Privacy Policy | Mindful Wayfarer

Effective and Updated: 4 January, 2025

Who we are

Mindfulwayfarer.com (“MindfulWayfarer,” “Mindful Wayfarer”, “we,” “us,” or “the Website”) is a website for those who want to see as much of the world as they can, while leaving behind them the smallest footprint possible. We are dedicated to safeguarding your privacy while you visit our site.

Our website address is: https://mindfulwayfarer.com. You can explore mindfulwayfarer.com without revealing any personal data. We do not collect personal data, such as names, mailing addresses, or email addresses, unless it is knowingly provided by the visitor, and the visitor has agreed to the terms regarding its use.

Please review the Privacy Policy carefully before using the Website. By accessing the Website or selecting “accept” or “agree” to the Terms of Use when prompted, you acknowledge and agree to be bound by the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the Privacy Policy, you must refrain from using or accessing the Website.

Disclosure of Information

Mindfulwayfarer.com does not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties. We do not automatically collect personal data, nor do we connect any automatically logged data with personal details of specific individuals. IP addresses may be used to generate aggregate statistics on visitor behavior, traffic patterns, and to manage the site. However, IP addresses are not associated with any personally identifiable information. We only gather personal data that you voluntarily provide while using our services. Additionally, we do not obtain information about our visitors from external sources, such as public records, governmental agencies, or private organizations.

Children’s Privacy

It is fundamental to our core values to protect the privacy of minors. Therefore, we do not knowingly collect or store information from individuals under the age of 18, and our website is not designed to appeal to anyone under 18. If you are under 18, please refrain from using or providing any information on the Website, including through any of its features. Do not register, make purchases, use interactive or public comment sections, or submit any personal details such as your name, address, phone number, email, or any screen name or username.

If we discover that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under 18 without parental consent, we will promptly delete it. If you suspect we may have received information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at [email protected].

Information We May Collect About You
Mindfulwayfarer.com gathers certain information about visitors to the Website during their visit. As part of our business operations, we may collect personal data from you in several ways, including:

Newsletter Sign-ups: Your name and email address.
Waiting Lists: Your name and email address.
Transactions: Your name, email address, billing details, and payment information.
Comments: Your name, email address, and comment. By posting a comment on this Website or in our forum, you consent to the public display of any personal information you provide. Please be aware that such information may be read, collected, or used by other visitors to these public sections. We have no control over how others may use your personal information.

How We Use the Information
We may use the collected information for the following purposes:

To operate and maintain the Website
To enhance your experience on the Website
To respond to your comments and inquiries
To provide you with customer support
To deliver the information, products, and services you request, process transactions, and send related information such as confirmations and receipts
To send technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support or administrative messages
To communicate with you about products, services, surveys, promotions, offers, events, and news that we believe may be of interest to you
To monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activity related to our services
To personalize and improve the services, including providing advertisements, content, or features tailored to your preferences or interests.

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.

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.

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.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

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

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

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

Like many other commercial websites, our site uses standard technologies such as “cookies” and server logs to collect information on how our website is used. Data gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of your visit, pages viewed, the duration of your stay, websites visited before and after ours, and your IP address.

A cookie is a small text file, often containing a unique anonymous identifier. When you visit a website, that website’s server requests permission from your computer to store the file in a designated part of your hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser, provided your browser’s settings allow it. However, for privacy reasons, your browser only allows the website to access the cookies it has sent, not cookies from other websites.

Mindfulwayfarer.com may also use technologies similar to cookies, such as social media pixels. These pixels enable social media platforms to track visitors to external websites and customize the advertisements shown to users while on the social media platform. Mindfulwayfarer.com reserves the right to use these pixels in accordance with the policies of the respective social media sites.

Third-Party Use of Cookies
Certain content or applications on the Website, including advertisements, are provided by third parties, such as advertisers, ad networks, content providers, and application developers. These third parties may use cookies, either on their own or alongside web beacons and other tracking technologies, to gather information about you when you interact with our website. The data they collect could be linked to your personal information, or they may track your online activities across various websites and services over time. This information may be used to deliver interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not have control over the tracking technologies used by these third parties or how they handle the information they collect. If you have concerns about an advertisement or specific targeted content, it is best to contact the provider directly.

Data Protection
We implement commercially reasonable measures to safeguard the information you provide and the data we collect automatically. This includes using standard security practices and partnering with reputable third-party vendors. Since email is not considered a secure communication medium, we ask that you avoid sending sensitive information via email. While you may still choose to do so, it is at your own risk. Some information entered on our website may be transmitted securely using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology. Credit card and other sensitive information is never sent via email.

Mindfulwayfarer.com may use software to generate summary statistics to assess site traffic, determine which sections of our site are most and least popular, inform technical design, and identify performance issues.

For security purposes and to ensure availability for all users, we use software to monitor network traffic and detect unauthorized attempts to upload, alter information, or cause harm.

Visitor GDPR Rights
If you are in the European Union, you have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including:

Retention of Information: We will keep the information you provide until the earliest of: (a) your request for deletion, (b) our decision to discontinue using our data providers, or (c) mindfulwayfarer.com determines that the cost of retaining the data outweighs its value.
Access and Control: You have the right to access the data we hold about you and request either correction or deletion of your personal data.
Processing Restrictions: You may request restrictions on how your data is processed.
Objection and Portability: You have the right to object to data processing and request the portability of your data.
Consent Withdrawal: If you have given consent for the processing of your personal data, you may withdraw that consent at any time. This will not affect the legality of processing based on consent before your withdrawal.
Complaint Filing: You have the right to file a complaint with a supervisory authority regarding issues related to GDPR.

We only request the information necessary to fulfill a contract with you and will not ask for consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into a contract with us.

To request deletion of your information, please email us at [email protected]

Affiliate Disclaimer

Mindfulwayfarer.com may have financial relationships with several companies featured on this website, and may receive compensation if you click on or make bookings through the links provided here.

Transactional Information
When you make a purchase from us, we collect specific details such as your name, address, email address, and information about the product or service you’re buying. Payments are processed through third-party payment processors (e.g., PayPal). Please review the terms and privacy policies of these processors for information on how they handle and store payment data.

Newsletter Sponsorships
We may partner with others to deliver newsletter advertisements and related services across the web and mobile applications. To learn more about interest-based ads or to opt out of having your web browsing information used for behavioral advertising by companies participating in the Digital Advertising Alliance, visit www.aboutads.info/choices.

Opting Out of Targeted Advertising, Sharing, and Sales
We use personal information to enhance your experience with our Services and provide targeted advertisements. Under certain privacy laws, some of these activities may be considered “sales,” “sharing,” or “targeted advertising” of your personal information. To opt out of preference-based advertising, please use the form that you will find linked below if and when advertising is implemented on the Website. Note that this will not stop you from seeing advertisements in our newsletters; those ads will be randomly selected rather than tailored to your preferences.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
Although it does not at the last Update and Effective date of this Privacy Policy, in the future the Website may partner with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising. If that becomes the case, this Privacy Policy will be updated to reflect that change.

Mediavine displays content and ads when you visit our site, which may involve first-party and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file sent to your device by the web server to remember details about your browsing activity.

First-party cookies are set by the website you are visiting, while third-party cookies are used for behavioral advertising and analytics by domains other than the one you’re visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons, and similar technologies (“Tags”) may be used to track interactions with ads and optimize advertising. Most browsers offer options to block both first and third-party cookies and to clear your cache. The “help” section of your browser can guide you on how to manage cookies. For more information, visit All About Cookies.

Please note that disabling cookies might affect your ability to use certain features of the Website. Rejecting cookies will not eliminate ads from the site, but they will be less tailored to your preferences.

The Website may collect the following data via cookies for personalized ads:

IP Address
Operating System type and version
Device Type
Language of the website
Web browser type
Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (listed below) may use this data to link it with other information they independently collect to deliver targeted ads. These partners may also collect data from other sources, like advertising IDs or pixels, and combine it with data from Mediavine to offer interest-based advertising across your online activity, including on different devices and apps. This data may include usage data, cookie information, device information, interaction data, geolocation data, traffic data, and referral sources. Partners may create unique IDs to segment audiences for targeted advertising.

For more information about these practices and to opt in or out, visit the National Advertising Initiative opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance website, or the Network Advertising Initiative website. You can also use the AppChoices app from the Digital Advertising Alliance or adjust your mobile device’s settings to opt out of mobile app data collection.

For details about Mediavine Partners, their data collection practices, and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

Changes
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. Any changes will be indicated by a revised date at the top of the policy. If we make significant changes, we will provide additional notice. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy regularly to stay informed about our data practices and how you can protect your privacy. Continued use of our Services after changes to the Privacy Policy signifies your acceptance of the updated policy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: [email protected].