Cut Loose Adventure found at https://www.cutlooseadventure.com/ (“Website”) is governed by the following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”).
Keeping your personal information confidential is of utmost importance to us. This Privacy Policy only applies to this Website, and endeavors to inform you which information of a personal nature we collect and what we do with it. You can, of course, use this Website without disclosing any of your personal information. Personal Information typically is a name, address, phone number, and email address from an individual.
Anonymous information, such as the type of browser or device being used, or your IP address is not considered as Personal Information.
Information we Collect
Generally, you control the amount and type of information you provide to us when using our Website. We collect as little information as possible from users of the site. As a Visitor, you can browse our Website to find out more about us, however, you are not required to provide us with any Personally Identifiable Information as a Visitor.
Voluntarily Submitted Information: Personal information submitted by you, such as your name or email address, may be collected by us. Typically, you may voluntarily submit information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form.
Automatically Collected Information: Certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website will be automatically collected. Your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website will be automatically logged once you visit the Website. Any actions you take when using the Website such as links clicked may also be collected.
Cookies: Information may be logged through the use of cookies to provide you a more personalized experience on the Website. These are small data files stored on your browser by the Website and take the form of “session cookies” that expire when you close your browser and “persistent cookies” that stay on your browser until deleted. Personal information is not stored in these cookies and addresses – it’s just a method to identify your computer.
How We Use Your Information
Information collected may be used for:
- provide newsletters and promotional information to you. Email promotions will always provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
- provide administrative communications, in the form of admin’ emails, confirmation emails, policy updates, security alerts, or technical notices to you;
- reply or respond to your comments or inquiries;
- provide user support to you;
- monitor the advertising performance on the website;
- maintain and operate the website;
- prevent and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.
Third-Party use of your Personal Information
We will only share your personal information with third parties if you explicitly authorize us to do so.
Third-party service providers may be engaged to service various aspects of the Website. A particular third-party service provider’s use of your personal information will be dictated by their respective privacy policies.
The Cut Loose Adventure Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:
Google Analytics – This service is used for tracking Website usage. It is a comprehensive statistical analysis of the Website providing information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Your IP address may be captured but be assured no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics.
ConvertKit – this service is used for delivery of newsletters and email updates. Your email address is stored to deliver such communications. Please refer to ConvertKit’s privacy policy for further information.
Currently, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time at the Website’s sole discretion.
We will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent, except when required to do so by law.
If our business “Cut Loose Adventure” undergoes a merger, consolidation, or is purchased all or partially by a third party, we shall be obliged to disclose or transfer your personal information collected through the Website to those involved in the business change. The same would apply in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceedings brought by or against us
Anonymous Data
Anonymous data from time to time, may be used by us, however, this does not identify you alone, even when combined with data from other parties. The anonymous data may be provided to other parties for things like marketing and advertising. An example of this type of data is analytics or information collected from cookies.
Publicly Visible Information
Your comments, your name and website address (if entered) will be publicly visible, however, your email address will never be available publicly.
Cookies
The Website uses cookies to:
- store user-specific information such as visitor’s preferences;
- record what pages users’ access or visit, and also;
- ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads;
- customize Website content based on visitor’s browser type or other information that the visitor sends.
Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described in this policy.
At any time, the user may permanently deny the setting of cookies by the Website. This is achieved by adjusting the settings within your internet browser. Cookies that are already set can be deleted at any time. All popular internet browsers facilitate these options, however, if the setting of cookies in your Internet browser has been deactivated not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.
Advertising
Banner Ads
The use of third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website may trigger the use of cookies as discussed above.
Retargeting Ads
The marketing of this Website may engage third-party companies such as Google, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, and Twitter. These companies utilize cookies to generate ads based on a particular person’s past visits to the Website.
Affiliate Program Participation
Cut Loose Adventure may engage in affiliate marketing. This is accomplished by embedding tracking links into the Website. Upon clicking a link from an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any potential sales for purposes of commissions.
The Amazon Services LLC Associates Program is an example of an affiliate advertising program that is specifically designed to provide a means for sites to earn a commission from advertising and links that potentially generate a sale. The Website will typically post Amazon’s customized links, to track referrals to their website through the use of cookies as discussed above.
Newsletter
The Website has a newsletter that you may subscribe to. It may also be used for advertising purposes and if so, tracking pixels will be embedded into any emails sent to you, enabling an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns.
Tracking pixels will enable us to see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. This behavior enables the Website to adapt future content of the newsletters to the interests of the user however the behavior will never be passed onto third parties.
Your Rights, Your Personal Information
Opt-out – Click the unsubscribe link in your emails at any time to opt-out of future email communications. Notify us at dave@cutlooseadventure.com if you wish to be removed from our mailing list.
Access – If you wish to access your personal information that we have about you, simply submit a request to dave@cutlooseadventure.com.
Amend – If you wish to update or amend your personal information held by us, simply contact us at dave@cutlooseadventure.com.
Forget – If you wish to have your data completely erased (forgot), simply submit a request to dave@cutlooseadventure.com.
In certain situations, we may need to retain specific information for record-keeping purposes, to complete transactions, or when required by law.
Visitors GDPR Rights
GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is applicable if you reside within the European Union and you are entitled to certain rights and information detailed below.
- You have the right to request access to your data, and the right to either rectify or erase your data.
- You have the right to seek restrictions or object to the processing of your data or the portability of your data.
- You have the right to withdraw consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based upon consent that occurred before your withdrawal of consent.
- You have the right to complain through lodging a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over issues related to the General Data Protection Regulation.
We require only the information that is reasonably required to enter into a contract with you. You are not required to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into a contract with us.
We will retain any information you choose to provide to us until either
- You ask us to delete the information by submitting a request to dave@cutlooseadventure.com.
- We decide to cease using our existing data providers.
- The Company decides that retention of the data is too costly, and the value doesn’t warrant keeping it.
Should you wish to have your personal information deleted, please submit a request to dave@cutlooseadventure.com.
Sensitive Personal Information
Please do not submit at any time personal information that is sensitive to the Website. Examples are your ID number, social security number, driving license number, passport number, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or information regarding race or ethnic origin. Information of a sensitive nature submitted to the Website will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
Children’s Information
The Website will not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If, however, anyone, parent or guardian believes that the Website holds personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16, please contact us immediately at dave@cutlooseadventure.com. We will then endeavor to promptly remove such information from our database.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time, consistent with applicable data protection and privacy laws and principles. You should review this policy frequently. If we make changes that materially affect the way we handle personal data previously collected, we will notify you on our Website, by either a blog post, by email, or by any other appropriate method.
Contact Information
If you have any queries about this Privacy Policy or the information, we hold about you please contact dave@cutlooseadventure.com.
Last updated: Sept 04, 2019.