Privacy Policy - Oso Osito Travel

At Oso Osito Travel, accessible from (https://osoositotravel.com), one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Oso Osito and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our privacy policy, do not hesitate to contact us!

Who we are

Oso Osito Travel Adventures (“we,” “us”, “our” or “OOTA”) is a website address at: https://OsoOsitoTravel.com. The owner is Rebecca Wharton-Rieseberg and Matthias Rieseberg.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its Terms and Conditions.

Log Files

Oso Osito follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks.

These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Cookies

This cookie policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to control the cookie preferences.

Like any other website, Oso Osito uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information. You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website or on your browser.

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.

Our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and generally providing you with a better and improved user experience and helping speed up your future interactions with our website.

Here is an overview of the different types of cookies:

Essential: Some cookies are essential (i.e necessary) for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow you to log-in to your account and add products to your basket, and checkout securely.

Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. This data helps us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.

Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing content of the website on social media platforms, etc.

Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences, etc., so that you can have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.

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 later on. These cookies last for one year, unless you withdraw your consent and delete your cookies.

If you would like to manage or delete cookies: different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more about how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

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.

Collection of any of personal data and who we share it with

In case of a merely informative use of the website, i.e. if you do not register, buy something, or disclose to us data in other ways, we collect only those personal data which your browser transmits to our server. If you visit our website, we collect the data below which are technically necessary for us to show you our website and ensure its stability and security (the legal basis for this is Art. 6 paragraph 1 clause 1 point (f) GDPR):

IP address
Date and time of your inquiry
Time zone
Content of the request (actual page)
Access status/HTTP status code
Transmitted data volume
Website from which the request is received
Browser
Operating system and its interface
Language and version of the browser software.

At OOTA we take your safety, security, and privacy very seriously and we are committed to protecting your personal and financial information.

We have integrated various tools from different companies with our website which allow us to analyze user behavior or establish links with other websites.

For this purpose OOTA works with the following service providers:

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a website analysis service. Website analysis refers to the collection, recording and analysis of data regarding the behavior of visitors to the website. A website analysis service records e.g. data showing from which website a data subject has come to a website (the so-called referrer), which subpages of the website were accessed or how often and how long a subpage was viewed. Website analysis is used mainly for the optimization of a website and for a cost-benefit analysis of Internet adverting.

Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA, is the operator of the Google Analytics component.

Google Analytics is explained in detail under this link: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/.

Google Analytics uses statistics cookies, as mentioned above. The information about your use of our website generated by the Google Analytics cookie is normally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google might disclose personal data collected via the technical procedure to third parties. Google uses this information to analyze your use of a website in order to compile a report about your website activities and provide us with other services associated with your website and Internet use. The IP address of your browser transmitted by Google Analytics is not linked to any other Google data.

This website also uses the UserID functions of Analytics in order to be able to track interaction data. This User ID is also anonymized and encrypted and is not linked to other data.

You may prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly, but you might not be able to fully use all functions of our website.

You may furthermore prevent the disclosure of the data generated by the cookie which refer to the use of the website (incl. your IP address) to Google as well as the processing of these data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. This browser add-on notifies Google Analytics via JavaScript that no data or information about website visitors may be transmitted to Google Analytics.

As well, cookies collected and stored by Google Analytics may be erased at any time via your Internet browser or other software programs. (View the section above for information on cookies and withdrawing cookie consent).

Additional information and the applicable privacy policy of Google may be downloaded from https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de and from https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/de/ .

How long we retain your data

Any data you enter for a customer account on OOTA (name, email, etc) will be retained until you request this data to be permanently deleted from our records and website and shop.

What rights you have over your data

If you have left comments on this site, 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 and all personal data (on the blog or the shop) that we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Affiliate disclosure for blog posts

Oso Osito Travel contains affiliate links and is also a member of the Amazon LLC Associates Program. If you make a purchase using one of these Amazon links or another link on our website, we might receive compensation at no extra cost to you. We only recommend products and services we use and trust! Read our disclaimer for more information.

Conclusion

If you still have any questions or concerns, you may contact Oso Osito Travel Adventures via our contact page. Thank you!