Policies

All kinds of them…Yup it’s tedious, but necessary. But I have to post it.

Cookies

This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping baskets, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.

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Terms of Service

Please read these terms of service (“terms”, “terms of service”) carefully before using theeventfultraveller.com website (the “service”) operated by Maria Gustafsson (“us”, ‘we”, “our”).

Conditions of Use
We will provide their services to you, which are subject to the conditions stated below in this document. Every time you visit this website, use its services or make a purchase, you accept the following conditions. This is why we urge you to read them carefully.

Privacy Policy
Before you continue using our website we advise you to read our privacy policy [see this page] regarding our user data collection. It will help you better understand our practices.

Copyright
Content published on this website (digital downloads, images, texts, graphics, logos) is the property of [name] and/or its content creators and protected by international copyright laws. The entire compilation of the content found on this website is the exclusive property of [name], with copyright authorship for this compilation by [name].

Communications
The entire communication with us is electronic. Every time you send us an email or visit our website, you are going to be communicating with us. You hereby consent to receive communications from us. If you subscribe to the news on our website, you are going to receive regular emails from us. We will continue to communicate with you by posting news and notices on our website and by sending you emails. You also agree that all notices, disclosures, agreements and other communications we provide to you electronically meet the legal requirements that such communications be in writing.

Applicable Law
By visiting this website, you agree that the laws of the [your location], without regard to principles of conflict laws, will govern these terms of service, or any dispute of any sort that might come between [name] and you, or its business partners and associates.

Disputes
Any dispute related in any way to your visit to this website or to products you purchase from us shall be arbitrated by state or federal court [your location] and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue of such courts.

Comments, Reviews, and Emails
Visitors may post content as long as it is not obscene, illegal, defamatory, threatening, infringing of intellectual property rights, invasive of privacy or injurious in any other way to third parties. Content has to be free of software viruses, political campaign, and commercial solicitation.

We reserve all rights (but not the obligation) to remove and/or edit such content. When you post your content, you grant [name] non-exclusive, royalty-free and irrevocable right to use, reproduce, publish, modify such content throughout the world in any media.

License and Site Access
We grant you a limited license to access and make personal use of this website. You are not allowed to download or modify it. This may be done only with written consent from us.

We reserve all rights to edit or remove content and cancel services in their sole discretion.

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Disclosure

This blog is a personal blog owned by Maria Gustafsson (The Eventful Traveller) and written/edited by Maria Gustafsson. This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation including affiliate relationships. This blog abides by word of mouth marketing standards.

I believe in honesty of relationship, opinion, and identity. The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content. The owner of this blog, Maria Gustafsson as The Eventful Traveller, is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics.

Even though the owner of this blog receives compensation for my posts or advertisements, I always give my honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the my own.

Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question. 

This blog does contain content which might present a conflict of interest. This content may not always be identified. Changes to my Disclosure

Policy If I decide to change the disclosure policy, I will post those changes on this page, and/or update the Disclosure Policy modification date below. This policy was last modified on July 2, 2019.

Contact Me if there are any questions regarding the disclosure policy, you may contact me at maria @ theeventfultraveller . com

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The Eventful Traveller’ Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from https://itsalovelylife.com (the “Site”).

PERSONAL INFORMATION I COLLECT
When you visit the Site, I automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, I collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. I refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”

I collect Device Information using the following technologies:

    – “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

    – “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including ymy IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.

    – “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

    – Facebook Pixel, Google Analytics code, Pinterest Pixel are used to collect data

When I talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, I am talking both about Device Information.

HOW DO I USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
I use the information you provide to us, ie. email address and name to:
Communicate with you;

When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to my products or services.

I use the Device Information that I collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize my Site (for example, by generating analytics about how my customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of my marketing and advertising campaigns).

SHARING MY PERSONAL INFORMATION
I never share your Personal Information with third parties.

I also use Google Analytics to help us understand how my customers use the Site–you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here:  https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.  You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Finally, I may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful requests for information I receive, or to otherwise protect my rights.

As described above, I use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications I believe may be of interest to you.  For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by:
    FACEBOOK – https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
    GOOGLE – https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
    BING – https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en- us/resmyces/policies/personalized-ads

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at:  http://optout.aboutads.info/.

DO NOT TRACK
Please note that I do not alter my Site’s data collection and use practices when I see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

YMY RIGHTS
If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information I hold about you and to ask that ymy personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

Additionally, if you are a European resident please note that I am processing your information in order to fulfill contracts I might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue my legitimate business interests listed above.  Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

MINORS
The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 13.

CHANGES
I may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to my practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

CONTACT
For more information about my privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at maria@theeventfultraveller.com

Additional Information I want you to know:
I do not intentionally target people in the EU as readers of my blog, email list subscribers, or as clients. However, I am still taking the following steps to protect the privacy of all of my reader and customers. I will continue to do my absolute best to always consider the privacy of my valued readers and customers.

I want you to know that I have Google Analytics installed. You can read more about both of those on their respective sites to learn more about what they collect, link below. I offer mailing list options too. When you provide your email address to me for event planning service, or for my regular email newsletter, I will add you to my email list and you may occasionally be sent an email with a broad range of topics from décor, to event food, colour schemes, etc.  If you provide me with your email address for any reason via one of these signups, you will be subscribed to my email list. You can opt out at any time by using the unsubscribe link on all of my emails.

I have never and will never sell my email list.

Occasionally I have sponsored posts and sponsored content on my site. The companies that advertise on my site will often have their own tracking code that I add to each sponsored post. I also have affiliate links on my site. These links allow tracking of clicks on certain links and if you purchase something using these links I earn a commission at no cost to you. I have listed these companies below and I will be updating this list often.

Links to privacy policies:
Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy
My Wedding Favors: https://myweddingfavors.com/privacypolicy
Facebook: https://facebook.com/about/privacyshield
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/