Privacy Policy

(Last updated March 3, 2024)

This website is owned and operated by YOU ARE TRAVEL, a Delaware LLC. You Are Travel is committed to maintaining robust privacy protections for its users. We created this Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) to help you understand how we collect, use, and safeguard the information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our service.  

Acceptance of Privacy Policy

By accessing our site or our service, you accept our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use (found here: [https://youare.travel/terms/]), and you consent to our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.

What Information Do We Collect and How is This Information Generated?

You Are Travel primarily collects information when individuals subscribe to our site: [youare.travel]. Subscribing to You Are Travel requires an individual to provide a name and email address, the latter of which is verified via a confirmation link. You Are Travel also gathers information when users comment on posts on the site. This data collected may include the body of the comment, IP address, and browser agent. 

How Do We Use Your Information?

You Are Travel uses your information in three ways:

1. Authentication: We utilize a native user management platform, allowing users to login to post and edit comments.
2. Marketing: We may periodically send emails to users, such as our Newsletter (see “Newsletters” below).
3. Operational: We may also collect information through third-party analytics tools to advise site performance. (See “Cookies/Analytics” below).

You Are Travel will never sell or transfer your information to third-parties, (nor will we trade or share your information with any third-parties), save for the following exceptions:

1. Our hosting partners and operational vendors that enable us to both run and optimize this site. As of the published date of this Privacy Policy, Ghost (ghost.org) is the hosting platform for You Are Travel. You can view Ghost’s Privacy Policy here.
2. Pursuant to any other reason as outlined in the “Third-Party Disclosures”.

Third-Party Disclosures

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to third-parties unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information to comply with law or court orders, to enforce our site policies, and to protect our (or others’) rights, property (including intellectual/copyright), or safety.

Non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other vendors for purposes such as site analytics.

Third-Party Links/Embedded Content

This website may also include links to other websites, and we may embed content sourced from external apps or websites within this site. These links and content are provided for your convenience to provide further information. They do not signify endorsement of any third-parties. We have no responsibility over, nor can we guarantee the accuracy of information and content on the linked website(s). 

Advertisements

You Are Travel may publish third-party advertisements on this site. These may include advertisements sourced from a vendor such as (but not limited to Google Adsense), or directly from designated businesses. Placement of these ads may vary throughout the site. These ads may contain links to other websites (or content from other websites) outside the control or supervision of You Are Travel. We have no responsibility for the nature, and availability of content on those sites. The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the opinions or views expressed within those linked websites.

Users, depending on their browser of choice, may be able to opt out of certain ads by configuring their settings.

Affiliate/Third-Party Links

The website content may contain links to third-party websites and/or the creation of third-party cookies, which upon clicking through may generate revenue for You Are Travel. Any information you provide on the page of a third-party website is governed by that site's privacy policy (if applicable).

Newsletters

Periodically, You Are Travel may send users emails. Users are automatically enrolled in a newsletter when subscribing to the site. Users are free to unsubscribe at any time, simply by deselecting the “You Are Travel” button from the “Email Preferences” page of the “Account” menu, or by selecting the “Unsubscribe from all emails” button.

Cookies/Analytics

This website uses cookies to monitor browsing preferences, enhance site security, analyze website performance, and help deliver a personalized advertising experience for users. Users can manage cookie functionality through their browser. Your browser's settings may provide the option to turn off all cookies and/or manage how you consent to cookie usage.

We may use Google Analytics (or similar web analytic tools) to analyze the use of our website. Such tools gather information about website traffic using cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)

You Are Travel is a general audience website and does not knowingly collect personal, or other, information from children under the age of 18. We do not market to individuals under the age of 18, and we please ask that persons under the age of 18 do not use our site. 

Additionally, when it comes to the collection of personal information from children under 13, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children’s privacy and safety online.

California Online Privacy Protection Act

According to CalOPPA, we agree to the following:

• Users can visit our site anonymously.
• This privacy policy is accessible on our home page (or the first significant page after entering our website).
• Our Privacy Policy link includes the word ‘Privacy’ readily identifiable within the page.
• Users will be notified of any privacy policy changes on our Privacy Policy page.

Advertiser and Editorial Disclosures:

Please review our Advertiser and Editorial Disclosures here.

Updates to this Privacy Policy

You Are Travel will notify all registered users of any updates to this Privacy Policy via email. In addition, You Are Travel will indicate (on this Privacy Policy page) the date the policy was last updated.

Contact

For any questions or concerns related to this Privacy Policy please email legal@youare.travel.