Please read these policies carefully. By using this website and/or sending us content and/or purchasing any products, you agree to our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and Affiliate Disclosure in entirety and in perpetuity. If you do not agree to these policies, it is your responsibility to leave travelsandcuriosities.com immediately.
Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Affiliate Disclosure
TERMs OF USE
Who We Are.
Travels and Curiosities, also identified as “us”, “we”, our”, refers to travelsandcuriosities.com, travacurio.com, and its owner, Travels and Curiosities LCC and Elaine Skylar Neal. The “site” or “website” also refers to travelsandcuriosities.com and its subdomain, travacurio.com. “You” refers to site user(s) or website visitor(s) who visit travelsandcuriosities.com, travacurio.com, or any of its internal content. “Content” means any and all written or multimedia content, whether it was produced by us directly, licensed materials, or provided by a third party.
Travels and Curiosities is a travel blog featuring unique and off-beat travel destinations, hidden gems, and curious-cool finds. Content on this website is for the promotion of Travels and Curiosities, its content, its creative and business partners, and related services or products produced by us or our brand/affiliate partners. The core purpose of this website is to share travel destinations, travel resources, travel tips, gear and gift recommendations, general travel experiences, oddities and/or curiosities, unusual places, creative work of all mediums, and other relevant topics.
Intellectual Property and Copyright Notice.
All content on this website is protected by intellectual property rights, whether owned by us directly, owned by a brand partner, or licensed externally.
You are permitted to access this site as it is available and utilize any information here for your personal development, with the exception of copying and redistributing content, including any visual or written content, without prior authorization and credit. If you’d like to attribute any content from this site, please reach out directly and in advance using our contact form. In other words, you are prohibited from using our intellectual property in any way, which includes republishing text, images, designs, or any other facets of this website.
With all that said, we are happy for you to backlink this website and/or any of its internal content on relevant websites, platforms, and across social channels.
Your Contributions.
You must own any and all content submitted to us for publication. We will accept appropriately-sourced, high-quality stock photography with proper photo credit information, along with the name of the stock agency. By submitting content to us either directly through email, submission portal, social media, or other, whether its a photo, video, written blog post, or any other materials, you agree to grant us a non-revocable commercial license to use, publish, and distribute the submitted material at our discretion. We will attribute the desired credit as directed. Unless there has been a contracted agreement signed by both parties, there will be zero financial compensation for the submitted material, and you will not receive any payment nor should you invoice us unless there has been a prior arrangement. Additionally, there are no guarantees that any content submitted to us will be used for publication. We are also not obligated to notify you if we decline to use your submitted content.
Site Availability.
We cannot guarantee the future availability of this website or its audience. While we have no plans to cease our business operations, we can’t see into the future - even though that would be super cool - and therefore, can make no long-term claims or commitments about its availability.
By using this website, submitting your content, and/or purchasing products, you accept these policies without limitation as detailed on this page. If you disagree with these policies, you must leave this site immediately and cease any further interaction with this website, including browsing its content.
Affiliate And sponsored content Disclosures
Affiliate Partnerships.
We have affiliate partnerships with brands we feel our readers and audience might benefit from. If you choose to purchase anything through an affiliate link, we may receive a small commission at no cost to you. This includes but is not limited to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Buying products through these affiliate links helps support our brand and the ability to create additional zero-cost content for our readers and audience.
Sponsored Content and Paid Brand Features.
We accept a very limited amount of sponsored content, aka sponsored posts, and paid brand features as a way to support the operating costs of this website. In the interest of full transparency, sponsored posts are content marketing pieces usually written by brands or marketing firms, or other entities they hire, including potentially us, to either directly or indirectly, promote their brand and its offerings. These often look like regular articles that include brand mentions and a link to their website and its products, services, or whatever they’re selling. Backlinks are useful in building page authority and establishing organic keyword rankings for brands which is why they care. They also want to promote within platforms and audiences that might align with their offerings.
These sponsored articles and brand features are only present within the footer block of this website and a linked subpage for sponsored content via our Featured Brands page. These are the only two places where sponsored content lives on this website.
If you’re a brand interested in being featured on this platform, please review our collaboration opportunities and go here to set up a direct purchase.
Content Restrictions for Sponsored Posts/Brand Features/Guest Contributions/Artwork & Photography Submissions
If you’re a brand considering purchasing a Featured Brands spot on this website, please read our restrictions outlined below and on our Brand Features purchase page.
Without exception, we do not feature content that is: hateful or discriminating in any way, overtly sexual in nature and/or promotes sex work/pornography/related subjects, promotes misinformation/disinformation, is political, promotes activities that are illegal or potentially harmful, features gambling/gaming/cryptocurrency or other establishments that feature this, promotes guns and/or gun violence, promotes any drug/alcohol use, endangers lives.
If you purhcase a Brand Feature and/or submit any content to us, you will do so only if your content aligns with these policies.
PRIVACY POLICY
We care about your privacy. Please read further about what personal information might be collected while using this website.
Personal Information You Submit.
If you purchase a service and/or a product through our website, we may collect and store basic personal and/or business information submitted by you, such as first and last name, email address, business name, mailing address, billing address, phone number, and general business information, such as if you’re purchasing a Featured Brands spot. If you sign up for our newsletter, we may collect basic personal information submitted by you, such as your first name and email address.
If you sign up for a newsletter, we may use this contact information to reach out to you with updates from our blog, including the latest unique destinations, weird places, and other information on products and fun things that may be of interest to you. You may unsubscribe to any newsletters by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the email.
We will not redistribute, sell, or share your personal information with any individual or business of any size without your prior consent.
We are committed to protecting your personal information and privacy. Our website has an active SSL certificate that secures and encrypts connections, minimizing the risk of your personal information being stolen. To read more about Squarespace’s SSL certificates, go here.
Even with these very valuable protections, there is some inherent risk with any transmission of information via the internet, therefore, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.
In submitting any personal information through our website, you do so at your own risk.
Credit Card Information and Secure Checkout.
For purchases and payment of promotional or content services, you authorize us to charge your chosen payment provider for the total amount stated on your checkout cart screen. You agree to any terms and conditions of your card issuer or any other third-party payment processor.
We use Stripe for processing payments and do not store your personal credit card details. Stripe adheres to the security standards set by PCI-DSS and managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which helps ensure secure transactions. To read more about Stripe’s own Privacy Policy, go here.
Log Data.
As with most websites today, our website collects and stores information that is generated automatically as you navigate online through our website.
Our website may collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics. This sort of information about your computer or other smart devices’ connection to the Internet, allows us, amongst other things, to improve the delivery of our web pages to you and to measure the traffic on our site for business purposes.
In addition, we may use third-party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor, and analyze this type of information in order to improve our services and site functionality.
Cookies.
Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s hard drive.
We use “cookies” to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website. If you do not instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent, you consent to our use of cookies in collecting this data.