Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to Hurghada Secrets (“we,” “us,” “our,” or “Website”). Our website address is: https://hurghadasecrets.com. We are committed to protecting the privacy of our visitors and users. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our Website.

Please read this privacy policy carefully. By using the Website, you consent to the data practices described in this policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Website includes:

Personal Data You Provide to Us:

  • Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form (such as name, email address, and website, if provided), and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
  • Gravatar: An anonymized 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 (if available via Gravatar) 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.
  • User Registration (if applicable): For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile.
  • Contact Information: If you contact us via our contact form at https://hurghadasecrets.com/contact-us/ we will collect the information you provide, such as your name and email address, to respond to your inquiries.

Data Collected Automatically:

  • Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Website and hold certain information. (See Section 4 “Cookies and Tracking Technologies” below for more details).
  • Log and Usage Data: This may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
  • Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”) to collect information about the use of our Website. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve this site. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser or by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

3. How We Use Your Information

Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Website to:

  • Provide, operate, and maintain our Website.
  • Manage and respond to your comments.
  • Improve, personalize, and expand our Website.
  • Understand and analyze how you use our Website (e.g., through analytics).
  • Develop new products, services, features, and functionality.
  • Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the Website, and for marketing and promotional purposes (if you opt-in).
  • Process your requests, such as password resets (where your IP address will be included in the reset email).
  • Find and prevent fraud and spam.
  • Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the Website.

4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Website and store certain information. This includes cookies used by Google Analytics as described above.

What are 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 device.

How We Use Cookies:

  • Comments: 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.
  • Login: 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.
  • Article Editing: 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.
  • Analytics: As mentioned, Google Analytics uses cookies to collect data about website traffic.

Your Choices Regarding Cookies:

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Website. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

5. 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. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third-party websites.

6. Who We Share Your Data With

We do not sell, trade, rent, or otherwise share your Personal Data with third parties without your consent, except as described below or as permitted by law:

  • Service Providers: We may share your data with third-party service providers that perform services for us or on our behalf, such as spam detection (e.g., automated spam detection services for comments), email delivery, hosting services, website analytics (like Google Analytics, as detailed in Section 2), and customer service. These service providers are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us and are obligated to protect your data.
  • Password Resets: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
  • Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) comply with a legal obligation; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Hurghada Secrets; (c) prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Website; (d) protect the personal safety of users of the Website or the public; or (e) protect against legal liability.

7. How Long We Retain Your Data

We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

  • Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
  • Registered Users: 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. We will retain this information as long as the account is active or as needed to provide services, or until you request its deletion.
  • Analytics Data: Data collected by Google Analytics is retained according to Google’s prevailing data retention policies, which you can review on their website. We may set our Google Analytics data retention to a specific period (e.g., 14 months, 26 months, etc.) after which user-level and event-level data is automatically deleted. Aggregate data may be retained longer.

8. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location (e.g., if you are in the European Economic Area – EEA), you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

  • The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data that we hold.
  • The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
  • The right to erasure (Right to be forgotten): You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
  • The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions (including for direct marketing purposes, and processing based on legitimate interests).
  • The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
  • The right to withdraw consent: If we are relying on your consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.

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.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided in Section 14.

9. Where Your Data Is Sent (Data Transfers)

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service, which may be located outside of your country of residence. Your information, including Personal Data collected through our Website (including Google Analytics), may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers and servers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction (for example, Google’s servers for Analytics data are primarily located in the United States).

If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the United States and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

10. Security of Your Data

The security of your data is important to us. We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

11. Children’s Privacy

Our Website is not intended for use by children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 16. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children under 16 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

12. Links to Other Websites

Our Website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will also update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy if you choose to re-include it.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

14. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or if you wish to exercise any of your rights, please contact us:

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