Website Disclaimer and Privacy Policy
This website is a personal blog written and edited by Greta, a.k.a. the “Greta’s Escape”, located at www.GretasEscape.com (“Website”). At times, this blog allows outside contributors to provide stories, content and photos.
The goal of this website is to share our personal travel experiences and we may promote products or services from time to time. However, we are not responsible if our readers have a bad experience because of our recommendations.
Throughout this website, you are able to link to other websites which are not under the control of this blog. We have no control over the nature, content and availability of those sites. The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.
Even though we may receive compensation for our posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are entirely our 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.
Every effort is made to keep the website running smoothly. However, GretasEscape.com takes no responsibility for, and will not be liable for, the website being temporarily unavailable due to technical issues beyond our control.
Privacy Policy
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it and your personal data. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to let you know what personally identifiable information we may collect on the Website and how it may be used. This Privacy Policy only applies to this Website.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, www.GretasEscape collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request.
Greta’s Escape (www.GretasEscape.com) purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Greta’s Escape visitors use its website.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
If visitors to this website choose to interact with Greta’s Escape in ways that require Greta’s Escape to gather personal identifiable information. The information gathered in this case depends on the nature of interaction, such as name, email address and phone number. Under no circumstances does www.gretasescape.com collect any financial information such as credit or debit cards numbers.
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:
· Information about your browser, network and device
· Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
· Web pages you view while on this website
· Your IP address
Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Analytics
This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:
· Information about your browser, network, and device
· Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
· Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
· Internal links
· Pages visited
· Scrolling
· Searches
· Timestamps
We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.
Cookies
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit the cookies Squarespace uses.
These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
Form Submissions
When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with [] for storage and [with Zapier for data porting].
Blog Comments
This website includes commenting functionality on some pages which enables you to post a comment. This website collects personal data when you post a comment, including:
· Your name (which will be displayed as part of your posted comment)
· Your email address (optional, to let you know if someone replies to your comment)
· Your website URL (optional)
This website includes “likes” functionality on some blog posts which enables you to “like” a post. This website collects personal data when you like a post to try to prevent the same person from liking the same post during the same visit, including:
· Information about your browser, network and device
· Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share
· Your IP address
Affiliate Disclosure
GretasEscape.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program affiliate advertising programs designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.ca. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Fonts
This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:
· Information about your browser, network, or device
· Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it
· Your IP address
The Website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record visitor-specific information on what pages users visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner advertisements, customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.
Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies by the Website by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser that will deny the use of cookies. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site.
The Website may collect IP addresses and location information to serve personalized ads. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. You may also visit http://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and http://optout.networkadvertising.org/# to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Greta’s Escape may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Greta’s Escape’s sole discretion. Greta’s Escape encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about the content on our website, please contact us at gretasescape@gmail.com or complete the contact form.