Who we are
Our website address is: https://mertales.ca.
Safeguarding of Your Personal Data
Mer Tales Ocean Journeys is committed to protect your privacy and treat all personal data such as name, address and email address of customers and users confidentially and only for the fulfillment of the agreed purposes. Likewise, transmission to Third Parties or Third-Party Apps is conducted only for the fulfillment of the agreed purposes. The following privacy policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our Website and Services and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information.
General Terms of Use for our Website
By accessing and using our Website and Services, you agree to the following Privacy Policy and the corresponding Terms of Use for our Website and Services. If you do not consent to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, you must not use our Website and Services.
General Information on Data we Collect on our Website
The Mer Tales Ocean Journeys website automatically collects and stores information transmitted by the user’s browser in server log files.
This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider, etc. This information does not allow to identify you personally, and it is technically necessary to correctly deliver the contents of web pages requested by you and is mandatory when using the internet. Anonymous information of this kind is statistically evaluated by us, in order to optimize our internet appearance and the technology behind it.
Data Collected by Us and/or Third Parties and Third-Party Apps
1. Google Analytics Cookies
Our Website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (from now on called: Google). Google Analytics uses so-called “Cookies”. Thus text files, that are stored on your computer and that allow us to track and analyze the pages of the Website you visit. We do this only to understand better how you use our Website to improve our business and marketing activities for you and for other users as well. Google Analytics cookies do not provide us with any personal information. The information about your use of our Website generated by the Google Analytics cookie is usually transmitted to a Google server in the US and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymization on these websites, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contraction states of the Agreement of the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. On behalf of the website’s operator, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator.
The IP address provided by Google Analytics as part of Google Analytics will not be linked to other Google data.
You can prevent the storage of cookies by changing the settings of your browser software. However, we point out that in this case, you may not be able to have the full use of all functions of our Websites. You may also prevent Google from collecting data generated by the cookie, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: Learn more about privacy at Google and the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
2. LiteSpeed Cache
This site utilizes caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary, and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary. We may use QUIC.cloud services to process & cache your data temporarily. Please see https://quic.cloud/privacy-policy/for more details.
3. Social Plugins
Our Website use social plugins (“plugins”) of the social network facebook.com and instagram.com, which is operated by Meta Platforms, Inc., 1 Meta Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA (“Facebook”, “Instagram”). The plugins are marked with a Facebook or Instagram logo.
When the website user calls a web page of the website containing such a plugin, the browser establishes a direct connection with the Facebook or Instagram servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted by Facebook or Instagram directly to the browser and embedded by it into the website. By integrating the plugins, Facebook or Instagram receives the information that the website user has accessed the corresponding page of the website. If the website user is logged in to Facebook or Instagram, Facebook or Instagram can assign the visit to their Facebook or Instagram account. If the website user interacts with the plugins, for example, presses the “Like” button or leaves a comment, the corresponding information is transmitted from his browser directly to Facebook or Instagram and stored there.
The purpose and handling of the data collection and the further processing and use of data by Facebook or Instagram, as well as related rights and privacy settings, can be found in Facebook’s or Instagram’s privacy policy.
If you do not want Facebook or Instagram to collect data about your visit on this website, please log out of Facebook or Instagram before visiting this website.
We have integrated the Facebook and Instagram social media buttons of the following company on our Website:
Meta Platforms, Inc., 1 Meta Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.
4. Contact Forms
We use the Gravity Forms plug-in to support your sign-up to our newsletter that is prepared and sent separately on the external Mailchimp platform. Your name and email address are collected by the Gravity Forms and sent to our Mailchimp account. We keep the form submissions on the website only as a documented record of your sign-up.
5. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this Website 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.
6. WordFence
We use WordFence to protect our Website from malicious attacks. WordFence sets cookies to protect websites from bad actors, including session cookies for firewall functionality. These cookies are technical and generally do not store personally identifiable information.
7. Cookie Policy
Please refer to our Cookie Policy for further information on the data collected during your use of our Website and Services.
SSL Encryption
To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use encryption techniques according to the current status (such as SSL) over HTTPS.
Data Retention, Use, Access, Corrections and Removal
You have the right to request information about your stored personal data any time. You also have the right to amend, correct or remove your personal data or cancel your accounts and subscriptions, except for the required data stored for still pending business transactions or the contact information in press releases, required for publishing.
Blocked data will be required to be stored in a locked file for purposes of record keeping. You may also request the deletion of this data, as long as this data is not subject to any legal retention period or obligation; was not given for the intended purpose of publishing on the Internet or social media networks, where this information is public by nature; is not subject to the media privilege; or Mer Tales Ocean Journeys has no direct access for deleting the data (e.g. on Third Party sites or apps).
However, we will use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
You can revoke your consent and subscriptions any time, with effect for the future, by notifying us per email, or letter.
If you would like to revoke your consent or unsubscribe from our emails, you will find a link to unsubscribe at the end of each email you receive from us. Or you can send an email and indicate the email address for which you do no longer want to receive any email information.
gina at mertales dot ca
In any case, please do not forget to indicate the email address with which you have registered or which email address you want to unsubscribe, or which service you would like to terminate or revoke.
Changes of our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time to ensure that it complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, for example, when introducing new services.
Your visit of our Website or use of our Services, following the changes, constitutes acceptance of the new Privacy Policy.
