Privacy Policy

Collecting information

The only information that is collected via Jess Eats and Travels is your name, email address and mailing address.
We collect information from you when you subscribe to a newsletter via ConvertKit, enter information on our site via Disqus or enter a giveaway via Rafflecopter. Any information not relevant anymore (e.g postage addresses sent to me for giveaways) are deleted after use.

Subscribing

When subscribing to anything on Jess Eats and Travels, including any free downloads, you are required to double opt-in. This means that your subscription will not be live until you click the link sent you in the email address provided. When subscribing you will be sent a weekly newsletter as well as other special offers.

You can unsubscribe any time by clicking the ‘unsubscribe’ button at the bottom of every email, or by emailing me at: [email protected]

Please note that your details are stored by my mailing list provider, ConvertKit. I have access to this data but will only use it for the above purpose.

Contact forms

When contacting me through my contact form, the information given (name and email address) is kept for a year and deleted after, unless business is still ongoing. I do not however use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes.

Cookies

We do use cookies on our site. If you ‘allow’ cookies, it will enable the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

We use cookies to:
Help remember and process the items in the shopping cart.
Keep track of advertisements.
Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Since browser is a little different, look at your browser’s Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.
If you turn cookies off, It won’t affect the user’s experience .

Third Party Disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information.

Askimet (our anti-spam plugin)

We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

Data Breaches

If at any point we are notified of data breach, we will contact you as soon we know about it.

Affiliate Links

Jess Eats and Travels occasionally uses affiliate links within its articles, which is always signalled beforehand with ‘the below contains affiliate links’. This helps the site generate revenue. An affiliate links is a link to a product or service, that when you click on it, we receive a commission at no extra cost to you.

 Last edited: June 6th 2018