Privacy Policy

Always Wander will always be transparent.

This Privacy Policy page describes how information is collected and processed on AlwaysWander.info (the "Site") through third-party services including Squarespace, Google Analytics, Google AdSense, Medivavine Journey, and affiliate partners.

An additional note is that as Always Wander, I do NOT collect any data on my users for personal database use. I do collect email addresses in Squarespace for my Quarterly Newsletter, but that is purely voluntary on your part. I do not sell or share those email addresses with any third parties for ANY reason.

1. Information Collection and Hosting

This Site is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website to power the Site’s operations and to protect and improve its platform and services. This data may include:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this Site

  • Your IP address

Squarespace requires this data to run the Site, and to analyze the data in a de-identified, aggregated form.

2. Analytics and Performance

Google Analytics is active on this Site to track and report website traffic. This service uses cookies to collect data regarding user behavior and device types. This information is used by the service to create reports on Site activity.

3. Advertising and Cookies

Google AdSense is used to serve advertisements on the Site.

  • Google uses cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this Site or other websites.

  • Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this Site and/or other sites on the Internet.

  • You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings.

4. Affiliate Disclosure and Tracking

This Site participates in affiliate marketing programs. This means that certain links on the Site are affiliate links. If a visitor clicks on one of these links and performs an action (such as a purchase), the affiliate network may use cookies to track the referral for the purpose of assigning a commission. These cookies are managed by the respective affiliate networks and are subject to their own privacy policies.

5. Third-Party Links

The Site contains links to external websites. These external sites are not operated by the owner of this Site. Please be aware that the owner of this Site has no control over the content and practices of these third-party sites and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy policies.

6. Managing Cookies

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. However, limiting the ability of websites to set cookies may impact the overall user experience.

7. Mediavine Journey

The Website may work in the future 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 (https://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-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 the National Advertising Initiative opt out page (https://thenai.org/opt-out/). You may also visit the Digital Advertising Alliance website (http://optout.aboutads.info/) and Network Advertising Initiative website(http://optout.networkadvertising.org/) to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app (https://youradchoices.com/appchoices) 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 (https://www.mediavine.com/ad-partners/).