Whether you’re brand new to sightDOING or a long-time reader, I think it’s important that you know where I stand. In the interest of transparency, here’s what you need to know about my blog.
First Things First
SightDOING is first and foremost a set of personal opinions meant for entertainment only. I love to share my stories and perhaps you’ll even find them inspiring. However, your circumstances, experiences, and opinions may differ from my own. Any time you travel — even if you’re trying to re-create my plans and travel style — you’re doing so at your own risk.
Financial Compensation
I started SightDOING because I love traveling and simply wanted to share my experiences and encourage travel in an online community. The majority of travel discussed throughout the website was self-funded. Sponsored or discounted trips will be disclosed as such. I have not accepted any sponsored trips from March 2020 onward — all my recent travel is 100% self-funded.
That said, I receive financial compensation in the form of affiliate links, display advertising, and the occasional sponsored post. This income primarily covers the costs associated with maintaining a website. Occasionally, I earn a little extra which gets funneled into paying for my next trip (and more stories!) as compensation for this labor of love.
I make the following commitments to my readers:
- In accordance with FTC guidelines, I will include a disclosure in any post that may provide financial compensation to me.
- Your trust is important to me, so even when posts are sponsored, all text is my own and is based on my personal experiences and opinions.
- I only include affiliate links for products or services that I truly believe will add value to your next travel experience.
Errors and Omissions
I strive to ensure the content I share is accurate, but the travel industry is quickly changing and I make no claims that the material presented on this site is current or complete. Please directly review all terms, conditions, and details before acting on any material.
If you notice inaccuracies, typos, or other errors, please send me an email to let me know so that I may correct the article appropriately.
Material
All content unless otherwise noted is my own and not provided or reviewed by any other entity. If you wish to re-publish any of my articles, photos, or other materials, please contact me for permission.
Privacy Policy
SightDOING collects and logs certain data for analytical purposes, including (but not limited to) what source brought you to my website, which posts you’ve read, and whether you shared an article on social media. I use this information to decide what to write next, but I don’t store your personal information.
I respect your privacy and am committed to protecting it.
Thank You!
I tremendously value my readership and hope you continue to visit in the future. If you’d like to support SightDOING, the best way you can do so is by sharing my website with anyone you feel may also enjoy my content. You’ll find social sharing buttons on every single post and I’m grateful anytime you pass on these stories. I also appreciate links from your own website and Twitter follows.
Thanks for your support and I look forward to sharing more about travel with you.
Fine Print (Because Legally I Have To)
Affiliates
SightDOING is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
Display Advertising (Mediavine)
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
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First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral 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. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. 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. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.
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 Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
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- Operating System type
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- Device Type
- Language of the website
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- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
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Privacy Policy
The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information I may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this website.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT AND HOW IS IT USED?
Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website: We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form. This information is not sold or re-distributed in any way.
Automatically-Collected Information: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.
Cookies
SightDOING depends on affiliate links and third party advertisements to support the site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site. These cookies track any purchases you make from this website and provide income to SightDOING. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.
Cookies and web beacons can also send advertisers information including your IP address, your internet service provider, the browser you used to visit our site, etc.
You are free to disable or selectively turn off cookies in your browser settings or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with SightDOING as well as other websites.
Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.
ADVERTISING
Display Ads
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies, as noted above.
Retargeting Ads
From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.
Affiliate Program Participation
The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.
Sightdoing.net 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.com and any other website that may be affiliated with Amazon Service LLC Associates Program. This does not under any circumstances affect the unbiasedness of the reviews or ratings provided by The World Pursuit. Commissions are the same for all items and items are included based on performance only.
Amazon and its third-party ad network, can also utilize other technologies, including cookies, JavaScript and Web Beacons, to measure the effectiveness of ads and to personalize ads. Amazon and its third-party network does not obey to the privacy policy of The World Pursuit. See the privacy policy of Amazon and its third party ad network for information regarding their privacy, including any information on how to opt-out of their practices.
Newsletters
On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.
RIGHTS RELATED TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
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SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION
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CHILDREN’S INFORMATION
The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16.