As we highly appreciate our Visitors’ Privacy, smarttraveladvices is fully aware of the importance of protecting the privacy of all our Website Users and collect only the necessary personal data for the purpose to provide the best experience for you.
All \”personal information\” that you provide us will be protected and kept confidential between our company and its affiliates, in accordance with the terms set out in this Privacy Policy.
This document explains policies of smarttraveladvices regarding the collection, use, and revelation of personal information. smarttraveladvices committed to the applicable privacy legislation.
THE INFORMATION WE GATHER
smarttraveladvices collects information using a number of different methods that include information provided actively by its customers and tools like cookies to improve the user experience of the website. Be aware that most web browsers are configured to accept cookies. However, you can change that in your browser and reject all cookies or indicate when a cookie is sent, and/or simply you can delete cookies at any time. Most of what you probably consider personal data is collected directly from you when:
Create an account (e-mail address, name, age, gender, IP address, and other related technical information)
Contact us for assistance
Click on any of the links that we send you by email to change preferences, edit your profile, and/or cancel your account.
Cookies and similar technologies on our websites give us the possibility to track your browsing behavior, links you click, the device you use, and accumulate different data, including analytics, on the way you use and interact with our Pages. This allows us to provide you with more related content and a better experience on our sites and analyze, enhance the performance of our articles. We can also collect your location (IP address) in order to customize our services.
You can visit our Cookie Policy for more details and have an idea about how to manage technologies we make use of.
HOW WE USE COLLECTED INFORMATION
The collected information is used to provide web services. smarttraveladvices can use aggregate or anonymous information that will not be linked to any identified Individuals for different uses for itself or for third parties. This information is only for the purpose to make improvements to our site.
Whom WE SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH
We can share your personal data with affiliated companies within our company family, with third parties who have partnered with us to enable you to incorporate their services into our own services, and with trusted third-party service providers that are essential for them to execute services on our site, like:
Advertising services
Analyzing our services and customer demographics.
Contacting you whether via email or survey delivery
Customer relationship management.
We only share your personal information as needed for any third party to provide services as requested or as needed on our behalf. These third parties (and every subcontractor) are subject to strict data processing terms and conditions and are not allowed to use, share or store your personal data for any purpose other than those specifically contracted for (or without your accord). In one way or another, these third parties are not allowed to use your information for any other purpose other than those stated.
Abroad Transfer of personal data: in case you visit our website from a country different from the country where our servers are located, your communications with us may result in the transfer of your personal data across international borders.
Website analytics: We use several web analytics tools provided by service partners like Google Analytics to gather information about the way you interact with our website or mobile applications, including pages you visit, the time you spend on each page, operating system, and web browser you use and network and IP information. Information provided by such tools allows us to improve our Services.
These tools use persistent cookies in your browser to identify you as a unique user on your next visit to our website. only the service provider (ex: Google for Google Analytics) can make use of these cookies. The information collected from cookies may be communicated to and stored by these service partners on servers in a country different from the one where you live.
Although the collected information does not comprise personal data like name, address, contact information, billing information, etc., the collected information is used and shared by these service providers in accordance with their individual privacy policies. You can control the technologies utilize by managing your browser\’s settings either via our Cookie Policy or the ‘cookie banners” that may be presented (based on the URL of the website you visit) when you first visit our webpages.
Targeted ads: Targeted ads or interest-based offers can be displayed to you depending on the way you use our webpages, other websites, and based on the products you currently own. These offers will be displayed as banners of various products that will be presented to you while browsing. We also work in partnership with third parties to manage our advertising on our webpages and other websites. Our third-party partners may use technologies as of the example of cookies to collect information about your activities to provide you with advertisements based on your browsing activities and interests and to measure the effectiveness of advertising. If you want to disable interest-based advertising, click here [or if you live in the European Union, click here]. Please keep in mind that you will continue to receive generic ads.
Third-party websites: Our website comprises links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of third-party sites. Please take the time to read the privacy policy of any website you visit.
OUR COOKIES POLICY
When you visit or interact with our site or messaging, our authorized service providers or we may use cookies, web beacons, and other related technologies to enhance your browsing experience, make it faster and more secure, for advertising purposes. In addition, to enable us to constantly improve our sites and tools.
We hope that the information below will help you to have clear and complete information about the technologies we use and the purposes for which we make use of them. However, if you have any additional questions or need further information, check our Privacy Policy or contact us.
Your consent: By using our websites, services, applications, tools, or messaging, you automatically agree to our use of cookies, web beacons, and other related technologies that are described in our Privacy Policy.
What are cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies? These technologies are basically small data files positioned on your computer, tablet, mobile phone, or other devices that give us the possibility to store information when you make a visit or interact with our websites, service, applications, messaging, and other tools. Although, these technologies are often called “Cookies,” each one works slightly differently, and is explained in more details below:
Cookies: referred to as small text files (usually consisting of letters and numbers) that are placed in the browser memory or your device when you visit a website or view a message. Cookies enable websites to identify a particular device or browser. There are many types of cookies:
Session cookies expire at the end of your browser session and permit us to link your actions during certain browser sessions. Cookies are constantly stored on your device between browser sessions, letting us to remember your preferences or actions on several sites. First-party cookies are cookies that are defined by the website visited by the user at that time to maintain your settings (eg, while you are visiting our site).
Third-party cookies are placed in your browser by a website or domain other than the website or domain you are currently visiting. If a user visits a website and another entity sets a cookie through this website, this would be a third-party cookie.
When you visit a website by means of cookies, you may be requested to fill out a form providing personal information like your name, email address, and interests. This information is packaged in cookies and sent to your browser (Chrome, Firefox, etc.), which then stores information to use it later. The next time you enter the same website, your browser will send a cookie to the server. The message is sent back to the server every time the browser requests a page from the server.
Web beacons: small files (also called \”pixels\”, \”image tags\” or \”script tags\”) that can be loaded into our sites, applications, and tools, which can work in conjunction with cookies to recognize our users and deliver anonymous data on their behavior.
Similar technologies: are technologies that store information in your browser or device with the use of local shared objects or local storage such as flash cookies, HTML 5 cookies, and different Web application software methods. These technologies can work on different browsers. In some cases, they may not be fully managed by your browser and may require direct management through your installed applications or devices. We do not use these technologies to store information in order to send you advertisements on or off our sites.
WHAT TYPES OF TECHNOLOGIES DO WE USE AND WHY?
Our cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies have several purposes, but are generally necessary or essential to the operation of our sites or messaging, help us improve their performance, and provide targeted advertising features. More precisely:
Performance: \’Performance\’ cookies, web beacons and similar technologies gather information about the way you use our website. For example, the pages you visit and if you encounter errors. These cookies do not collect any information that can identify you and only serve to help us improve the functioning of our website, to understand what interests our users, and to measure the effectiveness of our content by providing anonymous statistics and data about the use of our website. The acceptance of these technologies is a prerequisite for the use of our sites, services, applications, tools, or messaging. Therefore, if you prevent their loading, we can not guarantee your use or the level of site security during your visit.
Functionality: cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies are for the purpose to provide services or to memorize parameters to improve your browsing experience
Advertising: Websites, applications or tools may place first or third-party cookies and web beacons, to provide content, comprising product-related advertisements, pertinent to your specific interests on our sites or on third party sites. These technologies allow us to understand the usefulness of our advertising and improve the relevance of the content provided to our users.
We also utilize third-party service providers to help us in providing the same functions, meaning that our approved service providers can also place cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies on your device through our services (third-party cookies). ). They can also gather data that aids them to recognize your devices, like the IP address or other unique device identifiers.
HOW TO MANAGE COOKIES
You can block cookies by activating the setting of your browser, which allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Though, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including necessary cookies), it can limit the use of specific features of our website or service. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings to refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies once you enter our site. Please keep in mind that, as described in more detail in our Privacy Policy, we are not currently changing our practices when we receive a \”do not track\” signal from the browser of visitors.
The Internet browsers give you the possibility to change your cookie settings. These settings are usually found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your internet browser. To understand these settings, the following links may be useful. Else, you should use the ‘Help’ option in your internet browser for further details.
Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
Cookie settings in Firefox
Cookie settings in Chrome
Cookie settings in Safari
Please keep in mind that if you wish to withdraw your accord, at any time, you will have to delete your cookies using your internet browser settings.
YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES
Users can post information on the website (registration may be needed), which you may or may not share with other users. Users can make privacy choices by selecting the options here. Your default privacy settings will be the most privacy-friendly settings with the least amount of sharing. Users should keep in mind the privacy choices they have made and avoid publishing information they do not wish to share in light of these choices. User information is kept by smarttraveladvices as long as you keep a login ID and profile, and for a period of up to 2 years after the termination of your profile. However, as a user, you can choose to terminate your profile and ask smarttraveladvices to delete all their personal information.
SECURITY
The protection of your information is one of the main concerns of our company. Personal information is protected by security measures that are in accordance with the nature of the information.
ACCESSING INFORMATION
If a person believes that some of his or her personal information on the website is inexact and that this information can not be changed, you can contact the privacy policy of smarttraveladvices to demand the appropriate corrections.
GENERAL
We can modify this policy without prior notice. Please check again from time to time. If such modifications affect the way that smarttraveladvices uses or reveals personal information that already held by smarttraveladvices in a material way, smarttraveladvices will get the approval.
This policy was last updated on June 02, 2025.
Regardless of the general provisions of this policy, the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information may be carried out outside the provisions herein to the extent that it is governed by applicable privacy or other applicable laws from time to time, or in accordance with a court order.
smarttraveladvices may reveal personal information to another entity that purchases (including for purposes of diligence before purchase) the possessions of smarttraveladvices, provided that entity complies with this or similar privacy policy.
CONTACT US
For additional information about smarttraveladvices and privacy or if you have any questions or comments about this privacy policy, please use the Contact Us page to contact our Privacy Officer.