Privacy Policy

Who we are

Wine, Dine, and Roam is a travel blog. Most of the data that is collected on this website is automatic or done in the background. The only time we collect your personal data (like name and email address) is when you enter it manually on our site. The only reason we take your data is to provide you with updates from our site.

Our website address is: https://winedineandroam.com

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

We may collect the following information:

  • name and blog URL
  • email address (Only with your consent)
  • other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers when user is prompted
  • Google Analytics tracking data (anonymous data that we use to see how many people visit our site)

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.

Cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

We do kindly ask you to allow us to use cookies on this website. It’s the only way we’re able to track our affiliate commissions, which make up a large part of how we make money on this site. Without cookies, this site would not be sustainable. So we appreciate your support greatly by accepting cookies.

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.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to track the visitors on this site so that we know how many people we have visiting our blog.

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.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

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 we send your data

We don’t send your data to any third-party or sell your data. However, when you leave a comment, it be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please contact us If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us ([email protected] ) as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.