Who we are
Our website address is https://dishanddiscover.com and the name of our blog is Dish and Discover. The website is dedicated to providing honest, positive reviews of the places we stay and the activities we do as we travel all over the world.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors 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 using the comments section, 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.
Contact forms
When you submit a message from the contact form, we will collect personal information, including your name or email address. This information will remain confidential and will only be used with the purpose to reply to your request.
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.
If you visit our login page, 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.
How to manage cookies
You can set your browser not to accept cookies. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.
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
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
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 profiles. 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.
Your rights include:
- The right to access – You have the right to request Our Company for copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
- The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Our Company correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Our Company to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
- The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Our Company erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Our Company restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Our Company’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Our Company transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
How your information may be used
We may use the information collected in the following ways:
- To operate and maintain the Website;
- To respond to your comments or contact form submissions;
- To track and measure advertising on the Website;
- To protect, investigate, and deter from unauthorized or illegal activity.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Your data will also be sent to Viator via their affiliate marketing program only when a link from Viator is clicked from one of our blog posts.
Additional information
How we protect your data
We strictly limit the collection and processing of your personal data and only work will third-party affiliates who respect personal information as well. We will not use personal data that you provide to us in a manner inconsistent with the purposes for which you provided it to us, as set out above. We do not sell, rent or lease personal data.
Affiliate Program Participation
Dishanddiscover.com may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into blog posts on the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.
Dish and Discover is a participant in the Viator Affiliate Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Viator.com. As part of this program, the Website will post customized links, provided by Viator, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales. To see Viator’s privacy policy, click here.
How to contact us
You can reach the owner of Dish and Discover, Kelly Lecceardone, by email at [email protected].