Online Privacy Policy
Effective date: December 2023
This Privacy Policy applies to information about you that LTF Guides (“LTF”, “we”, “our”, “us”) may obtain when you visit www.ltfguides.com (the “Site”). This Privacy Policy describes how we may collect, use, or share information about you; your choices regarding our use of your information; how we safeguard such information; and how you may contact us regarding our privacy practices.
Information We Collect
a. Personal Information You Provide
We may collect personal information (including name, address, telephone number, email address, and payment information) when you:
- Place an order
- Inquire about our services
- Create an account on the Site
- Subscribe to our email newsletter
- Enter a contest or sweepstake
- Participate in a marketing survey, promotion, or event
- Submit a review
- Sign up for a class or trip
b. Information Collected Automatically
We use various tools and technologies like cookies and web server logs to collect information automatically on the Site. This information may include IP addresses, device identifiers, browser characteristics, operating system details, internet service provider details, language preferences, referring URLs, time and length of visits, and pages viewed.
These tools also may include GPS (global positioning systems) software, geo-filtering, and other location-aware technologies to locate you, sometimes precisely, for purposes such as verifying your location and delivering or restricting content based on your location. Our “find a store” feature may access and use information about your device location to suggest appropriate store locations, and our Site may be personalized based on various information we have about you to provide you with more location-relevant content.
“Cookies” are small data files stored by your web browser on your computer. Cookies may allow a website to recognize a user’s device, record user preferences, track the pages a user clicks on while visiting the website, and identify the website visited immediately beforehand. Most web browsers accept cookies by default, but you may be able to adjust your browser settings to remove or reject cookies. Please note that blocking cookies may affect the availability and functionality of this Site and other websites. Also, disabling cookies may invalidate opt-outs that use cookies to recognize devices that have opted out.
We may combine certain automatically collected information with other information we obtain about you, which may include data we obtain from third parties.
Please note that we or third parties may collect personal information about your online activities over time and across different devices and online properties when you use the Site.
Your web browser may have settings that allow you to transmit a “Do Not Track” signal when you visit various websites or use online services. Like many websites, the Site is not designed to respond to “Do Not Track” signals received from browsers. To learn more about “Do Not Track” signals, visit www.allaboutdnt.com.
c. Information Collected By Other Parties
Our service providers may share with us your personal information that you submit to them. For example, if you pay for a purchase using PayPal or Stripe, you may submit personal information to one or more of our service providers that may share your information with us. We may combine information that we have about you with information we obtain from other parties. When you submit information to another party, you are subject to that third party’s terms of use and privacy policies, for which we are not responsible.
Use of Personal Information
At LTF Guides, we always want to provide you with the best possible experience – both online and offline. Accordingly, we may use your personal information to:
- Process and track your order or deposit
- Provide the services you request
- Contact you about the status of a purchase or trip deposit
- Send you the LTF Guides email newsletter
- Identify your product and/or service preferences
- Customize our communications to you
- Advertise products and services and improve the effectiveness of our advertising
- Provide information concerning product recalls or products you have purchased
- Improve our merchandise selection and customer service
- Administer sweepstakes, similar promotions and identify or publicize the winner(s) in accordance with the rules for that promotion
Sharing of Personal Information
We may share your personal information with affiliates, business partners, vendors (e.g., payment processors, shippers, sweepstakes promoters, and website developers), and other parties.
In the event of a business transaction, such as if we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets (e.g., further to a merger, reorganization, liquidation, or any other business transaction, including negotiations of such transactions), we reserve the right to disclose any information we obtain through the Site.
In addition, we may disclose your personal information if we are required to do so by law or we believe that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with legal processes such as a search warrant, subpoena, or court order
- Protect the company’s rights and property
- Investigate reports of fraud or of users sending material using a false email address or users sending harassing, threatening, or abusive messages
- Protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the Site
- Respond to emergencies, such as when we believe someone’s physical safety is at risk.
Analytics & Advertising
Our vendors, including Google, Facebook or Instagram (Meta), Stripe, etc., may use cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies to collect or receive information about your internet usage, including your use of this Site, and use that information to provide website statistics and to target ads. We and our vendors may use first-party cookies or other first-party identifiers as well as third-party cookies or other third-party identifiers to deliver advertisements, create a profile of you, measure your interests, detect your demographics, detect your location, and personalize content.
We may use certain web analytics services, including Google Analytics and Facebook Analytics, to help us understand and analyze how visitors use the Site and to serve ads on our behalf across the Internet. We’ve implemented Google Analytics Advertising Features such as remarketing with analytics, interest-based advertising, demographics and interests reporting, user segment analysis, and impression reporting. For more information on how Google Analytics uses data collected through the Site, visit policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You may also be able to opt out of Google Analytics by visiting tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
You may be able to opt out of certain interest-based advertising using the settings on your browser or mobile device. In addition, the following services or organizations offer tools that you can use to limit or opt out of interest-based advertising:
- To change your privacy and advertising settings with Facebook, login to your Facebook account and navigate to your account settings.
- To opt out of Google’s network of interest-based advertising, visit adssettings.google.com.
- To opt out of interest-based advertising from companies that participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance or Network Advertising Initiative opt-out programs, please visit youradchoices.com/control and optout.networkadvertising.org.
Your opt-out choice may apply only to the browser or device you are using when you opt out, so you should opt out on each of your browsers and devices if you want to disable interest-based advertising for those browsers and devices. If you opt out, you will still receive ads, but they may not be as relevant to you and your interests. Please note that we do not control how third parties manage their opt-out processes.
Social Features
The Site may permit you to interact with social media platforms operated by unaffiliated parties, for example, to “like” LTF Guides or to share content from the Site on those platforms (“Social Features”). If you choose to “like” or share content or post information using Social Features, that information may be publicly displayed, and the party operating the other platform may receive certain information about you and your use of the Site. Similarly, if you interact with us through Social Features (e.g., if you “like” or “follow” our page on another platform), we may have access to information about you from that platform. Please note that if you mention or comment about LTF Guides, use #LTFGuides or our Site in your post on another platform, that platform may allow us to publish your post on our Site. In addition, we may receive information about you if a user on a social media platform gives us access to their profile and you are one of their connections, or information about you is otherwise accessible through that other user. You should review the terms, policies, and settings of these other platforms to learn more about their data practices and/or adjust your settings.
Sweepstakes, Contests, and Similar Promotions
We may operate sweepstakes, contests, raffles, and similar promotions (each, a “Promotion”) jointly sponsored or offered by third parties that may require submitting personal information. If you choose to participate in a Promotion, your personal information may be disclosed to third parties as described in the terms applicable to that Promotion. Insofar as the terms applicable to a particular Promotion conflict with this Privacy Policy, the terms applicable to the Promotion shall control.
Your Choices
Communications Preferences
If you no longer wish to receive our email newsletter, you may unsubscribe using the link provided in the email newsletter.
Accessing, Reviewing & Changing Your Personal Information
Registered users can review and change certain personal information (e.g., name, address, telephone number, email address, and payment information) at any time by accessing their account on the Site.
Links to Other Sites
Occasionally we provide links on our Site to other sites we think you will enjoy. These sites operate independently of LTF Guides and have established their own privacy and security policies. LTF Guides does not have any control over and is not responsible for, these sites’ privacy practices. For the best online experience, we strongly encourage you to review these policies on any site you visit.
Security
We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from loss, theft, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Nevertheless, transmission via the Internet and online digital storage are not completely secure, so we cannot guarantee the security of your information collected through the Site.
Information for Users Outside the United States
Please note that LTF Guides is based in the USA and that personal information submitted to the Site will be transferred to a server in the USA and will be processed by staff operating in the USA. By submitting personal information through the Site to LTF Guides, you consent to this transfer, processing, and storage. Please be aware that the data protection laws and regulations that apply to your personal information transferred to the United States or other countries may be different from the laws in your country of residence.
Children’s Privacy
Our Site is not intended for use by children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If we become aware that we have obtained personal information from a child under the age of 13 we will delete such information in accordance with applicable law.
Policy Changes
This Privacy Policy is subject to change at our discretion. We will indicate changes to the Privacy Policy by updating the “Effective date” at the beginning of the Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this Site after any update to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of the changes.
Contact Us
For questions, comments, or assistance, you may contact us at: