This privacy policy describes how www.TheUrbanEscapist.com uses and protects any information that you give TheUrbanEscapist.com when you use this website. If at any point you have questions or want more information about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us at theurbanescapistblog@gmail.com.
We’re committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. www.TheUrbanEscapist.com may change this policy from time to time by updating this page.
About this cookie policy
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to control the cookie preferences. For further information on how we use, store, and keep your personal data secure, please continue reading.
You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website.
Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us, and how we process personal data in this privacy policy.
Your consent applies to the following domains: www.TheUrbanEscapist.com
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide a better user experience, and understand how the website performs and analyze what works and where it needs improvement.
How do we use cookies?
We use technologies, such as cookies to customize content and advertising, provide social media features and analyze traffic to the site. We may also share information about your use of our site with our trusted social media, advertising and analytics partners.
Like other websites, www.TheUrbanEscapist.com uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
What types of cookies do we use?
Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow you to log-in to your account and add products to your basket, and checkout securely.
Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These data help us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.
Digital Marketing: Our website displays advertisements. These cookies are used to personalize the advertisements that we show to you so that they are meaningful to you. These cookies also help us keep track of the efficiency of these ad campaigns. The information stored in these cookies may also be used by third-party ad providers to show you ads on other websites on the browser as well.
Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing content of the website on social media platforms.
Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.
How can I control the cookie preferences?
Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “Cookie Settings” tab on your screen. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely. In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more about how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org.
Cookies, Web Beacons, and Other Similar Technologies
We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about the website use by means of 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 here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
We also use the Facebook Pixel to analyze the use of our website. The Facebook pixel is a code that we placed on www.theurbanescapist.com. It collects data that helps us track conversions from Facebook ads, optimize ads, build targeted audiences for future ads, and remarket to people who have already taken some kind of action on our website. Facebook’s privacy policy is available here: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/previous
Google Advertising Cookies can also be found on www.TheUrbanEscapist.com. Google uses cookies to help serve the ads it displays on the website of its partners. We use Google Adsense to display ads within Google and its participating Google-certified networks. When users visit a Google partner’s website, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser. For more information on Google’s advertising policy, click here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=en-US
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our website and or other sites on the internet.
Users may opt-out of personalized advertising by visiting Ad Settings. Alternatively, you can also opt-out here: https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN
What we collect
We may collect the following information: name contact information (including email address), demographic information, preferences and interests. Like many other sites, www.theurbanescapist.com makes use of log files. These files log visitors to the site, usually a standard procedure for hosting companies and a part of the hosting service’s analytics. The information that we collect includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. We use this information to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movements around the site, and demographic information to make this site more user-friendly for our visitors. These pieces of information are not linked to information that is personally identifiable.
What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, particularly for the following reasons: Internal record keeping, trend forecasting, a better understanding of our main demographic, and will inform ways in which we can improve this site and any of our products. We may periodically send email newsletters or other information which we think you may find interesting, using the email address which you have provided.
Email Addresses
We may collect your email address, but only if you voluntarily provide it to us. This may occur, for example, if you sign up to receive an email newsletter, or enter a promotion. If you have provided your email address to us, we promise to use it only for the purposes for which it is provided. We will not use your email address to contact you for unrelated reasons.
We will not share your email address with any third parties.
If you are a resident of a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), we do not wish to receive your email address and will delete it you have provided it inadvertently.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Social Media
We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see the number of likes/shares/recommendations and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage) if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update
We use a Linkedin Share widget on our website to allow you to share our webpages on Linkedin. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
We use the Pinterest Save widget on our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
We also use Mediavine’s Grow social plugin to collect data on blog post performance, specifically blog post social shares. We abide by the terms & conditions and adhere to the privacy policies set by Mediavine, for more information, click here: https://www.mediavine.com/grow-terms-of-service/
Controlling your personal information
We value our reader’s privacy. You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, you will always be given the opportunity to unsubscribe or be removed from any mailings or marketing. If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at theurbanescapistblog@gmail.com
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you, please write to theurbanescapistblog@gmail.com
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to us as soon as possible at the above address. or email us at theurbanescapistblog@gmail.com
This privacy policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website and regarding information shared and/or collected there.
This policy does not apply to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our privacy policy and agree to its terms. Should we update, amend or make any changes to our privacy policy, those changes will be posted here.
