This Privacy Policy applies to Travel Womple Corp., (“Womple”, “we”, “us” and “our”).

Womple is committed to ensuring the privacy of your personal information. We are further committed to preventing unauthorized access to that information. Our Privacy Policy details what personal information is collected from our customers, users, business representatives, and others and explains how we use it, how it is stored, and your choices related to our use of your information.

WHO WE ARE

Go Womple is the go-to platform for those who love to travel, post their travel adventures, and share with fellow travelers key information about trip costs, accommodation, travel attractions, great food, nature hikes, hard-to-access directions, and other information, all connected to mapping pinpoints in one great platform. We connect our community of travelers, we call “Womplers”, to represent the free-spirited adventurer who is not held back by conventional bounds, and seeks to explore all the world has to offer. Through technology, our community shares information and knowledge gained so those that follow in their footsteps can truly gain the most from their travel time and budget, plan their ultimate trip, discover the coolest spots on earth that no-one ever knew about, all conveniently connected with technology.

We developed our platform with travel adventurers in mind, incorporating all the valuable experience we have gained to provide information from those who have experienced particular travel destinations to those who are planning to travel. Our advanced search filters allow trip planners to filter our trip database for trips of interest and relevance, that meet specific budget and time constraints set by the user. We believe a picture tells a story and our Womplers love to post their trips with the end-to-end photo posting, telling the complete story of the travel adventure to share with their friends and the Wompler travel community.

Womple, incorporated as Travel Womple Corp., is based in California, located in the United States. We operate the Go Womple software platform, available through the website located at https://www.gowomple.com/, and related services and business activities (collectively referred to as “Services”). We respect your privacy and take safeguarding your data seriously. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully together with the Terms of Use (“Terms”) available at https://www.gowomple.com/terms.php, which governs your use of the Services, to understand what Personal Information (defined below) we collect from you, how we use it, and your choices related to our use of your Personal Information. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Services.

WHAT IS PERSONAL INFORMATION?

“Personal Information” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person; an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person. Under specific laws, Personal Information may include any information relating to a household.

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE PROCESS

We process Personal Information that you actively submit to us, that we automatically collect through your use of our Services, and that we collect from third-party sources. We may process your Personal Information with or without automatic means, including collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure, or destruction of your Personal Information.

Personal Information that you actively submit to us.

We collect Personal Information that you actively submit to us when you register an account, post pictures, provide trip information, interact with us on our social media channels, or otherwise use the Services. Examples are provided below. You will know when we collect your Personal Information because we will directly ask you for the information. We will require certain Personal Information for you to use our Services or for us to be able to contact you. There may also be circumstances where providing Personal Information is optional and does not impact your access to Services.

Your Account. When you sign up for an account, we ask you to provide key information relevant to travel so you can create a Wompler profile in our Go Womple community. We ask you to provide your name, email, and a password, along with a nickname (for display on the platform), age range, phone number and a “passport location” to represent a locale that adds meaning to your Wompler profile. Womple stores this information to help identify you when you log in and to get your account set up.

Your Profile. Once you've registered an account, you create a user profile that is displayed for the Wompler community to see. The information collected includes the language spoken, average days travelled, your home airport, your preferred website language, and the option to upload your profile photo and a background image. We also give you room to write a short bio about yourself so you can let other Womplers know who you are and what travel means to you. Who knows, maybe you will start a grass roots following, maybe you will create a travel trend, and maybe you will find other Womplers just like you who find the perfect trips that can be fit within every budget. Your profile is also helpful for readers to understand whether a trip you recommend is something that is likely to also suit them.

Your Trips. The core feature on our Services is the ability to post your trips end-to-end in pictures, connected to a cost, with geolocation pinpoints. How cool is that! Not only does this help to locate exact trailheads, restaurants, tourist spots, and hotels, but you can also find even the coolest architectural door or bridge or window  and pinpoint its exact location on a map for another person to find and explore. Posting features are always combined with our security features offering you the privacy settings where you can choose when to make the specific picture or the entire trip publicly available.

Other Use of the Services. We give you the chance to “like” what you see posted on the Services, to search various trips across the Services, and to share this information with your friends on social media platforms.

Make and Inquiry. We provide an option for users to submit an inquiry with the Services online via email. We collect information about the technical issue and  your email address.

Personal Information we automatically collect through your use of the Services.

We receive some Personal Information automatically when you visit Womple Services. This includes information about the device, browser, and operating system you use when accessing our Services, your IP address, the website that referred you, which pages you request and visit, and the date and time of each request you make.

 

Personal Information we collect from third-party sources.

We integrate with third-party service providers that may share Personal Information with us in connection with your use of our Services. For example, when you click on related travel services from our site such as airlines and hotels, we receive Personal Information related to that action.

Personal Information of minors.

The Services are not intended for users younger than 18. We do not actively collect or otherwise process Personal Information from users under the age of 18. If we become aware that an individual under the age of 18 has submitted Personal Information without verifiable parental consent, we will remove his or her information from our files.

Personal Information we do not collect.

We do not actively collect or otherwise process personal data revealing racial origin, ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data or biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation. We do not actively collect or otherwise process personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences.

 

COOKIES AND SIMILAR TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES 

 

We (and the third-party service providers working on our behalf) use various technologies to collect Personal Information. This may include saving cookies to your device. Cookies are small pieces of text used to store information on web browsers. They are used by many websites to store and receive identifiers and other information on devices, such as a mobile phone or computer. We use cookies and other similar technologies (collectively "cookies") in order to provide a better experience for you and to generally improve our website, applications, and other services. We use cookies for the purpose of storing and retrieving session information in our online systems, and for analyzing traffic on our website. For example, we may use cookies to help direct you to the appropriate part of our website by indicating that you are a repeat visitor. We also may use information to present you with resources that are matched to your preferences and to manage and track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts.

 

We also may include tracking pixels, which are small graphic images, in our marketing communications to determine engagement. These cookies may be set by us or by third parties with whom we have partnered to assist in our marketing efforts.

 

Enabling/Disabling Cookies.

 

Some portions of our website, applications, and services are functional without cookies, and you may generally choose whether to accept cookies. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default; however, you may be able to delete cookies yourself through your browser's cookie manager. To do so, please follow the instructions provided by your web browser. Please note that disabling cookies will reset your session, disable auto-login, and may adversely affect the availability and functionality of our website, applications, services and other resources we can provide to you.

For more information about managing cookies and how to stop cookies being installed visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/. If you wish to opt-out of cookies that collect information to serve you interest-based ads, you may opt-out at https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1 or if located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), United Kingdom (“UK”), or Switzerland, at https://www.youronlinechoices.com/.

 

Types of Cookies

 

Analytical Cookies. These cookies collect information about how users use our website. For example, Womple uses Google Analytics to track anonymized usage statistics for the site. This data is used to analyze how frequently people visit the site, how the website is found, and which pages are most frequently viewed. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a website user. This information is combined with data from thousands of other users to create an overall view of website data use and is never identified individually or personally. These cookies are only used to identify ways to improve the website. The analytics cookies we use are: Google Analytics – Web traffic tracking. Learn more at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/, and to opt out, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Analytical cookies

 

Functional Cookies. Functional cookies are used to help our applications work as intended. Examples include cookies to determine whether you have logged in before and to determine if you have dismissed a notification banner. We also use cookies to provide customised services. You may disable any of these functional cookies as described above; but if you do, various functions of the Services may be unavailable to you or may not work as intended.

 

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

We use your Personal Information to operate our Services, fulfill our contractual obligations in our service contracts, to review and enforce compliance with our Terms, guidelines, and policies, to analyze the use of the Services in order to understand how we can improve our content and service offerings and products, and for administrative and other business purposes. We process Personal Information for subscription services, sales and marketing, data analysis, security monitoring, research, and to comply with applicable laws, exercise legal rights, and meet tax and other regulatory requirements.   

In this context, the legal basis for our processing of your Personal Information is either the necessity to perform contractual and other obligations, our legitimate business interest as a provider of security services, regulatory requirements, or in some instances your explicit consent.

SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

We may share your Personal Information in the following circumstances: 

Third-party Service Providers. We may share information we collect about you with third-party service providers to perform tasks on our behalf in supporting the Services. The types of service providers, or sub-processors, to whom we entrust Personal Information include: (i) payment providers; (ii) providers of hosting services; (iii) sales and marketing providers; (iv) providers of analytic data services; and (v) other services such as system support and mobile app platforms.

Womple Community. We share information with the Womple community including your profile and your trip postings that are set for public display.

Social Media. We may share any trip or event you post to any social media platform to promote the website.

Regulatory Bodies, Public Authorities, and Law Enforcement. We may access and disclose your Personal Information to regulatory bodies if we have a good-faith belief that doing so is required under applicable law or regulation. This may include submitting Personal Information required by tax authorities. We may disclose your Personal Information in response to lawful requests by public authorities or law enforcement, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. If we are going to release your Personal Information in this instance, our policy is to provide you with notice unless we are prohibited from doing so by law or court order.

 

Merger, Sale, or Other Asset Transfers. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of company assets, or transition of service to another provider, then your Personal Information may be transferred as part of such a transaction as permitted by law and/or contract. Should such an event occur, Womple will endeavor to direct the transferee to use Personal Information in a manner that is consistent with the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such Personal Information was collected.

 

Other Disclosures. We may also disclose your Personal Information to exercise or defend legal rights; to take precautions against liability; to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Services, of any individuals, or of the general public; to maintain and protect the security and integrity of our services or infrastructure; to protect ourselves and our services from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful uses; or to investigate and defend ourselves against third-party claims or allegations. Disclosures may be made to courts of law, attorneys and law enforcement, or other relevant third parties in order to meet these purposes.

 

Third Party Links. Our Services may contain links to other websites not controlled by us, and these other websites may reference or link to our Services; we encourage you to read the privacy policies applicable to these other websites.

 

RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Womple retains Personal Information for a reasonable time period to fulfill the processing purposes mentioned above. Personal Information is then archived for time periods required or necessitated by law or legal considerations. When archival is no longer required, Personal Information is deleted from our records.

We retain your account information, including Personal Information in your profile, while your account is active. After termination or deactivation of your account, we delete your account as part of our standard delete function. We may also choose to delete your account after two years of inactivity. If you made contributions to Go Womple, such as posting a trip that is a favorite in the Go Womple community, this trip may continue to be stored, displayed, shared, re-posted, and reproduced even if your account has remained inactive. Where you have posted feedback and opinions to the Services, this information will be retained, shared, and re-posted with the original display name included, due to the design on the Services and integration into shared community features. You are always welcome to use an alias for greater privacy. Please note we may retain information within our internal systems for backup, archival, audit, or other purposes.

We retain Personal Information that we are required to retain to meet our regulatory obligations including tax records and transaction history. We regularly review our retention policy to ensure compliance with our obligations under data protection laws and other regulatory requirements. We regularly audit our databases and archived information to ensure that Personal Information is only stored and archived in alignment with our retention policies.

PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Womple uses technical and organizational measures to protect the Personal Information that we store, transmit, or otherwise process, against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure, or access. We regularly consider appropriate new security technology and methods as we maintain and develop our software and systems. Please be aware that despite our best efforts to ensure the security of your data, we cannot guarantee that your information will be 100% secure.

Please recognize that protecting your Personal Information is also your responsibility. We urge you to take every precaution to protect your information when you are on the Internet, such as using a strong password and keeping your password secret. We also encourage you to use the features available in our Services and your common sense to decide what and when to post your travel pictures and when to make these pictures and their geolocation available publicly. If you have reason to believe that the security of your account might have been compromised (for example, your password has been leaked), or if you suspect someone else is using your account, please let us know immediately.

INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFER

Your Personal Information may be transferred to, and maintained on, computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide your Personal Information to us, we will transfer your Personal Information to the United States and process it there. Where we transfer your Personal Information, we will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your privacy rights continue to be protected.

In the case of transfers of data out of Europe, we utilize third-party service providers from the United States that have certified with Privacy Shield or alternatively provide adequate protections that are compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) such as implementing Standard Data Protection Clauses or Binding Corporate Rules.

PRIVACY RIGHTS

If you have a Go Womple account, we rely upon you to keep your information up to date. You may edit your profile information at any time through your account settings. You may also delete your profile image through your account settings and delete your account by sending a request to lukas@travelwomple.com

You can opt-out of personalized ads across the web and on google searches by selecting the “Click here to adjust your google ad settings” button in your account settings under the Advertising menu option. Likewise, you can opt-out of sharing your information for advertising purposes by selecting the “Click here to opt out of sharing your information for advertising purposes” button in your account settings under the Advertising menu option. For email communication of a marketing nature, we provide the ability for you to unsubscribe directly from the email.

We have privacy features built into the Services enabling you to manage when you choose to make your postings available or keep them private. For example, if you want to post pictures of your trip as you take it in real-time but only let others see the information after you have left that location, you can do this by controlling the public display of that posting within the Services. This is one of the many reasons we love Go Womple, we put you in the driver’s seat for your travel diaries and how you choose to share those adventures.

Where we rely upon consent as a legal basis for processing, you may withdraw your consent at any time. Please note the withdrawal of your consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before withdrawal.

 

Individuals in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland have certain rights which may be subject to limitations and/or restrictions. These rights include the right to: (i) request access to and rectification or erasure of their Personal Information; (ii) obtain restriction of processing or to object to processing of their Personal Information; and (iii) ask for a copy of their Personal Information to be provided to them, or a third party, in a digital format. If you wish to exercise one of the above-mentioned rights, please send us your request to the contact details set out below. Individuals also have the right to lodge a complaint about the processing of their Personal Information with their local data protection authority.

 

We respect the privacy of all individuals and invite you to submit your requests, irrespective of where you reside. Our contact details are provided at the end of this Privacy Policy.

EFFECTIVE DATE AND AMENDMENTS

This document is effective as of the date indicated at the top of this Privacy Policy under “Last updated”. This document may be amended from time to time.

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you would like to contact us with questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices, or would like to exercise your privacy rights, you may contact us via any of the following methods:

 

Email: lukas@travelwomple.com

 

Address:

Travel Womple Corp.,

Attention: Privacy Inquiries

PO Box 60841

Woodside, CA 94062