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Disclaimer
Hi! Before you start reading through some funny-sounding legal and technical lingo let us tell you how we fund this blog. We don’t do any paid or compensated product or service reviews, if we review a hotel, restaurant, or anything for that matter, that means that we paid with our own money for that. And it can get expensive!
However, we need to live off something. And the way we fund this blog is by means of affiliate marketing. We add links to products and services like (but not limited to) hotels, renting a car, excursions, etc. And if you purchase anything using these links, we earn a little commission with no extra costs for you. Not all links on this website pointing to different products and services are affiliate links. In fact, many links aren’t affiliated. But to be on the safe side, whenever you see any link leading from our site to products or services simply assume that they are affiliate links and that we will receive compensation if you purchase anything using them.
FrankAboutCroatia.com also participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.
FrankAboutCroatia is also a member of the Mediavine Publisher Network.
And now back to technical and legal staff.
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.
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We would like to expressly convey to you that were we to accidentally defame, purge, humiliate, and or hurt someone’s person or feelings as a result of them reading and or acting upon any or all of the information and or advice found here at our site, it is entirely unintentional of us to do so.
Any comments that may be found here at frankaboutcroatia.com are the opinions and/or the property of their individual authors. Therefore, we as the owner(s)/author(s) of this site can not be held responsible….. and it is not our practice to edit any comments left here by others. Should you, the reader, identify any such content that is harmful, malicious, sensitive, or unnecessary, please contact us via email so we may rectify the problem.
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Cookies and how they Benefit You
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites
Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you’d expect
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Offer you free services/content (thanks to advertising)
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below
Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however, doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
More about our Cookies
Website Function Cookies
Our own cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Remembering your search settings
- Allowing you to add comments to our site
There is no way to prevent these cookies from being set other than to not use our site.
Third-party functions
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which uses cookies:
- Google – Privacy Policy
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties
Social Website Cookies
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Cookies are set by:
- Facebook – Privacy Policy
- Twitter – Privacy Policy
The privacy implications of this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
Visitor Statistics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so-called analytics programs also tell us if how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
Advertising Cookies
Cookies are widely used in online advertising. Neither we, advertisers, nor our advertising partners can gain personally identifiable information from these cookies.
You can learn more about online advertising at http://www.youronlinechoices.com. You can opt-out of almost all advertising cookies at http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices although we would prefer that you didn’t as ultimately adverts help keep much of the internet free. It is also worth noting that opting out of advertising cookies will not mean you won’t see adverts, just simply that they won’t be tailored to you any longer.
Adverts
We fund our site by showing adverts as you browse our site. These adverts are usually managed by a partner specializing in providing adverts for multiple sites. Invariably these partners place cookies to collect anonymous data about the websites you visit so they can personalize the adverts to you, ensure that you don’t see the same adverts too frequently, and ultimately report to advertisers on which adverts are working. Our partners include:
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however, will likely limit the functionality of our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites
It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser, you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.
The cookie information text on this site was derived from content provided by Attacat Internet Marketing http://www.attacat.co.uk/, a marketing agency based in Edinburgh. If you need similar information for your own website you can use their free cookie audit tool.
Privacy Policy
At FrankAboutCroatia.com, we respect your privacy, and we are committed to protecting it.
Please, check our Privacy Policy periodically for possible changes.
Our Privacy Policy covers the following data: name and surname, date of birth, address, e-mail address
phone and/or fax number, and other data you indicate that you want to remain confidential.
At this time we only collect your e-mail address when and if you subscribe to our e-newsletter.
Purpose of the requested information
All information requested is used exclusively for responding to your questions as effectively as possible, ensuring that the requested service is provided, entering you into our prize game system, promoting of our services, and internal statistical analysis.
FrankAboutCroatia.com guarantees that the information provided will be used for the above-stated purposes only. The purpose of using the information is to establish contact with you (to send you information by post, fax, electronic mail, telephone, or other), in the event that we must contact you quickly, or as part of our statistical analyses for internal purposes and market research.
Duration of the privacy policy
Once you submit your information and permit us to contact you, your e-mail will be placed on our mailing list. The moment of application is your acceptance to be contacted. The protection of the privacy of your information is permanent. At any time, you may remove your name from our mailing list, and your information will not be used by FrankAboutCroatia.com for promotional purposes.
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We collect only personal data delivered to us willingly. We do not require you to send us any data in order to enable you the access our website and we do not ask you to disclose any more data than it’s really necessary in order to participate in any activity on our web pages.
Contents of the privacy policy
Your e-mail address and remaining information will not be sold, leased, or made available to any third party without your consent. The contrary is against our privacy policy. FrankAboutCroatia.com is strict in its “no-spam” policy. We seek your special consent for permission if you wish to be contacted with respect to special offers and actions. FrankAboutCroatia.com is not responsible for accidental errors or other objective circumstances that could accidentally violate the guaranteed protection of your information but does guarantee that the error will be corrected, to the greatest extent, as soon as possible.
Permission & Changes
In filling out the forms on this site, you guarantee that the information provided is correct, that you are capable of doing business, and that you fully agree that FrankAboutCroatia collects and uses your personal information in accordance with the regulations and terms of our privacy policy.
You may contact us at any time to review correct or change your personal information. Up until we receive notification of changes, we will continue to use the contact information you’ve submitted at the moment of your subscription.