Privacy policy and disclosures etc

This Website (Mexico Cassie) and its Content is owned by Cassie Pearse (“I,” or “me”). The term “you” refers to any users, visitors, or viewers of this Website, the term “us” or “we” refers to Mexico Cassie and any contributors.

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Privacy Policy

Mexico Cassie, https://www.mexicocassie.com (“Website”) is governed by the following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information we may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this Website.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU?

Information you voluntarily submit to the Website: We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form.

Information we collect from others: We may receive information about you from other sources.  You may link your Facebook, Instagram, and/or Google accounts to your user profile.  If you choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, and/or Google accounts to your user profile, we will receive your name, email address and profile picture associated with that account.  

Automatically-collected information: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.

Cookies: We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalised experience on the Website.

HOW WILL WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?

We may use the information collected in the following ways:

  • To operate and maintain the Website;
  • To create your account, identify you as a user of the Website, and customise the Website for your account;
  • To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
  • To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
  • To respond to your comments or inquiries;
  • To provide you with user support;
  • To track and measure advertising on the Website;
  • To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorised or illegal activity.

HOW LONG WILL WE RETAIN YOUR INFORMATION?

Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required, has no use, or you request for it to be forgotten (deleted/ erased).

THIRD PARTY USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

I do not share or sell your information with third parties.

However, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.

The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:

Google Analytics: this service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics.

Drip: this service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications.  Please refer to Drip’s privacy policy for further information.

At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time in the Website’s sole discretion.

Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.

ANONYMOUS DATA

From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.

PUBLICLY VISIBLE INFORMATION

If you create a user profile on the Website or leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible.  To create a user profile, you must choose a username and password and input your email address for profile confirmation.  Your email address will never be available publicly.  At your option, you may also add an avatar, a profile description, and a link to your website.

Users may see your username, avatar, profile description and website information.

COOKIES

The Website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customise Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.

Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.

ADVERTISING

This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here.

Retargeting Ads: From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.

The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.

Retargeting Ads: Mexico Cassie is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.com.  As part of this Amazon Associates program, the Website will post customised links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilises cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

Email updates: On the Website, you may subscribe to receive email updates, which may be also be used for marketing purposes. 

I do not send out spam or misleading information and I will not sell, rent or share your email address.

YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION RIGHTS

Opt-out: You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at mexicocassie@gmail.com to be removed from our mailing list.

Access: You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to hello@mexicocassie.com

Amend: You may contact us at hello@mexicocassie.com willtravel.com to amend or update your personal information.

Forget: In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to hello@mexicocassie.com.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

Complaints: You may at any time lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority regarding Mexico Cassie’s collection and processing of your personal data.

SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

CHILDREN’S INFORMATION

The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at hello@mexicocassie.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Disclosures

Amazon Affiliates: MexicoCassie is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. Thank you for any purchase you may make via affiliate links on this Website; this helps us keep it up and running and creating quality content for you. However, all links connected to these affiliates are things I would promote whether I was earning a commission on them or not. You won’t be charged more for your purchase by using an affiliate link found on this Website but you will help me keep this Website up and running.

Product Review Disclosure

I may also receive free products, upgrades, comped rooms, in exchange for a review on this Website and promotion on associated social media. Please be assured that I’ll share my honest opinion and won’t recommend anything to you if I am not convinced of its value or it wasn’t something I truly enjoyed and was pleased with. So you know which posts fall into this category it will be clearly stated that this was the case. If there is no mention of this then I paid for the service or goods myself.

Please feel free to contact me at any time with questions, concerns, or feedback.