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Privacy policy

At Ottawa Road Trips (https://ottawaroadtrips.com), we work hard to earn your confidence and trust. Keeping your personal data safe is a key part of that goal. This privacy policy explains how we collect and use personal information via our website, newsletter, social media accounts and other services. It discusses the few instances when we may disclose it to others and explains how we keep it secure.

Who is Ottawa Road Trips?

Ottawa Road Trips is a website based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, that provides travel tips related to day trips, weekend getaways and longer vacations from Ottawa. It is owned and managed by Laura Paquet, who writes the majority of posts and the e-newsletter. Other writers contribute posts from time to time.

Our mailing address is as follows:

P.O. Box 77002
1166 Bank Street
Ottawa ON K1S 3X0
Canada

How does Ottawa Road Trips collect personal information?

We collect data when you enter information on a contact form, subscribe to our newsletter, submit a comment or interact with Ottawa Road Trips on social media.

How does Ottawa Road Trips use my personal information?

We use your information to run the website, distribute the newsletter, answer your questions, do research, and provide useful content and ads.

What types of personal information does Ottawa Road Trips collect?

We try to keep the personal information we collect about you to a minimum, to enhance your privacy.

Cookies

Ottawa Road Trips uses cookies to store your preferences, record information on the pages you visit, and customize content based on your browser type or other information you share with us. Third-party services may also use these cookies.

When someone visits Ottawa Road Trips, we use a third-party service called Google Analytics to collect standard Internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out how many people are visiting particular posts on the site, for instance. This information is only processed in a way that does not identify anyone. We do not try, nor allow Google to try, to learn the identities of visitors to our website. For more details on Google’s use of personal data, see Google’s privacy policy.

You can control the collection of cookies, or delete existing cookies, at any time using the privacy settings of your web browser (such as Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer). If you do so, however, you may not be able to use all of the functions on the Ottawa Road Trips website.

Newsletter mailing list

When you subscribe to our weekly e-newsletter, we collect personal information. We use it to send you the newsletter; to contact you if we need to get or provide additional information; and to check occasionally that you’re still enjoying the newsletter and the website.

We use a third-party provider, MailChimp, to deliver our newsletter. To improve the newsletter and keep it relevant, we gather statistics on e-mail opening and clicks using industry-standard technologies. For details, please see MailChimp’s privacy policy. You can unsubscribe to the newsletter at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the Ottawa Road Trips newsletter or by sending an e-mail to Laura Paquet.

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.

Does Ottawa Road Trips share my personal information with others?

Personal data

We do not share your personal data—such as your name, e-mail address or IP address—with third parties, or sell or rent it to anyone, unless we are required to do so for legal reasons.

Anonymized data

Anonymized data” means statistics from which all identifying personal information has been removed. For instance, we can see the number of people who have viewed a certain Ottawa Road Trips post on a particular day, but we can’t see their names or e-mail addresses.

We may share anonymized personal information with other organizations, particularly potential advertisers who want to know how many people visit the site in order to decide whether it is useful to advertise with us. We may also share such information with professional organizations, such as travel writers’ associations, for the purposes of qualifying for membership.

How does Ottawa Road Trips keep my personal information secure?

To protect the security, confidentiality and integrity of your personal data, we use various safeguards, including the following:

  • ensuring the physical security of our offices and other sites
  • ensuring the digital security of our devices by using passwords and other protective measures
  • using standard security mechanisms—such as secure socket layer (SSL) encryption—to transmit sensitive data

How I can get access to my personal information with Ottawa Road Trips?

At any time, you are entitled to view, amend or delete the personal information that we hold. Please e-mail your request to Laura Paquet.

How does Ottawa Road Trips handle information submitted by children?

Ottawa Road Trips does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that we have such information in our database, please contact Laura Paquet immediately and we will remove that data from our records as quickly as possible.

Can this policy be modified?

Ottawa Road Trips reserves the right to update this privacy policy at any time. We will do our best to let you know about these updates—via the weekly e-newsletter, for example. Please check this page periodically for information on any changes.

This policy was updated on May 30, 2022.