Privacy Policy

Effective date: January 20, 2021

Backpack Guider (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the https://backpackguider.com/ website (the “Service”).

This Privacy Policy page informs you of our policies regarding the use, collection, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the options you have associated with that data.

We use the data you provide to improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree with the collection and the use of information in accordance with this privacy policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy page, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from https://backpackguider.com/

Information Collection And Information Use

We collect several different types of data for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to our readers.

Types of Data Collected

Usage Data

We may collect information on how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer IP Address (Internet Protocol address), device type, browser type, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date when you accessed our website, the time spent on our pages, unique device identifiers and also diagnostic data.

Personal Data

While using our Service, we may also ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to identify you (“Personal Data”). The personal identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Cookies and Usage Data
  • E-Mail Address

Tracking and Cookies Data

Our Service uses cookies and similar technologies in our to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.

If you don’t want to be tracked, you can specifically instruct your web browser to refuse all cookies or only accept specific cookies. However, if you do not accept cookies on our website, you will not be able to use some of the features of our Service.

Some of the examples of Cookies that we use include:

  • 1Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
  • Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

Use of Data

Backpack Guider uses the collected data for various purposes:

  • To monitor the usage of the Service
  • To prevent and address technical issues
  • To upgrade and maintain the Service
  • To update you about changes to our Service
  • To provide insight or personalized information
  • To provide support and customer care
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service

Transfer Of Data

The information that we collect, including Personal Data, may be maintained on, servers located outside of the location you reside in- your province, your state, your country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from  those from your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Backpack Guider takes all steps necessary to ensure that your data is handled securely and as per this Privacy Policy.

Disclosure Of Data

Legal Requirements

Backpack Guider may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • To comply with a legal obligation
  • To protect and defend the rights or property of Backpack Guider
  • To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
  • To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
  • To protect against legal liability

Security Of Data

We value the security of your data very much. It is extremely important to us that we keep your data secure, but you should remember we cannot guarantee to protect your data 100%.

Service Providers

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

We are occasionally updating our Privacy Policy from time to time. In such a case, we make sure to notify you of any changes by posting and updating the new Privacy Policy page.

We also update you on the changes via email prior to the change becoming effective. As such, you can change your preferences accordingly.

If you are not enrolled in our mailing list, we advise you to review our Privacy Policy page periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective immediately when they are posted on this page.

Analytics

We use a third-party service (Google Analytics) to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

Google Analytics is a web analytics tool provided by Google that helps track website traffic. The tool uses data collected to monitor the website. Google may also use the collected data from our Service to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of the service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser extension. The extension prevents Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information.

You can get more information on the privacy practices of Google by following the Google Privacy & Terms web page mentioned here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Links To Other Sites

backpackguider.com may contain web-links to other websites that aren’t operated or controlled by us. If you click on those links, you will be directed to their website. As such, we won’t have any control to what extent and also over the mechanism they use to collect user data and other details. We don’t have the responsibility of any data collected after you exit our Service. We recommend you check out the Privacy Policy of all the websites you visit.

Children’s Privacy

None of our content is catered to anyone under the age of 18.

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children(under 18). If you are a parent and it came to us notice that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us: