PRIVACY POLICY
Your privacy is important to us
Effective Date: 01-01-2021
It is SYKE Travel & Tours’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to bantayanisland.info (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “bantayanisland.info”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms of service posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms of service.
Who we are
SYKE Travel & Tours is located at:
SYKE Travel & Tours
Saagundo Street, Poblacion,
Santa Fe
6047 Cebu, Philippines
Our website addresses are:
https://travelvisayas.org
https://bantayanisland.info
Table of Contents
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, SYKE Travel & Tours collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. SYKE Travel & Tours’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how SYKE Travel & Tours’s visitors use its website. From time to time, SYKE Travel & Tours may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
SYKE Travel & Tours also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://bantayanisland.info blog posts. SYKE Travel & Tours only discloses logged in user and commenters IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to SYKE Travel & Tours’s websites choose to interact with SYKE Travel & Tours in ways that require SYKE Travel & Tours to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that SYKE Travel & Tours gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who leave a comment at https://bantayanisland.info to provide a username and email address.
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.
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.
Security
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.
Contact forms and Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
SYKE Travel & Tours discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on SYKE Travel & Tours’s behalf or to provide services available at SYKE Travel & Tours’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using SYKE Travel & Tours’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. SYKE Travel & Tours will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, SYKE Travel & Tours discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when SYKE Travel & Tours believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of SYKE Travel & Tours, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of https://bantayanisland.info and have supplied your email address, SYKE Travel & Tours may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with SYKE Travel & Tours and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. SYKE Travel & Tours takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
To enrich and perfect your online experience, SYKE Travel & Tours uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. SYKE Travel & Tours uses cookies to help SYKE Travel & Tours identify and track visitors, their usage of https://bantayanisland.info, and their website access preferences. SYKE Travel & Tours visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using SYKE Travel & Tours’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of SYKE Travel & Tours’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to SYKE Travel & Tours’s use of cookies.
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.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other 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.
Advertisements
Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by SYKE Travel & Tours and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Links To External Sites
Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms of service of every site you visit.
We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.
SYKE Travel & Tours uses Google AdWords for remarketing
SYKE Travel & Tours uses the remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.
You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
SYKE Travel & Tours discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on SYKE Travel & Tours’s behalf or to provide services available at SYKE Travel & Tours’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using SYKE Travel & Tours’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. SYKE Travel & Tours will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, SYKE Travel & Tours discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when SYKE Travel & Tours believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of SYKE Travel & Tours, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of https://bantayanisland.info and have supplied your email address, SYKE Travel & Tours may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with SYKE Travel & Tours and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. SYKE Travel & Tours takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Aggregated Statistics
SYKE Travel & Tours may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. SYKE Travel & Tours may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, SYKE Travel & Tours does not disclose your personally-identifying information.
Affiliate Disclosure
This site uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.
E-commerce
Those who engage in transactions with SYKE Travel & Tours – by purchasing SYKE Travel & Tours’s services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, SYKE Travel & Tours collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with SYKE Travel & Tours. SYKE Travel & Tours does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Business Transfers
If SYKE Travel & Tours, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that SYKE Travel & Tours goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of SYKE Travel & Tours may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, SYKE Travel & Tours may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in SYKE Travel & Tours’s sole discretion. SYKE Travel & Tours encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
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.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
