Welcome to Mexico’s Magic Destinations’ Privacy Policy
Mexico’s Magic Destinations respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit and use our website (mexicosmagicdestinations.com) and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
We periodically update this Privacy Policy. We will post any privacy policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice by sending you an email notification.
While we will notify you of any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our treatment of the information you provide us, please contact us using our contact form.
Who we are
Mexico’s Magic Destinations is travel blog where we post articles and information about travel in Mexico and places to visit. We occasionally offer local retreats, as well as promoting tours through our sister company, Adventure Quests International (adventurequestsintl.com). The purpose of this website is to provide information to others about real-world travel in Mexico.
Our website address is: https://MexicosMagicDestinations.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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.
Website forms
This website uses a Contact Forms for sending us inquiries, general emails, etc. We also have an opt in form to sign up and receive our email newsletter. The newsletter is managed through a third-party email service: MailChimp.com. They maintain your data on their servers. Their privacy policy is at https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.
The personal content you have entered is stored on this site indefinitely. If you would like to review the data we have stored or ask for it to be deleted, please contact us.
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 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.
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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
Mexico’s Magic Destinations collects your information strictly as a way to contact you in the future and to send emails of destination articles, offerings and other information you may be interested in. We do not share your personal data with other parties.
How long we retain your data
Information stored in forms is stored on our website and retained indefinitely. The booking of accommodations is handled through Airbnb.com or VBRO.com. Booking, correspondence, ratings, etc. regarding your personal accommodations is handled and stored on their websites. Please refer to their Privacy Policies.
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 completed a form 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.
Your contact information
Contact us to request copies of your personal data or to have your personal data removed from our site.
Security
We use various safeguards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or via mobile device, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Payments
For products sold directly through this site, we use a third-party to process the payments.
We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.
The payment processors we work with is: Paypal
Paypal’s Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
Links To Other Sites
Our Service may contain links to other 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 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 or services.