Privacy Policy
Rest assured, we value your presence as a user of our website www.undeserted.com (“website”). Privacy and trust are important to us. We are all currently concerned about the collection, use and disclosure of personally identifiable information (“Personal Data”). We, therefore, understand your concern as you use/sign up to our website.
We hope this Privacy Policy (“policy”) will clarify any questions you may have.
By continuing to use our website you indicate acceptance of the practices described within this policy.
Who are we?
We are AJ and Sandy, "unDESERTED". Our website is primarily a travel blog, and secondly a means to get in touch should you require any services (“services”) we provide. Our website address is https://undeserted.com, hosted and powered by: Wix Online Platforms Limited, 1 Grant's Row, Dublin 2 D02HX96, Ireland. Website: www.wix.com
How we collect data?
When you conduct a transaction on our website, as part of the process we collect the personal data you give us, such as your name, address, and email address. Your personal data will be used for the specific reasons as stated herein.
What personal data we collect
We receive, collect, and store any information you enter on our website or provide to us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); payment details including basic credit card information (of which the card number, except the last 4 digits, is redacted), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and your site member's personal profile.
Why we collect personal and non-personal data
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To provide and operate services;
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To provide visitors to and users of our website (“users”) with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;
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To be able to contact visitors and users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;
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To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred non-personal data, which we or any third-party partners may use to provide and improve our respective services;
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To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.
How we store, use, and share your personal data
Our website is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall. Wix’s data storage providers are contractually committed to protect and secure your data.
All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and consequently used by us, adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.
However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Disclosure of your personal data
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Disclosure to successors: we will not disclose your personal data to any other company.
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Disclosure to unaffiliated third parties: we will not disclose your personal data to unaffiliated third parties.
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Disclosure to third party service providers and online partners: we will not disclose your details to third parties, except those service providers which operate Apps according to the Wix App Market Agreement. In this regard each company’s Privacy Policy is applicable. Please see the Wix Privacy Policy’s ‘Users-of-users’ ‘Personal Information’” statement at: https://www.wix.com/about/privacy.
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Disclosure to affiliates: we do not disclose your details to any of our affiliates, except any couriers that we may engage.
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Disclosure of non-personal data: we will not disclose non-personal data to any third party.
How we communicate with our users
We may contact you to notify you regarding your subscriber account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about us, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.
Spam Policy
We will not share, rent or sell email addresses associated gathered on this website. Furthermore, unsolicited commercial email (“spam”) activities, including the gathering of email addresses and personal data of others, or sending any mass commercial emails, are strictly prohibited on this site. We uphold a strict policy against sending spam. We undertake to send email ads and newsletters to site subscribers only, for the purpose of communicating our travel blog updates or product promotions.
Visitor and user comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Comment Forms/Chat Bots
When visitors and users leave comments on the website we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. Forms and chat bots on the website are operated and managed by plugins from Ascend by Wix. Each Third Party Developer is bound by the Wix App Market Partner Agreement, which among other things, restricts the ways in which such developers may access, store, share, and use the Personal Information you and/or your Users-of-Users provide to them. See Wix Privacy Policy here: https://www.wix.com/about/privacy. These marketing and customer management tools are built into the website and work to get site traffic and boost customer engagement. Visitor and user comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Media
If you upload images to the website on any chat app, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website may be able to download these.
How we use cookies and other tracking tools (“Tags”)
What are cookies?
These are small, often encrypted text files, stored on your browser. They are typically used to keep track of selected settings and actions taken on the website by our users.
Learn more about Cookies here.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioural advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
Cookies used on this website
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Essential cookies: these enable core functionality such as security, verification of identity and network management. These can’t be disabled. For example, XSRF-TOKEN, hs, svSession, SSR-caching, _wixCIDX, consent-policy, _wix_browser_sess, smSession, bSession, TS*.
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Marketing Cookies: are used to track advertising effectiveness to provide a more relevant service and deliver better ads to suit interests. For example, _ym_*, _wpbi, _wsbi, _fbc, etc.
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Functional cookies: collect data to remember choices users make to improve and give a more personalised experience. For example, wixLanguage.
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Analytics Cookies: assist in understanding how visitors interact with our website, discover errors and provide better overall analytics. For example, __utm*, _gid, _gat, __utmv, _gcl_aw, etc.
[For more information on cookies used by Wix-hosted websites, visit: https://www.wix.com/about/cookie-table].
The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache.
Please note that without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our website.
Cookies and Third-Party Social Elements on our website
Third-Party Social Elements are the tools available on our website for access or sharing to social media websites. For example, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and X. These tools are developed and controlled by third-party developers. unDeserted and Wix have no control over potential cookies that may be placed on your device.
Embedded content from third-party websites
You may be able to access third-party websites directly from our website. This Privacy Policy does not apply when you access third party websites. We cannot control how third parties (such as Meta [Facebook], YouTube, Google, X, etc.) use your personal data which you may disclose to them. These services have their own privacy policies, and we strongly suggest that you review these on the third-party website you wish to visit, before using it or disclosing your personal data to its provider.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.), and content from third party websites; these behave in the exact same way as if you, the visitor, has visited the third-party 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 you can withdraw your consent or make changes to your personal data
You can obtain a copy of your data and/or request that we correct errors in your personal data by emailing us at ajsmundeserted@gmail.com. For your protection you will be required to provide proof of your identity to obtain a copy of your personal data. If your personal data changes, or if you no longer want to use our website, you may correct, update, or deactivate your information and or your account through the subscription screen. If you would like to deactivate or terminate your subscription account, you can follow the link in our email or contact us by sending us an email.
Children's privacy
The website and its services are not designed for and are not marketed to users under the age of 13 (“minors”). We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal data from minors, and we do not knowingly allow such persons to use the website. If you are a minor, please do not attempt to use the website or send any information about yourself to us. If we learn that we have collected personal data form a minor without verifiable parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a minor, please contact us on: ajsmundeserted@gmail.com.
Users aged between 13 and 17 are required to use the website under their parents’ or legal guardian’s supervision. If you are between 13 and 17, you, your parent(s), or your legal guardian may request that: we deactivate any of your personal data stored on our website, and/or opt out of receiving communications from us. If you wish to do so, please contact us on: ajsmundeserted@gmail.com.
Privacy Policy updates
We reserve the right to modify this policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, or we will post a notice on the home page of the website, or we may post a notice in your subscription account when you first login after we have made the changes. You will be required to review the new policy so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.
By continuing to use our website you indicate acceptance of the practices described within this policy.
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Data retention
Your data is kept for as long as the website is active and longer as needed (for example, for administrative, legal, or security purposes, or to protect our interests). 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 subscribe to our website, we store the personal data they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal data at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Your personal data rights
You have the right to contact us at any time to discuss your personal data, to make amendments to your data, to delete data, and to review the data we keep on you. If you have a subscription 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 erasure request does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Contact information:
On email:
By phone:
(Please message us for this on this website's 'Contact us' page.)
By snail mail:
(P O Box 1294, Gympie, 4570, QLD.)
Updated: June 09, 2022