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Privacy Policy
This privacy policy sets out how Two Weeks in Costa Rica, Inc. uses and protects any information that you give while using www.twoweeksincostarica.com.
Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Two Weeks in Costa Rica, Inc. may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from June 2015 on.
Who we are
Our company is Two Weeks in Costa Rica, Inc. and our web address is www.twoweeksincostarica.com. Should you have any questions or concerns about the data we hold about you, we can be contacted using the information below:
Physical address: 411 Walnut St. #6150, Green Cove Springs, FL 32043.
Electronic Correspondence: info(at)twoweeksincostarica(dot)com
What we collect
Comments
When visitors leave comments on our 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.
If you do not submit a comment on the website, no data will be collected in that regard.
Contact forms
We collect personal information such as your first and last name, email address, and other data relevant to booking travel arrangements through our contact forms. We keep contact form submissions for as long as is necessary to complete your booking request(s), but do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes. We never sell your information to third parties.
If you do not use or submit an online form on the website, no data will be collected in that regard.
Cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use analytics cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
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.
We also place tracking cookies on behalf of our affiliates, Amazon Associates, AWIN, Commission Junction, and Impact.com. This helps us track web page traffic that we send to our partnering affiliates. If you purchase a product or service after clicking on a link for one of our affiliates, the cookie informs our affiliate that the transaction should be credited to our website. Non-personal data such as time of visits and content viewed are collected. Tracking cookies may expire immediately or after a set amount of time. This varies depending on our affiliate partner but typically does not last more than 30 days.
By clicking on a link for one of our affiliates, you may be directed to the affiliate’s website via the internet domains of a third-party marketing website, which uses cookies.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). 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.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to better understand what people look at on our website. When people visit our site, information about their visit (such as which pages they look at, how long they spend on the site, etc.) is sent in an anonymous form to Google Analytics (which is controlled by Google).
As analytics information is not personal data, we do not specifically ask for your prior consent.
For more information on how Google uses data from sites that use their services, visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites?hl=en-US
If you would like to prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics, you may download and install an add-on for your web browser by visiting https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
Who we share your data with
Payment Processors
If you choose to have our company book travel services for you, we will share your name and email address with our third party payment processors, PayPal or Stripe. This is so that we can send you an electronic invoice or so that you can make a payment online.
PayPal’s privacy policy can be found here (https://www.paypal.com/en/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full).
Stripe’s privacy policy can be found here (https://stripe.com/privacy).
E-commerce Platform
We collect information about you during the checkout process on our e-commerce platform .
What we collect and store
While you visit our site’s store, we’ll track:
The products you’ve viewed. We’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed.
Your location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping.
Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order.
We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site (see section above on Cookies).
Purchases
When you purchase from us, we may ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:
- Send you information about your account and order
- Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
- Process payments and prevent fraud
- Set up your account for our store
- Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
- Improve our store offerings
- Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them
If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.
Who on our team has access
Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:
- Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
- Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.
Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill orders, process refunds and support you.
Our team members do not have access to your personal payment information such as credit card details.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment or forum question, the comment or question and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments or questions automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
If you submit a contact form for a travel booking or use our online store, we will retain your data for only as long as is necessary to complete your booking request. We will retain the data for a maximum of 12 months.
If you become a customer by purchasing merchandise or booking hotels, tours, transportation, or other travel-related items, we may retain your data for up to 10 years. This allows us to keep accurate financial records for legal and tax purposes.
What rights you have over your data
If you have left data, comments, or questions on this site, 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 & third-party applications we use on this site
This section covers third-party services we use on our website and how these services use your data.
Brevo
Our website uses Brevo to allow visitors to subscribe to our newsletter. If you choose to subscribe to our newsletter, Brevo collects your name and email address. It may also collect information about your device and interaction with our emails. They use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect some of this information. For more information visit
https://www.brevo.com/legal/privacypolicy/
If you do not subscribe to our newsletter, no data will be collected in that regard.
If you have previously subscribed to our newsletter and would like to unsubscribe, you may unsubscribe via the newsletter link or by contacting us.
Google Cloud CDN
To enhance the server speed and security of our website, we use the content delivery network (CDN) services of Google. Your browser connects though the Google CDN to our server. This means that Google processes all data that is sent from or to this website. The use of Google is done in the interest of a secure and fast accessibility of our website. More information on Google and the DSGVO/GDPR can be found at https://cloud.google.com/security/overview and https://cloud.google.com/security/compliance
Akismet
This page uses Akismet, an anti-spam service. Akismet collects information about visitors who comment on our website, including the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself). Akismet’s privacy policy can be found at https://automattic.com/privacy-notice/.
Google Web Fonts
For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.
For this purpose, your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our plugin. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.
Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
YouTube
Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.
If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.
If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under
https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.
Our website includes plugins for the social network Facebook, Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. For an overview of Facebook plugins, see https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins.
When you visit our site, a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server is established via the plugin. This enables Facebook to receive information that you have visited our site from your IP address. If you click on the Facebook “Like button” while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our site to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate visits to our site with your user account. Please note that, as the operator of this site, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted to Facebook or of how Facebook uses these data. For more information, please see Facebook’s privacy policy at https://www.facebook.com/privacy/center/
If you do not want Facebook to associate your visit to our site with your Facebook account, please log out of your Facebook account.
How we protect your data
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Controlling your personal information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anyone for direct marketing purposes.
If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes by subscribing to our newsletter, you may change your mind at any time. Simply unsubscribe via the newsletter link or contact us.
We will not sell, distribute, or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
Advertising
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.
Other Terms
Affiliates
Some of the links on our website are connected to affiliate programs that we have joined. If you make a purchase using one of our affiliate links, we get a small commission. This costs you nothing extra than if you purchased directly. Even if we didn’t receive a commission, we would still be recommending these products/services as we use them personally and believe they will benefit our readers.
Whenever we give an affiliate link on our site, we expressly note on the individual page that it is an affiliate link.
Amazon.com Required Disclosure
Two Weeks in Costa Rica, Inc. is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to www.amazon.com.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide while visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Email subscriptions
Two Weeks in Costa Rica, Inc. is committed to protecting your privacy. Under no circumstances will we sell, rent, or trade any information that visitors of the site or newsletter subscribers provide.
Disclosures
Occasionally, we are asked to review a product or service on this website. We always explicitly indicate in the article whenever an item or service is reviewed in exchange for an article. If you don’t see a disclosure, then we paid for the good or service.
Disclaimer of liability
The information on this website is intended to provide helpful and informative material on the subjects addressed herein. Although we have taken all reasonable care to provide accurate information, we are not liable for any errors or omissions, or any losses, injuries, or damages arising from its display or use.
Last Updated: March 8, 2023