Privacy Policy

Welcome to Attractions Near Me – Our website address is https://www.attractionsnearme.co.uk. This document, our Privacy Policy, describes the types of information Attractions Near Me gathers from users of the Attractions Near Me sites (defined to include all properties, mobile, Web or otherwise, owned and operated by Attractions Near Me). We refer to all of our websites as our “Sites,” and all of the services and functionalities that we provide – including our Sites and our mobile applications – as our “Services.”
Our Privacy Policy is incorporated as part of the Attractions Near Me Terms of Use. By using Attractions Near Me’s Services, you agree to the provisions of this policy.

 

Information Collected

Attractions Near Me is a directory of UK Attractions. To provide our Services, we use the information we collect to help you find the most relevant information for your situation by customising our Services to optimise your experience. Like many online services, we use technologies like session and persistent cookies, web beacons, log data, location data, data specific to your mobile device and third-party analytics services to collect and analyse information about all users of our Services. This includes things like users’ search preferences, interaction with ads on our Site, and location. If you use the social networking connection functions offered through the Services, we may access all of your social network profile information that you have made available to be shared and to use it in accordance with this privacy policy.
When using our Services, you have the option to create an account. If you choose to create an account, we ask you to provide us with some limited personal information like your name, address, phone number, email. We may use this information to contact you about the services on our Site in which you have expressed interest.

 

Personal Information

If you use our user-generated content services, like posting a question, answer or comment on this Site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.
If you want to remove your personal information that is being displayed on our website under public pages, please contact us at [email protected].
We may release personal information when we believe that doing so is appropriate to comply with legitimate law, regulation, or legal request.

 

User data/profile

We collect information about you during the registration and edit profile process on our site. This information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, phone number, address, IP and any other details that might be requested from you for the purpose of building your public profile.

Handling this data also allows us to:

– Send you important account/order/service information.
– Display this information in a public-facing manner (such as a web page or API request) and allow website users to search and view submitted information.
– Respond to your queries or complaints.
– Set up and administer your account, provide technical and/or customer support, and to verify your identity. We do this on the basis of our legitimate business interests.
Any profile information provided to this site may be displayed publicly.

 

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

 

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

 

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

 

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

 

Third Parties

We may use third-party ad services to deliver ads to you on our Services. These third-party ad servers may collect and use non-personally identifiable information about your visits to our Services in order to present advertisements that may be of interest to you.
For our mobile products, we may use third-party service providers for the limited purpose of helping us analyse your Mobile Log Data and location data, so that we can improve and localise our services, show you relevant advertisements, and study the way our mobile users interact with our Sites and Services.

 

Analytics

We use Google Analytics 3rd-party audience data such as age, gender, and interests to better understand the behaviour of our customers and work with companies that collect information about your online activities to provide advertising targeted to suit your interests and preferences. These companies also use automated technologies to collect information when you click on our ads, which helps track and manage the effectiveness of our marketing efforts. You may opt-out of the automated collection of information by third-party ad networks for the purpose of delivering advertisements tailored to your interests, by visiting the consumer opt-out page for Google Display Network ads at http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/. You can opt-out of allowing other third-party vendors to use cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Page.

In order to prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics, visit this page Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

 

Google Advertising Cookies

Google uses cookies to help serve the ads that it displays on the websites of its partners, such as websites displaying Google ads or participating in Google certified ad networks. When users visit a Google partner’s website, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser. The Attractions Near Me website is a Google Advertising partner. Your personal data will be processed and information from your device (cookies, unique identifiers, and other device data) may be stored by, accessed by and shared with third party vendors, or used specifically by this site or app.

Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s previous visits to Attractions Near Me or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on visits to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalised advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info. If you haven’t opted out of third-party ad serving, the cookies of other third-party vendors or ad networks may also be used to serve ads on our site.

 

Who we share your data with

By using this website, users are bound by the Google Maps/Google Earth Additional Terms of Service (including the Google Privacy Policy).

We collect your public profile data only from your consent that you grant before initiating Social Login, from the social network used to login to our website. This data includes your first name, last name, email address, link to your social media profile, unique identifier, social profile avatar. This data is used to create your user profile at our website. You can revoke this consent at any time by emailing [email protected].

 

Facebook

We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see the number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our web pages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update

 

Twitter

We use a Twitter Tweet widget on our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our web pages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update

 

LinkedIn

We use a LinkedIn Share widget on our website to allow you to share our web pages on LinkedIn. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

 

Pinterest

We use Pinterest Save widget on our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our web pages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy

 

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

 

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

 

GeoDirectory Listings

We collect information about you during the add listing process on our site. This information may include, but is not limited to, your name, IP address, email address, phone number, address, locations details including GPS co-ordinates and any other details that might be requested from you for the purpose of adding your business/personal listings.

Handling this data also allows us to:

– Display this information in a public-facing manner (such as a web page or API request) and allow website users to search and view submitted listing information.
– Send you important account/order/service information.
– Provide a way for users to contact your listing via the provided contact information.
– Notify you of user interactions such as but not limited to review and contact notifications.
– Respond to your queries or complaints.
– Set up and administer your account, provide technical and/or customer support, spam prevention and to verify your identity. We do this on the basis of our legitimate business interests.

 

GeoDirectory Reviews

We collect information about you during the leave a review process on our site. This information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, IP address, website url, image(s), review ratings and review texts.

Handling this data also allows us to:

– Display this information in a public-facing manner (such as a web page or API request).
– Notify you of interactions such as approval or rejection of your review.
– Notify you of user interactions such as reply notifications.
– Spam prevention.

 

Listing contact forms

We may collect information about you when you submit a contact form to a listing. This information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, IP address and contact texts.

Handling this data also allows us to:

– Send your contact message and details to the listings contact email.
– Monitor the contact system for spam and abuse.

 

General Matters

We may use your email address or Social Network ID (such as Facebook ID, if we have collected it), to promote Attractions Near Me content to you via email or social networks’ advertising or promotional tools.
You can control whether you receive Attractions Near Me emails by following the instructions at the end of the email we send. You may also opt-out by sending an email to [email protected].
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by logging into your account or by emailing our Customer Support at [email protected]. You can delete your account by contacting our customer service team at [email protected].
You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy and accuracy of your password, email address, and other account information at all times. If you believe your password has been compromised, please change your password immediately via the Attractions Near Me Site or contact us at [email protected] for assistance.


 

How Attractions Near Me works

You might be wondering how Attractions Near Me works. We think it’s important that we’re transparent about the value our service can bring you, but also the limitations of our website and other methods that we use to communicate with you.

We’re journalistic at heart, with the aim of helping you to get the most from your family days out. We do this by seeking out great attraction and travel deals, tips and competitions. We do not offer any products or services ourselves – we signpost you to those that do via links. While we are careful to always cover reputable companies, we’re not perfect, so remember that you use this information at your own risk and we can’t accept liability if things go wrong.

So if we don’t offer any products ourselves, how do we sustain the service? Many of our links are affiliated which means that if you purchase a product or service via these links, a small contribution may be made to Attractions Near Me. You shouldn’t notice any difference, as these links don’t impact the products at all. If we’re unable to get a contribution from a company, we’ll still include the link anyway – it’s important to us that we cover the whole market.

Lastly, do not construe the information we provide as financial advice. Always do your own research to ensure a product or service is right for you and your individual circumstances.


 

Promotion Terms and Conditions

Attractions Near Me actively promotes third-party vouchers, promotional codes and attraction tickets. When Attractions Near Me directs you to third party providers of vouchers, promotional codes and attraction tickets you are bound by the provider’s Terms and Conditions in addition to any terms and conditions stated by Attractions Near Me. The provider is solely responsible for all customer service in connection with your purchase, Attractions Near Me has no liability for such service. Whilst we have made every effort to ensure that the third parties we direct you to are legitimate, Attractions Near Me cannot be held responsible for any problems obtaining or using vouchers, promotional codes, attraction tickets or any other service. Please ensure that you review the third parties Terms and Conditions as they may include date restrictions and limitations on available services.

 

Modification of Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change or modify this Privacy Policy, or any policy or guideline of the Site or Services, at any time and in our sole discretion. Any changes or modification will be effective immediately upon posting of the revisions to the Site or Services. You waive any right you may have to receive specific notice of such changes or modifications. Your continued use of the Site or Services following the posting of changes or modifications will confirm your acceptance of such changes or modifications. Please review these terms and conditions periodically, and check the version date for changes.

Effective Date: 12th July 2023

Privacy Policy was last modified: July 12th, 2023 by Dan