Who we are:

Our website address is: https://shorelinejourneys.com

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what information we may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to Shoreline Journeys.

Voluntary Submission Of Information:

We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to Shoreline Journeys by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form.

How Personal Information May Be Used:

We may use the information collected in the following ways:

  • To operate and maintain Shoreline Journeys;
  • To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
  • To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
  • To respond to your comments or inquiries;
  • To provide you with user support;
  • To track and measure advertising on the Shoreline Journeys;
  • To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.

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 (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.

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.

Who we share your data with:

We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.

Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies. The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:

  • Google Analytics: This service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics.
  • Mailerlite: This service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications.
  • Contact Form: When you fill out a contact form request for more information about travel services. All information shared is held in strictest confidence and is only used to provide said services. If a potential client does not wish to book services, any contact information can be requested to be deleted by sending an email here. Please indicate in subject line: Deletion of Personal Information and leave your first and last name in the body of the email. Your request will be handled within 7 business days, and you will receive an email confirmation when it has been completed.

At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time by Shoreline Journeys’s sole discretion.

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:

Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at jennifer@shorelinejourneys.com to be removed from our mailing list.

Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to jennifer@shorelinejourneys.com

Amend – You may contact us at jennifer@shorelinejourneys.com

Forget – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to jennifer@shorelinejourneys.com

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

Sensitive personal information:

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

Personal information regarding minors:

The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately jennifer@shorelinejourneys.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Where we send your data:

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

Really Simple SSL

Really Simple SSL and Really Simple SSL add-ons do not process any personal identifiable information, so the GDPR does not apply to these plugins or usage of these plugins on your website. You can find our privacy policy here.

LiteSpeed Cache

This site utilizes caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary, and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary. We may use QUIC.cloud services to process & cache your data temporarily.Please see https://quic.cloud/privacy-policy/ for more details.

Askimet

We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet Anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

Selling Or Passing On Of Personal Information

Under no circumstances will Shoreline Journeys ever sell, pass on, or disseminate any personal information shared on this site.

Questions or concerns?

Feel free to contact me with any questions you may have about this privacy policy.