At belletristravels.com, I recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information I receive and collect when you use and visit belletristravels.com, and how I safeguard your information. I never sell your personal information to third parties.

Who I am

I am belletrist travels and my website address is https://belletristravels.com. I can be contacted at [email protected]

What Personal Data I Collect and Why I Collect It

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

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

In general, users are not able to upload images or other media files to this website.  However, if you do 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

When you fill out a contact form on belletristravels.com I only collect the information you enter into the contact form.  If the form asks for your name, email address, or any other personal information, then that information is sent to me via email.  I only retain that information—including your email address—for as long as necessary to address your purpose in contacting me.

Email addresses provided in contact forms is never used by me for any other purpose than to reply to you in regards to your reason for contacting me.  I never sell information from contact forms to any third party for any purpose.

Log Files

As with most other websites, I collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files includes your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Safari or Google Chrome), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

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.

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.

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.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left 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 your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Should you have any questions, feel free to reach out at [email protected]

happy & safe travels ♥