Who we are

SelfishMe Travel LLC, a full-service Travel Agency specializing in helping busy Women design solo or small group Culinary (food, wine, beer & liquor) and Wildlife vacations and getaways to countries in the Southern Hemisphere.

Our website address is: https://selfishmetravel.com

 

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Contact Forms

If you request a trip quote, take a quiz, download one of our guides, request a packing list, or sign up for our mailing list or newsletter, we will store your name, address, email, phone number, and/or travel preferences.

We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store purchase information for at least 10 years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address, and billing and shipping addresses.

Comments

When you 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.

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.

We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update

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.

Blog posts, articles, itineraries, etc.

This site and staff may, on occasion, use systems and language partially generated with OpenAI’s large-scale language-generated model. Upon generating draft language, the author reviewed, edited, and revised the language to their own liking and takes ultimate responsibility for the content of these publications.

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.

 

 

Analytics

Who we share your data with

We don’t share your data with anyone other than approved SelfishMe Travel partners. If we do share your data with these partners it will be solely to organize and book trips. We will not sell your data…ever.

How long we retain your data

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 an account 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.

 

Payments

When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, passport 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 purchase
  • Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
  • Process payments and prevent fraud
  • Set up your account for our future store
  • Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
  • Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them

Who we share your data with

We use industry leaders in secure payments — Auric, Square, and Stripe — to secure you and your data. No data is stored on our servers.

Credit card data is secured by Auric, a third-party, PCI-DSS compliant company, using secure tokens to encrypt payment information you view or use. For more information on Auric, see here.

Direct invoice payments are processed and secured by Stripe. Stripe has been audited by a PCI-certified auditor and is certified to PCI Service Provider Level 1. This is the most stringent level of certification available in the payments industry. For more information on Stripe, see here.

You can read more about Square’s security standards here.

 

Additional Information

By accessing this website and utilizing our services means that you agree to these Terms & Conditions.

Complianz GDPR Cookie Consent does not process any personally identifiable information, which means there’s no need to add text about this plugin to your privacy policy. The used cookies (all functional) will be automatically added to your cookie policy. You can find our cookie policy here.

We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes 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).