Your privacy it's important to us.​​
This Privacy Policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their personal data (also known as PII, Personally Identifiable Information) is being used online. Personal data is any information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person.​​

Please read our Privacy Policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, disclose, protect or otherwise handle your personal data in accordance with our website. This applies to the whole blog and online store, which you can access in different devices (laptop, mobile, tablet, etc.).​​​​​
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Privacy Policy effective since: 11th December 2018

This Privacy Policy describes the information that "we", DANIELA AZZIP TRIPS collect about "you"  when you use our "Services" (including but not limited to our blog,  mobile app, online store and other interaction with us), how do we use and share that information and what options do you have to protect your privacy.
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BY ACCESSING OR USING OUR SERVICES, YOU CONSENT TO THE COLLECTION AND USE OF YOUR DATA AS DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

DANIELA AZZIP TRIPS is an online service. For further queries on our Privacy Policy please contact us at trips@danielazzip.com.





1. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to update and change the terms in this Privacy Policy, in accordance with our needs, at any time and in our sole discretion. Users will be notified of these changes on this page, by updating the date. Your continued use of our Services following any modifications in our Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such changes.
By using our Services, you agree to frequently review these Privacy Policy, understanding how these conditions affect the use of our Services.


2. When and why do we collect data from you
DANIELA AZZIP TRIPS collects information from you when you pay for a service on our online store, subscribe to a newsletter, respond to a survey, fill out a form (including but not limited to costumer support, contact and queries forms, contest, promotions or surveys forms), leave a comment or review on our blog, communicate with us via e-mail or enter any other information on our blog or online store.
This information is collected in order to help you with your experience, improve our Services and personalise your journey with us (for example, by showing you posts related to your interests, or knowing who we are talking to when responding to a review, comment, survey or enquiry), as well as helping us to grow as a Travel Blog.
When we process personal data about you, we do so with your consent and/or as necessary to provide the products you need, operate our business, meet our contractual and legal obligations and protect the security of our systems and our customers.​
Most of this data is written by you (personal details you enter when commenting on any post/page of our blog, when processing a payment via our online store or when filling out a form in our blog.)
We also collect data from third parties, when you interact with our blog or comment via Google, to collect your name and e-mail, or when you pay using a third party account such as PayPal or Stripe.
When you signup to our newsletter or fill out a form, some fields like your name and e-mail might be mandatory, as we are not able to provide you with certain services without such details.
The client can refuse to give us any personal detail. However, if this is a mandatory field, we will not be able to deliver the service required.


​3. What kind of personal data is collected from you
The data we collect vary according to your interactions with our blog and/or online store, as well as the Services you choose to receive. This can be:
(a) Name and contact details: full name, e-mail address, phone number (including country code), mailing and home address (street, city/town, country), and other similar details;
(b) Payment details: when paying for a service or a product on our online store, we collect the information needed to process your payment (example: long number, expiry date and security code of your credit card, or PayPal details), as well as the address details needed for your billing;
(c) Invoice/Receipt details after a payment is processed;
(d) E-mail or phone enquiries: we receive your e-mail address, mobile or telephone number once you contact us for any kind of enquiry. This also stores information about your enquiries;
(e) Contact forms: when you contact us using one of our contact forms, we receive information about you (name, mobile, e-mail address, message, conversation content);
(f) Reviews: when you leave us a review, we collect and display to other users your name, the date when the review was written, the amount of stars you have given us, your review content and the link to your original post review if you have wrote it on Google or Facebook;
(g) Agreements and subscriptions: we collect data when you interact with tick boxes such as Terms and Conditions policy,  Privacy Policy, Payments procedures and Newsletters subscriptions;
(h) Device and user data: information on used device (this includes IP address, mobile IMEI and other device identification numbers), location and language preferences;
We do not have access to any password or payment details.


4. How do we use your personal data
​4.1. How and why do we use your data
DANIELA AZZIP TRIPS use your personal data for the following reasons:
(a) respond to comments, e-mails, queries, requests and forms that our users may fill;
(b) to operate and  improve the standards of our Services, by filtering content based on your settings and preferences, providing you with a better experience;
(c) to protect the safety of our users;
(d) to inform you and keep you up to date of our promotions, products, blog posts, offers, rewards, services updates, events and special occasions or any other changes happening to our blog or online store.
This information is stored on our blog (public comments and reviews), e-mail (filled out forms, enquiries and direct e-mails) and newsletter platform, WIX (your e-mail and preferences as a Subscribed User). Every account (blog, e-mail and newsletter) is protected with a high level security password and all of your details are kept confidential.

​4.2. Subscribed Users, Newsletters, Phone and E-mail communications
When you e-mail, text or call us, your e-mail address and phone number might be stored in our system for future reference. If you wish us not to store these details, please let us know, and we will delete them from our contact list.
You will not receive any communications from us, unless you fill out a contact form, or become a Subscribed User. You can do this by subscribing to our newsletters to receive updates on our services, promotions, special events, blog posts and other communications. We will not send you any newsletter or add you to our subscription list unless you do it yourself. You can opt out from our mailing list at any time, by unsubscribing through the link at the end of each e-mail.
We do not use your e-mail or personal details for any other purpose.
Phone communications will only be done in case you expressly request this in writing.
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4.3. Other data
Public Content (public comments and reviews) can also be used for marketing purposes. This includes, but is not limited to reviews provided on our blog, Facebook and Google.
Your interactions with agreements and subscriptions are checked by DANIELA AZZIP TRIPS only, to confirm what sort of permissions we have when working with you.
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5. How do we protect your personal data
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 (such as the blog owner or our customer service team), 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 via our online store 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.
The forms are only sent to trips@danielazzip.com, or info@danielazzip.com to prevent other people to have access to them.
Device data and payment details are never stored in our system.
Our blog and online store are scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our site as safe as possible.
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6. Occasions when we might share your data
All Personally Identifiable Information you share with us is strictly confidential, and will not be sold, traded, transferred or shared with third parties, unless we have your consent to do so. This does not include Public Content, when you comment on a blog post or page, and when you write a public review (read more about "Public Content" on our Terms and Conditions).
There are other exceptions when your data needs to be shared with third parties:
(a) website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users might also have access to your data, as long as they agree to keep this information confidential (for example: sales team, customer service, platform responsible to process your transactions - PayPal and Stripe - and our accountant or financial platform, to develop invoices and receipts).
(b) if required to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours, our clients or others' rights, property or safety (for example, on a juristic process).
​Non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising or other uses.
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7. For how long do we keep your data in our system
Public Content will be published in our blog and other platforms (if applicable) for an undefined time. Your e-mail will remain on our mailing list until you decide to unsubscribe from it.
Any other personal information will not be stored for more than 6 months.
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8. How to access and control your personal data
You decide if you want to leave personal data on our blog and online store or not.
Promotional and informative newsletters can be received if you decide to subscribe to our mailing list, becoming a Subscribed User. This will allow you to receive our newest updates and informative e-mails. You can opt out at any time, by clicking the unsubscribe link at the end of each e-mail and filling out the unsubscribe form.
​If you wish to receive a description of any personal data kept by us, please send us an e-mail to trips@danielazzip.com.

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9. Cookies usage
Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site's or service provider's systems to recognise your browser, capturing and remembering certain information.
This is generally a sequence of numbers and letters that identify your computer, but they might have other additional information too.
DANIELA AZZIP TRIPS uses cookies to:
(a) Save your preferences and settings (based on previous or current site activity), so you can have a better experience with us. This might be your language, browser and media preferences;
(b) Secure you and other users;
(c) Connect our platform to social media (social media share);
(d) Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can generate usage statistics and offer better site experiences and tools in the future;
(e) Display advertisement related to your interests.
We use third party advertisements on www.danielazziptrips.com to support our site such as Google AdSense, that allow the advertisers to receive information such as your IP address, your ISP, browser used to visit the website and your interaction with other sites. We use a DoubleClick cookie, used by Google and its partners (other third party vendors) to serve ads based on a user’s location and prior visits to our blog and other websites. Users may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting Ad Settings.
(f) Track an affiliate link. As described on our Terms and Conditions, we may include affiliate links in our blog, allowing us to earn a revenue from any purchase you might make through these links, at no extra cost to you. Affiliate tracking cookies are necessary to track where the sale came from, so that the appropriate publisher can receive the comission from each lead generated to the respective affiliate website.
We advise you that our blog use cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyse traffic once you visit us for the first time, so you can consent with its use or not. This includes your IP address and user agent, that are shared with Google, together with performance and security metrics, to ensure quality of service, generate usage statistics and to detect and address abuse.
To learn more about what types of cookies are used  by Google, please visit their cookies page.
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies of third-party cookies in your browser settings. Each browser is different, so we recommend you to look at your browser privacy to discover how to control your cookies.
Deleting cookies will deactivate some features on our blog and, as a consequence, affect your experience with us.
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10. Other relevant privacy information
Our blog is hosted on Google Blogger. To know more about how Google protects your data, please read Google Privacy Policy.
​DANIELA AZZIP TRIPS adheres to different applicable data protection laws around the world:​
(a) European Economic Area data protection laws: you have the right to withdraw from data collection or refuse to give your personal data (just have in mind that this will affect the quality of our service). You can send us specific instructions regarding the use of your personal data after your death via e-mail. You can also request from us a "data controller" (as defined in the law) to access your personal data stored in our online platform. You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority.
(b) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): we do not send you newsletters (with news, events and offers) unless you actively choose to receive them by becoming a Subscribed User, and you are able to opt out at any time; we inform you of our cookies usage and collect your consent before applying them to your device; we advise you of our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy on the footer of each page; we inform you how we use your data; we provide you a contact for any queries on our Privacy Policy.
(c) California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA): requires commercial websites and online services which collect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) to post a privacy policy, explaining with detail which information is being collected, and with whom it is being shared with. This should be easily found on the home page, with a link containing the word "Privacy". When there's changes to this Privacy Policy, users will be notified on this page. People should be able to visit the site anonymously. CalOPPA is applicable to any consumer located in the United States of America. To read more about CalOPPA legislation, please click here.
(d) Children Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA): COPPA puts parents of children under the age of 13 in control. We advise in our Terms and Conditions that all our buyers must be 18+ years old. Therefore, we do not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years old.
(e) Fair Information Practice Principles: if a data breach occur, we will notify you via e-mail within 7 business days.
(f) Individual Redress Principle: each individual have the right to legally pursue enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law.
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