Travels website. Additionally, our administrators are notified each time any admin logs in from a new device or location. You can view Wordfence’s Privacy Policy here and read more about the cookies it uses here.

Akismet: This anti-spam plugin is used on the Trimm Travels website to protect against spam.

Two-Factor Identity Authentication: Trimm Travels uses this security feature where offered. Good examples of this are with our email service MailChimp and our security plugin Wordfence.

Even though we try our best we can not guarantee the security of information. However, we promise to notify suitable authorities of data breaches. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.

If you have an account with us, note that you have to keep your username and password secret. (Note: We currently do not require the use of accounts on our site. If this changes in the future, this information will be updated here.)

Sensitive Personal Information

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to this 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

We do not intend to collect or knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. We do not target children with our services. If a parent or guardian believes that this Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at heather@trimmtravels.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

We use cookies and/or similar technologies to analyze customer behavior, administer the Website, track users’ movements, and to collect information about users. This is done in order to personalize and enhance your experience with us.

A cookie is a tiny text file stored on your computer. Cookies store information that is used to help make sites work. Only we can access the cookies created by our Website. You can control your cookies at the browser level. Choosing to disable cookies may hinder your use of certain functions.

Advertising partners and other third parties may also use cookies, scripts and/or web beacons to track visitors to our site in order to display advertisements and other useful information. Such tracking is done directly by the third parties through their own servers and is subject to their own privacy policies.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

Necessary Cookies: These cookies are required for you to be able to use some important features on our Website, such as logging in. These cookies don’t collect any personal information.
Functionality Cookies: These cookies provide functionality that makes using our service more convenient and makes providing more personalized features possible. For example, they might remember your name and e-mail in comment forms so you don’t have to re-enter this information next time when commenting.
Analytics Cookies: These cookies are used to track the use and performance of our Website and services. Examples of this include how you navigate this Website and how much time you spend doing it.
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You may view, download (for caching purposes only), and print pages for your personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these Terms of Use.

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Republication of content from this Website, unless content is specifically and expressly made available for republication.
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From time to time, this Website will utilize various plugins or widgets to allow sharing of content via social media channels, email, or other methods. Use of these plugins or widgets does not constitute any waiver of Trimm Travels LLC’s intellectual property rights. Such use is a limited license to republish the content on the approved social media channels, with full credit to Trimm Travels.

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Copyright

Unless otherwise noted, the design, content, and all components of the Website are copyrights owned by Trimm Travels LLC or third parties and are protected by United States and international copyright laws and should not be reused or republished without express written permission.

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You grant Trimm Travels a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate, and distribute any content you contribute to this Website. This includes, but is not limited to, text, images, audio material, comments, video material, and audio-visual material. This license extends to all known and future media. You also grant Trimm Travels the right to sub-license these rights and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

Content Contributed to the Website

Any content you contribute to this Website, including, but not limited to text, images, audio material, comments, video material, and audio-visual material, must not be illegal or unlawful, may not infringe on any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or Trimm Travels or a third party.

Trimm Travels reserves the right to edit or remove: (i) any material submitted to this Website; (ii) stored on Trimm Travels’ servers; or, (iii) hosted or published on this Website. Trimm Travels takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content posted by you or any third party.

Notwithstanding Trimm Travels’ rights under the Terms of Use, Trimm Travels does not undertake to monitor the submission of all content to, or the publication of such content on, this Website.

If you have any questions or comments about this Disclosure and Privacy Policy, please contact Trimm Travels via the Contact Page or by emailing heather@trimmtravels.com.

We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy based on changes in different laws and regulations or as we update this Website’s business practices.

Last modified on June 30, 2020.

Disclaimer

1. ACCURACY: Information on this Website is accurate to the best of my knowledge at the time I visited the destination, ate the food, or used the product. All advice and information on this Website are recommendations only and are to be taken at your own risk. Trimm Travels and its owner are not responsible for any changes in information that might occur after the publishing of a post.

2. NO WARRANTIES: This Website is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis without any representations or warranties, expressed or implied. Trimm Travels makes no representations or warranties in relation to this Website or the information and materials provided therein. Trimm Travels makes no warranty or guarantee this Website will meet your requirements; will be available uninterrupted; timely and free of viruses or bugs; or represents the full functionality, accuracy, and reliability of this Website. Trimm Travels is not responsible to you for the loss of any content or material uploaded or transmitted through this Website. This Website is written in English and makes no warranty regarding translation or interpretation of content in any language.

3. RESPONSIBILITY: Trimm Travels is not a travel agency and is not responsible for actual travel. All travel plans and actual travel is your responsibility and done at your own risk.

4. QUESTIONS: If there are any questions about this you may contact me at heather [at] trimmtravels [dot] com.

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