www.webinars.dreamoftravelwriting.com, www.dreamoftravelwriting.com and www.travelmagazinedatabase.com (our website(s)) are owned and operated by Cory Logan DBA Gabi Logan, owner and operator of the website(s) and all content, products and services distributed under the brand, ‘Dream of Travel Writing’ (‘we’, ‘our’ or ‘us’). We are the controller of personal data obtained via our website(s), meaning we are the organisation legally responsible for deciding how and for what purposes it is used.
We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how and why we collect, store, use and share any information relating to you (your personal data) in connection with your use of our website(s). It also explains your rights in relation to your personal data and how to contact us or a relevant regulator in the event you have a complaint.
We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal data about you. When we do so we are subject to the applicable data protection laws in the relevant jurisdiction.
Given the nature of our website(s), we do not expect to collect the personal data of anyone under 18 years old. If you are aware that any personal data of anyone under 18 years old has been shared with our website(s) please let us know so that we can delete that data.
This privacy policy is divided into the following sections:
- What this policy applies to
- Personal data we collect about you
- How we collect your personal data
- How and why we use your personal data
- How we store your personal data and how long it will be kept
- Transferring your personal data between countries
- Marketing
- Who we share your personal data with
- Cookies and other tracking technologies
- Your rights
- Keeping your personal data secure
- How to complain
- Changes to this privacy policy
- How to contact us
What this policy applies to
This privacy policy relates to your use of our website(s) only.
Throughout our website(s) we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties. Those third-party websites may also gather information about you in accordance with their own separate privacy policies. For privacy information relating to those third-party websites, please consult their privacy policies as appropriate.
Personal data we collect about you
The personal data we collect about you depends on the particular activities carried out through our website(s). We will collect and use the following personal data about you:
- Your name, address and contact information including email address, phone number and company details
- Your IP address and device/browser you are using
- location data, if you choose to give this to us
- your billing information, transaction and payment card or other payment method information
- details of any information, feedback or other matters you give to us by phone, email, post or via social media
- your account details, such as username and login details
- your activities on, and use of, our website(s)
- your personal or professional interests
- your professional online presence, e.g. LinkedIn profile
- information about the content and services we provide to you
- your contact history and saved items
- information about how you use our website(s) and technology systems
- your responses to surveys, competitions and promotions
You must provide this personal data to use our website(s) and the content and services on it unless we tell you that you have a choice. Sometimes you can choose if you want to give us your personal data and let us use it. Where that is the case we will tell you and give you the choice before you give the personal data to us. We will also tell you whether declining to share that personal data will have any effect on your use of our website(s) and the content and the services on it.
We collect and use this personal data for the purposes described in the section ‘How and why we use your personal data’ below.
Certain personal data is treated as a “special category” to which additional protections apply under data protection law. If we process such special category personal data, we will also ensure we are permitted to do so under data protection laws.
We do not generally collect, store and use the following “special categories” of more sensitive personal information regarding you:
- information about your race or ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation and political opinions
- information about your trade union memberships
- information about your health, including any medical condition, health and sickness records, medical records and health professional information
- biometric information about you, for example fingerprints, retina scan
Also we do not generally collect, store and use any criminal records history relating to you.
How we collect your personal data
We collect personal data from you:
- directly, when you enter or send us information, such as when you contact us (including via email), send us feedback, purchase content or services via our website(s), post material to our website(s) and complete customer surveys or participate in competitions via our website(s); and
- indirectly, such as your browsing activity while on our website(s); we will usually collect information indirectly using the technologies explained in the section on ‘Cookies and other tracking technologies’ below.
How and why we use your personal data
Under data protection law, we can only use your personal data if we have a proper reason, e.g.:
- to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
- for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract
- for our legitimate interests or those of a third party
- where you have given consent
A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your personal data, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests. We will carry out an assessment when relying on legitimate interests, to balance our interests against your own. You can obtain details of this assessment by contacting us (see ‘How to contact us’ below).
The table below explains what we use your personal data for and why.
| What we use your personal data for | Our reasons |
|---|---|
| Creating and managing your account with us | To perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract |
| Providing content and services to you | To perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract |
| Conducting checks to identify you and verify your identity or to help prevent and detect fraud against you or us | For our legitimate interests, i.e. to minimise fraud that could be damaging for you and/or us |
| Enforcing legal rights or defend or undertake legal proceedings | Depending on the circumstances: —to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations —in other cases, for our legitimate interests, i.e. to protect our business, interests and rights |
| Customising our website(s) and their content to your particular preferences based on a record of your selected preferences or on your use of our website(s) | Depending on the circumstances: —your consent as gathered by the separate cookies tool on our website(s) —see ‘Cookies and other tracking technologies’ below —where we are not required to obtain your consent and do not do so, for our legitimate interests, i.e. to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price If you have provided such a consent you may withdraw it at any time by changing the setting on the cookies tool (this will not affect the lawfulness of our use of your personal data in reliance on that consent before it was withdrawn) |
| Retaining and evaluating information on your recent visits to our website(s) and how you move around different sections of our website(s) for analytics purposes to understand how people use our website(s) so that we can make it more intuitive or to check our website(s) are working as intended | Depending on the circumstances: —your consent as gathered by the separate cookies tool on our website(s) —see ‘Cookies and other tracking technologies’ below —where we are not required to obtain your consent and do not do so, for our legitimate interests, i.e. to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price If you have provided such a consent you may withdraw it at any time by changing the setting on the cookies tool or contacting us (this will not affect the lawfulness of our use of your personal data in reliance on that consent before it was withdrawn) |
| Communications with you not related to marketing, including about changes to our terms or policies or changes to the content or services or other important notices | Depending on the circumstances: —to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations —in other cases, for our legitimate interests, i.e. to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price |
| Protecting the security of systems and data used to provide the content and services | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations We may also use your personal data to ensure the security of systems and data to a standard that goes beyond our legal obligations, and in those cases our reasons are for our legitimate interests, i.e. to protect systems and data and to prevent and detect criminal activity that could be damaging for you and/or us |
| Statistical analysis to help us understand our customer base | For our legitimate interests, i.e. to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price |
| Updating and enhancing customer records | Depending on the circumstances: —to perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract —to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations —where neither of the above apply, for our legitimate interests, e.g. making sure that we can keep in touch with our customers about existing orders and new products |
| Disclosures and other activities necessary to comply with legal and regulatory obligations that apply to our business, e.g. to record and demonstrate evidence of your consents where relevant | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations |
| Marketing our content and services to existing and former customers | For our legitimate interests, i.e. to promote our business to existing and former customers See ‘Marketing’ below for further information |
| To share your personal data with our associates and third parties that will or may take control or ownership of some or all of our business (and professional advisors acting on our or their behalf) in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our insolvency In such cases information will be anonymised where possible and only shared where necessary | Depending on the circumstances: —to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations —in other cases, for our legitimate interests, i.e. to protect, realise or grow the value in our business and assets |
How we store your personal data and how long it will be kept
We securely store your data on our hosting platform which is located in the USA.
We will not keep your personal data for longer than we need it for the purpose for which it is used.
Different retention periods apply for different types of personal data. Following the end of the relevant retention period, we will delete or anonymize your personal data.
If you stop using your account we will usually delete or anonymize your account data after seven years.
Transferring your personal data between countries
The personal data we collect may be transferred to and stored in countries around the world. Some jurisdictions require different levels of protection in respect of personal data and, in certain instances, the laws in those countries may be less protective than the jurisdiction you are typically resident in.
We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your personal data is only used in accordance with this privacy policy and applicable data protection laws and is respected and kept secure and where a third party processes your data on our behalf we will put in place appropriate safeguards as required under data protection laws.
For further details please contact us by using the details set out in the ‘How to contact us’ section below.
Marketing
We will use your personal data to send you updates (by email, text message, telephone, social media or post) about our content or services, including exclusive offers, promotions or new content or services.
We have a legitimate interest in using your personal data for marketing purposes (see above ‘How and why we use your personal data’). This means we do not need your consent to send you marketing information but we do still seek your consent where possible. If we change our marketing approach in the future so that consent is needed, we will ask for this separately and clearly.
You have the right to opt in to receiving marketing communications at any time by:
- contacting us using the details in the ‘How to contact us’ section below
- using the ‘unsubscribe’ link in emails or ‘STOP’ number in texts
We may ask you to confirm or update your marketing preferences if you ask us to provide further services in the future, or if there are changes in the law, regulation, or the structure of our business.
We will always treat your personal data with the utmost respect and never sell it to other organisations for marketing purposes.
For more information on your right to object at any time to your personal data being used for marketing purposes, see ‘Your rights’ below.
Who we share your personal data with
We routinely share personal data with:
- third parties we use to help deliver our services to you, e.g. payment service providers or contractors
- other third parties we use to help us run our business, e.g. contractors, marketing agencies or website hosts and website analytics providers
- our bank
We or the third parties mentioned above occasionally also share personal data with:
- our external auditors, e.g. in relation to the audit of our accounts, in which case the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations
- our and their professional advisors (such as lawyers and other advisors), in which case the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations
- law enforcement agencies, courts, tribunals and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
- other parties that have or may acquire control or ownership of our business (and our or their professional advisers) in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our insolvency—usually, information will be anonymized but this may not always be possible. The recipient of any of your personal data will be bound by confidentiality obligations.
Cookies and other tracking technologies
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (e.g. computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website(s). We use cookies and similar technologies, on our website(s). These help us recognize you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.
For further information on cookies and other tracking technologies, our use, when we will request your consent before placing them and how to disable them, please see our Cookie Policy.
For further information, visit: www.allaboutcookies.org.
Your rights
We respect your ability to know, access, correct, transfer, restrict the processing of, and delete your personal data. We have provided these rights to our global customer base and if you choose to exercise these privacy rights, you have the right not to be treated in a discriminatory way nor to receive a lesser degree of service from us.
Where you are requested to consent to the processing of your personal data by us, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they do and do not apply, please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ below).
If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please email us — see below: ‘How to contact us’. When contacting us please:
- provide enough information to identify yourself and any additional identity information we may reasonably request from you, and
- let us know which right(s) you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates.
Keeping your personal data secure
We have appropriate security measures to prevent personal data from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed unlawfully. We limit access to your personal data to those who have a genuine need to access it.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
How to complain
Please contact us if you have any queries or concerns about our use of your personal data (see below ‘How to contact us’). We hope we will be able to resolve any issues you may have.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the applicable regulator. If you contact us, we will endeavor to provide you with information about relevant complaint avenues which may be applicable to your location and circumstances.
Changes to this privacy policy
This policy was published on 16 August 2024 and last updated on 16 August 2024.
We may change this privacy policy from time to time—when we make significant changes we will take steps to inform you, for example via email or including a link to a description of those changes on our website(s).
How to contact us
You can contact us by post, email or telephone if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you, to exercise a right under data protection law or to make a complaint. Our contact details are:
Gabi Logan
questions@dreamoftravelwriting.com