Privacy policy

Welcome to the Privacy Policy of Swordsteel Software Systems Inc. ("Swordsteel", "the Company", "we", "us", or "our"), developer of "Travel-n-share" application ("Travel-n-share," "the Application"). Travel-n-share is a digital application that helps people explore the outdoors with a collection of detailed, hand-curated travel reports, which can include various travel details: route, budget, trip blog, trails maps, points of interests, and photos crowdsourced from the community of registered travellers. This Privacy Policy applies to the following services operated by the Company (collectively, the "Service"):

• Travel-n-share.com and other websites owned and/or operated by Swordsteel that contain a link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the "Site");
• All mobile applications that contain a link to this Privacy Policy (the "Swordsteel Apps", "Apps"); and
• All services made available by Swordsteel through the Site and the Swordsteel Apps, collectively, the "Service".

This Privacy Policy explains what Personal Data (defined below) we collect, how we use and share that data, and your choices concerning our data practices.

This Privacy Policy constitutes an integral part of our Terms of Service, accessible at: https://travel-n-share.com/terms.html .

Please read this Privacy Policy before using our Service or submitting any Personal Data to Swordsteel and contact us if you have any questions.

By using the Service, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not access or use the Service.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you contact us or interact with our Service, we collect information that alone or in combination with other information could be used to identify you ("Personal Data") as follows:

• Personal Data You Provide to Us: We collect Personal Data when you sign up for our Service through the Site or an Swordsteel Apps or contact us . The Personal Data collected during these interactions may vary based on what you choose to share with us, but it may include any of the following:
• • Account Data: When you sign up, some information is required to create an account on our Service, such as your name, username, email address, and mailing address.
  • Payment Data: If you choose to pay for our Service (advertisement, subsription, others) in Travel-n-share app via credit card, debit card or other payment method, our third party payments processor (Stripe, Inc. or “Stripe”) will process certain payment and billing information, such as billing address, payment card details, and authentication features. That information is collected by Stripe directly, and we do not collect or store it. If you have questions about how Stripe protects such information, please read Stripe’s services agreement and privacy policy .
  • Social Media Data: We have pages ("Social Media Pages") on social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, and LinkedIn (each a "Social Media Site"). The platforms that host our Social Media Pages or Social Media Features may provide us with aggregate information and analytics regarding the use of our Social Media Pages and Social Media Features.
  • User Generated Content: User-generated content, such as profile pictures, photos, images, videos, posts, comments, questions, messages, user interactions, and other content or information that you generate, transmit, or otherwise make available on the Service, as well as associated metadata. Metadata includes information on how, when, where and by whom a piece of content was collected and how that content has been formatted or edited. Metadata also includes information that users can add or can have added to their content, such as keywords, geographical or location information, and other similar data.
  • Contacts Book Data: Our mobile applications may allow you to synchronize the numbers in your Contacts address book on a regular basis in order to identify any friends and/or relatives who use the Service. When you do so, we will ensure that the relevant data is encrypted and will not use it for any purpose other than matching your contacts to users of the Service. If any of your contacts are using the Service, we will let you know so that you can connect with them. You can revoke our access to your Contacts address book at any time through your mobile device settings.
  • Additional Information: To help improve your experience or enable certain features of the Service, you may choose to provide us with additional information, such as your date of birth/age, gender, profile picture, city of residence, community username, statistics on your travelling history and your reviews and photographs of trips, trails or points of interests.

• Information We Generate From Your Use of Our Service: When you visit, use, interact and register with the Service, we may automatically generate certain information about your visit, use, interactions or registration. For example, we may monitor the number of people that visit our Site or Swordsteel Apps, peak hours of visits, which page(s) are visited on our Site or Swordsteel Apps, the domains our visitors come from (e.g., google.com, yahoo.com, etc.), and which browsers people use to access and visit our Site (e.g., Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc.), broad geographical information, and Site- and Swordsteel Apps-navigation pattern. In particular, the following information is created and automatically logged in our systems:
• • Log Data: Information that your browser automatically sends whenever you visit the Site or Swordsteel Apps. Log data includes your IP address (so we understand which country you are connecting from when you visit the Site or Swordsteel Apps), browser type and settings, the date and time of your request, and how you interacted with the Site or Swordsteel Apps.
  • Cookies Data: We use cookies and similar technologies to operate and administer our Site and Swordsteel Apps, make it easier for you to use the Site and Swordsteel Apps during future visits, and gather usage data on our Site and Swordsteel Apps.
  • Device Data: Includes the model of the device, operating system, and browser you are using. Information collected may depend on the type of device you use and its settings.
  • Usage and Activity Data: We collect information about how you use our Site and Swordsteel Apps, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features you use, the actions you take, and the time, frequency and duration of your activities.
  • Geolocation Data: If you have enabled location services for an Swordsteel App on your mobile device or on your computer via the Site, we may collect your precise location information based on city, state, zip code, country, latitude and longitude. Swordsteel may also derive your approximate location from the IP address of your computer or mobile device. Geolocation data is used for purposes of showing you travel reports in your area and offering other relevant content, services and advertisements.
• Information We Receive From Third Parties. If you elect to authenticate to our Service using your account on another service (such as a Facebook, Google, or Apple account), we may receive from the other service information like your external account name as well as other information you may choose to make available to us based on your external account settings, such as contact lists and profile photos (if any). You can stop sharing the information from the other service with us by removing our access to that other service.

INFORMATION USE

Swordsteel may use the information we collect from and about you for a variety of business purposes, including:

• Account creation - to create and manage your account on the Service.
• Service delivery - to operate and deliver our Service to you.
• Payments processing - to process your payments via our third-party payments processor.
• Customer support - to deliver customer support to you and respond to your queries.
• Contacts syncing - to match the phone numbers or e-mail addresses in your Contacts address book to users of the Service, if you have chosen to do so.
• Service improvement - to analyze how you use our Service and to improve it.
• Payment processing - to use and disclose your credit/debit card information only to process payments.
• Fraud prevention - to keep our Service and associated systems operational and secure.
• Legal compliance - to comply with our legal obligations, for example our accounting and tax reporting obligations.
• Marketing - to send you information about our products and services (including via email). You may opt out of receiving emails at any time by following the instructions contained in each promotional email we send you or by contacting us. If you unsubscribe from our marketing lists, you will no longer receive marketing communications but we will continue to contact you regarding our Site and Service and to respond to your requests.

Additionally, we may use your information for other purposes disclosed at the time you provide your information or otherwise with your consent. We are committed to protecting and maintaining the privacy of your information. Therefore, we will process your data only in accordance with applicable data protection law and this Privacy Policy. We will have a lawful basis for processing your data if:

• we are legally obliged to process it;
• we need to process your information in order to provide you with the products or services you have requested;
• you have consented to such processing; and/or
• we have a legitimate interest for processing your data - e.g., for fraud prevention; direct marketing; network and information systems security; data analytics; enhancing modifying or improving our services; identifying usage trends; determining the effectiveness of promotional campaigns; and personalization of the services.

INFORMATION WE SHARE

In certain circumstances, we may share your Personal Data with third parties without further notice to you, unless required by the law, as set forth below:

• Affiliates : Other companies in our corporate group may help us deliver our Service to you.
• Vendors and Service Providers : To assist us in meeting business operations needs and to perform certain services and functions, we may share Personal Data with service providers, including hosting, cloud services and other information technology services providers; email communication software providers and email newsletter providers; data base and sales services; customer relationship management, customer engagement, and customer feedback services; payment processors; security services; and analytics services. Pursuant to our instructions, these parties will access, process or store Personal Data in the course of performing their duties to us.
• Business Transfers : If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of all or a portion of our assets, or transition of service to another provider, your Personal Data and other information may be shared in the diligence process with counterparties and others assisting with the transaction and transferred to a successor or affiliate as part of that transaction along with other assets.
• Legal Requirements : We may access and disclose your information to respond to subpoenas, judicial processes, or government requests and investigations, or in connection with an investigation on matters related to public safety, as permitted by law, or otherwise as required by law. We may disclose your information to protect the security of our Services, servers, network systems, and databases. We also may disclose your information as necessary, if we believe that there has been a violation of our Terms of Use, any other legal document or contract related to our services, or the rights of any third party.
• Other Users . Your profile and other User Generated Content (except for private messages) may be visible to other users of the Service (which may include all users of the Service or a limited number of users, depending on your privacy settings). For example, other users of the Service may have access to your information if you chose to make your profile or other personal information available to them through the Service, and may also have access to content that you submit to the Service such as when you provide comments, reviews, survey responses, or share other content. This information can be seen, collected and used by others, including being cached, copied, screen captured or stored elsewhere by others (e.g., search engines), and we are not responsible for any such use of information.

DATA RETENTION

We keep your Personal Data for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, while we have a legitimate business need to do so, or as required by law (e.g. for tax, legal, accounting or other purposes), whichever is the longer.

If you have elected to receive marketing communications from us, we retain information about your marketing preferences until you opt out of receiving these communications and in accordance with our policies.

To determine the appropriate retention period for your Personal Data, we will consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the Personal Data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your Personal Data, the purposes for which we use your Personal Data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

UPDATE YOUR INFORMATION

If you need to change or correct your Personal Data, please contact us at . We will address your request as required by applicable law.

CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS DISCLOSURES

The categories of Personal Data we have collected in the preceding twelve months are described above in the " Information We Collect " section. In the preceding twelve months, we have disclosed for business purposes each of the categories identified in that section to the categories of third parties identified in the " Information We Share " section. The business and commercial purposes for collecting Personal Data are described in the " Information Use " section. We collect Personal Data directly from you and from external accounts you use to log-in to the Service.

Privacy Rights : Where provided for by law and subject to any applicable exceptions, California residents may have the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 ("CCPA"):

• To know the categories of Personal Data that Swordsteel has collected about you, the business purpose for collecting your Personal Data, and the categories of sources from which the Personal Data was collected.
• To access the specific pieces of Personal Data that Swordsteel has collected about you.
• To know whether Swordsteel has disclosed your Personal Data for business purposes, the categories of Personal Data so disclosed, and the categories of third parties to whom we have disclosed your Personal Data
• To have Swordsteel, under certain circumstances, delete your Personal Data; and
• To be free from discrimination related to the exercise of these CCPA rights.

Swordsteel does not sell your Personal Data.

If you would like to exercise any or all of these rights, you may do so by contacting us at . If you send a written request, you must put the statement "Your California Privacy Rights" in the subject field. We are not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly, or do not have complete information. We may take steps to verify your identity before responding to your requests to know or delete your personal information by asking questions about your interactions with us. Your authorized agent may submit requests in the same manner.

If you have questions about your rights or our disclosures under the CCPA, or to request access to an alternative format of this notice, you may reach us at .

Online Tracking and Do Not Track Signals : We and our third party service providers, may use cookies, pixels, or other tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing activities over time and across different websites following your use of the Site and use that information to send targeted advertisements. Our Site currently does not respond to "Do Not Track" ("DNT") signals and operates as described in this Privacy Policy whether or not a DNT signal is received. If we do respond to DNT signals in the future, we will describe how we do so in this Privacy Policy.

CHILDREN

Our Service is not directed to children who are under the age of 16. Swordsteel does not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 16. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 16 has provided Personal Data to Swordsteel through the Service, please contact us and we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases.

EEA and UK USERS

We respect your privacy rights and provide you with reasonable access and rights to the Personal Data that you may have provided through your use of the Services. If you live in the European Economic Area ("EEA") or United Kingdom ("UK") and wish to access, amend, delete, or transfer any Personal Data we hold about you, you may contact us as set forth in the "Contact Us" section. In some cases, you may also update your registration information or preferences by accessing your account settings page on our Sites and Apps.

At any time, you may object to the processing of your Personal Data in our legitimate interests, except if otherwise permitted by applicable law. If you believe there has been a violation of your privacy rights, please contact us as set forth in the "Contact Us" section below. You also have a right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authorities.

You may decline to share certain personal data with us, in which case we may not be able to provide to you some of the features and functionality of the Service.

We will retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. In some circumstances we may anonymize your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for analytics purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

Swordsteel is based in Canada. Some of our vendors and service providers may also be located in Canada, the United States or another country. As such, any processing of your Personal Data may involve an export of your Personal Data outside of your country of residence, including to countries which may have data protection laws that are less stringent than the laws in effect in the country in which you are located. Whenever we transfer your Personal Data out of your country of residence, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by implementing appropriate safeguards which comply with applicable privacy laws. If you would like to receive more information about these safeguards, please Contact Us .

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

The Site and Swordsteel Apps may contain advertisements for or links to other websites, products, or services not operated or controlled by Swordsteel, including Social Media Sites ("Third Party Sites"). The information that you share with Third Party Sites will be governed by the specific privacy policies and terms of service of the Third Party Sites and not by this Privacy Policy. By providing these links we do not imply that we endorse or have reviewed these sites. Please contact the Third Party Sites directly for information on their privacy practices and policies.

SECURITY

You use the Service at your own risk. We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your Personal Data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed, which comply with industry standards and applicable privacy laws. However, no Internet or email transmission is ever fully secure or error free. In particular, email sent to or from us may not be secure. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you send to us via the Service or email. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any Personal Data to Swordsteel via the Internet. In addition, we are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Service, or third party websites.

YOUR CHOICES

Whether or not you provide Personal Data to us is completely up to you, but if you choose not to provide information that is needed to use some features of our Service, you may be unable to use those features. You can also contact us to request access to your Personal Data or to ask us to update, correct, or delete your Personal Data.

Disabling location detection in the Swordsteel apps will prevent us from showing the content and advertising relevant to your location. Even if you opt out, you still may receive advertising from us that is not customized for your location.

Certain parts of our Services require cookies, pixels, or similar technologies. For example, we may use cookies or other technologies to deliver more relevant advertising and to link data collected across other computers or devices that you may use. You may adjust your device or Internet browser settings to limit certain tracking or to decline cookies, but by doing so, you may not be able to use certain features or take full advantage of our Service. Please refer to your device’s settings or your Internet browser’s "Help" section for more information on how to delete and/or disable your device or browser from receiving cookies or controlling your tracking preferences.

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY

The Service and our business may change from time to time. As a result, we may change this Privacy Policy at any time. When we do, we will post an updated version on this page, unless another type of notice is required by applicable law. By continuing to use our Service or providing us with Personal Data after we have posted an updated Privacy Policy, or notified you if applicable, you consent to the revised Privacy Policy and practices described in it.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or the information practices of the Site, please feel free to contact us at .