Disclosure and Privacy Policy

This policy is valid from 02 April 2018

This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. For questions about this blog, please contact jayda (at) jaydaknight (dot) com

This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.

This blog abides by word of mouth marketing standards. We believe in honesty of relationship, opinion and identity. The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content.

The owner of this blog is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though the owner of this blog receives compensation for our posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the bloggers’ own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.

This blog does contain content which might present a conflict of interest. The owner of this blog is employed by a hotel & resort management company and is offered an employee benefit of discounted products. These discounted products will never be featured without identifying conflict of interest. Products offered by the blog owner’s employer’s affiliated companies may be featured on occasion when the owner of this blog is not utilizing their employee benefit discount without identifying it as a conflict of interest. The immediate place of work of the blog owner will never be featured nor mentioned on this blog during the time of employment. The owner of this blog at no time represents the thoughts, interests, business decisions, or statements of their employer.

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their ‘Personally identifiable information’ (PII) is being used online. PII, as used in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.

On our site we collect the following:

Name

Email address

Information is collected from you when you:

Subscribe to a newsletter

Fill out a form

The information collected from you is used in the following ways:

To administer contests, promotions, or a survey or other site feature

To send periodic emails

How do we protect visitor information?

We do not use vulnerability scanning and/or scanning to PCI standards.

We do not use an SSL certificate

• We only provide articles and information, and we never ask for personal or private information

Do we use ‘cookies’?

We do use cookies for tracking purposes

• Understand and save user’s preferences for future visits,

• Keep track of advertisements,

• Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third party services that track this information on our behalf.

If users disable cookies in their browser:

It will turn off some of the features of the site

Third Party Disclosure

We may transfer your non-identifiable information to third parties. We may also transfer your identifiable information, but only to trusted third parties

Third party links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

California Online Privacy Protection Act

According to CalOPPA we agree to the following:

Users can visit our site anonymously

Once this privacy policy is created, we will add a link to it on our home page, or as a minimum on the first significant page after entering our website.

Our Privacy Policy link includes the word ‘Privacy’, and can be easily be found on the page specified above.

Users will be notified of any privacy policy changes:

• On our Privacy Policy Page

Users are able to change their personal information:

• By emailing us

How does our site handle do not track signals?

We honor them and do not track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.

Does our site allow third party behavioral tracking?

We allow

COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)

We do not specifically market to children under 13

Fair Information Practices

In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:

We will notify the users via email

• Within 7 business days

We will notify the users via in site notification

• Within 7 business days

We agree to the individual redress principle, which requires that individuals have a right to pursue legally enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or a government agency to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors