Thank you for visiting our travel website, Portugal With Love. We created this Privacy Policy Page so that you feel comfortable browsing our website, knowing we fully respect your privacy.
What personal data do we collect, and why do we collect it
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Portugal With Love collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request.
Portugal With Love‘s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Portugal With Love’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Portugal With Love may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Portugal With Love also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged-in users and for users leaving comments on https://www.portugalwithlove.com/ blog posts. Portugal With Love only discloses logged-in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Portugal With Love’s websites choose to interact with Portugal With Love in ways that require Portugal With Love to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Portugal With Love gathers depend on the nature of the interaction. Like email or newsletter sign-ups.
Contact forms & Email subscriptions
We use contact forms to enable you to contact us directly through the website. We will always indicate if your email will be added to any list when you complete a contact form, and will enable you to opt out of this subscription. You will be asked to reconfirm your email address to subscribe to our emails and newsletters.
Automatically collected information
Information that may automatically be collected when you land on our site is your IP address, operating system, browser type, when you accessed our site, who referred you, what you do while and how you behave while on our website, links you clicked.
This information is anonymous and used for statistical purposes only.
Security
The security of your Personal Information 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 Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
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.
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 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.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content from third-party apps. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor had visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking (like social shares or likes), 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.
Who do we share your data with
Third-party use of information
We have partnered with the following services to help us in operating and measuring success & issues on our website
Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to track traffic and website statistics. They may receive anonymous aggregated information such as your location, how you landed on our site, links clicked, you long you stayed on our site, and other statistics.
Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your website visits is subject to the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can choose to opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page or the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
MonsterInsights: We use MonsterInsights to track our traffic and website statistics.
ConvertKit: Our newsletter, email updates, marketing campaigns, and mailing subscription are provided by a 3rd party company called ConvertKit. Unless you explicitly gave us permission to email you for our newsletter or marketing purposes, we will not use your email address to contact you.
All our subscriptions are double opt-in and meet GDPR requirements.
We will not offer any hidden promotions in order to trick you into signing up for our mailing list. It is our goal to be transparent about what you are signing up for.
It is your right to opt out of our subscription list at any time. You can do this at the bottom of any of our emails (to unsubscribe) or you can email us and ask to be taken off our mailing list. Once you opt-out will are permanently removed from our mailing list along with your data.
SiteGround is our hosting platform. They may receive your IP address, cookie information, and any data they need to ensure our website is visible and running to the public.
WordPress is the company we use to create our online website. They may receive analytics data from you, such as your IP address, your name, and email, if you comment on our posts and other data.
How long has the data been collected?
We do not keep your information any longer than we have to. Information collected on our site is mostly collected via our third-party vendors. Please review their privacy policy for more details.
Sometimes when a visitor leaves a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize, approve, and respond to any follow-up comments.
How long do 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 who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except that they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights do 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.
You have the right to know how your data is used and collected.
- You can request access to your personal data
- You can request a copy of your personal data
- You can request correction or deletion of your personal data.
- You have the right to request that we delete all data that we hold about you, and we must delete such data without undue delay
- You can request that we limit our use and processing of your data; and
- You can request to opt out (of emails and newsletters). This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
You can contact us if you are concerned about the data we use and collect about you.
If you are located in certain countries, including those that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (AKA the “GDPR”), data protection laws give you rights concerning your data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law.
Why do we collect data?
- To measure and gauge how well our articles are doing
- To improve (include or delete)upon any pertinent information related to the blog post published. For example, more elaborate tips on traveling to Portugal. We can update a blog post published based on a reader’s feedback.
- To monitor the effectiveness of our social media channels and advertising.
- To send you information about travel-related tips via our newsletter if you have signed up for it. You can opt out of this at any time.
- To respond to your comments and concerns
- To respond to your emails or questions sent to us via email
- To send you marketing material if you have given us consent. You can opt out of this at any time.