Date Last Revised: January 30, 2023

While more details are below, we want to make our privacy policy clear and understandable to everyone.

• For anonymous users of the website, we do not collect any personal information.
• For those users who wish to register on our website, we collect the following personal information: your email address, your chosen "display name" which does not need to be your real name, and your travel expenses that are voluntarily entered by you at your discretion. We do not share any personal information unless you choose to share it yourself. All travel expenses entered by you are averaged and aggregated with the expenses from other users and then displayed anonymously. At no point is any travel expense information shared or sold without your permission. At no point is any personal travel expense information displayed to the public without your permission.
• For those users who wish to subscribe to our email newsletter - your email address and your name (if provided) will be maintained on our website.
• We track users anonymously with Google Analytics, which tracks clicks and behavior without using personal information.
• We use advertising platforms that sometimes track users anonymously with cookies, but don't collect personal information.
• This website only use cookies if you are logged in to our website with your account. No personal information is stored inside any cookie.
• Account deletion: any user who desires to have their account deleted (and all related data) may contact us at any time.

As stated above, we do not sell the personal information of our users.

Some of the third party advertising companies that we work with may or may not use personalized information to display advertisments on this website.

Budget Your Trip is committed to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and security of any personal information about our users. This Privacy & Security Policy explains how we protect personal information provided through our website www.BudgetYourTrip.com (the "Site") and how we use that information in connection with our service offered through the Site (the "Service"). "Personal information" for purposes of this Policy means information that identifies you, such as your name or email address.

1. Your Privacy is not for sale

   Simply put, we do not and will not share or sell or rent your personal information to anyone, for any reason, at any time. BudgetYourTrip uses and discloses your personal information only as follows:

   • to analyze site usage and improve the Service;
   • to enforce BudgetYourTrip's Terms of Use; and
   • as otherwise set forth in this Privacy and Security Policy.
   Email Address

   This is a free content site. We do not require any information from you (not even a user name or password). We do not sell any information from our site to any outside party. The only e-mail sent from our websites is in response to an inquiry that you may send us or as a result of joining our double opt-in e-mail list. If anything comes to your attention which could potentially be a violation of this policy, please let us know immediately so that we can investigate it and try to correct it.

2. We limit the collection and use of personal information

   Certain areas and features of BudgetYourTrip.com are available to you without registration or the need to provide to us any information. However, other features of the Site or the Service may require registration, which involves provision to BudgetYourTrip.com of an email address and a password. All other personal information is optional.

   BudgetYourTrip may make anonymous or aggregate personal information and disclose such data only in a non-personally identifiable manner to:

   • Advertisers and other third parties for their marketing and promotional purposes, such as the number of users who visited a particular region or how many users clicked on a particular BudgetYourTrip Offer;
   • Organizations approved by BudgetYourTrip that conduct research into consumer spending; and
   • Users of the Service for purposes of comparison of their spending relative to the broader community and an estimate of expected spending in an area.
   • Such information does not identify you individually. Access to your Registration Information, Account Information and any other personal information you provide is strictly restricted

   We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads and collect information when users visit our site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements on our site, other websites and other forms of media about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, check out http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.

3. Changes to your Registration Information

   If your Registration Information changes during your subscription to BudgetYourTrip, you may update it any time via the Service.

4. Online session information and use is only used to improve your experience

   When you visit BudgetYourTrip.com, we may collect technical and navigational information, such as computer browser type, Internet protocol address, pages visited, and average time spent on our Site. This information may be used, for example, to alert you to software compatibility issues, or it may be analyzed to improve our Web design and functionality.

5. Disclosure of your information to protect our rights or if required by law

   Notwithstanding the foregoing, BudgetYourTrip reserves the right (and you authorize BudgetYourTrip) to share or disclose your personal information when BudgetYourTrip determines, in its sole discretion, that the disclosure of such information is necessary or appropriate:

   • To enforce our rights against you or in connection with a breach by you of this Privacy and Security Policy or the BudgetYourTrip.com Terms of Use;
   • To prevent prohibited or illegal activities; or
   • When required by any applicable law, rule regulation, subpoena or other legal process.
6. Your data may be transferred upon change of control but only in accordance with this Policy

   Personal information may be transferred to a third party as a result of a sale, acquisition, merger, reorganization or other change of control. If we sell, merge or transfer any part of our business, part of the sale may include your personal information.

7. You can transport or delete your data

   Your data is yours. You can remove it anytime you want. When you request us to delete your account for the Service, your data will be permanently expunged from our primary production servers and further access to your account will not be possible. We will also promptly disconnect any connection we had established to your Account Information and delete all account credentials. However, portions of your data, consisting of aggregate data derived from your Account Information, may remain on our production servers indefinitely. We also reserve the right to use any aggregated or anonymous data derived from or incorporating your personal information.

8. Log Files

   As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

9. Cookies and Web Beacons

   We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.

   We do NOT store personal information in cookies..

   We also use third party advertisements to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

   You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

   We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

   We use third-party tracking applications to capture anonymous user data, such as the amount of time that a user visits a page on our website, or the order in which pages are clicked (Google Analytics).

10. Right to be forgotten

    Any user may contact us to have their personal data deleted at any time.

11. We offer personalized shopping experiences and advertising through ClickTripz, which uses online identifiers to identify visitors. To view ClickTripz's privacy policy or to opt out, click here.
12. About Google and the DoubleClick DART cookie:

    Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site.

    Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on visit to our website and other sites on the Internet.

    Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

    For more information on cookies, visit here.

13. For European Economic Area Residents

    If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws you have the rights, among other things, to access your personal data, have us erase it, and/or restrict its further processing. If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by us related to advertising on the Site, you can contact us by clicking here.

14. Advertising

    This website uses Adnimation to manage its programmatic ad sales, which may include the use of first and third-party cookies to collect non-sensitive, anonymized data for ad targeting purposes. Users can opt-out of personalized advertising by adjusting browser settings. You can review Adnimation's cookie and privacy policy here.