Disclosure Policy

Disclosure:

In order to protect the public from any intentionally errant or misleading advertising that has been paid for by a group or company the FTC has a disclosure policy.  It is important to me to always be honest and up front with my readers.

  • This blog may include endorsements, sponsors, and other promoted products.
  • This blog is my source of income and at times I promote products or services from other businesses.
  • When I am sponsored YOU will always get my honest opinion.
  • My readers come first and I will always be honest and up front about my opinions of products that I may have received for free or brands I am endorsing.  My feelings about this blog is to always BE AUTHENTIC.  Your trust is important to me and I will always consider my readers when promoting a product.
  • The ideas on this blog are my own. At times I am compensated for products. It is the responsibility of the reader to check the accuracy of the information. I, and this blog, are not responsible for the accuracy of this information. I will always do my best to keep this site current.
  • My goal is to share my love of creating family memories, not to share your information. For questions about this blog please contact me by email at [email protected]

Affiliates/Sponsors:

At times, I am compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though I receive compensation for certain posts or advertisements, I always give my honest opinion, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely my own.

Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question. I do work with affiliates and have affiliate links on my page. Some posts and reviews I make may contain affiliate links. This is a link to an online retailer on my website. When you click on those links and purchase something from that retailer, I earn a commission.

Copyright:

Please be courteous and do not use my work as your own.  Sharing on social media is welcome and linking to my page is encouraged.  Please do not crop or alter any images or posts. All opinions, posts, and photos are owned by Five For the Road. Use without permission is not allowed. Please submit request for use to [email protected].

Comments:

I encourage a welcoming community and love when you comment. Be Kind.  Comments that are derogatory, defamatory, and/or deemed to be spam will be removed from the site. I look forward to chatting with you!

Privacy Policy:

If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at [email protected].

At Five for the Road (https://fivefortheroad.com/) we consider the privacy of our visitors to be extremely important. This privacy policy document describes in detail the types of personal information is collected and recorded by Five for the Road (https://fivefortheroad.com/) and how we use it.

Log Files
Like many other Web sites, https://fivefortheroad.com/ makes use of log files. These files merely logs visitors to the site – usually a standard procedure for hosting companies and a part of hosting services’s analytics. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

Cookies and Web Beacons
https://fivefortheroad.com/ uses cookies to store information about visitors’ preferences, to record user-specific information on which pages the site visitor accesses or visits, and to personalize or customize our web page content based upon visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.

DoubleClick DART Cookie
→ Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on https://fivefortheroad.com/.
→ Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our site’s visitors based upon their visit to https://fivefortheroad.com/ and other sites on the Internet.
→ Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL – http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Our Advertising Partners

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.

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include Google AdSense and Affiliate Networks.

Each of these advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their site.

You may consult this listing to find the privacy policy for each of the advertising partners of Five for the Road (https://fivefortheroad.com/). These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology in their respective advertisements and links that appear on https://fivefortheroad.com/ and which are sent directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by our site’s third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on the site.

Five for the Road (https://fivefortheroad.com/) has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third Party Privacy Policies
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. https://fivefortheroad.com/’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options.

Children’s Information
We believe it is important to provide added protection for children online. We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children to observe, participate in and/or monitor and guide their online activity. https://fivefortheroad.com/ does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If a parent or guardian believes that https://fivefortheroad.com/ has in its database the personally-identifiable information of a child under the age of 13, please contact us immediately (using the contact in the first paragraph) and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Online Privacy Policy Only
This privacy policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website and regarding information shared and/or collected there. This policy does not apply to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

When do we collect information?
We collect information from you when you subscribe to a newsletter or enter information on our site.

How do we use your information?
We may use the information we collect from you when you sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:
• To send periodic emails and newsletters.

Opting out:
Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out page or by using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on.

Can change your personal information:
• By emailing us

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can email us at [email protected]

This blog does not share personal information with third parties nor do we store any information about your visit to this blog other than to analyze and optimize your content and reading experience through the use of cookies.

You can turn off the use of cookies at anytime by changing your specific browser settings.

We are not responsible for republished content from this blog on other blogs or websites without our permission.

Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our privacy policy and agree to its terms.

This privacy policy is subject to change without notice and was last updated on May 2018. If you have any questions feel free to contact me directly here: [email protected]
Updated: May 2018

Should we update, amend or make any changes to our privacy policy, those changes will be posted here.