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The purpose of TheTouringCamper.com is to help others in the RVing community by sharing our camping and touring experiences through reviews, touring ideas, camping hacks, menu planning, and more.
The views and opinions expressed on this website are solely ours and we do our best to always be honest and forthright in what we share. More information on our philosophy of reviewing campgrounds can be found on the About Campground Reviews page. It is important to know that our reviews are our personal opinions and may differ from your opinion. Also campgrounds change, some for the better and others for the worse. So what the campground looked like when we were there may be very different from when you visit.
Unless otherwise credited, all content—including posts, photos, videos, our name, logo, etc.—are the property of The Touring Camper. The content may not be reproduced or used without our written permission.
The content of TheTouringCamper.com is intended for entertainment and information use only and is not to be construed as providing professional advice. Your situation is factually specific and you should accordingly make decisions based upon your specific needs and situation. Extra precautions, additional expert input, and additional research are always advised and we at TheTouringCamper.com (as well as our family members or friends who may have had input on any content on said website) cannot be held responsible for your personal safety or held liable for any outcome of your camping experiences.
Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to us and we are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. This website does not share personal information with third parties nor do we store any information about your visit to this website other than to analyze trends and optimize your content and reading experience through the use of cookies. One way we do that is through traffic log cookies that identify which pages of the website are being used. Any recorded IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. Traffic cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to determine which pages users find most helpful.
We include various external links on our site for your use and reference. We have no control over nor are responsible for the privacy policies on these websites.
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Users are invited to subscribe to our newsletter by providing their name and email address. By subscribing, users are granting The Touring Camper permission to contact them about website news, updates, giveaways, and more. We use a secure opt-in subscription system and we reserve the right to contact subscribers with information related to this website. Subscribers may unsubscribe anytime and every email contains an “Unsubscribe” link.
Surveys and Giveaways
We may also collect contact information or other information relevant to reader surveys and/or giveaways. Any information collected during giveaways will not be used for any purpose other than to contact the winners.
Third Party Advertisement and Affiliate Links
We do have some costs associated with running a website. Thus we do accept paid advertising on our website’s sidebar and we use affiliate links in posts when they are available. Some of these third-party advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also give these advertisers non-personal information such as your IP address that is then generally used to target ads to specific demographics. The use of such technology by these ad companies is subject to their own privacy policies, not ours. You can choose to disable or selectively turn off cookies either in your browser settings or by managing preferences through security software.
This site is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. We are compensated for referring traffic and business to Amazon and other companies linked to on this site.
Our cookie policy
In compliance with the EU legislation, we inform you that our website will store some information about your preferences on your own computer inside a tiny file called a ‘cookie’. A cookie is a small piece of data that a website asks your browser to store on your computer or mobile device. The cookie allows the website to “remember” your actions or preferences over time. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
We use cookies to:
1) Identify you as a returning user and to count your visits in our traffic statistics analysis;
2) remember your custom display preferences;
3) Suggest any recent searches you’ve made on our site
4) Other usability features including tracking whether you’ve already given your consent to cookies
Enabling cookies from our website is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.
There may also be other types of cookies created after you’ve visited our website. We use Google Analytics, a popular web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us to analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google undertakes not to associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
Third Party Advertising
We may have third-party advertising companies serving ads to you when you visit our website. These companies may store information about your visits to our website and to other websites in order to provide you with relevant advertisements about goods and services. These companies may employ cookies and other identifiers to gather information which measures advertising effectiveness. The information is generally not personally identifiable unless, for example, you provide personally identifiable information to them through an ad or an e-mail message.
Information Gathered by Third Party Advertisers
Cookies enable advertisers to learn about what ads you see, what ads you click, and other actions you take on our site and other sites. This allows advertisers to provide you with more useful and relevant ads. For example, if they know what ads you are shown while visiting our site, they can be careful not to show you the same ones repeatedly. They do not associate your interaction with unaffiliated sites with your identity in providing you with interest-based ads.
We do not provide any personal information to advertisers or to third party sites. Advertisers and other third-parties (including the ad networks, ad-serving companies, and other service providers they may use) may assume that users who interact with or click on a personalized ad or content are part of the group that the ad or content is directed towards (for example, readers in the Pacific Northwest who read certain types of articles). Also, some third-party cookies may provide them with information about you (such as the sites where you have been shown ads or demographic information) from offline and online sources that they may use to provide you more relevant and useful advertising.
If you would like to learn more about what options you have about limiting the gathering of information by third-party ad networks, you can consult the website of the Network Advertising Initiative. You can opt out of participating in interest-based advertising networks but opting out does not mean you will no longer receive online advertising. It does mean that the companies from which you opted out will no longer customize ads based on your interests and web usage patterns using cookie-based technology.
Type and Purpose of Collection
We collect information at various points in the website to facilitate its use by our customers. Non-Personal Information: Upon accessing the website, certain non-personal information will be automatically collected without your knowledge or consent, such as your IP address, location data (which is anonymous) and the referring website (Non-Personal Information). We use Non-Personal Information to examine our traffic and to view how our customers use the website. This type of information will not allow you to be personally identified. For example, we use cookies, which contains only certain statistical information. You can instruct your computer to inform you whenever a cookie is being sent, or you can disallow cookies through your web browser. If you do choose to disallow cookies, your experience on the website may be diminished, or your ability to choose some of the options on the website may be limited.
Choices and How To Opt Out Of Interest-Based Advertising
(a) Opting Out of Interest-Based Advertising Services: This website is a member of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) and adheres to the NAI Codes of Conduct as described on the NAI website. This website also adheres to the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) Self-Regulatory Principles. For a description of the DAA Program, please visit the DAA website. As described above, this website may use or transfer Device Data that it directly collects or that it receives from this website’s Customers, who may use cookies or non-cookie technologies, to enable advertising that is more tailored to Consumers’ inferred interests, preferences, and locations. This practice is known as interest-based advertising.
(b) Opting Out of Interest-Based Advertising by Third Parties: This website may permit third parties to collect information on its Site and combine that information with other information collected on non-affiliated websites or applications over time. These third parties may use technologies, including cookies and web beacons, to collect information about Consumers’ or Customers’ use of the site in order to analyze, report on, or customize content or advertising on the this website or on other sites, or to help us operate and improve the site. To find out more about interest-based advertising in the web environment, and how to opt-out of information collection for this purpose by companies that participate in the Network Advertising Initiative or the Digital Advertising Alliance, visit NAI’s opt-out page or DAA’s Consumer Choice Page.
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The contents of this privacy policy and disclosure statement may be altered at any time, at our discretion. If you ever have questions or concerns, please drop us an email.
This policy was last updated May 10, 2018.
