Privacy Policy Overview
Introduction: At Costa Rican Adventures, we protect your privacy. This policy outlines how we handle your personal information to respect your privacy and ensure you understand your rights and our responsibilities.
Website Address: Our website address is http://costaricanadventure.net.
Data Collection and Usage
Comments: When you leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, your IP address, and browser user agent to help with spam detection. An anonymized string (hash) created from your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to verify if you are using it. Following comment approval, your profile picture is publicly visible in the context of your comment. Gravatar Privacy Policy
Media: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Other visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
Comment Cookies: If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These cookies last for one year and are for your convenience, so you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment.
Session Cookies: When you visit our login page, a temporary cookie is set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
Persistent Cookies: When you log in, we set several cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last two days, and screen options cookies last a year. Selecting “Remember Me” extends this to two weeks. Logging out removes these cookies.
Editing Cookies: An additional cookie will be stored in your browser if you edit or publish an article. This cookie does not include personal data and indicates the post ID of the article you edited. It expires after one day.
Embedded Content
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if you visited the other website, which may collect data about you, use cookies, and monitor your interaction, especially if you have an account and are logged in to that site.
Data Sharing
Password Resets: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
Data Retention
Comments and Profiles: We indefinitely retain comments and their metadata to automatically recognize and approve follow-up comments. For users who register on our website, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except by changing their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Your Rights
Data Access and Erasure: If you have an account or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including the data you provided. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This excludes data we must keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where Your Data Is Sent
Spam Detection: An automated spam detection service may check visitors’ comments.
Contact Us
For privacy-specific concerns or to exercise your rights, please contact us at.
Updates
This policy is reviewed and updated periodically. The latest version is always available on this page.