Privacy | Christmas Markets

The privacy of visitors to Christmas Markets is important to us. We never sell your personal information to third parties. We are not in the business of selling, renting or trading email lists with other companies and businesses for marketing purposes.

The following privacy policy provides information on when and why we collect your personal information, how we use it, the limited conditions in which we may disclose it and how we keep it secure.

How We Use Your Data

Website Analytics

As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files may include your IP address, your ISP (internet service provider), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Chrome or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site as well as other non-personal data. This data is processed in a way that does not identify anyone. This data is accessed by a third party, Google Analytics. We do this to find out things like the number of visitors to the various parts of our website.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies to collect information. This includes information about browsing and purchasing behaviour, pages viewed and personal preferences when you visit our site and related sites. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as our comment system.

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to log in to services or programs, such as logging into forums or making comments.

Website Plugins

We use WordPress as our content management system along with a number of plugins to help manage the look and feel of our site. This includes the Social Snap plugin which provides social media share buttons to enable visitors to easily share blog posts to various social media platforms. The Social Snap plugin places cookies and records visitor IP addresses to determine social share counts. This is used purely for the purpose of displaying share counts on blog posts.

View the Social Snap privacy policy here.

Advertising

Display Ads

We use third-party advertisements on Christmas Markets to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers information, including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing Sydney real estate ads to someone in Sydney, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing travel ads to someone who frequents travel sites).

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.

Summary of Requests

If you’d like to see a summary of the requests to know user information, requests to delete user information and requests to opt-out of CCPA compliance that this business has received: View the Annual Request Summary here.

Retargeted Ads

We may engage in retargeting ad efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, for marketing purposes. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on past visits to websites.

Facebook: Opt-out of Facebook remarketing here.
Google: Opt-out of Google remarketing here.

Affiliate Marketing

Christmas Markets participates in a number of affiliate marketing programs. This is done by adding links within text, images and banners which adds a cookie and tracks purchases on the merchant’s website. We then receive a commission for sales at no extra cost to you. Current affiliate programs in use on this website include but are not limited to Amazon, Booking and GetYourGuide. Please see their privacy policies below:

Amazon
Booking
GetYourGuide

Amazon Associates Program

Christmas Markets is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. As part of this Amazon Associates program, we post customised links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilises cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

GDPR

Under the European Union’s GDPR policy, you are entitled to view, amend, or delete the personal information we hold. Please contact our data protection officer with your request via our contact form.

Christmas Markets may share data when required to do so by law.