Full disclosure and privacy policy

by lukasz

Per some regulations regulations, this is the full explanation of how oohtravels is compensated.

In order to keep our content relevant, high quality, and free of charge, but still be able to cover all the costs that are associated with running an online business (hosting, domain name, blog design, our own time, and similar) there are many ways in which we are compensated.

Our opinions

Being honest to our readers is of the utmost importance to us. We will never promote any products or services that we do not believe in or have not tested. We will also never promote something that is not valuable to our readers or does not fit into categories of oohtravels site.

If we say we like something, it means we do. Most of the companies that we promote are the companies whose products or services we have tested or checked up thoroughly, or like their philosophy or attitudes.

Sponsored posts, product reviews, and affiliate marketing

We will also accept reviews of travel-related products or services, but only when we are sure that they will bring benefits to our readers. We will be always 100%  honest in our reviews. If a travel-related product or service is mentioned by us without any disclaimer, it means that we are not compensated for it and are happy to provide our readers with the relevant information.

Affiliate marketing is just another way we are compensated.  When you click on an affiliate link in order to make a purchase or sign up for a service we will earn a commission that helps us keep our site free.

Banner ads

We also accept banner ads for direct selling and network companies. These companies must be approved by us and must be 100%  legitimate.

Advertising—display and retargeting ads

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads (display and retargeting) when you visit our site. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address, or phone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

Cookies policy

Where it is necessary, oohtravels uses cookies to store information about visitors’ preferences and history in order to better understand them and/or present them with the most relevant content. To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Nowadays most websites do this.

Controlling your privacy

Any time you can change your browser settings to disable cookies if you have any privacy concerns. Disabling cookies for all sites is not recommended, and the best option is to disable or enable cookies depending on the site.

Medical and health disclaimer

This site is not intended to cure, diagnose, or treat any medical conditions. Please consult any health-related issues with your doctor.

Privacy policy

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our site. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address, or phone number of our readers) about your visits to oohtravels and other sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to our website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form. We also automatically collect certain information about our readers, such as devices, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and others.

This information will allow us to send you our newsletters or any administrative information, send products you purchased or answer your comments, and others.

Third-party use of personal information

We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.  Personal data is collected by oohtravels for the following purposes and using the following third-party service providers: Google Analytics (cookies, usage data), commercial affiliates (cookies and usage data), and contact forms (personal data). E-commerce (personal and payment data), social media accounts (personal data and cookies), and spam protection (personal data).

Publicity visible data

If you leave a comment on our website, your name and comment (and URL if entered) will be publicly visible.

Newsletters

You may subscribe to oohtravels newsletter, which may also be used for advertising purposes. All sent newsletters may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in our emails and allows us to analyze the success of our online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see whether or not and when you open and read our emails, and which links in our emails you click on. This allows us to better adapt the content of our future newsletters to the interests of our readers. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.

Links to other websites

Our website may include links to other websites. However, once you have used these links to leave oohtravels site, you should note that oohtravels does not have any control over the other websites. We are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide while visiting such sites, as this privacy statement does not govern them. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Rights related to your personal information

You may opt out of future email communication by clicking on the unsubscribe links in our newsletters. You may also notify us via the contact page to be removed from our mailing list.

You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request via the contact page. You may contact us via the contact page to amend or update your personal information whenever you wish. In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request via our contact page.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes to complete transactions, or when required by law such as in the case of product sales.

Personal sensitive information

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to our website. This information includes your social security number, information about your race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, or criminal background. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

Information about children

This website does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 16. If a parent or guardian believes that our website has personally identifiable information about a child under 16 years old in our database, please contact us immediately via the contact page. We will do our best to remove such information from our records as quickly as possible.

If you have any concerns about our policy, please feel free to contact us.