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Privacy Policy

TERMS OF USE

Effective: October 10, 2019

THOMTOURS LLC (“The Company,” “we,” “us,” “exploringworldsoldandnew.com”) commits to protecting your privacy when you visit our website, exploringworldsoldandnew.com.

You can access exploringworldsoldandnew.com and browse our site without disclosing any of your data. Exploringworldsoldandnew.com does not collect personal information about individuals. This information includes names and mailing or e-mail addresses unless the individual knowingly provides it. Also, he or she agrees to the terms under which exploringworldsoldandnew.com will use it.

Please read the Privacy Policy carefully before you start to use the Website.

You accept and agree to be bound and abide by the Privacy Policy by any of the following actions.

If you do not want to agree to the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website.

Our Commitment to Children’s Privacy

Protecting the privacy of the very young is important to us. We do not collect or maintain information at our sites from those we know are under 18. Also, we do not structure any part of our website to attract anyone under 18.

If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website. Do not access or use any of its features/register. You should not use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website.

Do not make any purchases through the Website. Do not provide any information about yourself to us. This information includes your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use.

If we learn we have personal information from a child under 18, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at THeath@exploringworldsoldandnew.com.

Disclosure of Information

exploringworldsoldandnew.com will not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others. We do not automatically log personal data. Nor do we link information logged by other means with personal data about specific individuals.

We may use IP addresses to compile and provide aggregate statistics about our visitors, traffic patterns, and administer the site. IP addresses do not link to personally identifiable information.

We collect only the personal data that you may volunteer while using our services. We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organizations.

What personal data we collect and why.

When you access the Website, the Company will learn certain information about you during your visit. As a business, we collect personal data from you in several ways, including:

(1.) Newsletter opt-ins: Your name and email address.

(2.) Waiting Lists: Your name and email address.

(3.) Transactions: You name, email address, billing information, and payment source.

(4.) Comments: Your name, email address, and feedback. By posting a comment anywhere on this Site, you consent to the posting of any Personal Information that you provide.

You should be aware that other visitors to this public area can read, collect, and use such Personal Information. We have no control over how these visitors use your Personal Information.

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form. We also collect the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

We may provide a hash (anonymized string) from your email address to the Gravatar service. This act is 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.

 

We may use the information in the following ways:

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 site.

Cookies

Similar to other commercial websites, our website utilizes a standard technology they call “cookies.” Also, we use server logs to collect information about how you are using our site.

Information we gather through cookies and server logs may include the following. The date and time of visits, the pages you view, the time you spend at our site. Also, we may look at the websites you see just before and just after our own. Cookies may also collect your IP address.

A cookie is a minimal text document, which often includes a unique anonymous identifier. When you visit a website, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file.

Each website can send its cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it. Your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you. The reason is to protect your privacy.

More Cookies

The Company reserves the right to use technological equivalents of cookies, including social media pixels. These pixels allow social media sites to track visitors to outside websites. They tailor advertising messages users see while visiting that social media website. The Company reserves the right to use these pixels in compliance with the policies of the various social media sites.

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name and email address. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill them in again later. 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 the system discards it when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will set up several cookies to save your login information and 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. Logging out of your account will remove the login cookies.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will save in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.

And More Cookies

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies. A web browser will store a persistent cookie, and it will remain valid until its set expiry date. The user may delete it before the expiry date.

A session cookie will expire at the end of the user session when they close the web browser.

Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user. Personal information that we store about you may link to the information we obtain and store from cookies.

By using this Site, you consent to the use of such cookies. You also consent to the sharing of data Google, and our other third-party partners capture with cookies.

View, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com.

You can opt-out of the network cookie using the Network Advertising Initiative’s multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at http://optout.networkadvertising.org.

However, these opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies. If you clear the cookies from your browser, your opt-out will not be maintained.

Third-Party Use of Cookies.

Third-parties include advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers and others. They may provide some content or applications, including advertisements on the Website. If they offer it, they serve it.

These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies. The goal is to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may relate to your personal information.

Or they may collect personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with advertising or other content that links to your interests.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may use them. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

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 same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you by the use of cookies.

Third-parties may embed additional tracking and monitor your interaction with that content. This tracking may include your interaction with the content they insert. You must have an account and log in to that website for this to happen.

Analytics

How long we retain your data.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata remain indefinitely. This info is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically.

For users that register on our website and provide personal information, we store it 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. This file contains the personal information 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 request does not include any information we must keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Visitors’ GDPR Rights

If you are within the European Union, this entitles you to certain information and rights. These are under the General Data Protection Regulation. Those rights include:

We will retain any information you choose to provide to us until the earlier of the following. (A) you ask us to delete the data. (B) Our decision to cease using our existing data providers. (C) the Company decides that the cost of retaining the information outweighs the value in maintaining it.

You have the right to request access to your data that the Company stores. This request includes the rights to either rectify or erase your data.

Also, you have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of your data.

You have the right to object to the processing of your data. You have the right to the portability of your data.

If you provided consent to the Company’s processing of your data, you have the right to withdraw that consent. You can do this at any time. Your withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based upon your previous consent.

You have the right to complain to a supervisory authority. The authority must have jurisdiction over issues related to the General Data Protection Regulation.

We need only the information that is reasonably necessary to enter into a contract with you. We will not require you to consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of working with us.

Should you wish to have your information deleted, please email us at THeath@exploringworldsoldandnew.comand submit a request.

Additional information

Data Protection

We employ commercially reasonable methods to ensure the security of the information you provide to us. Also, the information we collect automatically. This security includes using standard protocols and working only with reputable third-party vendors.

We do not recognize Email as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email. If you choose to do so, it is at your own risk.

We do not send Credit Card information and other sensitive information via email.

Some of the information you enter on our website may transmit securely via a secure medium. This medium is a Secure Sockets Layer or SSL.

The Company may use software programs to create summary statistics. We may use these statistics for assessing the number of visitors to the different sections of our site. Also, what information is of most and least interest. It may be useful in determining technical design specifications and identifying system performance or problem areas.

The Company uses software programs to monitor the network and to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information. The software is for site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users. It safeguards the site from tampering and damage.

External Web Sites

Please note that exploringworldsoldandnew.com contains links to other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites.

We encourage our users when they leave our site, to read the privacy statements of each new web site.

This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by ThomTours LLC. If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, please contact THeath@exploringworldsoldandnew.com.

Affiliate Disclaimer

ThomTours LLC has financial relationships with several companies it mentions on this website. ThomTours LLC may receive compensation if you book via the links on this website. You are not obligated to click on any link or buy any products that are advertised. Per FTC guidelines, this website may be compensated by companies mentioned through advertising, affiliate programs, or otherwise. Any references to third party products, rates, or websites are subject to change without notice. Please do the appropriate research before participating in any third party offers.

While we have strict editorial standards on objectivity, affiliate relationships may influence which products and services we cover, and may even affect the order that those links appear.  This disclosure is provided in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR § 255.5: Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.

Blog

The use of any publication is at your own risk. You are responsible for your personal choices and finances and should not rely on this site or any information found on this site to make your final decision. This blog merely provides an opinion based on the content author’s experiences and personal knowledge. You are responsible for any actions you take by reading any of the content in the blog.

You are responsible for your own personal actions. Under no circumstances that the authors, contributors, owners, and partners of this blog are not responsible for the accuracy or completeness contained in this blog, even though we attempt to bring accurate information. Therefore, the authors, contributors, owners, and partners of this blog neither absolutely make warranties or promises nor accept responsibilities for any liability, injury, or damage that may cause you when using any information contained in this blog.

We do not make promises that our blog content or service will be provided to you timely, secured, or error-free.

Transactional Information

If you purchase products or services from us, we will collect certain information from you. Data includes your name, address, email address, and information about the product or service you are purchasing.

Payment processing is by third-party payment processors (e.g., PayPal). Please refer to the applicable processor’s terms and privacy policy for more information on their processing and storage policies.

Advertising Privacy Statement

This Site may affiliate with advertising partners to place advertising on the Site.  These partners use standard and widely-available tools for the placement and serving of ads. These tools include ones Google Inc. provides and its affiliates.

We will publish interest-based advertisements on the Site; that is, ads that reflect your interests. To help understand your interests, Google and our other advertising partners will track your behavior. This behavior includes on our website and other websites across the Internet using cookies.

Sale of Business or Assets

In the event that the Site or substantially all of its assets is sold or disposed of as a going concern, whether by merger, sale of assets or otherwise, or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership, the information we have collected about you may be one of the assets sold or merged in connection with that transaction.

 

Changes

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we do, we will let you know by revising the date at the top of the policy. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will advise you.

We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you access or use our Services or otherwise interact with us. Stay up to date about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy. If you continue to use our Services after Privacy Policy changes go into effect, you consent to the revised policy.

CONTACT US

If you have questions or comments regarding the Privacy Policy, you may reach us at:

ThomTours LLC
2107 NE 17th Ave
Ft Lauderdale, Fl 33305
Email Address: THeath@exploringworldsoldandnew.com

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