Effective Date: 25 May 2018
Last Updated: 26 April 2024
Who We Are
Bucket List Seekers found at https://bucketlistseekers.com (collectively, the “Website”, “we”, “us” or “our”) collects some personal data from its users.
We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This Privacy Policy informs you of our views, practices and policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data we receive from users of the Website.
By submitting personal data to us, you agree to us using your personal data as follows.
Personal Information We Collect & Use
Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website
We may collect, use, and is responsible for certain personal information that you provide when you voluntarily subscribe to our newsletters, sign up for e-mails or free subscriber gifts, leave comments, download a PDF or digital product, make a purchase, enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, fill out any type of form, respond to surveys that we may request you to complete, access private membership pages, or otherwise contact Us via an online form or e-mail. The information collected may include your name, e-mail, address, phone number, postal address, usage data, cookies, password and/or billing information. You are not required to provide any personally identifiable information to merely access or visit this Website.
Automatically Collected Information
We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.
In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor, and analyse this data.
Information Collected from Other Sources
We may also obtain information, such as an e-mail address, from other sources, such as third-party comment platforms, customer survey providers, or social media accounts linked to your user profile on this Website. We may use this information for marketing and advertising purposes.
Cookies
We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. Cookies are used to store visitors’ preferences, analyze Website and advertisement performance, track user patterns, save information from your previous visits and customize your user experience. These cookies are known as “first-party cookies”.
We may also recognize, collect, and/or track information through cookies set by third parties. These cookies are known as “third-party cookies”. Third-party cookies are used to perform tasks related to advertising, and analytics, and to enable interactive features such as sharing or commenting. Some third parties collect statistics in an anonymized and aggregated form and may not require the consent of the user.
The information that our first-party cookies or third-party cookies recognize, collect, and/or track may include information about your devices, browsing actions, and patterns, such as among others, the type of computer you use, your internet service provider, your browser type, your location, your IP address, the date and time of your visit, the pages viewed, your traffic pattern through the Website.
Upon your first visit to the Website (and periodically after that), we will request your consent to our use of cookies except for those strictly necessary.
How We Use Your Personal Information
We may use the information collected in the following ways:
- To operate and maintain the Website;
- To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
- To send you administrative e-mails, such as confirmation e-mails, technical notices, policy updates or security alerts;
- To create an account, identify you as a user of the Website and customize the Website for your account;
- To complete customer transactions;
- To fulfil your orders or deliver information, services or products that you request from us;
- To respond to your comments or inquiries;
- To administer contests and promotions;
- To provide you with user support;
- To track and measure advertising on the Website;
- To receive feedback to improve Website performance and customer service;
- To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.
- To conduct any other service with your consent.
What Cookies We Use
We use the following categories of cookies on the Website:
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential to enable you to browse the Website and use its features. We use cookies to save your sessions, your login details, and other information necessary to perform your requests, and to carry out other activities that are strictly necessary for the operation of this Website, for example in relation to the distribution of traffic. We use cookies to save browsing preferences and to optimize your browsing experience.
Analytics cookies
These cookies collect information about your use of the Website, such as for instance, browsing actions, and patterns, the date and time of your visit, the pages viewed, your traffic pattern through the Website.
Through the collection of this information, we are able to monitor and analyze web traffic to the Website. User behaviours may be recognized, collected, and/or tracked.
We use Google Analytics to monitor and analyze web traffic to the Website. Google utilizes the data recognized, collected, and/or tracked on the Website to prepare reports on traffic activities.
This integration of Google Analytics anonymizes your IP address.
Google may use the information recognized, collected, and/or tracked to personalize the ads of its advertising network and may share the information recognized, collected, and/or tracked with other services.
Security cookies
These cookies are essential to our security features. These cookies allow us to detect malicious activities or activities in breach of our terms of use.
Customization cookies
These cookies allow the Website to save information and details such as your username to optimize your experience on the Website and provide personal features.
Social media cookies and pixels
These cookies allow you to share your activity on the Website on social media such as Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram, or other external platforms directly from the Website.
Cookies may still be recognized, collected, and/or tracked on the pages where buttons, widgets, or other applications are installed, even when you do not actively use it.
The interaction and information recognized, collected, and/or tracked through the Website are always subject to your privacy settings for each social network and external platform.
You are encouraged to refer to the privacy policy of the relevant social network or external platform and to log out from the respective network or platform in order to make sure that the information collected on the Website is not tracked back to your profile.
Facebook Like button and Facebook social widgets
The Facebook Like button and Facebook social widgets are application allowing interaction with the Facebook social network.
YouTube video widget
YouTube is a video sharing website that allows this Website to incorporate video content on its pages and posts.
Social media pixels
We reserve the right to use social media pixels. These pixels allow social media such as Facebook to track visitors to external websites in order to tailor their advertising activities to target users while browsing their social media network. For information regarding these pixels, you are encouraged to refer to the privacy policy of the relevant social network.
Facebook pixel
Facebook pixel connects the activity performed on the Website with the Facebook advertising network, including Instagram and Audience ads.
Targeting or advertising cookies
These cookies record your browsing actions and patterns on the Website, such as among others, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. The information recognized, collected, and/or tracked by these cookies is used to make our Website and the advertising displayed by way of links or banners on the Website more relevant to your interests. For the same purpose, this information may also be shared with third parties.
How To Control Cookies
In accordance with our Privacy Policy, you have the right to accept or reject cookies.
Strictly necessary cookies may not be rejected since they are essential to enable you to browse the Website and use its features.
Should you reject cookies, you will still be able to use the Website although certain features and functionalities may not be available to you and/or certain areas may be restricted.
In addition to what it is indicated within this Privacy Policy, you can manage preferences for cookies directly from within your own browser and prevent – for example – third parties from installing cookies.
Through browser preferences, it is also possible to delete cookies installed in the past, including the cookies that may have saved the initial consent for the installation of cookies by this Website.
You can find information about how to manage cookies in the most commonly used browsers (e.g. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Microsoft Internet Explorer) on the website of the browser of choice.
With regard to cookies installed by third parties, users can manage their preferences and withdrawal of their consent by clicking the related opt-out link (if provided), by using the means provided in the third party’s privacy policy, or by contacting the third party.
Who We Share Your Personal Information With
BucketListSeekers.com respects your privacy and except where required by law, we will never sell, trade or transfer your personally identifiable information to third parties (beyond what is necessary for fulfilling a customer transaction or for the basic functionality of an online service) without your consent.
We do, however, share personal information such as name, postal address and e-mail address with our subsidiaries and affiliates, contractors, service providers, and other third-parties we use to assist us in operating our website (such as, for example, ConvertKit), so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. Each third-party service providers use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies. For a list of our third-party suppliers, see Third-Party Services We Use.
From time to time, Nonpersonal information, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties, may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.
If you give Us your permission, it may also use personal identification information for internal or external marketing and promotional purposes.
On occasion, We may collect personal identification information from you in connection with optional contests, special offers or promotions. We will share such information with necessary third parties for the purpose of carrying out the contest, special offer or promotion. We will ask for your consent to such disclosure and use of such information, prior to your participation in the contest, special offer or promotion.
We may also release information when its release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our Website policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property or safety.
We will not share your personal information with any other third party.
Third-Party Services We Use
The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:
Google Analytics – this service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address.
ConvertKit – this service is used for the delivery of email updates and newsletters. The service provider stores your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications.
MailChimp – this service has been used for delivery of email updates and newsletters in the past. If we use it again in future, the following applies. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications. Please refer to MailChimp’s privacy policy for further information.
Google Apps – we use some Google plugins and third-party apps, such as reCAPTCHA, YouTube, and Google Maps to embed information and links on our Website. Your personal data, including IP address, may be shared with the service provider.
Hubbub – we use Hubbub to allow you to share our articles on your social media. Information regarding your social media links may be shared with the service provider. Please refer to Hubbub’s privacy policy for further information.
Ninja Forms – we use Ninja Forms for all our contact forms on our website. Ninja Forms uses cookies but no personal information is collected or stored by them. Please refer to Ninja Forms privacy policy for further information.
Wordfence – this Website uses Wordfence to protect against distributed brute force attacks. To enable this protection, the IP address of visitors attempting to log into the Website is shared with a service provider.
This list may be amended from time to time in this Website’s sole discretion.
Publicly Available Information
If you create a user profile or leave a comment on our Website, certain information, such as your username, avatar, profile description, your website or your social profiles may be publicly available.
Please note that any comments or information that you post on this Website and associated social media pages become public and third parties may use your information. We are not responsible for any unauthorized use by third parties in such context. If you delete your comments from our Website, copies of your comments may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. You disclose such information at your own risk.
Links to Other Sites
You may see advertising or other content on this Website that links to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors or other third parties. Any products or services reached through a third-party link are subject to separate privacy policies. We are not responsible for or liable for any content on or actions taken by such third-party Websites.
Embedded Content
Articles on this Website 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. We are not responsible for or liable for any content on or actions taken by such third-party Websites.
Advertising
Sponsored Content
Some of the content you see on The Website may be sponsored or used to promote products, services, or other businesses that we may have been compensated for. Reviews for hotels, airlines, tour companies, cruises, restaurants, products or services may have been experienced on a complimentary basis.
It’s important for us to remain transparent to our readers about the content that appears on The Website, so these posts will be clearly marked with a disclaimer statement. We only work with brands that align with our own values. Whether the content on this Website is sponsored on not, we always provide 100% honest and genuine opinions.
Display Ads
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit this Website, which may use cookies, as noted above. No personally identifiable information is shared with the website’s ad providers.
We use SheMedia to provide personalization and analytic services on this website. SheMedia’s privacy policy is in effect and can be reviewed here.
Retargeting Ads
From time to time, this Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.
Affiliate Program Participation
This Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.
Newsletters
On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behaviour will not be passed on to third parties.
Data Storage, Transfer & Processing
Your personal data may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”).
By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
Lawful Basis Of Processing Personal Data
We may process personal data relating to users if one of the following applies:
- users have given their consent for one or more specific purposes;
- provision of data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with the user and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof;
- processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject;
- processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party.
How Long We Retain Your Data
We will hold personal information that you have provided to Us (e.g., name, address, and contact details) indefinitely, unless you request erasure of your personal information by requesting Us to do so using the Contact Us form on our Website or unsubscribing from our e-mail communications.
Your Rights Relating to Your Personal Information
At any time you have the following options relating to your personal information:
Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at [email protected] to be removed from our mailing list.
Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to [email protected].
Amend – You may contact us at [email protected] to amend or update your personal information.
Forget – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to [email protected].
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.
You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by contacting us at [email protected] or via our contact form.
These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by us as soon as possible and always within thirty (30) days.
Sensitive Personal Information
At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
Identity and Age Requirements
We agree to users visiting our Website anonymously.
Pursuant to the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA), we hereby disclose that we do not currently honor “do not track” signals issued by browsers or other third-party sources.
For the collection of personal information from children under the age of thirteen (13) years old, we comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
The Website is intended for individuals who are eighteen (18) years of age or older.
By visiting and using the Website, you represent and warrant that you are of legal age and meet all of the foregoing eligibility requirements.
The Website is not intended for children under thirteen (13) years of age.
We do not specifically market to children under thirteen (13) years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under thirteen (13) years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under thirteen (13).
If you are under thirteen (13) years of age, please do not use the Website or provide any information on the Website, including your name, screen name, username, address, telephone number, email address, and payment details.
If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under thirteen (13) years of age without verification of consent from a parent or guardian, the personal information collected or received shall be deleted with no delay.
If you believe we might have any information concerning a child under thirteen (13) years of age, please contact us at [email protected] or via our contact form and we will endeavour to delete such information with no delay.
Keeping Your Personal Information Secure
The security of your personal information is important to us.
Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our Website as safe as possible.
We use regular Malware Scanning.
Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.
In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.
We implement a variety of security measures when a user places an order enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.
All transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers.
Unfortunately, no method of transmission over the internet is completely secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of 25 May 2018 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.
We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of our Website after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.
If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email to [email protected] or via our contact form.