Explore With Spike LLC. Our website address is: https://explorewithspike.com.
We are a travel agency and fine arts photography sales company. If you willingly share information with us in order to book travel, we retain your information for as long as needed in order to successfully and lawfully provide travel agency services. If you voluntarily provide personal information with us in a photograph sale, we retain your information as necessary to complete the transaction and deliver your ordered product. Your name and additional contact information such as phone number and email address may also be securely retained indefinitely for internal notification and marketing purposes. None of this information is shared externally with any third parties without your expressed permission. We do not sell/share data or spam you. In the future, we may create an annual or quarterly email newsletter to notify previous and existing customers of upcoming tours and products but you may opt out at any time.
When visitors leave comments on the ExploreWithSpike.com blog pages, 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.
If you make a payment to Explore With Spike LLC through our third-party Stripe checkout integration, your information is extremely secure. You can see their privacy & security policy here. Payments made through our other third party applications including Venmo and PayPal are secure and protected, please see their respective privacy policies for more information.
If you have voluntarily contacted us or asked to be notified about an upcoming tour, your name and additional contact information such as phone number and email address is securely retained indefinitely for internal notification and marketing purposes. None of this information is shared externally with any third parties without your expressed permission. We do not sell/share data or spam you. In the future, we may create an annual or quarterly email newsletter to notify previous and existing customers of upcoming tours and products but you may opt out at any time.
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
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.
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.
You can 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.
Visitors’ public comments on this blog site may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
You can contact us at any time with questions, comments or concerns: travel@explorewithspike.com
