Privacy Policy

Effective Date: [January 1, 2025]

Welcome to Passports and Pineapples (“we,” “our,” “us”). Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our website at www.passportsandpineapples.net.

We reserve the right to change the focus of this blog, shut it down, or sell it at our own discretion.

Information We Collect

We collect personal data when you interact with our site, including:

Name and email address – when you fill out our contact form, comment on a blog post, or subscribe to our newsletter.
IP address and browser data – through analytics tools to better understand our visitors’ behavior.
Cookies – for site functionality, affiliate tracking, and analytics.We do not collect or store payment or financial information.

How We Collect Your Information

We gather information through:

Contact and newsletter forms
Blog comments
Cookies and similar technologies
Analytics tools like Google Analytics and WordPress Analytics

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.

Email Marketing

If you subscribe to our newsletter, your name and email address will be stored in Zoho Campaigns. You’ll receive a confirmation email to consent to future emails. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link in the email.

Cookies & Tracking

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to work more efficiently and to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. We use cookies to:

Analyze site traffic
Enable affiliate link tracking
Improve your browsing experience

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

Affiliate programs (like Amazon and Booking.com) may set their own cookies when you click links. You’ll see a cookie consent banner when visiting from the EU, as required by GDPR.

Affiliate Disclosure

Our website contains affiliate links. If you click and make a purchase, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. We currently participate in:

Amazon Associates
Booking.com Affiliate Program
TripAdvisor Affiliate Program
Marriott Affiliate Program

These partners may use tracking technologies when you click links from our site.

Advertising

Some of our advertisers occasionally serve you cookies as well. We do not have control over cookies placed by advertisers. We may use advertising service vendors to help present advertisements on the website. These vendors may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to provide you advertisements tailored to interests you have shown by browsing on this and other sites you have visited, to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before and to avoid sending you duplicate advertisements. In doing so, these vendors may collect non-personal data such as your browser type, your operating system, web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, and other click stream data. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by these advertising service vendors is subject to their own privacy policies, not ours; therefore, you and we hereby agree that we will have no liability in connection with the actions or inaction’s of advertisers or vendors.

Embedded Content from Third Parties

Our site includes embedded content (e.g., YouTube videos, Instagram and Facebook feeds) that may collect data about you, use cookies, or track your interaction. These services operate under their own privacy policies.

How We Use Your Information

We use your information to:

Respond to inquiries
Send newsletters and updates
Monitor and analyze website traffic
Improve website functionality
Comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service
We may use the information to improve our products and services
We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided

We do not sell or share your information with unrelated third parties.

Data Storage and Security

Your data is stored securely via:

Zoho Campaigns (for newsletter subscribers)
WordPress (for contact forms submissions and comments)

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.

Your Rights Under GDPR

If you’re located in the European Economic Area, you have the right to:

Access the personal data we hold about you
Request correction or deletion of your data
Object to our processing
Request data portability
Lodge a complaint with a data protection authority

To exercise your rights, email us at hello@passportsandpineapples.net.

To manage the cookies and similar technologies used (tracking pixels, web beacons, etc.) and related consents, we use the consent tool “Real Cookie Banner”. Details on how “Real Cookie Banner” works can be found at https://devowl.io/rcb/data-processing/.

The legal basis 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 the 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 the personal data. If you do not provide the personal data, we will not be able to manage your consents.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy occasionally. Changes will be posted here with an updated effective date. Continued use of our site signifies acceptance.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this policy or how we handle your data, please contact us:📧 hello@passportsandpineapples.net