Privacy Policy
Effective March 23, 2022
Plan to Explore respects the privacy of its users that use our website located at: https://plantoexplore.com, including other media forms, media channels, mobile website or mobile app related or connected to Plan to Explore. The following policy is designed to inform you, as a user, about the types of information that Plan to Explore may collect about you in connection with use of the website. It is also intended to explain the conditions under which Plan to Explore uses and discloses that information, and your rights. Each time you use this website, the current version of the Privacy Policy will apply. By using or accessing the website, you are accepting the practices described in this policy.
Information We Collect
As a business, we collect personal data from you in a few different ways, including:
- Newsletter opt-ins: Your name and email address
- Transactions: Your name, email address, billing information, and payment info.
- Comments: Your name, email, and comment. Please note by posting a comment on this site, you should be aware that this personal information can be read and collected by other visitors to these public areas. We have no control over how other visitors use your information.
How do we use login information?
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.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your Data Rights
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. An individual who requests to have Personally Identifiable Information deactivated will have this information functionally deleted, and we will not sell, transfer, or use information relating to that individual in any way moving forward.
These are your summarized rights under data protection law:
- The right to access
- The right to rectification
- The right to erasure
- The right to restrict processing
- The right to object to processing
- The right to data portability
- The right to complain to a supervisory authority
- the right to withdraw consent
Embedded Content from External 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.
Cookies
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. We use Cookies to obtain information about the preferences of our Visitors and the services they select. We also use Cookies for security purposes to protect Customers.
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. Visitors who do not wish to have cookies places on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using plantoexplore.com, the the drawback that certain features of the website may not function properly.
Affiliate Disclaimer
Plan to Explore is a participant in the Amazon Services Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a way for site to earn advertising fees by linking to amazon.com. Plan to Explore may have financial relationships with companies mentioned on this website, and may be compensated if you book or purchase via the links provided. Plan to Explore has entered into and will continue to enter into partnerships and other affiliations with a number of vendors. Such vendors may have access to certain Personally Identifiable Information on a need to know basis for evaluating Authorized Customers for service eligibility. Our privacy policy does not cover their collection or use of this information. We will disclose information in order to comply with a court order or subpoena or a request from a law enforcement agency to release information. We will also disclose Personally Identifiable Information when reasonably necessary to protect the safety of our Visitors and Authorized Customers.
Links
Plan to Explore contains links to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are moving to another website. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites at their privacy policies may differ from ours.
How We Protect Your Data
We use use various methods to protect our website from hackers and viruses, and to ensure the security of the information you provide, and we are familiar with our security policy and practices. Customer information us only accessible to a limited number of employees who are given a password in order to gain access to the information. While we take commercially reasonable measures to maintain a secure site, electronic communications and databases are subject to errors, tampering, and break-ins, and we cannot guarantee or warrant that such events will not take place and we will not be liable to Visitors or Authorized Customers for any such occurrences.
GDPR Rights
If you are a part of the European Union, you are entitled to certain rights and information under the General Data Protection Regulation.
We will retain information you choose to provide to us until one of the following:
- You ask us to delete your information
- Plan to Explore decides to cease using our existing data providers
- We decide the costs of retaining your data outweighs the value.
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