This Privacy Policy explains how ThingsToDone, accessible at https://thingstodone.com, collects, uses, stores and protects information when you visit our travel website, read our articles, contact us or interact with our services.
ThingsToDone publishes travel information, destination guides, trip-planning advice and articles about places to visit and things to do.
By using this website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Where consent is required by law, we will ask for your permission before using non-essential cookies or processing personal information for relevant purposes.
Information About the Website Operator
For data protection purposes, the operator of ThingsToDone is responsible for deciding how personal information collected through this website is used.
Website: https://thingstodone.com
Operator or legal name: [RAO ALI HASSAN]
Privacy email: [youngercast9@gmail.com]
Information We May Collect
The information we collect depends on how you use the website.
Information You Provide Directly
You may provide personal information when you:
- Contact us through a form or email
- Submit a correction or suggestion
- Leave a comment, if comments are enabled
- Subscribe to a newsletter, if available
- Enter a competition or survey
- Send a business, advertising or collaboration enquiry
This information may include your name, email address, message content and any other information you choose to provide.
Please do not send sensitive personal information unless it is necessary and we have specifically requested it.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit ThingsToDone, our website, hosting provider and authorised service providers may automatically collect technical information, including:
- Internet Protocol address
- Browser type and version
- Device type and operating system
- Approximate location derived from an IP address
- Referring website or search engine
- Pages viewed and time spent on the website
- Links or advertisements clicked
- Date and time of access
- Cookie identifiers
- Error, performance and security information
We use this information to operate the website, understand general visitor behaviour, improve content, protect the website and support advertising where permitted.
How We Use Personal Information
We may use collected information to:
- Operate, maintain and secure ThingsToDone
- Respond to messages, questions and correction requests
- Publish and manage comments, where enabled
- Improve our travel articles and website experience
- Understand which pages and topics interest readers
- Detect spam, fraud, abuse and technical problems
- Measure website and advertising performance
- Display advertising, subject to applicable consent requirements
- Manage commercial and editorial enquiries
- Comply with legal, regulatory and contractual obligations
- Establish, exercise or defend legal claims
We will not use personal information for an unrelated purpose without providing appropriate information and obtaining consent where required.
Lawful Bases for Processing
Where the UK GDPR or similar legislation applies, we rely on one or more of the following lawful bases:
- Consent: When you agree to non-essential cookies, advertising personalisation, email marketing or another optional use.
- Legitimate interests: When processing is reasonably necessary to operate, secure and improve the website, respond to enquiries or understand website performance, provided those interests do not override your rights.
- Contract: When processing is necessary to take steps at your request or fulfil an agreement.
- Legal obligation: When we must process information to comply with the law.
- Legal claims: When information is necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal rights.
You may withdraw consent at any time through the available cookie settings or by contacting us. Withdrawing consent does not make earlier processing unlawful.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cookies are small files stored on your browser or device. ThingsToDone and authorised third parties may use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, web beacons and similar technologies.
These technologies may be used for the following purposes:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies support essential functions such as security, network management, consent preferences and basic website operation. They may be used without consent where permitted by law.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies remember preferences and provide enhanced website features.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics technologies help us understand how visitors find and use the website. They may collect information about page views, sessions, devices and interactions.
Where required, analytics cookies will not be activated unless you provide consent.
Advertising Cookies
Advertising cookies may be used to display advertisements, limit how often an advertisement appears, measure performance, prevent fraudulent activity and, where you consent, personalise advertising.
Advertising-related storage and access technologies will be used only in accordance with applicable consent requirements.
You can accept, reject or manage non-essential cookies through the consent message or Cookie Settings option displayed on the website. You may also delete or block cookies through your browser, although this may affect certain features.
Google AdSense and Third-Party Advertising
ThingsToDone may use Google AdSense and other advertising partners to display advertisements.
Google and other third-party vendors may:
- Place and read cookies on your browser
- Use web beacons, pixels or IP addresses
- Collect information about visits to this and other websites
- Measure advertising performance
- Prevent invalid traffic and advertising fraud
- Select or personalise advertisements where permitted
Google may use information from websites and applications that use its services to provide, maintain and improve services, measure advertising effectiveness, protect against fraud and personalise content or advertisements where consent has been provided.
You can learn more by reading How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
Information about Google’s advertising cookies is available through Google’s Advertising Policies and Technologies page.
You can manage Google advertising preferences through Google Ads Settings.
For visitors in the United Kingdom, European Economic Area and Switzerland, we intend to use an appropriate consent-management system to request and record choices where required. The consent message may also identify the advertising technology providers that receive information.
Website Analytics
ThingsToDone may use analytics services, such as Google Analytics, to understand website traffic and performance.
Analytics providers may process information including IP addresses, device information, page views, approximate location and website interactions. Where legally required, analytics technologies will be activated only after consent.
If analytics services are not active on ThingsToDone, this section should be removed or updated before publication.
Comments
If comments are enabled, we may collect the information entered in the comment form, along with an IP address and browser information for spam detection and website security.
Comments and the associated display name may remain publicly visible until they are removed. Do not publish personal or confidential information in a comment.
Email and Contact Forms
When you contact us, we use the information you provide to respond to your message, manage the enquiry and maintain reasonable records.
We do not add people to marketing lists merely because they sent an enquiry. Separate consent will be requested before sending optional marketing emails where required.
Affiliate Links and External Websites
Some ThingsToDone articles may contain links to travel providers, booking platforms, attractions, accommodation services or other third-party websites. Some links may be affiliate links, meaning we may receive a commission if you complete a qualifying transaction.
Visiting an external website may allow that provider to collect information under its own privacy policy. ThingsToDone does not control and is not responsible for the privacy practices, security or content of external websites.
How We Share Information
We may share information with carefully selected third parties when reasonably necessary, including:
- Website hosting and security providers
- Content-delivery and performance services
- Email and contact-form providers
- Spam-prevention services
- Analytics providers
- Advertising networks and technology providers
- Professional advisers
- Regulators, courts or public authorities where legally required
- A buyer or successor if the website or business is sold or reorganised
Service providers may process information only for authorised purposes and under appropriate contractual or legal safeguards.
We do not sell personal information for money. However, the use of advertising technologies may be treated as “selling,” “sharing” or targeted advertising under certain privacy laws. Eligible visitors may opt out through our cookie-preference controls or by contacting us.
International Data Transfers
Some service providers may process information outside the country where you live.
Where required by law, we will seek to use appropriate safeguards for international transfers, such as adequacy regulations, approved contractual clauses or other legally recognised transfer mechanisms.
Third-party providers may also rely on their own approved safeguards, as described in their privacy documentation.
How Long We Retain Information
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
Retention periods may depend on:
- The nature of the information
- The reason it was collected
- Whether an enquiry remains active
- Security and fraud-prevention requirements
- Legal, tax, accounting or regulatory obligations
- The establishment or defence of legal claims
Contact messages are generally retained until the enquiry is resolved and for a reasonable period afterwards. Security records may be retained while needed to investigate or prevent abuse. Consent records may be retained to demonstrate compliance.
Information controlled independently by advertising and analytics providers is retained according to those providers’ policies and settings.
How We Protect Information
We use reasonable administrative, technical and organisational measures designed to protect information from unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure or loss.
However, no internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Visitors provide information online at their own risk.
Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on where you live and the applicable law, you may have the right to:
- Request access to your personal information
- Ask us to correct inaccurate information
- Request deletion of information
- Restrict certain processing
- Object to processing based on legitimate interests
- Object to direct marketing
- Request data portability
- Withdraw consent at any time
- Opt out of certain targeted advertising or data sharing
- Make a complaint to a data protection authority
You have the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests and to direct marketing.
These rights are not absolute and may depend on the circumstances and lawful basis involved. We may need to verify your identity before responding.
To exercise a privacy right, contact us at:
[INSERT YOUR PRIVACY EMAIL]
If you are in the United Kingdom, you may also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office through its official complaints page.
Children’s Privacy
ThingsToDone provides general travel information and is not intended to collect personal information directly from children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without appropriate parental or guardian involvement. If you believe a child has provided personal information, please contact us so that we can review and delete it where appropriate.
Automated Decision-Making
ThingsToDone does not use personal information to make solely automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
Advertising providers may use automated systems to select, deliver and measure advertisements according to user choices, provider policies and applicable law.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to the website, technologies, service providers, advertising practices or legal requirements.
The updated version will be published on this page with a revised “Last updated” date. Significant changes may also be highlighted through an additional notice where appropriate.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, want to exercise a privacy right or wish to make a complaint, contact:
ThingsToDone
Website: https://thingstodone.com
Operator: [RAO ALI HASSAN]
Email: [youngercast9@gmail.com]
