Photojourneys Privacy Policy
Welcome to Photojourneys found at https://photojourneys.ca/, a website owned and operated by Robin and Arlene Karpan. Photojourneys (“Website”) is governed by the following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”). We believe very strongly in keeping your personal information confidential. The following policy describes what information is collected and how it’s used and shared.
What Information Does the Website Collect?
The Website collects as little information as possible from visitors. When a visitor leaves a comment on a post, the Website collects the data shown in the form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. We also automatically collect certain information about you and the device you used to access the Website. When you use the Website, we log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and date/time of your visit.
We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We use cookies to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website. We also allow a small handful of trusted third parties to insert their own cookies, such as our advertising and affiliate partners. Website users may opt-out of providing information via cookies at any time by adjusting the cookies settings of their browser.
From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.
How Do We Use Your Information?
We may use the information collected in the following ways:
- To operate and maintain the Website;
- To customize the Website for your account;
- To respond to your comments or inquiries;
- To provide you with user support;
- To track and measure advertising on the Website;
- To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.
Third-Party Use of Your Personal Information
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 to 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.
- Mail Chimp – this service is used to add signup subscriptions to the Website for the purpose of delivery of email updates and notifications of new postings. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications. Please refer to Mail Chimp’s privacy policy for further information.
At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time in the Website’s sole discretion.
Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent.
Rights Related to Your Personal Information
- Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at to be removed from our mailing list.
- Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to photojourneys@parklandpublishing.com.
- Amend – You may contact us at photojourneys@parklandpublishing.com to amend or update your personal information.
- Erase – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to photojourneys@parklandpublishing.com.
- Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record-keeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.
Third-Party Links
Sometimes we may include or offer third-party products or services on the Website. We sometimes use affiliate links which provide a small amount of monetary compensation in return for referring business.
These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites.
Children’s Information
The Website does not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years old. The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16.
Copyright
The materials contained in this Website are protected by applicable copyright.
Use License
Permission is granted to use the Website for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license, you may not:
- modify or copy the materials;
- use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial);
- attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on Photojourneys.ca website;
- remove or alter any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials; or
- transfer the materials to another person or “mirror” the materials on any other server.
This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by Photojourneys.ca at any time.
Contact Information
At any time, please contact us at photojourneys@parklandpublishing.com for questions related to this Privacy Policy.