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Privacy Policy

Last Updated On 06-Feb-2024

Who We Are and What This Policy Covers

Hey there! We’re Nicolle and Bruno, and this is Where to Flow – a travel blog where we share all the tips and tricks from our travels around the globe. Our mission is to inspire other people to travel and to take the road less traveled!

While we share content online, your privacy and that of all of our readers is critically important to us. That being said, we want this to be an easy-to-read Privacy Policy document – just like all of our content! So let’s jump right into what this policy covers:

This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect about you when you use:

Throughout this Privacy Policy, we’ll refer to our website as “Site” and/or “Service”.

The terms and conditions in this document are governed by the laws of Brazil 🇧🇷

Below we explain how we collect, use, and share information about you, along with the choices that you have concerning that information.

Copyright: All Rights Reserved

All of the material on wheretoflow.com (the “Site”), including website design, text, and graphics are the property of the respective Artists represented on this Site and are protected by Copyright Law no. 9,610/98 (the “Brazilian Copyright Law” or “BCL”).

No form of reproduction of the above-mentioned material, for commercial or non-commercial use, without prior permission from the Artists.

Any artwork purchased from this Site is solely for personal enjoyment and should be exhibited only in private spaces. To showcase it in public areas or establishments, publish it online, print it, or any other kind of use, the Artist’s explicit consent is required.

Information We Collect

We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so — for example, to provide our Service, to communicate with you, or to make our Service better.

We collect this information from three sources: if and when you provide information to us, automatically through operating our Service, and from outside sources. Let’s go over the information that we collect.

Information You Provide to Us

It’s probably no surprise that we collect information that you provide to us directly. Here are some examples:

💬 Content information: If you leave a comment on the Site, we collect the data shown in the comments form. Additionally, we collect the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to detect and prevent spam. You might provide us with information about you in a comment that includes biographic information about you, or any media or files you upload.

💌 Communications with us: You may also provide us with information when you respond to surveys or sign up for a newsletter through the Site. When you communicate with us via form, email, WordPress.com comment, or otherwise, we store a copy of our communications.

💳 Payment and contact information: There are various ways in which you may provide us with payment information and associated contact information. For example, if you buy something from us via the Site, we’ll collect information to process those payments and contact you. We also keep a record of the purchases you’ve made.

You’ll also provide additional personal and payment information like your name, credit card information, and contact information to the payment gateway of choice, such as Stripe or PayPal.

Information We Collect Automatically

We also collect some information automatically:

📍 Location information: We may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We collect and use this information to, for example, calculate how many people visit this Site from certain geographic regions.

💲Transactional information: When you make a purchase through our Site, we collect information about the transaction, such as product details, purchase price, and the date and location of the transaction.

📎 Embedded content from other websites: This Site may feature integrated content such as videos, images, and articles from other websites. This embedded content behaves exactly as if the visitor had visited the other website directly.

These external websites may collect data about you, use cookies, incorporate extra tracking from third parties, and observe your engagement with the embedded material. This includes tracking your interactions with the content if you hold an account and are logged into that website.

🎟️ Advertising:

👾 Sponsored Content Tracking Pixels: This Site might occasionally collaborate on sponsored initiatives with different influencer networks, brands, and agencies. In line with the FTC’s guidelines, all such sponsored content is appropriately identified.

These sponsored activities may, at times, use tracking pixels (also known as web beacons), which could include cookies to gather information about usage and audience demographics.

The data gathered through these pixels is used by the sponsor to monitor the effectiveness of the campaign. This Site does not use any personally identifiable information in conjunction to these tracking pixels.

🔗 Affiliate Program Participation: This site engages in affiliate marketing by incorporating tracking links. When you click on an affiliate link, a cookie is set in your browser to track sales and calculate commissions.

WheretoFlow.com takes part in affiliate advertising initiatives such as the ones offered by GetYourGuide, TravelPayouts, and other mostly travel-related programs.

📈 Analytics: This service monitors user activity on this Site and gathers details like the source websites and user interactions within the Site. While Google Analytics records your IP address, it does not collect any other personal data.

🍪 Information from cookies & other technologies: A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on websites and emails.

This Site uses cookies and other technologies like pixel tags to help us identify and track visitors, usage, and access preferences for our Service, as well as track and understand email campaign effectiveness and deliver targeted ads.

For more information about our use of cookies and other technologies for tracking, including how you can control the use of cookies, please refer to our Cookie Policy Section below.

Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to manage the cookie settings.

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.

How we use cookies

As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

Types of Cookie

The table below explains the types of cookies we use on our websites and why we use them.

How to disable cookies

Cookie Settings

You can change your cookie preferences any time by clicking the above button. This will let you revisit the cookie consent banner and change your preferences or withdraw your consent right away.

In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. Listed below are the links to the support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from the major web browsers.

If you are using any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official support documents.

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How and Why We Use The Information Collected

Purposes for Using Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

1️⃣ To ensure quality, maintain safety, and improve our Service. 
For example, by monitoring and analyzing how users interact with our Site we can create new features that we think our users will enjoy.

2️⃣ To market our Service and measure, and improve the effectiveness of our marketing. 
For example, by targeting our marketing messages to groups of visitors, advertising our Service, analyzing the results of our marketing campaigns, and understanding and forecasting user retention.

3️⃣ To place ads. 
For example, to place ads on this Site and understand ad performance.

4️⃣ To protect our Service and the public. 
For example, by detecting security incidents; detecting and protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; fighting spam; complying with our legal obligations; and protecting the rights and property of our Service and the public.

5️⃣ To communicate with you. 
For example, by emailing you to ask for your feedback, share tips for getting the most out of our products, or keep you up to date on our Site. If you don’t want to hear from us, you can opt out of marketing communications at any time.

Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information

A note here for those in the European Union about our legal grounds for processing information about you under EU data protection laws, which is that our use of your information is based on the grounds that:

  1. The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or
  2. The use is necessary to protect your vital interests or those of another person; or
  3. We have a legitimate interest in using your information — for example, to provide and update our Service; to improve our Service so that we can offer you an even better user experience; to safeguard our Service; to communicate with you; to measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising; and to understand our user retention and attrition; to monitor and prevent any problems with our Service; and to personalize your experience; or
  4. You have given us your consent — for example before we place certain cookies on your device and access and analyze them later on, as described in our Cookie Policy Section below.

Sharing Information

How We Share Information

We share information about you in limited circumstances and with appropriate safeguards for your privacy. These are spelled out below:

1️⃣ Third-party vendors: We may share information about you with third-party vendors who need the information to provide their services to us.

This includes vendors that help us provide our Service to you, like postal and email delivery services that help us stay in touch with you; those that assist us with our marketing efforts (e.g., by providing tools for identifying a specific marketing target group or improving our marketing campaigns, and by placing ads to market our services); those that help us understand and enhance our Service (like analytics providers); those that make tools to help us run our operations (like programs that help us with task management, scheduling, word processing, email and other communications, and collaboration among our teams); other third-party tools that help us manage operations; We require vendors to agree to privacy commitments to share information with them.

2️⃣ Legal and regulatory requirements: We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request.

3️⃣ Aggregated or de-identified information: We may share information that has been aggregated or de-identified so that it can no longer reasonably be used to identify you. For instance, we may publish aggregate statistics about the use of our Site.

How Long We Keep Information

We generally discard information about you when it’s no longer needed for the purposes for which we collect and use it — described in the section above on How and Why We Use Information — and we’re not legally required to keep it.

For users who register on our Site (if any), we store the personal information provided by them in their user profile. The users can see, edit, and/or delete their personal information at any time. Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Your Rights

If you have an account and/or have posted comments on this Site, you are entitled to request a file containing the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. Additionally, you can ask us to delete any personal information we have about you. However, this exclusion does not apply to data we must retain for administrative, legal, or security reasons.

Contacting Us About These Rights

You can contact us using the contact form available on this Site. When you contact us about one of your rights under this section, we’ll need to verify that you are the right person before we disclose or delete anything.

For example, if you are a user, we will need you to contact us from the email address associated with your account. You can also designate an authorized agent to request on your behalf by giving us written authorization. We may still require you to verify your identity with us.

In some circumstances, we may deny your request to exercise one of these rights. For example, if we cannot verify that you are the account owner we may deny your request to access the personal information associated with your account. As another example, if we are legally required to maintain a copy of your personal information we may deny your request to delete your personal information.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, the owners of this Site may change its Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your further use of the Services after a change to our Privacy Policy will be subject to the updated policy.

That’s it! Thanks for reading.