We, at Trip & Trail do everything deemed necessary in order to protect the users' personal data. In order to do that, we collect the minimum amount of personal information that we need in order to make this website (https://www.tripandtrail.com) operational and the experience of using it as pleasant and efficient as possible.

 

What personal data we collect and for what reason

 

Newsletters

Only your e-mail is registered in order for the newsletter to be sent. The newsletters might contain news, recent post activity, contests and surveys. It might also contain ads with our products and services. Never a third party’s.

Comments

In order for spam to be minimized, we collect the name (or alias) and the e-mail of each user who wants to leave a comment. This data will never be used for any other reason except commenting. A link to a user’s website can be optionally inserted in order to be linked to his name (or alias).

Contact Forms

User’s name (or alias) and e-mail are collected so that we can respond back to any submission made by the users. This data is never used for any other reason except for answering back.

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.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

Third Party Cookies

Third party plugins need to use cookies in order operate.

These are:

Google Analytics: Provides analytics and demographic information used to improve this website.

Facebook: Analytics and Advertisement tracking.

Twitter: Analytics and Advertisement tracking.

 

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.

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.

Where we send your data

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

How we protect your data

All data between the browsers and our host’s web servers are encrypted using SSL security cryptographic protocol.