Who we are
Our website address is: https://explorewithvandy.com.
Privacy Policy
Cookies
When you visit www.explorewithvandy.com, we send one or more cookies (a small file containing a string of characters) to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. These cookies are not personally-identifiable and are crucial to the functioning of some website features.
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 use third party advertisements on www.explorewithvandy.com to support our site. Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to www.explorewithvandy.com. Cookies will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes or interest based ads showing certain ads based on specific sites visited.
Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to you, based on your visit to www.explorewithvandy.com and / or other sites on the Internet.
In order to keep our website services relevant, easy to use and up-to-date, we use google web analytics services to help us understand how people use the site. www.explorewithvandy.com uses cookies to measure the performance of advertising banners, the frequency of display and clicks, as also how many clicks led to conversions. We may use cookies to estimate the total reach of an advertising campaign or frequency of display.
Cookies allow web analytics services to recognize your browser or device and, for example, identify whether you have visited our website before, what you have previously viewed or clicked on, and how you found us. The information is anonymous and only used for statistical purposes, and it helps us to analyze patterns of user activity and to develop a better user experience.
Opt Out
You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the Ads Preference Manager. You may also opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for interest-based advertising by visiting aboutads.info. In addition, you can opt out of several similar programs by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative gateway opt-out site. You can set your browser to decline the cookie. Do note that some www.explorewithvandy.com features and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on www.explorewithvandy.com 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. 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.
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.
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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.