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Dominican Abroad, https://www.dominicanabroad.com. We are a website offering tours, itineraries and a travel blog.
Owner contact email: dpo@dominicanabroad.com
If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.
We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for 5 years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.
We will also store comments or reviews if you choose to leave them.
Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:
Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill orders, process refunds and support you.
We share information with third parties who help us provide our orders and store services to you; for example —
Tour guides if required to operate your tour
Accomodation suppliers for your tour
Airlines if required to operate your tour
Companies operating excursions as part of a tour
Payments
We accept payments through PayPal and Stripe. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal or Stripe, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.
Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details. Please see the Stripe Privacy Policy for more details.
How do we use your information?
We may use the information we collect from you when you register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:
Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our site as safe as possible.
We use regular Malware Scanning.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise 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.
Google Analytics will retain your data for up to 26 months.
We will retain data for newsletter subscriptions until you either opt-out or the newsletter ceases to be a service we offer.
Unless legally required to do so, we do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when it’s release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property or safety.
Anonymous Data
Non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. The anonymous data we use cannot be used to identify you when the data is alone, or combined with data from other parties.
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.
Akismet – We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
Dominicabroad.com may carry out affiliate marketing which is done by embedding tracking links to our website. When clicking on links to a company we have an affiliate partnership with, a cookie will be placed into your browser that will track any sales for the purpose of tracking commissions for sales generated through our affiliate link.
Amazon Associates
The owner of this website 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 properties including, but not limited to, amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.ca, endless.com, myhabit.com, smallparts.com, or amazonwireless.com.
You can view the Amazon.co.uk privacy policy here, Amazon.com here, and Amazon.ca here.
Rights related to your personal information
Opt-out:
You can choose to opt-out of any future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in any newsletter emails received, which will remove you from our mailing list(s). You may also notify us at dpo@dominicanabroad.com to be removed from the mailing list(s).
Request access:
You can request access to any data held on you by submitting a request to dpo@dominicanabroad.com or by filling out the form located here.
Amend your data:
You can amend your e-mail subscription(s) by using the link contained at the bottom of e-mails received from us or by contacting us at dpo@dominicanabroad.com
Have your data forgotten:
Certain situations allow for your data to be forgotten. You may request that we erase any personal data stored. To do this, please contact us dpo@dominicanabroad.com or submit a request by filling out the form located here.
Please note that we may be legally required to retain certain information, or for the purpose of record keeping or to complete transactions.
Dominicanabroad.com uses a variety of plugins to help maintain the website.
Updraft Plus: please view the creator’s privacy policy here
WP Rocket: View their privacy policy here
Shareaholic: View their privacy policy here
When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under the age of 13 years old, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, United States’ consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children’s privacy and safety online.
The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.