PRIVACY POLICY

The World I Roam

This Privacy Policy is valid from June 1, 2024

Who we are

Welcome to The World I Roam. Our website address is: https://www.theworldiroam.com.

Our main priority is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of information collect and record, and how we use it. If you require additional information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

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.

The World Roam reserves the right to monitor all Comments. This includes removing Comments that are inappropriate, offensive or breach the accompanying Terms and Conditions.

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.

Like almost all websites online today, The World I Roam will store cookies in your browser. These cookies are used to store information including your (the visitors’) preferences, and the pages on the website that you access or visit. This information is used to optimize your (the users’) experience by customizing our web page content based on your (the visitors’) browser type and/or other information.

Not only do cookies help your user experience, they also allow The World I Roam to earn commissions through our affiliate partners. When we recommend a product and you click the link to make a purchase, sometimes (not always) The World I Roam receives a commission. These transactions will never cost you extra money, but in many cases, may actually result in you receiving a discount for making a purchase through our links. Cookies are what make this possible. So by allowing the use of our cookies, you’re actually helping keep this site running. Without cookies, we wouldn’t be able to bring you all of this incredible insider content for free.

To learn more about cookies, please read this super informative article with a helpful infographic by HP: Computer Cookies: What Are They and How They Work.

Log Files

The World I Roam follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics.

The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks.

These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

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.

Affiliate links

The World I Roam uses both affiliate links and non-affiliate links to partner websites we know.

We neither claim nor accept responsibility for any privacy policies, practices and/or procedures of other such websites. We encourage all users (visitors) to be aware, when they leave our website, to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. The Privacy Policy agreement of The World I Roam applies only and solely to information collected by us for our website.

Please be aware that through affiliate links, identifying information may carry over to an outside site to show that you visited that site from our site. This occurs to ensure that proper commissions are issued.

Who we share your data with

The World I Roam contracts with certain third parties to supply products, services, and a good user experience on our behalf. These include payment processing, delivery of goods, search engine facilities, advertising, and marketing.

Currently, these third parties include:

Google Analytics – Posts and pages visited, name of your internet service provider, the website that you used to link to our site, other interests you have, basic demographic information. This helps us track our user statistics to provide you (visitors) a better experience. Google’s Privacy Policy & Terms are available here.

In some cases these parties may require access to some or all of your data, when that is the case we take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data will be handled safely, securely, and in accordance with the law.

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.

Information collected using Google analytics is retained for 26 months.

Information submitted through forms, such as email forms or contact forms are retained until such a time as the data subject chooses to unsubscribe or invokes their right under GDPR to be forgotten.

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.

Similarly, if you subscribe to our email list, you can unsubscribe at any time and make a request to the site administrator to have all personal data obtained via our email marketing service erased.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

The World I Roam may change this privacy policy as we deem necessary from time to time, or as required by law. Any changes will be posted on our site and you will have been deemed to have accepted them on your first use of our site following alterations. You should check this page regularly to ensure you are keeping up to date.

The date when this entire policy including the Disclaimers, and Terms and Conditions have been amended is at the bottom of this page.

Document last updated Tuesday, October 1st, 2024.