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Privacy Policy

Your privacy is extremely important to Wherearethosemorgans (dot) com. This privacy policy will describe how we collect, use and protect your personal information.

Please know that any personal information you choose to share will not be be sold or given away to other companies. As a visitor to Wherearethosemorgans (dot) com, you have the choice to subscribe to our community.

By using the Site, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. The privacy policy forms part of our terms of use document. Please also read the disclosure policy.

If you do not agree to any of these policies, please do not use our Website.

This Website reserves the right to modify or replace this privacy policy at any time. If we do, we will let you know by revising the date of this policy (found immediately below). 

This entire policy is valid from 28 Aug 2022.

What Information Do We Collect?

We collect information such as your name and email address when you voluntarily enter it into our Website. This includes signing up for our newsletter, commenting on a post, submitting a contact form or entering information on our site. With your permission, we may send you emails regarding updates, travel information and more.  Please note you can opt out at any time using the “unsubscribe” link.

We may automatically collect information regarding the device you are using, your IP address, referring website, pages views, length of stay, dates / times you accessed the Site, browser type and links clicked. 

How Will Your Information Be Used?

  • Operate and maintain the website
  • Create your account 
  • Monitor and analyze trends
  • Respond to comments and/or inquiries
  • Improve our services
  • Provide advertisements and promotional products
  • Provide user support
  • Protect, investigate and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity 

Our overall goal is to better serve you!

How Do We Protect Your Data?

Please understand no information transmitted over the internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to this Website. However, we will protect your personal information as best as possible. The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk.

We will not use or disclose information that could be used to identify an individual except to ensure the proper functioning of this Website and when the law requires us to do so.

Children’s Information

This Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at markandkristen@wherearethosemorgans (dot) com. We will use our best efforts to remove such information from our records.

Cookies

First, what are cookies? Cookies are small files of information that are stored on your computer by a Website or Service Provider. They are designed to record browsing history, log in information and web surfing history.

Similar to other websites, we use cookies to store visitor preferences, record user-specific information, manage advertisements and compile aggregate data about Site traffic or interactions. Personal information is not typically collected by cookies unless you have previously allowed cookies to link to this information. 

Third Party Cookies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on our Site are served by third parties analytics. 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.

Users may, at any time, disable the use of cookies in your web browser. Since browsers can sometimes look different, please refer to your browsers user menu to learn the best way to disable and modify cookies to your preference. If you deactivate the setting of cookies in your internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely accessible.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The 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 All About 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 National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app 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 visit Mediavine Partners.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the Site, we collect the data shown in the comments form. The visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. This information is kept safe and never displayed publicly. We do not share any information you submit to third parties. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Please be kind and courteous in the comments section. We reserve the right to edit and / or remove any comments which appear to be malicious, inappropriate, threatening and spam-worthy. Additionally, any individual who violates this comment policy will be permanently deleted and blocked.

Please note this Website contains link to other external sources. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or terms of use for other Websites as these are separate and independent. We have no responsibility or liability for the content and activity on these third party Sites. Please read the privacy statements of each Website that may be collecting personal information.

However, we constantly seek to protect the integrity of our Site and welcome any feedback for external Sites. Our contact information can be found on the bottom of this page.

Newsletter

On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be utilized for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixels are embedded in emails and allows for an analysis of the success in online marketing campaigns. Because of the tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email as well as the links you click within the email. This also allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.

Remarketing Advertising

On occasion, this Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies like Google, Facebook or Instagram in order to promote the Website. These companies may use cookies to serve ads based on an individual’s visit on the Website. 

Opt-Out: You may opt-out (unsubscribe) of future newsletters and email communications by clicking on the “unsubscribe link” in our emails. You may also notify us at markandkristen@wherearethosemorgans (dot) com to be removed from our emailing list.

Access: You may access personal information we may have on you by submitting a request to us at markandkristen@wherearethosemorgans (dot) com.

Amend / Update: You may contact us at markandkristen@wherearethosemorgans (dot) com to amend or updates your personal information. 

Forget: In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to markandkristen@wherearethosemorgans (dot) com. 

Please note we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes or to complete transactions which may be required by law.

Contact Information

If you still have questions or comments after reading through this privacy policy, please email Mark and Kristen Morgan at markandkristen@wherearethosemorgans.com for further inquires.

You may also visit our contact page for additional information or you can read our editorial process to see how we always ensure high journalistic standards.