PRIVACY POLICY

Thank you for visiting glimpseguides.com. Glimpse Guides respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it.  Accordingly, we provide this privacy policy (this “Policy”) explaining our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing information that may be collected when you visit glimpseguides.com.

Please take the time to read this Policy in full.


In general, you can visit our website without providing personal information about yourself.  However, you may voluntarily provide information when you order our products or request our travel services. This information includes your name, email address, address, and payment information.  Glimpse Guides only requests personal information that is adequate, relevant, and reasonably necessary to provide the products and services requested by you.

In addition our site utilizes cookies to collect information about visitors, which includes information such as your IP address, type of web browser, the number of times visited, the average time visited, the time spent on a particular page, and other similar information.  However, the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself.  Please note that cookies cannot read data off of your hard drive.  If you prefer not to receive cookies while browsing our website, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser, but please be advised that by not accepting cookies, some pages may not fully function and you may not be able to access certain information on this website.

You may also engage with Glimpse Guide content through social media services or other third-party platforms or applications, such as Instagram.  When you engage with our content on or through social media services or other third-party platforms or applications, you may allow us to have access to certain information in your profile such as your name, email address, and other information associated with the applicable third party platform or application or social media service.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We may use your information to:

  • Present our website and its content to you

  • Respond to your inquiries

  • Process and fulfill your requests for our products or services

  • Communicate with you about special offers, new products, and other products provided by Glimpse Guides

  • Send you alerts on service related-communications

  • Notify you about changes to our website or any products or services we offer or provide through it

  • Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing for products and services 

  • Provide customer support

  • Analyze and improve the website and our services

  • For any other purpose with your consent

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

Generally, the personal information you provide is never shared outside of Glimpse Guides without your permission, except under certain circumstances. 

We may disclose personal information to service providers or third party partners that we have engaged to perform business-related functions on our behalf. This may include service providers that:

  • Conduct research and analytics

  • Create content

  • Provide customer, technical or operational support

  • Conduct or support marketing (such as email, direct mail or advertising platforms)

  • Fulfill orders and user requests

  • Handle payments

  • Host our website, forums and online communities

  • Maintain databases

  • Send or support online or mobile advertising

  • Otherwise support our website

We may also disclose the information when required to do so by law (i.e., in response to a court order or a subpoena, a law enforcement or government agency's request, or similar request).

We may also disclose the information to service providers or third party partners that we have engaged in order to investigate, prevent, or take action (at our sole discretion) regarding potentially illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to any person; violations of our policies or the law; or to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our website.

We may transfer some or all of your information if we undergo a business transition, like a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or part of our assets, or if a substantial portion of our assets is sold or merged in this way.

DATA SECURITY

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.  Specifically, our website uses squarespace for storage and encryption. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure so we cannot guarantee absolute security.  Should we discover a breach of our security system or an unauthorized disclosure of your personal information, we will provide notice to you in the most expedient manner possible following any such breach or unauthorized disclosure.  

RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We only retain personal information we collect from you where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so.  If there is no legitimate business need, we delete your personal information, and in the event this is not possible, we will securely store your information and isolate it from further processing until deletion is possible.

PUBLICLY DISPLAYED INFORMATION IS PUBLIC

Should you choose to provide any personal information in an entry for one of the Glimpse Guides blogs, you should be aware that that information is visible to any users that access the blog.  Such information can be read, collected, or used by other individuals.  Glimpse Guides is not responsible for the personal information you choose to submit in a blog.

OPTING OUT

If you wish to opt-out or unsubscribe from our communications, there is an unsubscribe option in those emails. You can also email us at info@glimpseguides.com with a specific request to be removed from our email distribution lists, but please understand that Glimpse Guides will still contact you in connection with legitimate business concerns or needs in connection with our products and services.

THIRD-PARTY LINK AND SERVICES

Except as otherwise discussed herein, this Policy only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you.  Other sites accessible through our site have their own privacy policies and data collection, use, and disclosure practices.  Please consult each site’s privacy policy as we are not responsible for the policies or practices of third parties.

CHILDREN UNDER 13

Given that children under 13 years of age are not the target audience for our website, we do not knowingly collect personal information from such children. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that any of your children has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us and we will take immediate steps to remove that information.

INTERNATIONAL USERS

Glimpse Guides abides by the safe harbor framework set forth by the United States Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information collected from the European Union.

PRIVACY RIGHTS UNDER CERTAIN STATE LAWS

If you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, or Virginia, you may have certain privacy rights under the applicable privacy laws in your state (“State Privacy Laws”).  This section describes those rights

  • Right to Know.  You have the right to request information about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, as well as the categories of sources from which the information was collected, the purpose for collecting the information, and the categories of third parties with whom we share the information.

  • Right to Access.  You have the right to request we disclose to you the specific personal information we have collected about you in a potable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format.

  • Right to Correct. You have the right to request that we correct personal information that we hold about you in the event that the personal information is inaccurate, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purpose of processing the personal information.

  • Right to Delete. You have the right to request that we delete any personal information about you that we have collected, subject to the following exceptions: (1) : to complete a transaction for which the personal information was collected, provide a good or service requested by you, or perform a contract we have with you; (2) to detect data security incidents; preserve the integrity or security of systems; or investigate, report, or prosecute those responsible for any such action; or (3) to protect against fraud, harassment, malicious or deceptive activities, or illegal activity or to comply with applicable law or a legal obligation, or exercise rights under the law, such as the right to free speech; to assist another party with any of its obligations under applicable privacy laws

  • Right to Opt-Out of Sale. We do not sell your personal information to third parties, but in the event we did, you have the right to opt out of the sale of your personal information to third parties.

  • Right to Opt-Out of Profiling. You have the right to opt out of the processing of your personal information for profiling you.

  • Right to Opt-Out of Targeted Advertising.  You have the right to opt out of the processing of your personal information for targeted advertising.

  • Right of Disclosure.  You have the right to receive a list of third parties that have received your personal information.

  • Right to Non-Discrimination.  We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under any consumer privacy act.

Additionally, Under California S.B. 27 (“Shine the Light” Law), California residents have the right under certain circumstances to receive, once a year, information about third parties with whom we have shared information about you or your family for their marketing purposes during the previous calendar year, and a description of the categories of personal information shared. To make such a request, please send an email to info@glimpseguides.com and please include the phrase “California Privacy Request” in the subject line, the domain name of the web site you are inquiring about, along with your name, address and email address. We will respond to you within thirty days of receiving such a request.

To submit a request to access, a request to know, a request to correct, or a request to delete please submit a request by contacting us at info@glimpseguides.com. In order to verify your identity, you will need to provide at least three of the following pieces of your information: name, telephone number, e-mail address, mailing address, and last transaction amount. We will match this information to the information on our systems. For an online request to delete, we will also send you a second verification to confirm that you want your information to be deleted. In order to designate an authorized agent to act on your behalf you must provide the authorized agent with written permission to do so, and your authorized agent must submit that written proof at the time they make the request on your behalf. If you wish to make multiple requests under this section, we recommend sending the deletion request last, as we will not be able to fulfill your other requests once we have deleted your information.  We will maintain a record of your request to know or request to delete.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Glimpse Guides may update this Policy from time to time.  We will notify you about material changes by either sending an email message to the email address you most recently provided to us or by prominently posting a notice on our website. We encourage you to periodically check back and review this policy so that you always know what information we collect, how we use it, and with whom we share it.

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us at:
Glimpse Guides

Privacy Policy posted April 29, 2024.