Last Updated on August 16, 2021 by Kickass Traveler
Kickass Women Travel is found at https://kickasswomentravel.com/ (“Website”) and is governed by the following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”).
This Privacy Policy discloses the privacy practices for this Website. The Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by this Website. It will notify you of the following:
- What personally identifiable information is collected from you through this Website, how it is used, and with whom it may be shared.
- What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
- The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
- How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
By visiting this Website, you consent to our data collection, use, and disclosure practices, and other activities as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree and consent, please discontinue use of this Website.
This Website believes in keeping your personal information confidential, and we collect as little information as possible from our visitors. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you of which identifiable information we collect and how it may be used. This Privacy Policy only applies to this Website.
You can use this Website without disclosing any of your personal information. “Personal Information” is information about an individual, such as their name, address, phone number, and email address. Personal Information does not include anonymous information, such as the type of browser or device being used, or your IP address.
This Website is the sole owner of the information collected. This Website has access to and can collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or direct contact from you. This Website will not sell or rent this information to anyone.
This Website does not sell, rent, or exchange your information. You can unsubscribe from our mailing lists at any time. You also have the right to request that we change or remove your personal information.
INFORMATION COLLECTED, USE, AND SHARING
This Website will use your information to respond to you regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g. to ship an order. If you leave a comment, your name and website address (if entered) will be publicly visible. Your email address will not be publicly available.
Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this Privacy Policy.
Information that You Provide
This Website may collect the information you provide, such as when you use or register for the Website, subscribe to the Website, post on the Website, participate in marketing activities, or communicate or transact through the Website.
This Website relies on Service Providers to operate the Service and to provide other services associated with the Website. This Website’s Privacy Policy only applies to the information actually collected by the Website and does not include the information collected by Service Providers.
Information the Website and/or its Service Providers may collect may include: (1) personally identifiable information, which is information that identifies you personally, such as your first and last name, e-mail address, phone number, and address, social media accounts, and images; and (2) demographic information, such as your age, gender, interests, education, and employment information.
Information Collected Automatically
This Website and/or its Service Providers may also automatically collect certain information about you when you access or use the Service including IP address, device identifier, browser type, operating system, information about your use of the Service, and data regarding network connected hardware (e.g., computer or mobile device). This Website does not consider this information to be personal information. Some of the information collected may include 1) Log information (IP address, browser, internet provider, etc.), and may be stored in log files; 2) Cookies, also known as tracking pixels, such as data stored on a hard drive to improve this website. Users may prevent cookies from being downloaded by changing their browser settings, or they may delete cookies that have already been downloaded.
HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE OBTAIN
This Website may use information about you for any purposes not inconsistent with this Website’s statements under this Privacy Policy, or otherwise made by us in writing at the point of collection including participation on this Website, management of your account and online experience, information requested by you (such as questions or requests), improvement of internal services, determination of your location, prevention of address fraud, breach of policies or terms, and threats or harm.
INFORMATION THIS WEBSITE COLLECTS FROM OTHER SOURCES (THIRD PARTY USE OF INFORMATION)
This Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of this Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their privacy policies. We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.
This Website may obtain information about you from Service Providers. This Website is not responsible or liable for the accuracy of the information provided by third parties or for third-party policies or practices. This Website, along with third parties, may convert your Personal Information to non-Personal Information by hashing it or substituting a unique identifier for the Personal Information, and we and third parties may use and share that data as permitted by applicable law. Any such third-party activities are subject to their privacy policies and practices. These third-party services may use their own cookies to collect information about you and may solicit personal information from you.
This Website may use your personal information to send you marketing communications, however, this Website will not share your Personal Information with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes without your consent. Third parties may share your personal information, but any information collected by third parties is subject to their privacy policies, and not this Website.
Service Providers of this Website (such as agents or consultants) may be given access to your information for their website’s use, however, this Website does not authorize its Service Providers to use personal information collected by this Website and provided by this Website.
This Website may use share your personal information if we believe your actions do not comply with the law, or if requested by law enforcement or other legal processes. Additionally, we may share your information if this Website believes your actions are inconsistent with our terms of use or to protect the rights, property, life, health, security, and safety of this Website, the service or its users, or any third-party.
INFORMATION YOU DISCLOSE PUBLICLY OR TO OTHERS
This Website may collect personal information you provide voluntarily by interacting with this Website, such as when you provide your name or email address to subscribe to a newsletter or leave a comment on our blog.
We may permit you to post or submit user-generated content (UGC) including, without limitation, written content, audio or visual recordings, computer graphics, pictures, data, comments, or other content, such as personal information. If you choose to submit UGC to any public area, your UGC will be considered “public” and non-confidential, and will be accessible by anyone. Personal Information included in UGC is not subject to this Website’s usage or sharing limitations, and may be used and shared by this Website and third parties to the fullest extent not prohibited by applicable law.
ADVERTISING AND ANALYTICS
This Website may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit this Website, which may use cookies or tracking pixels, as noted above, which may collect information about you and may solicit information from you. These companies may include hyperlinks, apps and plug-ins, websites, locations, platforms, applications, or services operated by third parties.
Certain functionalities on this Website may permit interactions that you initiate between the Service and certain third-party services. If you use third-party services, the information you post or provide access to may be publicly displayed by the third-party service that you use. Similarly, if you post information on a third-party service that references this Website (e.g., by using a hashtag in a tweet or status update), your post may be used on or in connection with the Service or otherwise by this Website. Also, both this Website and the third-party may have access to certain information about you and your use of the service and any third-party service.
This Website may use Service Providers to collect data to improve our site. Depending on your browser settings, Service Providers may also be used to collect your age, gender and search-engine generated affinity categories. This type of information is not provided to us about individuals, but only about our web visitors generally, for example, what percentage of visitors to this Website are male or female and in different age groups.
This Website may use third-party advertising companies to provide advertisements on the Service, which may use cookies. Some of these ads may be tailored to your interest based on your browsing of the service and elsewhere on the internet, sometimes referred to as “interest-based advertising” and “online behavioral advertising” which may include sending you an ad on a third-party service after you have left the service.
This Website may use Google Analytics or other Service Providers to collect data to improve our site. Depending on your browser settings, these Service Providers may also be used to collect your age, gender and search-engine generated affinity categories. These Service Providers may use cookies or tracking technologies to improve a website. This type of information is not provided to us about individuals, but only about our web visitors in general terms. The information generated by these services (e.g., your IP address and other usage information) may be transmitted to and stored by Service Providers on servers and these Service Providers may use this information for purposes such as evaluating your use of the Service, compiling statistic reports on the Service’s activity, and providing other services relating to Service activity and other internet usages. The information collected, stored, and shared by third parties remains subject to their privacy policies and practices, including whether they continue to share information with this Website, the types of information shared, and your choices on what is visible to others on third-party services.
As permitted by applicable law, this Website is not responsible for and makes no representations regarding the policies or business practices of any third parties, including, without limitation, Service Providers and third-party services associated with the Service. It is your responsibility to consult a third-party service provider’s privacy policies and terms of use.
Affiliate Program Participation and Newsletters
This Website may ask the User to subscribe to a newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows for an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click, however, this action will not be passed on to third parties.
This Website may engage in an Affiliate Marketing Program, which may embed tracking links into this Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate program, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions. Affiliate Advertising Programs are designed for sites to earn advertising fees by use of advertising and links. As part of an Affiliate Marketing Program, this Website will customize links, provided by the Affiliate Marketing Program, to track the referrals to their website. This program will utilize cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.
SECURITY
This Website takes precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via this Website, your information is protected both online and offline.
At no time should you submit sensitive personal information, which might include your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or other personal information.
This Website takes reasonable measures to protect Personal Information that is collected (excluding public UGC) from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Nevertheless, transmission via the internet and online digital storage are not completely secure and this Website does not guarantee the security of your information collected.
This Website and its Service Providers may monitor the use of the Service and may collect and use related information including Personal Information for all purposes not prohibited by applicable law or inconsistent with this Privacy Policy, including, without limitation, to identify fraudulent activities and transactions; prevent abuse of, and investigate and/or seek prosecution for, any potential threats to or misuse of the Service; ensure compliance with this Privacy Policy; investigate violations of or enforce these documents; and otherwise to protect the rights and property of this Website, third parties, and other users. Monitoring may result in the collection, recording, and analysis of online activity or communications through our Service. If you do not consent to these conditions, you must discontinue your use of the Service.
INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER
This Website is based in the U.S. and the information this Website and its Service Providers collect is governed by U.S. law. If you are accessing the Service from outside of the U.S., please be aware that information collected through the Service may be transferred to, processed, stored, and used in the U.S. Data protection laws in the U.S. may be different from those of your country of residence. Your use of the Service or provision of any information, therefore, constitutes your consent to the transfer to and from, processing, usage, sharing, and storage of your information, including personal information, in the U.S., as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
PRIVACY OF CHILDREN
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 and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records. Please note that third-parties may have republished or archived content by search engines and others that this Website does not control.
This Website does not intend to collect personal information as defined by the U.S. Children’s Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) (“Children’s Personal Information”) in a manner that is not permitted by COPPA. If we obtain knowledge that we have collected Children’s Personal Information in a manner not permitted by COPPA, we will remove such data to the extent required by COPPA.
YOUR ACCESS TO AND CONTROL OVER INFORMATION
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us. You are allowed to:
- See what data we have about you, if any.
- Change/correct any data we have about you.
- Have us delete any data we have about you.
- Express any concern you have about our use of your data.
This Website will make good faith efforts to make requested changes in this Website’s databases as soon as practicable, but it is not always possible to completely change, remove or delete all of your information or public postings and residual and/or cached data may remain archived thereafter. This Website reserves the right to retain data as required by applicable law, and for so long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the data is retained (except to the extent prohibited by applicable law).
OPTIONS OF COMMUNICATIONS
Cookies and tracking technologies may generally be disabled or removed in settings or preferences in most commercial browsers, and in some instances blocked in the future by selecting certain settings. Please be aware that if you disable or remove these technologies, some parts of the Service may not work and that when you revisit the Service your ability to limit browser-based Tracking Technologies is subject to your browser settings and limitations. This Website does not alter this Website’s practices when it receives a “Do Not Track” signal from a visitor’s browser.
If you opt out of certain kinds of Interest-based Advertising, you may continue to receive other types of ads. Opting out only means that those selected members should no longer deliver certain Interest-based Advertising to you, but does not mean you will no longer receive any targeted content and/or ads (e.g., from other ad networks). Also, if your browsers are configured to reject cookies when you visit these opt-out webpages, or you subsequently erase your cookies, use a different device or web browser or use a non-browser-based method of access (e.g., mobile app), your browser-based opt-out may not, or may no longer, be effective.
You can opt out of receiving e-mail marketing communications from this Website to which you have subscribed by unsubscribing or by contacting this Website. Please note that your opt-out is limited to the e-mail address used and will not affect subsequent subscriptions. If you opt-out of only certain communications, other subscription communications may continue. Even if you opt out of receiving marketing communications, this Website may, subject to applicable law, continue to send you non-marketing communications, such as those about your account, transactions, or servicing.
EUROPEAN UNION PRIVACY RIGHTS
New rules about privacy regarding data protection from the European Union (GDPR) took effect on May 25, 2018. Although they did not change anything in the U.S., this Website has readers around the world and wanted to let you know how we protect your privacy.
With respect to EU data subjects, “personal information,” as used in this Privacy Policy, is equivalent to “personal data” as defined in the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Some of the information you provide us may constitute sensitive data as defined in the GDPR. This Website only uses your personal information as permitted by law. We are required to inform you of the legal basis of our processing of your personal information.
This Website makes sure we consider and balance any potential impacts on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal information for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal information for activities where our interests are overridden by any adverse impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law).
We use your personal information to comply with applicable laws. Where our use of your personal information is based upon your consent, you have the right to withdraw it anytime in the manner indicated in the Service. We will only retain your personal information for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. In some circumstances, we may anonymize your personal information (so that it can be no longer associated with you), in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you. You may ask us to opt-out, to provide you with access to your information, to correct inaccuracies in your personal information, to delete personal information, and to restrict processing of your personal information. We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and process your request. Applicable law may require or permit us to decline your request.
Please be aware that any personal data you provide to us will be transferred to, processed, and stored in the United States. Data protection laws in the U.S. may be different from those in your country of residence. You consent to the transfer of your information, including personal information, to the U.S. as set forth in this Privacy Policy by visiting this Website or using our service. By using this Website, you are consenting to our Privacy Policy.
Each time you use this Website, you agree to be bound by the Terms of Use. If you do not agree to any of these terms, then you must immediately discontinue your use of this Website.
TERMS OF USE
This Website may contain links to third-party websites that are not owned or controlled by this Website. This Website has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party websites. This Website may contain links to third-party websites that are not owned or controlled by this Website. By using the Website, you expressly relieve this Website from any and all liability arising from your use of any third-party website.
Your use of this Website as permitted is solely for your personal, noncommercial use, and you will not copy or distribute any part of this Website in any medium without this Website’s prior written authorization.
You will not submit content that is copyrighted unless you are the owner or you have permission from the rightful owner to post the material; not publish misrepresentations that could damage this Website; not submit material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, violate any law, or is otherwise inappropriate; not post advertisements or solicitations of business; and, will not impersonate another person.
When creating your account, you must provide accurate information, and you may never use another’s account without permission. You are solely responsible for the activity that occurs on your account. You must notify this Website immediately of any breach of security or unauthorized use of your account. This Website will not be liable for your losses caused by any unauthorized use of your account.
You agree not to use or launch any automated system, including without limitation, “robots,” “spiders,” “offline readers,” etc., that accesses this Website in a manner that sends more request messages to the servers operating this Website in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional on-line web browser. You agree not to collect or harvest any personally identifiable information, including account names, from this Website, nor to use the communication systems and/or the navigation systems provided by this Website for any commercial solicitation purposes.
You agree not to solicit any users of this Website for commercial purposes.
This Website may permanently or temporarily terminate a user’s access to this Website if a user violates the Terms of Use in the Privacy Policy. Upon termination, the User continues to be bound by this Agreement.
For individual users, this Website and data generated by it, including any photographic imagery and other data, is for non-commercial use only. For business users, this Website and data generated by it, including maps, navigation information, photographic imagery and other data, is made available for your internal use only and may not be commercially redistributed. You acknowledge that this Website is not liable for defamatory or offensive user submissions.
Those who access or use this Website from other jurisdictions do so of their own volition and are responsible for compliance with local law.
We do our best to maintain the security of this Website, however, no data transmitted over the Internet can be guaranteed completely safe.
At any time, please contact us for questions related to this Privacy Policy.
Last edit: Aug 16, 2021