This Privacy Policy explains how personal information may be collected, used and protected when you visit Welcome to Canaries. It applies to this website at welcometocanaries.com and should be read together with our Cookie Policy.
Who is responsible for the website
Welcome to Canaries operates this website. For privacy-related requests or questions, you can contact us at admin@welcometocanaries.com.
Information we may collect
The types of personal information processed depend on how you use the website. They may include:
- Technical and log data: IP address, browser type, device information, requested pages, timestamps and similar server or security logs.
- Contact information: information you choose to provide when you email us or use a contact feature.
- Comment information: if comments are enabled, the data entered in the comment form and technical information used for spam prevention.
- Cookie and analytics data: information generated by cookies or similar technologies, depending on the tools active on the site and your consent choices.
- Affiliate attribution data: third-party affiliate networks or booking providers may receive tracking parameters or cookie information when you follow an affiliate link.
How we use information
Personal information may be used to operate and secure the website, respond to enquiries, prevent spam and abuse, understand site performance, improve content, comply with legal obligations and measure affiliate referrals.
Legal bases where GDPR applies
Where the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or equivalent rules apply, processing may be based on one or more legal bases, including legitimate interests in operating and securing the website, performance of a request you make, compliance with legal obligations, and consent for technologies or processing activities that require consent.
Cookies and similar technologies
The website may use essential cookies required for technical operation and, depending on the services enabled, analytics, functionality, embedded-content or affiliate tracking technologies. Non-essential technologies may require consent under applicable law. More detail is available in our Cookie Policy.
Third-party services
We may use third-party providers for services such as hosting, security, analytics, spam prevention, embedded media, maps, booking links and affiliate tracking. These providers may process information according to their own privacy notices and contractual roles. The exact services active on the site can change over time.
Embedded content and external links
Articles may include embedded content or links from other websites. Embedded content can behave as if you had visited the third-party website directly and may collect data, use cookies or track interaction according to that provider’s settings and privacy policy.
International data transfers
Some service providers may process data outside your country. Where data protection law requires safeguards for international transfers, appropriate mechanisms should be used by the relevant controller or processor, such as an adequacy decision, approved contractual clauses or another lawful transfer mechanism.
Data retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including security, legal, accounting, dispute-resolution and operational needs. Retention periods can vary depending on the type of data and service involved.
Your privacy rights
Where applicable, you may have rights to request information about the processing of your personal data, access your data, correct inaccurate data, request deletion, restrict processing, object to certain processing, receive portable data, and withdraw consent where processing is based on consent. You may also have the right to complain to a competent data protection authority.
To exercise a privacy right relating to data controlled by Welcome to Canaries, contact admin@welcometocanaries.com. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request.
Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures intended to protect the website and personal information. However, no website, network or method of electronic storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Children
Welcome to Canaries is a general travel-information website and is not directed specifically to children. We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children where parental authorization would be legally required.
Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when our services, technologies or legal obligations change. The version published on this page is the version that applies at the time you visit it.
Contact
Privacy questions can be sent to admin@welcometocanaries.com.