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Privacy Policy

At Wild4 African Photographic Safaris, we are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of our clients, visitors to our website and subscribers to our newsletter. Here you’ll find information on how we treat data that we collect from you as a client or a visitor to our website, or when someone subscribes to our newsletter.
Visitors to our Website

When someone visits www.wild4photographicsafaris.com we use a third-party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way that does not identify anyone. We do not make and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website. You can find more information on how cookies are used on this website in the Cookies Policy below.

We only collect personally identifiable information through our website from clients who sign up on our safaris or who purchase any of our products and e-products. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.

 

Newsletter Sign Up

As part of the registration process for our e-newsletter, we collect personal information, in the form of your email address. We use this information so that we can send you our latest news which includes the latest trip reports and tour availability. We don't rent or trade email lists with other organisations and businesses.

We use a third-party provider, MailChimp, to deliver our newsletter. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry-standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our e-newsletter. For more information, please see MailChimp’s privacy notice.

You can unsubscribe to general mailings at any time of the day or night by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our emails or by emailing us.

 

Registration

When you register to do an actual photo safari with us, we will collect the required information from you that we will need to secure accommodation and flights. This information will include your passport details, home address, date of birth, and any medical conditions or food allergies. We also collect the contact details of a family member in case of an emergency. We do not share any of these details with anyone else and our website is secured through a SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) this is the standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. This link ensures that all data passed between the web server and browsers remain private.

 

Comments

On our website, we have the option for guests or clients to leave comments on our recent trip reports. To be able to do this and to avoid spam, we require to you fill out your name and email address. We do not share this information with anyone else.

 

Testimonials

On our website, we have the option for clients to leave a testimonial. To be able to do this and to avoid spam, we require clients to fill out their names and email address. We do not share this information with anyone else.

 

Links to Other Web Sites

This privacy notice does not cover the links within this site linking to other websites. Those sites are not governed by this Privacy Policy, and if you have questions about how a site uses your information, you’ll need to check that site’s privacy statement.

 

Access to Your Personal Information

You are entitled to access the personal information that we hold. Email your request to us

 

Changes to this Privacy Notice

We keep our privacy notice under regular review. This privacy notice was last updated on 20 May 2018.



 

Cookies Policy

We use a system of classifying the different types of cookies which we use on the Website, or which may be used by third parties through our websites. The classification was developed by the International Chamber of Commerce UK and explains more about which cookies we use, why we use them, and the functionality you will lose if you decide you don't want to have them on your device.

 

What is a cookie?        

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information that are downloaded to your personal computer, mobile or other devices when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user's device.

 

How long are cookies stored for?

Persistent cookies - These cookies remain on a user's device for the period of time specified in the cookie. They are activated each time that the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.  

Session cookies - These cookies allow website operators to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser window. Session cookies are created temporarily. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.

Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience.

You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.

 

Cookies used on the Website

A list of all the cookies used on the Website by category is set out below.
 

Strictly necessary Cookies
The 'DYNSRV' cookie is added by our load balancer to track which webserver to send you to. Its purpose is to improve the performance of the site.
 

Benign Cookies
Any cookies beginning with ‘exp_’. These cookies are set by my content management system and contain data such as the last time you visited my website and previous pages of my website that you have viewed. I do not store or utilise this information in any way. ‘exp_csrf_token’ is a unique and random sequence of numbers and letters that protects any forms on my website from spam. and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how the Website works.
 

Performance Cookies
Various third party cookies for Google Analytics.