This Privacy Policy explains how The Travel Gardener, Travel Gardener Advisor Network, subsite TravelGardenerAdventures.com, subsite TravelGardenerWellness.com, etal, divisions of Moogar Group, LLC (The Travel Gardener) uses, maintains, and discloses information collected from Users of the www.TheTravelGardener.com website and subsites (“Site”). This privacy policy applies to this Site and all products and services offered by The Travel Gardener.
Personal Identifiable Information (PII)
The Travel Gardener may collect from Users in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, subscriptions to the newsletter, requests for information, requests for consultations, or in conjunction with other activities, services, features, or resources available on this Site. The Travel Gardener may ask Users for PII such as their name email address and phone number. The Travel Gardener will collect PII from Users only if they voluntarily submit that information.
Non-personal Identifiable Information (Non-PII)
The Travel Gardener may collect non-PII about Users when they interact with the Site. Non-PII may include technical information about Users; such as the operating systems or Internet Service Providers (ISP) utilized.
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.
Web Browser Cookies
This Site may use “cookies” to enhance the User’s experience. Users may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies. If they do so, some parts of the Site may not function properly. 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.
Stated Prices
Unless otherwise stated, all prices are per person, based on double occupancy, for specific room categories and subject to availability at time of booking on selected departure dates. Airfare, transfers, port charges and government fees are additional unless otherwise specified. Rates are valid at time of posting to the internet. Offers are capacity controlled and may be withdrawn at any time without notice. Some restrictions and blackout periods may apply. The Travel Gardener is not responsible for errors of omission or information that may occur as a result of the transfer of information from selected third parties, technical or human error.
Use of Information
The Travel Gardener may collect and use Users’ Personal Identifiable Information (PII) for the following purposes:
• To improve customer experience and respond to customer service requests and need for more information. We also send the customer site and service announcement updates. Customers are not able to un-subscribe from service announcements, which contain important information about the service such as tour information and confirmation. We communicate with the customer to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account via email or mail or phone.
• To Reserve and Purchase.
Our site uses an order form for customers to reserve and purchase travel services. We collect your contact information (like your email address), financial information (like your account or credit card numbers), and demographic information (like your zip/postal code and age). Where necessary, we will share information about you and your purchase with the cruise line, airline, hotel, car rental agency, insurance provider or other travel partner that you designate. We will only provide the necessary information to ensure your travel arrangements are confirmed with these travel suppliers. The travel suppliers will use your credit-card information to process your ticket or reservation.
• To personalize the user experience, The Travel Gardener may use the aggregate information to understand how Users as a group use the services and resources provided on this Site.
• The Travel Gardener may use email addresses to respond to User inquiries, questions, and/or other requests. If a User Opts-in to the mailing list, he or she will receive emails and mailings that may include company news, updates, and related products or services information. We may use your Personal Identifiable Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or the instructions provided in any email or mailings we send.
Protection of Information
The Travel Gardener follows best practices for data collection, storage, processing practices, and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alterations disclosure, or destruction of a User’s PII stored on this Site. 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. 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. The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Sharing of Information
The Travel Gardener does not sell, trade, or rent Users’ PII to others. The Travel Gardener may share generic aggregated demographics information not linked to any PII, with business partners, trusted affiliates, and advertisers for the purposes outlines above. The Travel Gardener may use third-party service providers to help operate the business, the Site or administer activities on behalf of the company and may provide User information for those limited purposes. If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Children’s Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
Privacy Policy Updates
The Travel Gardener reserves the right to update this privacy policy at any time. Users acknowledge that it is their responsibility to review the privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.
Third Party Websites
This Site may contain links to sites and services platforms, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, etc. The Travel Gardener is not responsible for the content and business practices of websites linked to or from the Site. 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.
Acceptance of Terms
By using the The Travel Gardener site, Users accept the policy.