privacy policy

LAST UPDATED: 8 SEPTEMBER 2024

somewherelands (“The Company”, “we”, “us”, “somewherelands.com”) is committed to protecting your privacy when you visit our website, somewherelands.com. You can access somewherelands.com and browse our site without disclosing any of your personal data. somewherelands.com does not collect personal information about individuals, such as names and mailing or e-mail addresses unless it is knowingly provided by the individual and he or she has agreed to the terms under which somewherelands.com will use it.

Please read the Privacy Policy carefully before you start to use the Website. By using the Website or by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms of Use when this option is made available to you, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by the Privacy Policy. If you do not want to agree to the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Information You Submit Voluntarily: We may collect personal information from you such as your name, email address, or website URL for certain types of forms or services. For example, you may voluntarily submit your personal information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or filling out a contact form. This information allows us to add your comment, add your email address to the newsletter list, or respond to your contact form message.

Information We Collect from Others: We may receive information about you from other website and sources. You may link your Facebook, Instagram, and/or Google accounts to your user profile. If you choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, and/or Google accounts to your user profile, we may in some instances receive your name, email address and profile picture associated with that account.

Automatically-Collected Information: We automatically collect information about you and the device with which you access and use the Website. For example, when you use the Website we will log your IP address, pages you viewed, operating system type, browser type, referring website, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.

Use of Cookies: We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.

USAGE OF INFORMATION

We may use the information collected above in the following ways:

• To operate and maintain the Website;

• To send you promotional information that you have signed up for previously, such as newsletters. Each email newsletter will provide information on how to easily opt-out of future mailings;

• To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, newsletter confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;

• To respond to your comments if you have selected the subscribe to comments option. Each comment email will provide information on how to unsubscribe or opt-out of future comment subscription emails;

• To respond to your inquiries submitted through the comment form on the Website;

• To provide you with adequate user support;

• To track and measure advertising on the Website;

• To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity;

• And in some instances, to create your account, identify you as a user of the Website, and customize the Website for your account.

DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

somewherelands.com will not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others. We do not automatically log personal data nor do we link information automatically logged by other means with personal data about specific individuals. We may use IP addresses to compile and provide aggregate statistics about our visitors, traffic patterns, and administer the site. This statistical information may also be related to third parties, but these statistics will not include any personally identifying information, track users movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. We collect only the personal data that you may volunteer while using our services. We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organizations.

somewherelands.com may release account information when such release is reasonably necessary to comply with the law; enforce the terms of any of our user agreements; or protect the rights, property, and safety of somewherelands.com, the users of its site, or others.

SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number or personal identification number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, trade union memberships or any other sensitive information. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

CHILDREN’S INFORMATION

The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at hello.somewherelands@gmail.com and we will use our best efforts to remove such information from our records.

PUBLICLY VISIBLE INFORMATION

If you create a user profile on the Website or leave a comment, certain information like your name or website URL may be publicly visible. To create a user profile, you must choose a username and password and input your email address for profile confirmation. Your email address will never be available publicly, unless you choose to explicitly and voluntarily include it in a comment on the Website. At your option, you may also add an avatar, a profile description, and a link to your website.

You may also choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, and Google Account.

Users may see your user name, avatar, profile description and website information.

DATA PROTECTION

We employ commercially reasonable methods to ensure the security of the information you provide to us and the information we collect automatically. This includes using standard security protocols and working only with reputable third-party vendors. Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email. However, doing so is allowed, but at your own risk. Some of the information you may enter on our website may be transmitted securely via a secure medium known as Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL. Credit Card information and other sensitive information is never transmitted via email.

The Company may use software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, the Company uses software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.

COOKIES

Similar to other commercial websites, our website utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” and server logs to collect information about how our site is used. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our site, and the websites visited just before and just after our own, as well as your IP address.

A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

The Company reserves the right to use technological equivalents of cookies, including social media pixels. These pixels allow social media sites to track visitors to outside websites so as to tailor advertising messages users see while visiting that social media website. The Company reserves the right to use these pixels in compliance with the policies of the various social media sites.ivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.

THIRD PARTY USE OF COOKIES

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

EXTERNAL WEBSITES

Please note that somewherelands.com contains links to other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage our users to be aware that when they leave our site you read the privacy statements of each website that might collect personally identifying information.

This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by somewherelands.com. If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, please contact: hello.somewherelands@gmail.com.

AFFILIATE PROGRAM PARTICIPATION

The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding affiliate tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of calculating commissions for the Website.

somewherelands is a participant in the Klook Affiliate Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for websites to earn commissions and advertising fees by advertising and links to klook.com. As part of this Klook Affiliate Program, the Website will post customized links, provided by Klook, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

YOUR RIGHTS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Opt-out: You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at info@uncorneredmarket.com if you would like to be removed from our newsletter mailing list.

Access: You may request access to the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to: hello.somewherelands@gmail.com.

Amend: You may contact us at hello.somewherelands@gmail.com to update or amend your personal information.

Forget: In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget all your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to hello.somewherelands@gmail.com.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes, to complete certain transactions, or when required by law.

CHANGES

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we do, we will let you know by revising the date at the top of the policy. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will provide you with additional notice. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you access or use our Services or otherwise interact with us to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy. If you continue to use our Services after Privacy Policy changes go into effect, you consent to the revised policy.

CONTACT

If you have questions or comments regarding the Privacy Policy, you may reach us at: hello.somewherelands@gmail.com.

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