Disclosure + Privacy Policy

The following information sets out thelifeofasocialbutterfly.co.uk’s policy regarding endorsements, promotions, reviews and testimonials.

This website represents a source of income for The Life of a Social Butterfly’s owner and as a result, accepts forms of paid advertising, sponsorship, endorsements, affiliate links, or other forms of compensation. This website may be used to promote or sell products created by The Life of a Social Butterfly or other advertising partners and offer services for a fee or other forms of compensation.

Best endeavours will be undertaken to clearly identify any content containing affiliate links, paid or sponsored content or advertising space, where applicable. Most notably, in a coloured button where the disclosure can be clearly visible from the outset.

The Life of a Social Butterfly may, at times, be compensated to provide opinions on products, services, websites and various other topics. However, honest opinions or observations are always given in relation to experiences on topics or products. The Life of a Social Butterfly only works with brands we resonate with, have used and feel that reviews would be helpful or useful to the users of the website.

The products, services or experiences that are promoted on this website may have been gifted free of charge as a PR product for review purposes, at no cost to us or to you as the consumer. Reviews and articles written about destinations, hotels or restaurants may have come about as part of a collaboration with a brand, company or tourism board and may have been experienced on a PR review/complimentary basis with, or without additional compensation. Please note, this does not necessarily ensure a positive review in any way.

This website does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest. The views and opinions expressed on this website are purely personal and no guarantee is offered as to the completeness and accuracy of a review. Any product claim, statistic, quote or any other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.

If you have any questions, please email blog@thelifeofasocialbutterfly.co.uk

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to TheLifeofaSocialButterfly.co.uk – Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on how and why we collect, store, use, and share personal information, your rights in relation to your personal information and on how to contact in the event you have a complaint.

The Personal Information We Collect and Use

Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website

The Life of a Social Butterfly may collect, use, and is responsible for certain personal information that you provide when you voluntarily subscribe to newsletters, sign up for e-mails or free subscriber gifts, leave comments, download a PDF or digital product, enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, fill out any type of form, respond to surveys that we may request you to complete, access private membership pages, or otherwise contact The Life of a Social Butterfly via an online form or e-mail. The information collected may include your name, e-mail, address, phone number, postal address and/or billing information. You are not required to provide any personally identifiable information to merely access or visit this Website.

Cookies (not the ones you eat sad face)

This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics & Mediavine.

The Life of a Social Butterfly or its third-party providers, such as Google Analytics, may collect non-personal information through the use of these data collection technologies. Nonpersonal information might include the type of device or browser you use, the operating system, IP address, referring website, pages you viewed, the search terms you used and the date and time you accessed the Website.

As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.

Information Collected from Other Sources

Information, such as an e-mail address, from other sources, such as third-party comment platforms, customer survey providers, or social media accounts linked to your user profile on this Website may also be collected. We may use this information for marketing and advertising purposes. For a list of third-party suppliers, see Third-Party Services We Use.

How we use your personal information

TheLifeofaSocialButterfly.co.uk collects and uses your personal information:

To operate and maintain this Website;
To send you promotional information, such as newsletters;
To send you administrative e-mails, such as confirmation e-mails, technical notices, policy updates or security alerts;
To respond to your comments or inquiries;
To create an account, identify you as a user of the Website and customise the Website for your account;
To complete customer transactions;
To fulfil your orders or deliver information, services or products that you request from us;
To administer contests and promotions;
To track and measure advertising on the Website;
To receive feedback to improve Website performance and customer service;
To provide you with user support;
To protect, investigate and deter against unauthorised or illegal activity and
To conduct any other service with your consent.

Who We Share Your Personal Information With

TheLifeofaSocialButterfly.co.uk respects your privacy and except where required by law, we will never sell, trade or transfer your personally identifiable information to third parties (beyond what is necessary for fulfilling a customer transaction or for the basic functionality of an online service) without your consent.

We do, however, share personal information such as name, postal address and e-mail address with our subsidiaries and affiliates, contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our Website. Each third-party service providers use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies. For a list of our third-party suppliers, see Third-Party Services We Use.

From time to time, Non-personal information, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties, may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.

If you give TheLifeofaSocialButterfly.co.uk your permission, it may also use personal identification information for internal or external marketing and promotional purposes.

On occasion, TheLifeofaSocialButterfly.co.uk may collect personal identification information from you in connection with optional contests, special offers or promotions. TheLifeofaSocialButterfly.co.uk will share such information with necessary third parties for the purpose of carrying out the contest, special offer or promotion. We will ask for your consent to such disclosure and use of such information, prior to your participation in the contest, special offer or promotion.

It should be noted, this site does not require you to provide any personal information in order to browse or view the information on this Website. We will inform you when we collect it whether you are required to provide the information to us.

We will not share your personal information with any other third party.

How Long Your Personal Information Will Be Kept

Personal information that you have provided (e.g., name, address, and contact details) is held indefinitely unless you request the erasure of your personal information by requesting this using the Contact form on the Website or unsubscribing from e-mail communications.

Third-Party Services We Use

Google Analytics – This service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics (Google Inc.) may capture your IP address. Please refer to Google’s privacy policy for further information.

MailChimp – This Website uses Mail Chimp (The Rocket Science Group, LLC.) for the delivery of email updates and newsletters. The service provider stores your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications. Please refer to Mail Chimp’s privacy policy for further information.

Google Apps – This Website uses some Google (Google Inc.) plugins and third-party apps, such as reCAPTCHA, YouTube, and Google Maps to embed information and links to our Website. Your personal data, including IP address, may be shared with the service provider. Please refer to Google’s privacy policy for further information.

Mediavine – This website uses a third-party advertising platform. Please refer to the bottom of this Disclosure to read Mediavine’s full privacy policy in relation to this site.

Grow by Mediavine – we use Grow by Mediavine (DevPups) to allow you to share our articles on your social media. Information regarding your social media links may be shared with the service provider. Please refer to Mediavine’s full privacy policy for further information.

At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time in this Website’s sole discretion.

Publicly Available Information

If you create a user profile or leave a comment on our Website, certain information, such as your username, avatar, a profile description, your website or your social profiles may be publicly available.

Please note that any comments or information that you post on this Website and associated social media pages become public and third parties may use your information. TheLifeofaSocialButterfly.co.uk is not responsible for any unauthorised use by third parties in such context. If you delete your comments from the Website, copies of your comments may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. You disclose such information at your own risk.

Links to Other Sites

You may see advertising or other content on this Website that links to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors or other third parties. Any products or services reached through a third-party link are subject to separate privacy policies.

TheLifeofaSocialButterfly.co.uk is not responsible for or liable for any content on or actions taken by such third-party Websites.

Embedded Content

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

TheLifeofaSocialButterfly.co.uk is not responsible for or liable for any content on or actions taken by such third-party Websites.

Advertising

Display Ads

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit this Website, which may use cookies, as noted above.

Retargeting Ads

From time to time, this Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.

Affiliate Program Participation

This Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding 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 commissions.

Newsletters

On the Website, you may subscribe to a newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behaviour will not be passed on to third parties.

Your Rights

You have several choices when it comes to information about you:

Accessing this Website: By accessing or using TheLifeofaSocialButterfly.co.uk, you agree to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with these policies, your choice is to not use the Website.

Reject or Remove Cookies: At this time, TheLifeofaSocialButterfly.co.uk does not respond to “do not track” signals on our Website. However, you can choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies before using our Website. Please be aware that certain features of our Website may not be available to you if you choose not to allow cookies.

Unsubscribe from E-mail Communications: If you want to unsubscribe from receiving e-mails from TheLifeofaSocialButterfly.co.uk, you may do so at any time. Each e-mail from The Life of a Social Butterfly includes instructions for unsubscribing from these e-mail communications. Alternatively, you can use the Contact form on the Website stating your request to be unsubscribed. Once you have unsubscribed from the mailing list, you are permanently removed.

If you are covered by the General Data Protection Regulation, you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:

Fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your use personal information
Access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Notice is already designed to address
Require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold
Require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations
Receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations
Object at any time to the processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing
Object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you
Object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information
Otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances

You may also have the right to claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws.

For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under the General Data Protection Regulation, available here.

If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:

Email
Provide enough information to identify you (e.g., customer number and registration details)
Provide proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driver’s license or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill)
Provide the information to which your request relates including any account or reference numbers if you have them.

Keeping Your Personal Information Secure

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. We do, however, have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable authorities within 72 hours of a suspected data security breach, where we are legally required to do so.

How to Complain

We hope that we can resolve any question or concern you raise about our use of your information.

If you are covered by the General Data Protection Regulation, you may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live, or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

TheLifeofaSocialButterfly.co.uk reserves the right to make changes to this disclosure + privacy policy.

How to Contact

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, the information held about you, or you wish to change your personal information in our records, please contact us via the Contact page on our Website or email blog@thelifeofasocialbutterfly.co.uk

Mediavine Privacy Policy

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

IP Address
Operating System type
Operating System version
Device Type
Language of the website
Web browser type
Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.