This privacy policy explains how Detlef Safaris collects, uses, and protects your personal information when you browse our site, request a quote, or book a safari with us. Please read this privacy policy alongside our Terms of Service for the complete picture of how we handle your data.
How We Use the Information You Provide
When you contact us, request a quote, or make a deposit for a safari, we use the information you provide to respond to your enquiry, plan your trip, and process your payment. We do not sell your personal information to third parties. We share it only with trusted partners, such as ground operators and lodges, and only where necessary to arrange your trip.
For general background on how data protection principles work, see gdpr.eu’s plain-language guide. The sections below cover the technical detail of how our website itself handles comments, cookies, and embedded content.
Who we are
Suggested text: Our website address is: https://detlefsafaris.com.
Comments
Suggested text: When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data the comment form asks for, along with your IP address and browser user agent string, to help detect spam.
We may provide an anonymized string created from your email address (called a hash) to the Gravatar service, to check whether you use it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After we approve your comment, your profile picture becomes visible to the public alongside it.
Media
Suggested text: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images that include embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
Suggested text: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data, and closing your browser discards it automatically.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. Logging out of your account removes the login cookies.
Editing or publishing an article saves an additional cookie in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Suggested text: 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
Suggested text: Requesting a password reset includes your IP address in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
Suggested text: If you leave a comment, we retain the comment and its metadata indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
Suggested text: If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Suggested text: We may run visitor comments through an automated spam detection service.
Questions About This Privacy Policy
If anything in this privacy policy is unclear, or you would like to exercise any of the data rights described above, please reach out through our contact page. We will respond as quickly as we can.
