Privacy Policy
Last Updated: September the 30th 2023
Spainguides.com now referred to as (“spainguides.com” “us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the https://spainguides.com website (the “Service”).
We take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies with all EU & UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.
The purpose of this policy statement is to clearly explain to you how we collect, use and store your personal data as well as let you know your rights when it comes to your personal information in accordance with the Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) approved by the EU Parliament on 14 April 2016. Enforcement date: 25 May 2018. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) replaces the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC
You can access spainguides.com and browse our site without disclosing any of your personal data. spainguides.com does not collect personal information about individuals, such as names and mailing or e-mail addresses unless it is knowingly provided by the individual and he or she has agreed to the terms under which Nspainguides.com will use it.
Please read the Privacy Policy carefully before using the Website. By using the Website or by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms of Use when this option is made available to you, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by the Privacy Policy. If you do not want to agree to the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website.
How do we collect your information
- Directly from you when you fill out one of the forms on our website.
- When signing up for our e-newsletter
- Registering as a user.
- Communicating or corresponding with us via telephone, post, email, messenger or social media.
The information we collect
Throughout our website, we only request the absolutely necessary personal information to carry out the activity which you have requested.
- Your contact information including name, address, email address, telephone, and country of residence.
- Your communications with us.
IP addresses
We may also collect information about your computer, including, where available, your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns and does not identify any individual.
How we process and use your personal information and the data we collect
- Action any requests you make.
- To allow us to run, maintain and develop our business.
- Make available to our authorised affiliate partners for the purposes of travel bookings and quotations.
- Supply you with the requested information.
- To allow for invoicing and contract management. i.e. to address invoices to our customers.
- Send our e-newsletter if you have opted in to receive it.
- Send you information about our products and services by email or other means if you have opted into receiving relevant marketing communications.
- Send you information by email about products and services offered by third-party companies that we think you might be interested in if you have opted into receiving relevant marketing communications.
- To help us improve our website to make it more intuitive and engaging.
- To perform market research.
- To help personalise your user experience.
- Provide you with access to parts of our website.
- For legal, regulatory or business reasons, such as assisting in crime and fraud prevention.
- To perform analysis and research, and monitor your usage behaviour
Website Cookies
This website uses cookies to improve the user’s experience on our website. Where applicable, we use a cookie consent system that allows users on their first visit to our website to opt in or opt out of cookies on their computer/device.
Cookies are essential for the effective operation of our websites and are used to tailor the information, products and services offered and advertised to you, both on our websites and elsewhere.
Cookies are small files stored on a user’s computer that track and store information about the user’s interactions and website usage. This allows us, through its server to provide users with a tailored experience within this website.
We do not use cookies to collect or record your personal information, such as your name, address or other contact details
» Click here to see our Cookie Policy
How to disable Cookies
You may wish to deny the use and storage of cookies on your computer’s hard drive from this website. In this case, you should take the necessary steps in your web browser’s security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external service providers.
You can change your web browser’s settings at any time to reflect your cookie preferences. Details on how to disable cookies for the most common browsers can be found below:
What happens if I disable cookies?
It depends on which cookies you disable, though; a website may not function properly if cookies are switched completely off. By disabling third-party cookies, you will not prevent us from completing most actions on our website.
For more information about cookies, please visit: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
Google Analytics
We use tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information.
We do not make and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of anyone on our website.
You can read Google’s Privacy Policy here: [ https://policies.google.com/privacy/update ].
Google Captcha
This site is protected by Google reCAPTCHA.
Email Lists
We collect personal information such as your name and email address when you sign up to join our mailing list.
We do this to contact you with relevant information, products, and services, to confirm whether you wish to continue, and to ensure you are happy with our services and wish to remain a registered user.
To help us deliver our monthly e-newsletter, we use the services of Brevo and Mailchimp, third-party email marketing companies.
Statistics are collected on open emails using industry-standard technologies, enabling us to monitor and improve our e-newsletter.
Visit the Brevo website to review their Privacy Policy: [ https://www.brevo.com/legal/privacypolicy/ ]
You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our e-newsletter emails.
Links to other websites
We have many external links to third-party websites, although none of these links are intended to provide us with any personal information about you.
However, when you do visit a third-party website,s you may find that they would like to collect your personal information for their own purposes.
Please review each privacy policy to see how they plan to collect, use, and store your personal data.
Adverts and Sponsored Links
This website contains sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, who will have their own detailed cookie and privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve.
Clicking any such adverts will take you to the advertiser’s website via a referral program, which may use cookies and track the number of referrals from this website. This may include the use of cookies, which may in turn be saved on your computer’s hard drive.
We cannot be held liable for any damages, losses, or consequences arising from visiting any external websites linked to, intentionally or unintentionally, from our website.
Social Media Platforms
Communication, engagement, and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate in are subject to the terms and conditions and privacy policies of each platform.
We may use social sharing buttons to share web content directly from web pages to the relevant social media platform. Users are advised that before using such social sharing buttons, they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save their request to share a web page through their social media platform account.
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
The Website uses Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file that is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server, allowing a website to remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.
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 similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interactions with advertising content and to target and optimise 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 notifications 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 fully access the Website’s content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. If you opt out, you will still see non-personalised advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalised ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- 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.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit the National Advertising Initiative opt-out page. You may also visit the Digital Advertising Alliance website and the Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app from the Digital Advertising Alliance to opt out of mobile app tracking, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.
How we keep your personal information secure
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Sharing your Personal Information & Data
We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorise us to share your information.
Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Their respective privacy policies dictate each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information.
Contact Information
You are entitled to have full access to any of your personal information that we may hold. You may also request that we amend or delete your personal information at any time.
Please contact us at info [at] spauinguides.com for questions related to this Privacy Policy.
Changes to this Privacy Notice
This privacy notice was reviewed and updated on the 29th of June 2023 and will be periodically checked.
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we do, we will let you know by revising the date at the top of the policy. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will provide you with additional notice. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you access or use our Services or otherwise interact with us to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy. If you continue to use our Services after Privacy Policy changes go into effect, you consent to the revised policy.
Resolving Privacy Issues
We will always try our best to resolve any data privacy issues you may have. You have the right to refer any data privacy issue to the Information Commissioner’s Office at any time.
Staying safe online
Please refer to the Get Safe Online website, which has plenty of sound, good advice about protecting yourself and keeping your personal data safe online.
GDPR – Data Protection Regulation
GDPR the new Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) approved by the EU Parliament on 14 April 2016. Enforcement date: 25 May 2018. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) replaces the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC