Privacy Policy -

Last updated April 1, 2024

Away To Italy (“we,” “us,” “our”) values your privacy and is dedicated to safeguarding it. This Privacy Policy applies to the data we gather when you browse our website, https://awaytoitaly.com, and includes information obtained through our social media platforms and other data collected when utilizing our services. The aim of this Privacy Policy is to explain the Personal Information we might gather and how it will be utilized.

“Personal Information” refers to data that can identify, relate to, describe, or be linked to a specific consumer or household, directly or indirectly. It excludes publicly available information obtained from government records at the federal, state, or local levels.

Information We Collect

1. Information You Provide Us

When you visit our website, you may need to share information with us or our service providers through various methods, including but not limited to:

Using Our Website: Our website offers features that may require you to share Personal Information such as your name, email address, and phone number. For instance, if you request one of our free resources, you’ll need to provide your name and email address. You can also share Personal Information by commenting on a blog post or filling out a contact form.

Email Newsletters: By providing your email address, you consent to receive occasional email updates from us. These updates include information on our resources, events, courses, and other relevant details. If you wish to stop receiving these emails, you can easily unsubscribe by following the instructions or links provided in any email communication from us.

Social Media: You might share your Personal Information with us on our social media platforms (e.g., Facebook and Instagram). Keep in mind that any info you post will be publicly available. Optionally, you can connect your Facebook, Instagram, and/or Google accounts to your user profile. If you do, we’ll receive your name, email address, and profile picture. The Website uses the WordPress commenting system, so if you comment on a post, your profile picture will be shown.

Use of Other Services: Our website provides services like course enrollment and online purchases, involving the sharing of Personal Information such as your name, email, and credit card details. We may engage third-party service providers for these services, and each provider follows its own privacy policy. Please review these policies. For details on our third-party providers, refer to the section “Third-Party Use of Personal Information” below.

2. Automatically Collected Information

We may automatically gather specific activity and usage details about your interactions with our Website. This includes your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, operating system, browser type, referring URL, viewed pages, clicked links, access times, and other activity data. The purpose of collecting this data is to enhance our Website and assist in remembering your preferences for future visits. Various technologies are employed to collect this information, as outlined in the “Cookies and Related Technologies” section below.

How Your Information May Be Used

For collecting your Personal Information, we may also use it to comply with laws and for our legitimate business interests. Our reasons for collecting and using this information include:

To run, maintain, and enhance the Website for your better experience;
As previously discussed with you during the collection of your Personal Information;
To set up your account, recognize you as a user of the Website, and tailor the Website to suit your preferences;
For our day-to-day operations, like responding to your feedback, handling your transactions, maintaining records, sending you updates, and delivering services to you;
For marketing purposes, to enhance and personalize our Website for you and gain insights on its usage;
To offer, assist, personalize, and enhance our Website and services;
Meeting legal, ethical, or regulatory obligations, including disclosures to mitigate potential risks to you or others;
Detecting, preventing, investigating, or notifying about fraud, unlawful activities, or responding to law enforcement requests;
Enforcing our Terms of Use and other agreements.

Disclosure of Your Information To Third Parties

We don’t sell your Personal Information and we don’t share it with third parties, except as explained in this section. We share Personal Information with the following categories of recipients.

Third-Party Service Providers: The Website might share your Personal Information with third-party service providers to support different aspects of the Website. They help us with services like website hosting, IT services, email delivery, auditing, and more. These service providers may access your Personal Information to carry out their tasks, but they are not allowed to use it for anything other than helping us provide services to you.

To Perform Services for You: We might share your Personal Information with third-party service providers who offer services to you. If you decide to use a service provided by our Website that involves interacting with such a third-party service provider, please note that the provider’s individual terms of use and privacy policy may regulate the collection and utilization of your Personal Information.

Other Legal Reasons: We might need to share your Personal Information with third parties if we believe it’s required by law or if we genuinely think that access, preservation, or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of our Company, its customers, or the public. Also, we might share your Personal Information with third parties who acquire our business, whether through a merger, consolidation, or purchase of assets, or in connection with a bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding involving us.

Marketing: We might collaborate with third parties for our marketing efforts, as explained in more detail in the section “Advertising and Third Party Data Collection.”

Anonymous Data

Occasionally, we might keep track of visits to our pages, website links, and generate other types of anonymous information (aggregate or deidentified data that doesn’t identify you individually). This kind of anonymous data could be shared with others for marketing, advertising, or other purposes. Examples of this anonymous data could be analytics or details gathered from cookies.

We might use cookies and related technologies to gather the info detailed in “Automatically Collected Information.” Cookies are small data files stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. They help us offer tailored features or services based on your preferences. For instance, our site uses cookies to remember visitors’ preferences, track user-specific details on visited pages, ensure visitors don’t see the same ads repeatedly, and personalize content based on browser type or visitor info. We employ both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which remain until deleted, to give you a more personalized experience on our site.

You can prevent the Website from setting cookies anytime by adjusting your browser settings. Also, you can delete already set cookies anytime using an Internet browser or other software. While you can usually use our Website without cookies, please keep in mind that if you deactivate cookie settings in your Internet browser, you may not access certain features of our Website.

Cookies may also be utilized by third-party web analytics services, like Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics to gather and examine Website usage data, including details about referring websites and user interactions on the Website. While Google Analytics may record your IP address, it does not capture any other personal information. If you prefer not to have your information used for analytics by Google Analytics, you can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on by simply clicking here.

Our advertising and marketing partners may also use cookies, as detailed in “Advertising and Third Party Data Collection.”

Advertising and Third Party Data Collection

Retargeting Ads

Every now and then, the Website might team up with third-party companies like Google, Facebook, or Instagram for some remarketing. These companies use cookies to show ads tailored to someone’s past visits to the Website.

Affiliate Program Participation

The Website may participate in affiliate marketing, where tracking links are added to enhance user experience. Clicking on a link for an affiliate partnership will place a cookie on your browser to track sales for commission purposes.

Away To Italy participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising initiative aimed at helping sites earn advertising fees through links and promotions for Amazon.com. As part of this program, the Website will share custom links from Amazon to monitor referrals. Cookies are used to track visits for commission assignments on sales.

Newsletters

On our website, you can subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. These pixels are embedded in emails to analyze the success of online marketing campaigns. Through these tracking pixels, we can track if and when you open an email and which links you click. This helps us personalize future newsletters based on your interests. Rest assured, this information will not be shared with third parties.

Depending on your residency, you may have certain rights related to your Personal Information. These may include:

Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at [email protected] be removed from our mailing list.
Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to [email protected]
Amend – You may contact us at [email protected] to amend or update your personal information.
Forget – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to [email protected].

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

If you would like to contact us about data subject rights, please contact [email protected].

Links

This website includes links to external sites. Kindly note, we do not take responsibility for the content or privacy practices of such sites. We advise our users to remain vigilant when exiting our site and to review the privacy policies of any external site that gathers Personal Information.

Information Protection

This website implements adequate security measures to safeguard against unauthorized access, misuse, and unauthorized modification of information within our purview. Nevertheless, it is important to note that no transmission method via the Internet or electronic storage system can guarantee 100% security.

Children’s Information

We do not intentionally gather any Personal Information from children under 13 years old. If you suspect that the Website has obtained Personal Information from a child under 13, please reach out to us using the contact details provided at the conclusion of this Privacy Policy.

Contact Information

At any time, please contact us at [email protected] for questions related to this Privacy Policy.