Privacy policy.

Last Updated: October 8, 2023

The Travel Trends Podcast with Dan Christian, https://www.traveltrendspodcast.com/ is an Acceleration Team Project, managed and owned by Acceleration Team Inc. To learn more about Acceleration Team, visit www.accelerationteam.co  

The Acceleration Team is committed to safeguarding the personally identifiable information that you share with us online. You can browse our website, https://accelerationteam.co/ (“our website”), without sharing any personal information. If you wish to submit our Get in Touch form, Contact Us form or subscribe to our newsletter, you will be required to voluntarily submit personal information. 

We may also collect information on how you use our website, such as resources browsed, searched, and downloaded; the frequency and duration of visits, and your source Internet Protocol (“IP”) address. Please note, this policy does not apply to information we may collect offline.

Please read the following statement to understand how we collect, use, maintain, and disclose your personal information. Your use of this platform indicates consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

What information we collect

Personally identifiable information

Personally identifiable information is information that may be used to identify you as an individual, such as your email address, name, linkedin profile or country location. We collect this information in a number of voluntary ways on our website, via  the get in touch form, contact us form or the newsletter form in addition to direct emails to The Acceleration Team. This information is used to respond to your requests and questions. We may also use this information to communicate with you about other relevant topics that may be of interest.

Non-personally identifiable information we collect by automated means

Non-personally Identifiable Information refers to information that does not by itself identify a specific individual. We may collect this information in a number of ways on our website, including, how you use this website, pages browsed, searched, and downloaded, the frequency and duration of visits. Our website may automatically collect and record other non-personal information, such as your IP address, browser type, unique device identifiers, the referring webpage, pages visited, and search terms. 

We use this information to make your experience with our website relevant, informative and to provide you the best browsing experience. By collecting this information, we learn how to personalize our website to our visitors and create meaningful website experiences for our users. 

Cookies

A cookie is a data file that certain websites write to your computer’s hard drive when you visit such sites. A cookie file can contain information, such as a user identification code, that the site uses to track the pages you have visited, but the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. 

A cookie can’t read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. We may collect information from your web sessions by using cookies, to determine, for example, user traffic patterns, and the effectiveness of our navigational structure.

Most website browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser settings to display a warning before accepting a cookie, or to refuse all cookies. You don’t need to have cookies turned on to use/navigate through many parts of our website. However, you may have to accept the receipt of cookies to access some of the content on our website.

Please note that if you choose not to accept cookies, or to delete the use of cookies, you may affect your website experience and render yourself unable to use all of the available website features.

Name - Purpose, Type & Duration

Crumb

RecentRedirect

  • Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO.

  • Cookie

  • 30 minutes

squarespace-announcement-bar

  • Prevents the announcement bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it

  • localstorage

  • Persistent

squarespace-popup-overlay

  • Prevents the promotional pop-up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it

  • Local storage

  • persistent

ss_cookieAllowed

  • Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies

  • Cookie

  • 30 days

Test

  • Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors

  • Cookie

  • Session

Analytics & Performance cookies - Purpose, Type & Duration

ss_cid

  • Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

  • Cookie

  • Two years

ss_cpvisit

  • Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

  • Cookie

  • Two years

ss_cvisit

  • Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

  • Cookie

  • 30 minutes

ss_cvr

  • Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

  • Cookie

  • Two years

ss_cvt

  • Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

  • Cookie

  • 30 minutes

Squarespace Hosting

Our website is hosted by Squarespace and we share non-personally identifiable information and cookie information with them. They collect this data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Analytics

We use third-party web analytics services to analyze how users use our website. This will include Google Analytics, which uses technologies such as cookies to gather user information. The information collected by the cookies about your use of our site can include your IP address, browser, network, device the URL visited, or page view date and time, and will be transmitted and stored by Google on servers in the United States. The information collected may also include details about the usage of your website such as clicks, internal clicks, pages visited, scrolling, searches and timestamps. We share this information with Squarespace, our website platform provider to learn about the site traffic and activity. 

Google may compile reports on the website activity for other website operators who are providing services related to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties when required by law, or when such third parties process information on behalf of Google. 

For more information about Google's privacy policy in respect of Google Analytics, please refer to:

https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en#infochoices 

You may opt-out of Google Analytics by visiting

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl+en=CA 

Form Submissions

When you submit information to our website via  one of our forms,  we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with Google for storage data porting.

How we use your information

If you choose to provide The Acceleration Team with your personal information, where appropriate, we may use this information to contact you.

  • We use the personal information collected during the use of this website to personalize web content where applicable.

  • We may also use your information to send you direct email marketing information. 

  • We may contact you when changes are made to our secure content site.

  • We may periodically send emails for sales, marketing, and administrative purposes.

  • We will periodically send you an email when you are subscribed to our list for the latest updates of our company, product or training news, and/or any other subscription list(s).

  • We may disclose information about our users when we believe, in good faith, that the disclosure is required by law.

  • We may process, evaluate, and respond to your requests or applications directly.

  • We comply with all applicable legal requirements and industry standards within our policies.

Sharing your information

We do not share, sell, trade or provide your personal information to any other organization,company or mailing lists. 

Links to other websites

Our website may link to other websites for reference, ease of use and convenience for the information provided. These websites operate independently from The Acceleration Team and we strongly suggest you review their privacy policies to understand how they may collect, use and store your personal data. We take no responsibility for information collected, used, or stored on any other site you may visit linked from ours. 

Maintaining your information

We take information security issues seriously. Any personally identifiable information is stored and protected on servers with adequate security measures. We will cease all communication and use of personally identifiable information upon your request. We only keep personal information as long as it is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected. We also keep any information that is required by law. 

Security

We take the security of information seriously. We are committed to using reasonable measures to protect any personal information we may collect. However, due to the oddity and open nature of the internet, we cannot fully guarantee that the information stored on this site, or direct communications between you and us, is absolutely secure.

Although we take steps to protect your data, by using our website, you consent that the transmission of data is at your own risk. By using our website, you agree to assume all risk in connection with data sent, collected, or stored by us.

Access, updates, and your security choices

At any time, you can ask us to halt any marketing communications by email by clicking on the Unsubscribe link within the marketing email. Alternatively, you can email us to remove you from our list. If you have provided personal information on our website, you may request, at any time, that it be updated, modified, or deleted. Send us a request via email to hello@accelerationteam.co 

Consent

By using this Site, you consent to the processing of your personal information as outlined in this Privacy Policy.

Contact us

If you have questions or concerns on the terms of this policy, would like to learn more about the Acceleration Team or discuss our services, please contact us via email at: hell@accelerationteam.co

Changes to our policy

If there are changes or additions to the terms of this Privacy Policy, we will post those changes here prior to implementing the change, and we encourage you to periodically review this policy so you are informed on how your information is being protected and used.