Privacy policy

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from pakawaytravel.com (the “Site”).

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

    - “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

    - “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.

    - “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

Additionally when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number.  We refer to this information as “Order Information.”

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.

Lastly, some features of the Site allow you to provide content to us, such as written comments. All content (including comments) submitted by you to us may be retained by us indefinitely. We may continue to disclose such content to third parties in a manner that does not reveal your Personal Information, as described in this Privacy Policy.  See our Terms of Service for additional information on submitted comments.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations).  Additionally, we use this Order Information to:

Communicate with you;

Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and

when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.

With your permission, we may send you emails and/or text marketing about our store, new products and other updates. You may opt out of receiving emails and/or text messages at any time by replying “UNSUBSCRIBE” to our email or “STOP” to our text.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

To support and enhance the provided at the Site (Services), we use Device Information to serve advertisements, and also allow third parties advertisements, through the Services. These advertisements are sometimes targeted and served to particular users and may come from third party companies called “ad networks.” Ad networks include third party ad servers, ad agencies, ad technology vendors and research firms. 

Advertisement serviced through the Services may be targeted to users who fit a certain general profile category may be based on anonymized information inferred from information proceed to us by a user, including Personal Information, may be based on the Services usage patterns of particular users, or may be based on your activity on third party services. We do not provide Personal Information to any ad networks for use outside of the Services.

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above.  For example, we use Shopify to power our online store--you can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here:  https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.  We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site--you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here:  https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.  You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

BEHAVIOURAL ADVERTISING

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you.  For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising or manage advertisements by using the links below:

    FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads 

    GOOGLE - https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous

    INSTAGRAM - https://accountscenter.instagram.com/ad_preferences/ 

DO NOT TRACK

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

DATA RETENTION

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

MINORS

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect any Personal Information from children under the age of 13. We do not sell products for purchase by children and all the children’s products we sell are for purchase by adults only. If you are under 13 years old, please do not provide your information on our Site. If we become aware that an individual is under the age of 13 and has submitted any information to us for any purpose, we will delete their information from our files. If you believe that we might have any Personal Information from a child under 13, please contact us at connect@pakawaytravel.com

CHANGES

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

CONTACT US

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at connect@pakawaytravel.com.