Privacy & COOKIE Policy
Owner and Data Controller
Owner: Martina Sgorlon
Owner contact email: info@thetravelwayblog.com
Application: The Travelway
Types of Data collected
Among the types of Personal Data that this Application collects, by itself or through third parties, there are: Trackers; Usage Data; number of Users; session statistics.
Complete details on each type of Personal Data collected are provided in the dedicated sections of this privacy policy or by specific explanation texts displayed prior to the Data collection.
Personal Data may be freely provided by the User, or, in case of Usage Data, collected automatically when using this Application.
Unless specified otherwise, all Data requested by this Application is mandatory and failure to provide this Data may make it impossible for this Application to provide its services. In cases where this Application specifically states that some Data is not mandatory, Users are free not to communicate this Data without consequences to the availability or the functioning of the Service.
Users who are uncertain about which Personal Data is mandatory are welcome to contact the Owner.
Any use of Cookies – or of other tracking tools — by this Application or by the owners of third-party services used by this Application serves the purpose of providing the Service required by the User, in addition to any other purposes described in the present document and in the Cookie Policy.
Users are responsible for any third-party Personal Data obtained, published or shared through this Application.
Mode and place of processing the Data
Methods of processing
The Owner takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data.
The Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Owner, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of this Application (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the Owner at any time.
Place
The Data is processed at the Owner’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located.
Depending on the User’s location, data transfers may involve transferring the User’s Data to a country other than their own. To find out more about the place of processing of such transferred Data, Users can check the section containing details about the processing of Personal Data.
Retention time
Unless specified otherwise in this document, Personal Data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for and may be retained for longer due to applicable legal obligation or based on the Users’ consent.
The purposes of processing
The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its Service, comply with its legal obligations, respond to enforcement requests, protect its rights and interests (or those of its Users or third parties), detect any malicious or fraudulent activity, as well as the following: Analytics, Displaying content from external platforms and Tag Management.
For specific information about the Personal Data used for each purpose, the User may refer to the section “Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data”.
Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data
Personal Data is collected for the following purposes:
Statistics
The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior.
Functional
This type of services allow you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of this Application and interact with them. Such services are often referred to as widgets, which are small elements placed on a website or app. They provide specific information or perform a particular function and often allow for user interaction.
This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.
Affiliation
This website participates in affiliate marketing programs, including partnerships with providers such as Stay22 and Amazon. This means that the Owner may earn a commission if the User clicks on affiliate links or make purchases through them, at no additional cost to the User.
For details about how cookies are used in connection with the affiliate programs, please refer to the Cookie Policy.
Cookie Policy
For the management of cookies and similar technologies used (tracking pixels, web beacons, etc.) and related consent, the Owner uses the “Real Cookie Banner” consent tool. Details on how “Real Cookie Banner” works can be found at https:// devowl. io /rcb/data-processing/.
The legal bases for the processing of personal data in this context are art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR and art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is the management of cookies and similar technologies used and the related consents.
The provision of personal data is neither contractually required nor necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You are not obliged to provide personal data. If you do not provide personal data we will not be able to manage your consents.
This Application uses Trackers.
Google Fonts (Google LLC)
Google Fonts is a typeface visualization service provided by Google LLC that allows this Application to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
- Personal Data processed: Trackers; Usage Data.
- Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
- Category of Personal Information collected according to the CCPA: internet or other electronic network activity information.
Google Analytics 4 (Google LLC)
Google Analytics 4 is a web analysis service provided by Google LLC (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Application, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. In Google Analytics 4, IP addresses are used at collection time and then discarded before Data is logged in any data center or server. Users can learn more by consulting Google’s official documentation.
In order to understand Google’s use of Data, consult their partner policy and their Business Data page.
- Personal Data processed: number of Users; session statistics; Trackers; Usage Data.
- Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
- Category of Personal Information collected according to the CCPA: internet or other electronic network activity information.
Google Tag Manager (Google LLC)
Google Tag Manager is a tag management service provided by Google LLC.
In order to understand Google’s use of Data, consult their partner policy and their Business Data page.
- Personal Data processed: Trackers; Usage Data.
- Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
- Category of Personal Information collected according to the CCPA: internet or other electronic network activity information.
Stay22
Flickr
Flickr is used on this blog to show the images and photographs accompanying the posts.
Flickr allows you to embed content posted on flickr.com directly into your websites to enrich your website with images and albums. This requires processing of the user’s IP address and metadata. Cookies or cookie-like technologies can be stored and read. These may contain personal data and technical data such as user ID, consent and location. This data can be used to collect visited websites, detailed statistics on user behavior and can be used to improve Flickr services. It can also be used for profiling, e.g. to provide personalized services, such as ads based on your interests or recommendations. Flickr provides personal information to vendors, consultants and other service providers.
Elementor
Elementor is a software used to create the layout of this website. Cookies are used to store the number of pages viewed and active user sessions. The collected data is not used for analysis purposes, but only to ensure that, for example, hidden elements are not displayed again during multiple active sessions.
WordPress Comments
WordPress is the content management system for this website and offers the possibility to write comments under blog posts and similar content. Cookies or cookie-like technologies can be stored and read. These can contain personal data like the name, email address and website of a commentator to display it again. The personal data can be used to display your information again if you want to write another comment on this website.
Gravatar
Gravatar allows displaying images of people who have, for example, written a comment or logged in an account. The image is retrieved based on the provided email address of the user, if an image has been stored on gravatar.com for this email address. This requires processing the user’s IP-address and metadata. No cookies or cookie-like technologies are set on the client of the user. This data can be used to collect visited websites and to improve the services of Aut O’Mattic.
Unsplash
This website uses images from Unsplash. Unsplash is a platform that provides free stock photos. While Unsplash images are free to use for most purposes, there are some restrictions, such as not using them for AI training or sensitive topics. Please refer to Unsplash’s terms of service and privacy policy for more information.
Pexels
This website uses images from Pexels. Pexels is a platform that provides free stock photos. While Unsplash images are free to use for most purposes, there are some restrictions, such as not using them for AI training or sensitive topics. Please refer to Pexel’s terms of service for more information.