Disclosure & Privacy Policy
Terms of Use
Roam Where is exclusively for general information purposes, and it is written, managed, and edited by me (author) and Alexander.
Thank you for reading this website and following me on my travels! Please note that you are reading at your own risk and of your own free will. If you do not accept the terms contained in this disclaimer and privacy policy, it is probably best to leave this website.
I love to hear what you think, so feel free to contact me (rachel@roamwhere.com). Note that vulgarity and/or inappropriate conduct will not be tolerated. If there is something that I feel that will subject me to a third-party liability or that I find offensive, it will be removed from this website.
Copyrights
As a professional blogger and content creator, I keep the full copyrights to all my work – on this blog and on my social media channels. If you’d like to buy photos or a piece of writing, please contact me at rachel@roamwhere.com. Without my explicit permission, it is illegal for you to use any of my content; credit or a backlink doesn’t count. The content on this site is protected by copyright laws, and it cannot be used for commercial purposes by others unless an agreement is made.
Affiliate Links
I always disclose if a product or service was obtained free of charge or paid for by a sponsor. Unless otherwise noted, I pay for my own trips and expenses.
Articles on this blog may contain affiliate links. If you click on an affiliate link on my website, it will come with a tracking code. If you purchase a product after clicking on my affiliate link, I will earn a small commission at no further cost to you. If a blog post includes any affiliate links, I put a disclaimer at the top of the post with a link to this very disclosure policy.
As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Liability
Once you have purchased a product from my affiliate links, I, Rachel Boyles or the website Roam Where is not liable or responsible for the product quality or satisfaction. The support, review or return of that product must be progressed with the company in question.
Sponsored or Gifted Travel
Sometimes my trip will be fully sponsored (paid for) by a tourism board or brand, and I will receive no extra payment. But, in some cases, I will also be paid for this trip too. This is usually in exchange for deliverables like blog post reviews, photos, social media posts etc.
From time to time, I may only be sponsored for part of a trip;
Hotels: I may be gifted a stay in a hotel in exchange for a review/social media photos
Restaurants: I may be invited to eat at a restaurant in exchange for a review and social media shout outs
Entrance fees: Sometimes the entrance fee to an attraction may be gifted in exchange for deliverables
Trips: I often go on food tours, day trips, sightseeing, or walking tours which may be sponsored (paid for) by the company in exchange for a review.
Gifted Products
Many brands/companies get in touch with me to collaborate. This usually includes gifting me a product (i.e. a travel pillow/backpacks) or allowing me to trial their product to advertise to my readers.
Transparency
So you are fully aware, I will always disclose when I am sponsored in the following ways;
Social media: I will disclose ‘Ad’ or ‘Sponsored’ on my content and tag the company I am working with.
On my blog: I will always disclose at the bottom of my post what company I have worked with and whether they have sponsored the trip, just part of it, or gifted me a product.
Privacy Policy - How this website stores and collects your information
Analytics
This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps
We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
Cookies
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit the cookies Squarespace uses.
These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
Visitor Data
Form Block Submissions
When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.
Website Visitors
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Web pages you view while on this website
Your IP address
Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.
Blog Comments
This website includes commenting functionality on some pages which enables you to post a comment. This website collects personal data when you post a comment, including:
Your name (which will be displayed as part of your posted comment)
Your email address (optional, to let you know if someone replies to your comment)
Your website URL (optional)
This website includes “likes” functionality on some blog posts which enables you to “like” a post. This website collects personal data when you like a post to try to prevent the same person from liking the same post during the same visit, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share
Your IP address
Emails
We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.
Fonts
This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:
Information about your browser, network, or device
Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it
Your IP address
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics to track the performance of the website and specific content.
Google uses the information shared by sites and apps to deliver their services, maintain and improve them, develop new services, measure the effectiveness of advertising, protect against fraud and abuse, and personalize content and ads you see on Google and on their partners’ sites and apps. See their Privacy Policy to learn more about how they process data for each of these purposes and their Advertising page for more about Google ads, how your information is used in the context of advertising, and how long Google stores this information.
Their Privacy Policy explains the legal grounds Google relies upon to process your information — for example, they may process your information with your consent or to pursue legitimate interests such as providing, maintaining and improving their services to meet the needs of their users.