Last Updated: September 24, 2022

BY VISITING PARKSEXPERT.COM, YOU ARE CONSENTING TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY.

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices of The Parks Expert. This privacy notice addresses what information is collected, who the information is shared with, and how it is secured.

The terms “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to The Parks Expert. The terms “user,” “you,” and “your” refer to site visitors, customers, and any other users of the site.

Who We Are

At The Parks Expert, accessible from https://parksexpert.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that are collected and recorded by The Parks Expert and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us through email at riley@parksexpert.com.

The Personal Data We Collect and Why

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. This includes your name, e-mail address, and comment. Please note by posting a comment on The Parks Expert, you consent to the posting of any Personal Information that you provide. You should be aware that such Personal Information can be read, collected, or used by other visitors to these public areas. We have no control over how these visitors use your Personal Information.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Log Files

The Parks Expert follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and are a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Contact Forms

We use contact forms to help you get in touch with us. By using any of our contact forms, you consent to provide the information requested (including your name and e-mail address).

Cookies

The Parks Expert uses cookies to store or access information. If you don’t want cookies used on this website, you can change it within your web browser, however, this could affect certain features.

These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

Third-Party Websites

Articles on this site 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.

Users may find advertising or other content on The Parks Expert that links to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors, and other third parties. We do not control the content or links that appear on these sites and are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our Site. In addition, these sites or services, including their content and links, may be constantly changing. These sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites that have a link to our Site, is subject to that website’s own terms and policies.

The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing 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 which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can 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 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:

  • 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 National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, 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 Collect Your Information

If you schedule an appointment with The Parks Expert, your name, email, and phone number will be collected. Your name and email address may be used to contact you after your call with follow-up information.

If you become a customer, The Parks Expert will collect your name, email, address, and phone number and use them to provide services to you. You will also be requested to sign up for the secured client portal so that any communications that are provided are sent and protected. If you purchase from The Parks Expert, you have the option to pay online through PayPal. Any information you provide during the checkout process is not stored on our website but provided to PayPal which completes the purchase transaction. You agree that you gave this information voluntarily for the contents that you received. By using this website, you agree not to hold The Parks Expert responsible for any security breach and for any unauthorized use of your personal information by third parties.

How We Use Collected Information

The Parks Expert may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

  • To improve customer service: The information you provide helps us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently
  • To personalize user experience: We may use information in the aggregate to understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on The Parks Expert
  • To improve The Parks Expert: We may use feedback you provide to improve our products and services
  • Send you marketing and promotional messages: The Parks Expert and third-party marketing partners can use your personal information for marketing purposes. We do not sell, rent, or lease our subscription lists to third parties, and will not disclose your email address to any third parties except as allowed in the section titled “Will your information be shared?”. In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, all e-mails sent from us will clearly state who the e-mail is from and provide clear information on how to contact the sender. In addition, all e-mail messages will also contain concise information on how to remove yourself from our mailing list so that you receive no further e-mail communication from us. Our emails provide users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners by reading the unsubscribe instructions located at the bottom of any e-mail they receive from us at any time. Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials may opt-out of receiving these communications by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the e-mail. Or the User may contact us via riley@parksexpert.com.
  • Testimonials: The Parks Expert posts testimonials that include personal information. All testimonials are consented to prior to being put on the website. If you want to update or delete your testimonial, please contact riley@parksexpert.com and include your name, where the testimonial is, and your contact information.
  • Targeted advertising: Mediavine may use your information to show content that interests you or near your location 
  • Feedback: The Parks Expert is always looking to improve, and may use your information to ask for feedback.
  • To enforce the terms and conditions and other policies for business, legal, or contractual reasons.
  • Respond to legal requests: If The Parks Expert receives a legal request, your data may have to be inspected.
  • Respond to inquiries: Your data may be used if you use the contact forms on the website.
  • Other business purposes: Your information may be used for data analysis, determining the effectiveness of promotional campaigns, and evaluating and improving services, products, and marketing. Your personal information will not be used without your consent.

Will your information be shared?

Your data may be shared with your consent, to perform a contract, or legal obligations to comply with applicable law, government requests, court orders, or a legal process. 

Your data may be shared to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding violations of our policy, fraud, illegal activities, or for litigation purposes of which we are a part.

Your information may be shared with the vendors, consultants, and third-party service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for The Parks Expert or on behalf of The Parks Expert. Examples include payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing efforts. If you share information from parksexpert.com on any social media medium, you are voluntarily disclosing your personal information. It becomes public information and can be collected and used by others. Parksexpert.com does not have control over this collection and takes no responsibility for the use, storage, or dissemination of such publicly disclosed personal information by you.

Who will your information be shared with?

The Parks Expert shares your information with the third parties listed below. If The Parks Expert has processed your data based on your consent and you want to revoke consent, contact riley@parksexpert.com.

  • Paypal
  • Shopify
  • Mediavine

How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

Your information is stored for as long as necessary as set out in the privacy policy unless otherwise required or permitted by law (tax, accounting, legal obligations).

Where Your Data is Sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service (Akismet).

Securing your information

The Parks Expert will not trade, share, or sell your information to any other company without giving you express notification, except for certain third parties who assist The Parks Expert in providing services to you, as listed above. These third parties agree to keep your information private. The Parks Expert will release your information as required by law and if necessary to protect The Parks Expert’s legal rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding or court order, to prevent threats to others or illegal activities, or to prevent abuse of this website.

GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) rights

If you are a resident in the European Economic Area, you are entitled to the following rights:

  • Know what data has been collected about you and how it has been processed
  • Object to the transfer of your personal data from one electronic processing system into another
  • Make changes to inaccurate information
  • Withdraw consent after you have given your personal data
  • Ask for your personal data to be deleted
  • Informed in clear and plain language if you are asked for the consent of your personal data

If you believe The Parks Expert is unlawfully using your information, you have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You can contact them at: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en. 

Affiliate Disclaimer

The Parks Expert has financial relationships with a number of the merchants and companies mentioned on this website.

From time to time, our posts and pages may contain affiliate links, which means we may get compensated/earn a commission at no extra cost to you if the affiliate links are utilized to make a purchase. 

Our editorial content, including the advice we provide for educational purposes and the opinion we express on products, services, and merchants is not influenced in any way by advertisers or affiliate partnerships and the integrity of our content is in no way compromised by such financial relationships.

We only affiliate with products, services, and merchants that we believe will provide value to our readers. We only endorse products, services, and merchants that we have personally used/tested and consider of the highest quality standard.

It remains solely your personal responsibility to conduct your own investigation to determine whether to purchase an affiliate product or service.

You will not rely on any recommendation, reference, or information provided by us and we cannot be held liable or responsible for any damages resulting from your purchase.

We are 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.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act

This website is not directed at children and does not collect information from persons under the age of 13. If your child submitted personally identifiable information to The Parks Expert, please email riley@parksexpert.com, and that information will be deleted.

California Resident’s Privacy Rights

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits users who are California residents to request and obtain information about categories of personal information The Parks Expert discloses to 3rd parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all 3rd parties The Parks Expert shared in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make this request, use the information below to contact The Parks Expert.

Children under 18 years of age may request the removal of content or information posted on The Parks Expert. To request removal, use the information below to contact The Parks Expert and provide a statement that you reside in California.

YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE CCPA

You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to exercise free of charge:

Disclosure of Personal Information We Collect About YouYou have the right to know:
• The categories of personal information we have collected about you;
• The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected;
• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information;
• The categories of third parties with whom we share personal information, if any; and
• The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
Please note that we are not required to:
• Retain any personal information about you that was collected for a single one-time transaction if, in the ordinary course of business, that information about you is not retained;
• Reidentify or otherwise link any data that, in the ordinary course of business, is not maintained in a manner that would be considered personal information; or
• Provide personal information to you more than twice in a 12-month period.
Personal Information Sold or Used for a Business PurposeIn connection with any personal information we may sell or disclose to a third party for a business purpose, you have the right to know:
• The categories of personal information that we disclosed about you for business purposes.
You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to opt-out of the disclosure of your personal information. If you exercise your right to opt-out of the disclosure of your personal information, we will refrain from disclosing your personal information, unless you subsequently provide express authorization for the disclosure of your personal information. 
Please send an email to riley@parksexpert.com if you do not want your information disclosed to third parties.

Online Privacy Policy Only

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in The Parks Expert. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

The Parks Expert has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When we do, we will revise the updated date at the top of this page. We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.

Who to contact about this privacy policy

If you have questions or comments, you can email riley@parksexpert.com.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its Terms and Conditions.