Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Disclaimer
Our website address is: https://explorergenes.com. The content provided on this website represents a catalogue of our travels, experiences, and occasional opinions. It is provided for entertainment and informational purposes only. We do our best to provide accurate information and detailed accounts of our travels as we live them. However, places, information, costs, and people do have a habit of changing without notice so please excuse any omissions, inaccuracies, and glaring errors with regards to the information we provide. We would be thrilled however, to hear of any updated information concerning one of our posts. Just comment to let us know, and we’ll get it corrected.
Explorer Genes will not be liable for or held responsible for any losses, injuries, misinterpretation, disappointment, general malaise, or damage caused directly or indirectly by reliance on any material contained within the explorergenes.com website. All travel is at your own risk. Further,Explorer Genes, accepts no responsibility for the content of any website linked to from this website.
Explorer Genes will not sell, share, trade or rent your personal information to third-parties. Any information (such as email addresses) volunteered to Explorer Genes, is used solely for the purpose of notification of website updates, which you can unsubscribe or opt-out of at any time. We hate spam and will never spam your inbox.
Copyright
Unless otherwise stated, all content – including (but not limited to) written content, photography and video on Explorer Genes website is owned by Gregory and Amanda Chase of Explorer Genes. You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, sell, post or upload any material or content from this website without prior permission from Explorer Genes. You may not frame or inline link any of the content of this website without prior permission from Explorer Genes.
We provide the content of this website for your personal, non-commercial use. We put a lot of time, effort and sweat equity into producing the material on this website so please do not exploit or infringe upon our intellectual property rights and/or copyright laws.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and browser user agent string to help us with spam detection and comment authenticity.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
Unless otherwise stated, all content – including (but not limited to) written content, photography and video on Explorer Genes website is owned by Gregory and Amanda Chase of Explorer Genes. You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, sell, post or upload any material or content from this website without prior permission from Explorer Genes. You may not frame or inline link any of the content of this website without prior permission from Explorer Genes.
We provide the content of this website for your personal, non-commercial use. We put a lot of time, effort and sweat equity into producing the material on this website so please do not exploit or infringe upon our intellectual property rights and/or copyright laws.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact Forms
We use WP Forms to collect your email address and name when you submit a form to contact us. WP Forms outlines their use of your personal data and anonymized data here. We use Mail Poet to store your email address and name when you sign up to receive our website updates. Mail Poet, and parent company Automattic outline their privacy policy and use of your personal data here. You may opt out of the collection of your data by unsubscribing (we will remove your data) from any email updates we send you.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
Cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site.
All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. Without these cookies, certain functionality may become unavailable.
We use Google Analytics cookies to help us analyze traffic to our website. Google Analytics’ data practices and stated commitments to protecting the confidentiality and security of data can be found with this link: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
Embedded Content From Other Websites
Articles on this site 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who We Share Your Data With
Who we share your data with
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Google Analytics – https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
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Gravatar – https://automattic.com/privacy/
How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. Cookies will expire in 2 years.
For users that register to recieve our email updates, we also store the personal information they provide indefinitely. All users can opt out of registration, and have their personal data removed at any time.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have left approved comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where We Send Your Data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Affiliate Links
Some links on Explorer Genes are affiliate links. This means that if you purchase products or services via these links we may receive a small commission, at no extra cost to you. All of the affiliate links we include are for products we have used, and love, or services we have used and highly recommend. The small commissions we earn from affiliate links help us recoup a portion of the cost we incur from running this blog. We greatly appreciate your support via affiliate link purchases. Thank you!
We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
The above polices are subject to change without notice.