Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to Hidden Roads Guide. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled in a safe and responsible manner.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your information when you visit our website, take our travel quiz, or enroll in our courses. By using our services, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

2. Information We Collect

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our service to you:

• Personal Identification Information: Name and email address when you sign up for our newsletter, take our quiz, or purchase a course.
• Quiz Responses: Your travel preferences, habits, and interests that you share during our interactive quiz.
• Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, including your IP address, browser type, pages visited, and time spent on the site.

3. How We Use Your Information

Hidden Roads Guide uses the collected data for various purposes:

• To provide and maintain our service
• To notify you about changes to our service
• To provide personalized travel recommendations and starter guides
• To deliver the Smart Traveler Course and related materials
• To provide customer support
• To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our website

4. Email Communications

If you opt-in to our newsletter or take our quiz, we may use your email address to send you marketing materials, travel guides, and course updates.

You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send.

5. Cookies & Analytics

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. We also use analytics tools (like Google Analytics) to help us understand how visitors interact with our content.

6. Third-Party Services

We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our service ("Service Providers"), to provide the service on our behalf, or to perform service-related services.

These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose. Common providers include email marketing platforms and payment processors.

7. Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• The right to access, update, or delete the information we have on you.
• The right of rectification — to have your information fixed if it is inaccurate.
• The right to object — to our processing of your personal data.
• The right of restriction — to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.