PRIVACY POLICY, USAGE RIGHTS AND COOKIES
This website, goavoyage.in has been created by Valerie Logeais.
And it is hosted by:
O2Switch
222-224 Boulevard Gustave Flaubert
63000 Clermont-Ferrand
France
Site : o2switch.com
SECURITY, PROTECTION AND TREATMENT OF PERSONAL DATA
The website goavoyage.in is in https, which means that it is secured. Regarding payments protection, please refer to the page: About donations’ mode of payment, the link of which being in the footer of each page having one.
Also, know that I collect some data about you when you subscribe to the newsletter: your name (if you want to write it), your email address and your country. The reason why I’d like to know your country is out of curiosity, as I’d like to know from which part of the world you come from. As for your email address, I just collect it to send you a newsletter from time to time to keep you updated about new things on the website, be it an article or news from Goa and the pets, in short, to keep in touch. I collect data through Madmimi.com.
Also know that the company’s policy regarding your data is that they will remain confidential and that I will not give them or sell them to anybody.
You should also know that all your personal data are stored on O2Switch, the website’s host. You can go on their website to know more.
You can also unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time, clicking on the “unsubscribe” button or by writing me: I will do it for you if you wish.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The access to the website doesn’t give the right to its users to have goavoyage.in’s content which is protected by intellectual property’s rights, except for what is in the public domain and some other elements which are in that case mentioned.
Reproduction of goavoyage.in’s content partially or fully is only authorized for personal usage.
Any public and/or commercial usage, such as copy, translation, modification, creation of derivative product, distribution are forbidden without the written permission of Valerie Logeais.
COOKIES
Finally, there are cookies: in addition to being compulsory by law to inform people about them, it is important for you to know that there are cookies used on this website, on all websites actually, and that those that I use on goavoyage.in are used to obtain statistics, which remain anonymous, such as knowing which pages have been visited, from which website people are coming from (it helps me to know how people found my website, from a search engine or a social network or something else), how many people visited, etc., but I cannot know the identity of the people who came to visit the site. Therefore, these data remain anonymous. I collect them through statcounter.com website. There are also cookies necessary to the proper functioning of the website, but there’s no advertising cookies.
Cookies, also called tracing cookies are programs that send and receive information about your activity online to companies. Advertising cookies “spy” your activity, even if you are not on their website anymore (like Amazon, Facebook), and they then suggest personalized ads to you, for example or sell the data. There are also social media cookies which help staying in touch with them. And others, like analytic cookies which help knowing anonymously the behavior of the visitors of your website, and also others for the proper functioning of the website, as I mentioned above. There are more, but I am not a cookie specialist, and after that, I get a bit lost.
There are so many that they can slow down your website and your connection! When I was looking for information about them, I discovered that there are several apps that we can install on our browser and that allow us to know which ones are active on the websites that we are visiting, and that allow us to choose globally or by website which cookies or kind of cookies we want to deactivate. There are some free and paid apps. I strongly advise you to install one in your browser.
Personally, I installed several of them to compare. I put Ghostery and blocked all the advertising targeted and pornographic cookies! Advertising cookies are by far the most numerous. I advise you to do the same, and to reactivate them when you arrive on a website that make money through advertising and ask you to reactivate them when on their site. This is what I do. I prefer deactivate by default, and reactivate when I am asked to do so.
You will see on this Ghostery page the different types of cookies:
https://extension.ghostery.com/settings
But there’s not only Ghostery. There’s also disconnect me for example : https://disconnect.me/
AFFILIATION
Goavoyage.in can have affiliate links to merchant websites. Some of these links are affiliated. This means that when you click on a link and then buy the advertized product on the site in question, I will get a commission on your purchase without you having to pay more.
But know that goavoyage.in doesn’t take any responsability in your purchase on an external website through an affiliated link.
SOCIAL MEDIA
The website uses plugins to be linked to social media, as Facebook. If the visitor uses these plugins by clicking on them, information corresponding to the button will be sent and stored on a server of the company running the social media in question and they will be published on the account of the site’s visitor if he or she has one.
If the user doesn’t wish that a social media links information collected through the website to his or her user’s account of the social media in question, he or she has to disconnect from the said social media before visiting the website. Moreover, these plugins are managed by these social media, and so, if the visitor is a member of the said social media, he or she is subjected to their conditions of use.
RESPECT AND RESPONSABILITY REGARDING COMMUNICATION AND COMMENTS
Opinions that I express through the content of Goavoyage.in are personal and only reflect my views, just like your comments represent what you want to say and reflect your views. Everyone is free to express himself as he wants on this website within the limits of the rules of respect, the freedom of others and civility. Comments not respecting them will be deleted. And, please, regarding people using sms language, I appreciate that you avoid it: not everyone understands it easily.
That’s it, I think I covered everything. You can resume exploring the website…
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