Privacy Policy

AGREEMENT

“MAPLESS ADVENTURES” (“us”, “me”, “we”, “I” or “our”) operates the website (hereinafter referred to as the” Service”).

“MAPLESS ADVENTURES” is committed to keeping any and all personal information collected from those individuals that visit our website and make use of our online facilities and services. Our privacy policy has been designed and created to ensure those affiliated with us, of our commitment and realization of our obligation not only to meet but to exceed most existing privacy standards.

THEREFORE, this Privacy Policy Agreement shall apply to “MAPLESS ADVENTURES” and thus it shall govern any and all data collection and usage thereof. Through the use of maplessadventures.com, you are herein consenting to the following data procedures expressed within this agreement.

ADVERTISING PRIVACY STATEMENT

We publish interest-based advertisements on the Site; that is, ads that are tailored to reflect your interests. To help understand your interests, our other advertising partners will track your behaviour on our website and on other websites across the Internet using cookies.

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.  Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

By using this Site, you consent to the use of such cookies and the sharing of data captured by such cookies with our advertising partners (if any).  You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of the network cookie using those settings or using the Network Advertising Initiative’s multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at http://optout.networkadvertising.org. However, these opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained.

For European Economic Area Residents

If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws you have the rights, among other things, to access your personal data, have us erase it, and/or restrict its further processing.  If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by us or related to advertising on the Site, you can contact us at MaplessAdventures@gmail.com.

COLLECTION OF INFORMATION

This website collects various types of information, such as:

• Voluntarily provided information which may include your name, address, email address, billing and/or credit card information etc., which may be used when you purchase products and/or services ( if any)  and to deliver the services you have requested.
• Information automatically collected when visiting our website, which may include cookies, third party tracking technologies and server logs.

Be assured that this site shall only collect personal information that you knowingly and willingly provide by way of surveys, completed membership forms, and emails. It is the intent of this site to use personal information only for the purpose for which it was requested and any additional uses specifically provided on this site.

We may also have the occasion to collect anonymous demographic information that may not be unique to you and may even gather additional or other personal and/or non-personal information, such as age, gender, household income, etc.at later time if needed.

It is even possible that we may gather information about your computer hardware and/or software. Such collected information may include, but may not be limited to, your IP address, browser type, domain name, access time and various website addresses. The gathering of this information may be used for maintaining the quality of service we provide, as well as providing overall general statistics related to the use of our website and others.

It is highly recommended and suggested that you review the privacy policies and statements of any website you choose to use or frequent as a means to better understand the way in which other websites garner, make use of and share information collected.

1. CONTACT FORM

Should you send us questions via the contact form, we will collect the data entered on the form, including the contact details you provide, to answer your question and any follow-up questions. We do not share this information without your permission.

We will, therefore, process any data you enter onto the contact form only with your consent per Art. 6 (1)(a) DSGVO. You may revoke your consent at any time. An informal email making this request is sufficient. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.

We will retain the data you provide on the contact form until you request its deletion, revoke your consent for its storage, or the purpose for its storage no longer pertains (e.g. after fulfilling your request). Any mandatory statutory provisions, especially those regarding mandatory data retention periods, remain unaffected by this provision.

2. LEAVING COMMENTS ON THIS WEBSITE

If you use the comment function on this site, the time at which you created the comment and your email address will be stored along with your comment, as well as your username, unless you are posting anonymously.

Storage of the IP address

Our comment function stores the IP addresses of those users who post comments. Since we do not check comments on our site before they go live, we need this information to be able to pursue action for illegal or slanderous content.

Subscribing to the comment feed

As a user of this site, you can sign up to receive the comment feed after registering. Your email address will be checked with a confirmation email. You can unsubscribe from this function at any time by clicking the link in the emails. The data provided when you subscribed to the comments feed will then be deleted, but if you have submitted this data to us for other purposes or elsewhere (such as subscribing to a newsletter), it will be retained.

How long comments are stored

The comments and the associated data (e.g. IP address) are stored and remain on our website until the content commented upon has been completely deleted or the comments are required to be removed for legal reasons (slander, etc.).

Legal basis

The comments are stored based on your consent per Art. 6 (1) (a) DSGVO. You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect. An informal email making this request is sufficient. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.

USE OF INFORMATION COLLECTED

“MAPLESS ADVENTURES” may collect and may make use of personal information to assist in the operation of our website and to ensure delivery of the services you need and request. At times, we may find it necessary to use personally identifiable information meant to inform you of other possible products and/or services that may be available to you from MaplessAdventures@gmail.com  and may also be in contact with you in regards to completing surveys and/or research questionnaires related to your opinion of current or possible new services that are offered or may be offered.

“MAPLESS ADVENTURES” does not now, nor will it in the future, sell, rent or lease any of its customer lists and/or names to any third parties.

”MAPLESS ADVENTURES” from time to time, may feel it necessary to make contact with you on behalf of other external business partners with regards to a specific offer which may be of interest to you.

“MAPLESS ADVENTURES” may find it beneficial to share specific data with their trusted partners in an effort to conduct statistical analysis, provide you with email and/or postal mail, deliver support and/or arrange for deliveries to be made. Those third parties shall be strictly prohibited from making use of your personal information, other than to deliver those services which you requested, and as such they are thus required in accordance with this agreement to maintain the confidentiality of all your information.

“MAPLESS ADVENTURES”  may deem it necessary to follow websites and/or pages that their users may frequent in an effort to gleam what types of services and/or products may be the most popular to customers or the general public.

“MAPLESS ADVENTURES” may disclose your personal information, without prior notice to you, only if required to do so pursuant to applicable laws and/or in a good faith belief that such action is deemed necessary or required to:

1. Conform to decrees, laws and/or statutes or in an effort to comply with any process which may be served upon “MAPLESS ADVENTURES” and/or its website;
2. Safeguard and/or preserve all the rights and/or property of “MAPLESS ADVENTURES” ; and
3. Perform under demanding conditions in an effort to safeguard the personal safety of users of maplessadventures.com and/or the general public.

MY COMMITMENT FOR CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

“MAPLESS ADVENTURES” takes children’s privacy very seriously and knows the importance of protecting our youth. For this reason, we do not knowingly collect or maintain personal identifiable information from children under the age of eighteen (18). This website is not designed, structured or geared towards anyone under the age of 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide such information on “MAPLESS ADVENTURES” or through any of its features, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any personable information, including but not limited to your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use.

 If it is determined that such information has been inadvertently collected on anyone under the age of eighteen (18), we shall immediately take the necessary steps to ensure that such information is deleted from our system’s database.

UNSUBSCRIBE OR OPT-OUT

All users and/or visitors to our website have the option to discontinue receiving communication from us and/or reserve the right to discontinue receiving communications by way of opting out from the email or newsletters received from us.

AFFILIATE LINKS

Please note that some of the links on our site are affiliate links. When you make a purchase we sometimes make a small commission, at no extra cost to you. The cost to you remains the same, sometimes even cheaper if we have negotiated a special deal for our readers.

We personally use all the companies we have listed here and that’s why they are in this list, however,  we need to keep “MAPLESS ADVENTURES” running as well as it can, which is exactly what you’re helping with if you do decide to buy or book something through our affiliate link.

For questions about the companies we use or any other companies you’re looking at, we’re happy to help. Just send us an email.

AFFILIATE LINKS & SPONSORED CONTENT

On occasions, our website will have sponsors share their content through this network or associated networks.

We do not claim nor accept any responsibility regarding the scope and nature of the websites and/or businesses affiliated with the sponsored content that is promoted on our website. Additionally, affiliate links will also be featured on our website, however, we also do not claim nor accept any responsibility regarding the websites that are associated with our affiliate links. More information regarding third-party links can be read in the following section.

LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES

Our website does contain links to affiliate and other websites. We do not claim nor accept responsibility for any privacy policies, practices and/or procedures of other such websites. Therefore, we encourage all users and visitors to be aware when they leave our website and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. The aforementioned Privacy Policy Agreement applies only and solely to the information collected by our website.

AMAZON AFFILIATE PROGRAM

The site operators participating in the Amazon Services partner program based in the US. Our pages contain advertisements and links to the sites run by amazon.com through which we can earn referral fees. Amazon uses cookies to trace the origin of the orders. As a result, Amazon can detect that you clicked the affiliate link on our website.

The storage of Amazon cookies is based on Art. 6 (f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in this service since it only receives credit for referral fees if these cookies are set.

To obtain more information about how Amazon uses your data, see the Amazon privacy policy at https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201909010

SOCIAL MEDIA

1.FACEBOOK PLUGINS (LIKE & SHARE BUTTONS)

Our website includes plugins for the social network Facebook, Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. The Facebook plugins can be recognized by the Facebook logo or the Like button on our site. For an overview of Facebook plugins, see https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.

When you visit our site, a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server is established via the plugin. This enables Facebook to receive information that you have visited our site from your IP address. If you click on the Facebook “Like button” while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our site to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate visits to our site with your user account. Please note that, as the operator of this site, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted to Facebook or of how Facebook uses these data. For more information, please see Facebook’s privacy policy at https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php.

If you do not want Facebook to associate your visit to our site with your Facebook account, please log out of your Facebook account.

2. TWITTER PLUGIN

Functions of the Twitter service have been integrated into our website and app. These features are offered by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. When you use Twitter and the “Retweet” function, the websites you visit are connected to your Twitter account and made known to other users. In doing so, data will also be transferred to Twitter. We would like to point out that, as the provider of these pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or how it will be used by Twitter. For more information on Twitter’s privacy policy, please go to https://twitter.com/privacy.

Your privacy preferences with Twitter can be modified in your account settings at https://twitter.com/account/settings

3. INSTAGRAM PLUGIN

Our website contains functions of the Instagram service. These functions are offered by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.

If you are logged into your Instagram account, you can click the Instagram button to link the content of our pages with your Instagram profile. This means that Instagram can associate visits to our pages with your user account. As the provider of this website, we expressly point out that we receive no information on the content of the transmitted data or its use by Instagram.

For more information, see the Instagram Privacy Policy: https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.

4. LINKEDIN PLUGIN

Our site uses functions from the LinkedIn network. The service is provided by LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Each time one of our pages containing LinkedIn features is accessed, your browser establishes a direct connection to the LinkedIn servers. LinkedIn is informed that you have visited our web pages from your IP address. If you use the LinkedIn “Recommend” button and are logged into your LinkedIn account, it is possible for LinkedIn to associate your visit to our website to your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of these pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or how it will be used by LinkedIn.

More information can be found in the LinkedIn privacy policy at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

5. PINTEREST PLUGIN

Our website contains functions of the Pinterest social network, operated by Pinterest Inc., 635 High Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, USA.

When you visit a page containing the Pinterest social plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the Pinterest servers. The plugin transmits this log data to Pinterest servers in the United States. This log data may include your IP address, the address of the websites visited, which also includes Pinterest features, browser type and settings, the date and time of the request, how you use Pinterest, and cookies.

More information about the purpose, scope and further processing and use of data by Pinterest, as well as your rights and options to protect your privacy, can be found in the privacy notices of Pinterest: https://about.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy.

6. TUMBLR PLUGIN

My website contains functions of the Tumblr social network, operated by 

When you visit a page containing the Tumblr social plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the Tumblr servers. The plugin transmits this log data to Tumblr servers in the United States. This log data may include your IP address, the address of the websites visited, which also includes Tumblr features, browser type and settings, the date and time of the request, how you use Tumblr, and cookies.

More information about the purpose, scope and further processing and use of data by Tumblr, as well as your rights and options to protect your privacy, can be found in the privacy notices of Tumblr .