Private Policy
Updated 3/27/2024
I created Buzzin’ Around the World to share my love of travel and allow my family, friends, and students to follow my travels. Over the years, Buzzin’ Around the World has grown and has many viewers that I am not affiliated with.
At Buzzin’ Around the World, we do our best to offer the most factual information that was available to us at the time of posting. If you come across something that appears outdated or incorrect, please email Buzz with the name webpage/video and what information you believe needs to be updated.
Buzzin’ Around the World follows all local, national, and international laws and ordinances based on our best interpretation at the time of posting. If you are an organization who believes one of your ordinances has been violated, please know it was not intentional. To have any content removed, please email Buzz with the name of the webpage/video and the content that you request be removed.
Finally, under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. If you believe we have violated your Copyright in a method that is not considered “fair use” please email Buzz with the webpage/video that you would like removed.
Buzzin’ Around the World uses our individual travel experiences to write our content. All photos and content are original. Buzzin’ Around the World sometimes uses AI to generate titles, summaries, or descriptions of our original work.
All information is to be used for entertainment purposes only.
Buzz can be reached at buzzinaroundtheworld@gmail.com. Buzz will reply to all requests within 48 hours.
Buzzinaroundtheworld.com (Buzz, me, we) is committed to protecting your privacy and personal information.
Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect, when you use and visit buzzinaroundtheworld.com, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.
Children's Privacy
Protecting the privacy of the very young is important to us. For that reason, we do not collect or maintain information at our sites from those we actually know are under 18, and no part of our site is structured to attract anyone under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features/register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use.
If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at buzzinaroundtheworld@gmail.com
Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Comcast), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Google Chrome or Safari), the time you visited our site, and which pages you visited throughout our site.
Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.
We also use third party advertisements on buzzinaroundtheworld.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing travel ads to someone who frequents travel sites).
DoubleClick DART Cookies
We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (”interest based targeting”). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las Vegas hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about hockey). DART uses “non personally identifiable information”. It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx
You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.
External Websites
Please note that buzzinaroundtheworld.com contains links to other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage our users to be aware that when they leave our site that you read the privacy statements of each web site that might collect personally identifying information.
What Personal Data we Collect and why we Collect it
Comments
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.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How long we retain your data
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.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Disclosure Policy - Recommendations and Affiliate Marketing
In accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s {FTC} revised guidelines regarding endorsements and testimonials in order to protect the public from any intentionally errant or misleading advertising that has been paid for by a group or company, I am disclosing that this blog is a source of income and may occasionally incorporate endorsements or testimonials.
We would also like to disclose to our readers:
- We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
- We are a participant in Booking.com’s referral program and receive commission for hotel rooms booked through the use of our links.
- We are a participant in Expedia.com’s referral program and receive commission for flights, hotel rooms, car rentals, and other packages booked through our links.
- We are a participant in Cheap-O-Air’s referral program and receive commission from flights that are booked using our links.
- We are a participant of the Travelpayouts.com affiliate network and receive commission for hotel rooms and flights booked through the use of our links.
- We are a participant in Share A Sale and receive commission for booking and purchased. This includes, but is not limited to, hotel bookings, tour bookings, car rentals, travel insurance, and products to purchase. Both Viator and Insurance Nomad links are through Share A Sale.
- The content of my blog is a source of income and therefore may be used to promote products, services, or other businesses.
- We will only choose to promote products/services/businesses that we have used and that we feel will be beneficial to readers.
- Products provided by our advertising partners for our review are given to us free of charge with no cost to ourselves. This does not ensure a positive review of the product in any way.
- Being trustworthy, straightforward, and honest is our priority. We will always give my genuine opinion about a product or service whether or not we are partnering with the service provider and/or receiving payment to do so.
- Mentions of associated products/services/businesses within the content of this blog may or may not be noted as an affiliate in every reference.
- Buzzinaroundtheworld.com and Buzz provide unbiased reviews/recommendations for your convenience. Neither Buzzinaroundtheworld.com, or Buzz, are responsible for any harm or injury, including death, caused by our recommendations. Buzzinaroundtheworld.com is also not responsible for any loss or damages caused by our affiliate links.
The trust of readers (and our integrity) is simply more important to me than the income that this blog generates. We strive to deliver the best content possible while generating a small profit to compensate for the time, research, and ideas that go into every post.
Updates
From time to time, we may make changes to our private policy. When a change is made, we will revise the date at the top of the page. We encourage you to review our private policy whenever you use a recommended service or product.