Privacy Policy
Effective Date: February 1, 2022
Travel & Culture Salon, LLC, respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will tell you about your privacy rights, how we look after your personal data, and how the law protects you. This privacy policy applies to personal data that you may submit through our website: https://www.travelandculturesalon.com/
Travel to & Culture Salon is an e-commerce, education, and information website. Our website, digital platform, technology systems, content, services, trademark, and other intellectual property, are owned or licensed by us.
Our data operations and privacy policy endeavor to comply with the latest applicable US and international privacy and data protection. These laws include the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) where applicable. Although some of these laws do not apply to us, we provide you with expansive rights with respect to any personal data that we collect from you, and we describe this below.
Travel & Culture Salon may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. Any changes or updates we make to this policy will be posted as a revised policy and noted at the top of this document. You are responsible for checking back to review any revised policy.
CONTACT DETAILS
If you have any questions or complaints about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise any rights that may be afforded to you, please contact us at hello@travelandculturesalon.com.
WHAT WE COLLECT
When you visit our website, our servers automatically collect certain browser or device-generated information, which may in some cases constitute personal data, including but not limited to:
your domain;
your IP address;
your log in;
the date, time and duration of your visit;
your browser type;
your operating system;
your page visits;
information from third parties;
other information about your computer or device; and
Internet traffic
INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE
In order to access or use certain portions of our website, digital platform, other portals, or otherwise engage in activities with us, you may be prompted to provide certain personal data to us in the following ways:
by filling in forms (for example, a ‘Contact us’ form) on our website or anywhere else we conduct business;
by setting up an account;
by downloading materials from our website;
by subscribing to newsletters or other communications;
by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise using our contact details;
by registering or participating in our webcasts, webinars, seminars, classes, programs, or conferences;
by making any purchases you may make; or
by submitting questions or comments to us or requesting any other information from us.
Typically, the personal data you give us may include first and last name, address, telephone number, email address, and birthdate. Your personal data may also include your login name and passcode and any information that you supply and upload to our digital servers. You may always choose what information you provide to us, but please be aware we may not be able to provide you with all features of our website if you choose not to provide the necessary information.
THIRD-PARTY SERVERS
We rely on established and trustworthy third-party vendors located in the United States to provide much of the data storage and usage requirements for us. Your personal data is stored and processed on these servers run by third-party vendors. We may change the third-party vendors that we use. You consent to the storage of your data by these vendors.
INFORMATION FROM OTHER SOURCES
We may receive information about you if you use any of the other websites and portals we are affiliated with, any other services we provide, seminars, webinars, or classes we teach, or from our business partners or data processors instructed to collect information on our behalf.
COOKIES
Our website may use cookies. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we put on your computer or smartphone if you agree. These cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our website, which helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website or watch our videos, and also allows us to improve our site and platform. A cookie does not provide us with access to your computer or to personal information beyond what you provide to us. We do not store personal data in cookies.
Some cookies are necessary to use the services, and these cannot be disabled. Other cookies are not required to browse our Services and may be disabled or deleted, but this may prevent you from properly using the Services. Most browsers allow you to adjust your cookie settings. Third-party services may employ cookies on the Services to better perform their services. We have no control over third-party cookies, and therefore, disclaim any and all liability related to third-party cookies. If you have any questions regarding our use of cookies, please contact our DPO at hello@travelandculturesalon.com.
USE OF PERSONAL DATA
We use the personal data we collect to conduct and develop our business with you and with others, as more fully described below:
provide you with any services or products you have purchased;
administer and manage agreements with our suppliers and customers;
provide after-sales support;
process, evaluate and complete certain transactions involving the website, the platform, and more generally transactions involving our products and services;
operate, evaluate, maintain, improve and develop the website and our digital platform (including by monitoring and analyzing trends, access to, and use of the website for advertising and marketing, and analyzing how our digital platform is functioning and delivering results);
research and educational purposes;
evaluate, improve and develop our products and services generally;
customize our website and digital platforms to your needs;
engage you about events, promotions, the website, and our products and services;
provide you with documentation or communications which you have requested or which we believe you would be interested in;
correspond with users to resolve their queries or complaints;
send you marketing communications;
protect and ensure safety of the website, our confidential and proprietary information, and our employees; and
manage, protect against and investigate fraud, risk exposure, claims and other liabilities, including but not limited to violation of our agreements or laws or regulations.
DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA
We will share personal data if we need to in order to use the personal data in the ways we describe in Section 3. We also share personal data with third-party service providers (who will operate under our instructions) to assist us in providing information, products or services to you, in conducting and managing our business, or in managing and improving our products, services, the website, or our digital platform and the licensing of our content. We may share your personal data with these third parties to perform services that the third parties have been engaged by us to perform on our behalf. We respect and safeguard your personal data and will never sell or rent it to third parties.
We may share your personal data if we believe it is reasonably necessary to prevent harm or loss, or if we believe that the disclosure will further an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activities. We may be required to disclose personal information that we handle in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
We reserve the right to share any information that you provide which is not deemed personal data or is not otherwise subject to contractual restrictions. These restrictions on the disclosure of your personal data will not affect our use of your data as stated in Section 3, above.
Finally, we will share your personal data with third parties in connection with potential or actual sale of our company or any of our assets, in which case personal data held by us about our users may be one of the transferred assets.
CHILDREN
The website is not for use by children under the age of 18 years and we do not knowingly collect, store, share or use the personal data of children under 18 years. If you are under the age of 18 years, please do not provide any personal data, even if prompted by the website to do so. If you are under the age of 18 years and you have provided personal data, please ask your parent(s) or guardian(s) to notify us and we will delete all such personal data.
MARKETING EMAILS
Where lawful to do so, and subject to your consent where required, we may communicate with you by email to tell you about our products and services. If you wish to opt out of receiving marketing communications, please use the ‘unsubscribe’ link provided on the website, in the newsletter, marketing email, or otherwise contact us directly and we will stop sending you communications. We may use third parties to send emails and we may provide your personal data to those third parties.
SECURITY
We strive to safeguard and protect your personal data from unauthorized access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorized modification or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, and we utilize and maintain certain reasonable processes, systems, and technologies to do so. However, you acknowledge that no transmission over the Internet is completely secure or error-free, and that these processes, systems, and technologies utilized and maintained by us are subject to compromise. Accordingly, we cannot be held responsible for unauthorized or unintended access that is beyond our reasonable control. We process orders via SquareSpace.
RETENTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We apply a general rule of keeping personal data only for as long as required to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected. We also retain your personal data for a period of time corresponding to a statute of limitations, for example to maintain an accurate record of your dealings with us.
However, in some circumstances we may retain personal data for other periods of time, for instance where we are required to do so in accordance with legal, tax and accounting requirements, or if required to do so by a legal process, legal authority, or other governmental entity having authority to make the request, for so long as required.
At any time, you can request our DPO to permanently delete your data not subject to legal or other requirements.
EXTERNAL LINKS
The website may contain links to third party sites. Since we do not control nor are we responsible for the privacy practices of those websites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third-party sites. This policy applies solely to personal data collected by our website.
AFFILIATE LINKS
Travel & Culture Salon participates in affiliate advertising programs such as CJ Affiliate, Shareasale, and Impact. These programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn fees for product recommendations. This means that when we provide a link to a product you can purchase from these websites, we receive a small percentage at no extra cost to you. We only ever recommend products that we truly believe in and would/do use ourselves.
YOUR RIGHTS
You may have the following rights:
The right to have us permanently delete any of your personal data.
The right to access and review any personal data that we’ve collected from you and correct it if it is inaccurate.
The right to voluntarily and affirmatively “opt-in” to any newsletters, emails, or marketing materials sent to you by us.
The right to receive a copy of your personal data.
The right to object or, in some cases, opt-out out of the processing of your personal data.
The right to object to the use of your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
We believe that our subscribers have affirmatively and voluntarily “opted in” to receive newsletters, emails, and marketing communications from us. If you believe that you did not opt-in to receive these communications from us, please contact us as soon as possible at hello@travelandculturesalon.com and we will arrange for you to either affirmatively opt-in or not receive any further communications from us. Additionally, all our newsletters, emails to subscribers, and other related communications contain an opt-out/unsubscribe button at the bottom. At any time, you may unsubscribe from all of our communications by clicking on the button.
If you opt out of the processing of your personal data and if we accommodate this request, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority of your residence, place of work or place of alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of your personal data infringes applicable law.
To the extent that any applicable international, federal, or state laws that apply to us are more restrictive than this privacy policy with respect to protecting your personal data and privacy, we strive to comply with such stricter regulations. If for any reason you believe we are not in compliance with any applicable laws, please advise us immediately in writing so that we can review the laws in question. You can advise us at hello@travelandculturesalon.com.
Some of your rights described in this policy may be subject to certain rights of ours such as legal, accounting, and archiving requirements. If you wish to invoke any of these rights, please contact us at hello@travelandculturesalon.com. We respond to all requests in accordance with the law.
We commit to promptly resolving complaints about privacy and our collection or use of personal information. Individuals with questions or concerns about the use of their personal data should contact us at: hello@travelandculturesalon.com.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
Any changes or updates we may make to this policy will be posted as a revised policy and noted at the top of this document. You are responsible for checking back to review any revised policy. We reserve the right to change this Policy at any time.