Privacy and Cookie Policy
TourbyTransit, a division of One Search Publishing, is committed to protecting your online privacy. Please read our Privacy and Cookie Policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your information when you visit our website.
This Privacy Policy explains the policies of TourbyTransit on the collection and use of the information we collect when you access https://tourbytransit.com (the “Service”). This Privacy Policy describes your privacy rights and how you are protected under privacy laws.
By using our Service, you are consenting to the collection and use of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Please do not access or use our Service if you do not consent to the collection and use of your information as outlined in this Privacy Policy.
Collection and Use of Your Personal Information
The ONLY personally identifiable information we collect, store or transmit is your email address should you contact us.
We do not collect, store or transmit any personally identifiable information about our visitors when you are browsing our website.
Examples of anomynous usage data collected may include, but is not limited to the following:
- Web page requests
- Referring web pages
- Browser used to access site
- Time and date of access
- City of access
- Time spent on the website
Cookies
Cookies and how they Benefit You
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.
Cookies can be classified into four categories.
- Strictly necessary cookies. Strictly necessary cookies are set by our consent management platform to remember your consent preferences and block other cookies and trackers when consent has not been granted. In most countries consent is implied by the use of this website however, in the EEA and the UK, consent for non necessary cookies must be explicit.
- Analytics cookies. Analytics cookies are used to see how visitors use the website. Those cookies cannot be used to directly identify a certain visitor.
- Marketing cookies. Marketing cookies are used to anomonously track visitors across different websites and devices - for example: content partners and banner networks. Those cookies may be used by companies to build a profile of visitor interests or show you relevant ads on other websites. These are usually third party cookies.
Our cookies help us:
- Offer you free services/content (thanks to advertising).
- Include third party tools and content that are useful to our visitors. On our site these include YouTube videos about attractions and widgets that show activities, tours, and hotel deals and hotel maps.
- Improve the user experience on our website, by analyzing how visitors interact with it.
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information
- Collect any sensitive information
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions
Cookies may share non-personally identifiable information about your use of our site with our advertising and analytics partners. Scroll down for more details on these specific uses.
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below
Granting us permission to use cookies
When you first visit our website, you will be shown a cookie banner. In some jurisdictions the banner simply informs you of the use of cookies and provides a link to this policy. Your continued use of the website implies consent.
In other jurisdictions, on your first visit you will be shown a cookie consent banner where you can choose to opt-in or opt-out of some or all non-essential cookies. This choice will be remembered as you browse the website and can be changed at any time by clicking on the 'manage cookies' link in the footer or on this page.
More about our Cookies
Our own cookies
We use cookies to help improve your user experience on our website by:
- Remembering the status of your consent for cookies.
Third Party Content Cookies
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality and content provided by third parties. Our site includes services and content from the following parties which sets cookies:
- YouTube - Owned by Google - Powers most videos embedded on our site.
- Booking.com - Powers the hotel deals and hotel map widgets.
- Viator.com - Displays widgets and content related to travel activities.
- Getyourguide.com - Displays booking widgets for some of the attractions on our website.
The Google integrations are covered under Google's Privacy Policy
Disabling these cookies may break functionality or disable content provided by these third parties.
Social Website Cookies
So you can easily “Like” or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site. Our sharing buttons do not track you or set any cookies unless you interact with them in which case cookies may be set by: Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest.
The privacy implications on this will vary according to the social network and wmay also be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen for your own account on these networks.
Visitor Statistics Data
We use Piwik PRO Analytics Suite as our website/app analytics software and consent management tool. We collect data about website visitors based on cookies. The collected information may include a visitor's anonymized IP address, operating system, browser ID, browsing activity and other information. See the scope of data collected by Piwik PRO.
We calculate metrics like bounce rate, page views, sessions and the like to understand how our website is used.
We host our solution on Microsoft Azure in Germany, and the data is stored for 14 months.
The purpose of data processing: analytics and conversion tracking based on consent. Legal basis: Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR.
Piwik PRO does not send the data about you to any other sub-processors or third parties and does not use it for its own purposes. For more, read Piwik PRO's privacy policy.
Marketing Cookies
- Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to your website or other websites.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. You can also choose to opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
Non-personalized ads are targeted using contextual information rather than the past behavior of a user. Although these ads do not use cookies for ads personalization, they do use cookies to allow for frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting, and to combat fraud and abuse.
To learn more on how Google manages data in its products see Google Privacy and Terms.
Turning Cookies Off
You can also block cookies for all sites by adjusting your browser settings to prevent it from accepting cookies. You can choose to turn off all cookies or just 3rd party cookies. Websites must block 3rd party scripts to prevent corresponding cookies from loading, whereas your browser can block the cookies without disabling the scripts. For that reason, disabling 3rd party cookies in your browser's privacy settings while consenting to all cookies on the website is a good option to reduce tracking without breaking functionality and features.
Affiliate Partners
In order to operate our website and provide content and tools free of charge, TourbyTransit is a participant in several affiliate advertising programs.
We are compensated in the form of a commission when you visit the partnering website and complete a purchase or carry out a specified action.
When you click a link to visit one of the affiliate sites we link to, your use of that site will be governed by its own Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
Our affiliate links contain a tracking number in the URL that identifies us as the referring website. This tracking number does not convey any personal information about you. Your personal information will only become known to the partner site if you provide it to them for the purpose of purchasing a service. In that case, they are the party responsible for the use and safe-keeping of your personal data and you should refer to their privacy policy and terms of service for more information.
For your convenience, we have listed links to the privacy policies of the businesses we promote through their affiliate programs.
- Booking.com - Privacy Policy
- Viator.com - owned by TripAdvisor and operated as a a White Label subdomain under our own branding Privacy Policy
- GetYourGuide.com - Privacy Policy
Contacting Us
You may send enquiries to us by emailing . When you email us we collect no personally identifiable information except what you provide voluntarily in the email. We only use the information you provide to respond to your enquiry. We do not share it with any third party.
If you contact us via our Contact Form we use a third party service called EmailMeForm to forward your email to us. In addition to the information you submit via the form, they collect your IP address and country to help prevent spam and misuse of the platform. Submitting a message via our Contact form is therefore also subject to the EmailMeForm Privacy Policy. All information is encrypted and kept secure. We do delete old data on a regular basis. You can also contact us to request the removal of any stored data related to messages you sent via our Contact Form.
Third-Party Disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer any personal information to outside parties.
Third-Party Links
We are not responsible for the correctness, integrity or ownership of the information provided by third parties for whom there are redirecting links from this website. We nonetheless seek to ensure that these third parties to whom we link are trustworthy sites that provide additional information helpful to our visitors. We recommend you review the privacy practices of other websites you interact with and determine the adequacy of those practices.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
TourbyTransit may modify its Privacy Policy at any time. The most up-to-date version will always be available on this website and will govern how we use your information. We encourage you to regularly check this Privacy Policy to track of any changes on how we handle your data.
Contact Information
If there are any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, or you would like us to remove any information we may have about you from our computers or servers please submit your request to the email address below or visit our contact page. or via our Contact Form.
or by regular mail at:
TourbyTransit
45566 Worthington Place
Chilliwack, BC Canada V2R1N6
