This privacy policy was modified on Dec 7, 2022:
Who we are
Hey guys, Kristin here. This is where I outline how we use the data that we collect on bemytravelmuse.com, and what your and our rights are when you use bemytravelmuse.com, a website operated by Be My Travel Muse LLC based in Texas, USA. I want to be transparent with you. Please take a moment to read through this privacy policy so that you know how your data helps to make this site the best resource possible and what you agree to when you use the site.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
A. Personal data is information that can be used to identify you such as your name, IP address, and email address. As a business, we collect personal data from you in a number of ways including:
(1.) Opt-In To Email Newsletters: Your email address.
(2.) Waiting List for Tours: Your name and email address.
(3.) Transactions for books and courses: Your name, email address, billing information and payment source.
(4.) Submitting Questions about Tours: Your name, email address, and question.
B. What Is The Purpose of Processing Your Personal Data?
We collect the information above for the following purposes.
(1.) Opt-In To Email Newsletters: To provide you with information on Be My Travel Muse’s new offerings and posts.
(2.) Waiting List for Tours: To let you know when a tour spot opens.
(3.) Transactions: To process a purchase you make with us.
(4.) Submitting Questions about Tours: To answer questions you might have for us.
C. What Legal Basis Do We Have For Collecting and Processing Your Information?
Websites must have a legal basis for collecting information from individuals located in the European Union. Our legal basis for each of the ways we collect information from you is as follows. Please note where consent forms the basis, you can withdraw consent at any time by opting out of any email message using the “unsubscribe” link.
(1.) Opt-In To Email Newsletters: We will ask for your consent first.
(2.) Waiting List for Tours: We will ask for your consent first.
(3.) Transaction: We will collect your information as part of a legal contractual transaction.
(4.) Submitting Questions: We have an allowed legitimate interest in providing a response to your questions and need to use your data to do so. We will not use the data for other purposes.
“Legitimate interests” for processing your personal information exist where you submit the information with an expectation that it will be processed and there is no undue impact on you. If you disagree or have questions, please contact us and we will cease the processing of your data under this legal basis.
Be My Travel Muse LLC will not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others. We do not automatically log personal data nor do we link information automatically logged by other means with personal data about specific individuals. We may use IP addresses to compile and provide aggregate statistics about our visitors, traffic patterns, and administer the site. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. We collect only the personal data that you may volunteer while using our services. We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organizations.
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. This information is not displayed publicly and we do not share it with any third parties. Anything you contribute to the site becomes property of Be My Travel Muse LLC, please see the T&Cs below to understand our ownership rights.
Cookies
Similar to other commercial websites, our website utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” and server logs to collect information about how our site is used. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our site, and the websites visited just before and just after our own, as well as your IP address.
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
The Company reserves the right to use technological equivalents of cookies, including social media pixels. These pixels allow social media sites to track visitors to outside websites so as to tailor advertising messages users see while visiting that social media website. The Company reserves the right to use these pixels in compliance with the policies of the various social media sites.
Third Party Use of Cookies
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
Statistics
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
Opting out of Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). You can also opt out of tracking by many companies using cookies via the Network Advertising Initiative Consumer Opt-Out.
Affiliate Programs
The Website engages in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.
Be My Travel Muse LLC is a participant in the World Nomads LTD, Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, CJ, AvantLink, Booking.com, Agoda.com, CardRatings.com and NomadicMatt, Inc. These are all affiliate advertising programs designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees.
As part of these programs, the Website will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.
Ads
We may use third-party advertising companies, such as Mediavine Publisher Network and Conde Nast Traveller, to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies. No personally identifiable information is shared with the Website’s ad providers.
From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.0)
This Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at https://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit Opt Out – NAI: Network Advertising Initiative. You may also visit http://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and http://optout.networkadvertising.org/# to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at YourAdChoices.com | AppChoices to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please click here.
Payments
If you purchase products or services from us, we will collect certain information from you, including your name, address, email address, and information about the product or service you are purchasing. Payments are processed by third-party payment processors (e.g., PayPal), so please refer to the applicable processor’s terms and privacy policy for more information about how payment information is processed and stored.
GDPR Information
If you are within the European Union, you are entitled to certain information and have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation. Those rights include:
- You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at [email protected] to be removed from our mailing list.
- You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to [email protected].
- You may contact [email protected] to amend or update your personal information.
- You may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to [email protected]
We will retain any information you choose to provide to us until the earliest of: (a) you asking us to delete the information, (b) our decision to cease using our existing data providers, or (c) we decide that the value in retaining the data is outweighed by the costs of retaining it.
You have the right to lodge 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. We will not require you to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into a contract with us.
Terms and Conditions
1. Copyright, Licenses, Idea Submissions and Trademarks.
The entire contents of the Site are protected by all applicable copyright and trademark laws. The owner of the copyrights and trademarks is Be My Travel Muse LLC, its affiliates, successors, beneficiaries, or other third party licensors. YOU MAY NOT COPY, MODIFY, REPRODUCE, REPUBLISH, POST, UPLOAD, OR DISTRIBUTE OR TRANSMIT, IN ANY MANNER, THE MATERIAL ON THE SITE, INCLUDING TEXT, GRAPHICS, CODE AND/OR SOFTWARE. You may only print and download portions of material from the different areas of the Site solely for your own non-commercial use on the condition that you agree not to change or delete any copyright or proprietary notices from the site(s). You agree to grant to Be My Travel Muse LLC a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual license, with the right to reproduce, distribute, transmit, sub-license, create derivative works of, publicly display and publicly perform any materials and other information (including, without limitation, ideas contained therein for new or improved products and services) you submit to any public areas of the Site (such as bulletin boards, forums and newsgroups) or by e-mail to Be My Travel Muse LLC by all means and in any media now known or hereafter developed. You also grant to Be My Travel Muse LLC the right to use your name in connection with the submitted materials and other information as well as in connection with all advertising, marketing and promotional material related thereto. You agree that you shall have no recourse against Be My Travel Muse LLC for any alleged or actual infringement or misappropriation of any proprietary right in your communications to Be My Travel Muse LLC. Publications, products, content or services referenced herein or on the Site are the exclusive trademarks or servicemarks of Be My Travel Muse LLC. Other product and company names mentioned in the Site may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
2. Use of the Site and Disclaimer of all Warranties.
You understand that, except for information, products or services clearly identified as being supplied by Be My Travel Muse LLC sites, Be My Travel Muse LLC does not operate, control or endorse any information, products or services on the Internet in any way. Except for sites mentioned above, identified information, products or services, all information, products and services offered through the Site or on the Internet generally are offered by third parties, that are not affiliated with Be My Travel Muse LLC or sites. You also understand that Be My Travel Muse LLC cannot and does not guarantee or warrant that files available for downloading through the Site will be free of infection or viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other code that manifest contaminating or destructive properties. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and checkpoints to satisfy your particular requirements for accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining a means external to the Site for the reconstruction of any lost data.
You assume total responsibility and risk for your use of the site and the Internet. Be My Travel Muse LLC provides the site and related information ‘as is’ and does not make any express or implied warranties, representations, or endorsements whatsoever (including without limitation warranties of title or noninfringement, or the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose) with regard to the service, any merchandise, information, or service provided through the service or on the Internet generally, and Be My Travel Muse LLC shall not be liable for any cost or damage arising either directly or indirectly from any such transaction. IT IS SOLELY YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO EVALUATE THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS AND USEFULNESS OF ALL OPINIONS, ADVICE, SERVICES, MERCHANDISE AND OTHER INFORMATION PROVIDED THROUGH THE SERVICE OR ON THE INTERNET GENERALLY. Be My Travel Muse LLC. DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OR THAT DEFECTS IN THE SERVICE WILL BE CORRECTED.
YOU UNDERSTAND FURTHER THAT THE PURE NATURE OF THE INTERNET CONTAINS UNEDITED MATERIALS. Be My Travel Muse LLC HAS NO CONTROL OVER AND ACCEPTS NO RESPONSIBILITY WHATSOEVER FOR SUCH MATERIALS.
Be My Travel Muse LLC makes no representations whatsoever about any other web site which you may access through this one or which may link to this Site. When you access a non-Be My Travel Muse LLC web site(s), please understand that it is independent fromBe My Travel Muse LLC, and thatBe My Travel Muse LLC has no control over the content on that web site. In addition, a link to Be My Travel Muse LLC does not mean that Be My Travel Muse LLC endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content, or the use, of such web site.
3. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.
IN NO EVENT WILL Be My Travel Muse LLC BE LIABLE FOR (I) ANY INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR INDIRECT DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF PROGRAMS OR INFORMATION, AND THE LIKE) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE, OR ANY INFORMATION, OR TRANSACTIONS PROVIDED ON THE SERVICE, OR DOWNLOADED FROM THE SERVICE, OR ANY DELAY OF SUCH INFORMATION OR SERVICE. EVEN IF Be My Travel Muse LLC OR ITS AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR (II) ANY CLAIM ATTRIBUTABLE TO ERRORS, OMISSIONS, OR OTHER INACCURACIES IN THE SERVICE AND/OR MATERIALS OR INFORMATION DOWNLOADED THROUGH THE SITE(S). BECAUSE SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH STATES,Be My Travel Muse LLC LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
4. Indemnification.
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Be My Travel Muse LLC, its affiliates, successors, joint venturers, partners, officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, suppliers and any third party information providers to the Service from and against all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, resulting from any violation of this Agreement (including but not limited to negligent or wrongful conduct) by you or any other person accessing the Service.
5. Third Party Rights.
The provisions of paragraphs 2 (Use of the Site and Disclaimer of all Warranties), and 4 (Indemnification) are for the benefit of Be My Travel Muse LLC and its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, suppliers, and any third party information providers to the Service. Each of these individuals or entities shall have the right to assert and enforce those provisions.
6. Term; Termination.
The provisions of paragraphs 1 (Copyright, Licenses, Idea Submissions and Trademarks), 2 (Use of the Site and Disclaimer of all Warranties), 3 (Limitation of Liability), 4 (Indemnification), 5 (Third Party Rights) and 7 (Miscellaneous) shall survive termination of this Agreement.
7. Miscellaneous.
This Agreement shall all be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of United States of America applicable to agreements made and to be performed in United States of America. You agree that any legal action or proceeding between Be My Travel Muse LLC and you for any purpose concerning this Agreement or the parties’ obligations hereunder shall be brought exclusively in a federal or state court of competent jurisdiction sitting in the State of Texas, United States of America. Any cause of action or claim you may have with respect to the Service must be commenced within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises or such claim or cause of action is barred. Be My Travel Muse LLC’s failure to insist upon or enforce strict performance of any provision of this Agreement shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right. Neither the course of conduct between the parties nor trade practice shall act to modify any provision of this Agreement. Be My Travel Muse LLC may assign its rights and duties under this Agreement to any party at any time without notice to you.
Any rights of Be My Travel Muse LLC not expressly granted herein are reserved.
Changes
We may change the T&Cs and Privacy Policy from time to time. If we do, we will let you know by revising the date at the top of the policy. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will provide you with additional notice. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you access or use our Services or otherwise interact with us to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy. If you continue to use our Services after Privacy Policy changes go into effect, you consent to the revised policy. If you do not consent, you must stop using the site and its associated social channels and services immediately.
Contact Information
If you have questions or comments regarding the Privacy Policy, you may reach us at:
Be My Travel Muse LLC
2318 Santa Rosa Street
Austin, Texas 78702
You can also contact us here.