Privacy Policy

What information we collect from you

In General

Safari Reviews can receive and store any information you enter on our web site or give us in any other way. This includes information that can identify you ("personal information"), including your first and last name, telephone number, postal and e-mail addresses, username and password. You can choose not to provide information to us, but in general some information about you is required in order for you to enjoy the benefits of the website. In addition, some information is also required in order for you to ask us a question or initiate other transactions on our site.

We won't email you unless you’ve expressively indicated you want us to. Nor will we sell, share or rent your email address to/with third parties. We will only email you in one of the following cases:

  • You use the password recovery option, where we will email you instructions on how to reset your password.

  • You activated the optional feature to receive a periodical newsletter by email. Please note: You can always de-activate this feature by unsubscribing. Each newsletter contains an unsubscribe link at the bottom.

  • You used one of our enquiry or contact forms because you have a question or want to provide feedback to us. In those cases we can email you in reply to your request.

  • You used one of our enquiry forms to contact a tour operator or accommodation to enquire for a booking or a general question. In those cases the tour operator or accommodation can email you in reply to your request.

  • If we believe it is very vital to contact you and share certain information, we may decide to email you. We will only do so in extraordinary cases like, for example, when the site or the company holding your personal information is sold and a new owner will govern and safeguard your personal information. Commercial messages or advertising are not considered vital, so we will never use this as an excuse to send spam.

Personal Information

We keep the amount of personal information we collect to an absolute minimum and only collect it if strictly necessary. We collect the following information:

  • Submitting user reviews - Upon submitting a user review, we will ask you to provide a screen name and the option to provide more info about yourself such as your country of residence, photos of your safari, a phone number and an email address in case you are open to other website users contacting you should they have a question about your review.

  • Email enquiry forms to contact tour operators and/or accommodation services - You could decide to use an email form on safarireviews.com to contact a tour operator or accommodation service should you wish to enquire about a booking or have a general question. These emails, including your email address, will be sent directly to the tour operator or accommodation provider with a copy to us, which will be stored in our email inboxes and database.

  • Email forms to contact us, Safari Reviews - You could decide to contact us using one of our email forms. These emails will be stored in our email inboxes and databases. We can use the email address or other contact information to get back to you in response to your request.

Information About Others

You will have the opportunity to provide contact information for other people through our Website. You should obtain the consent of other individuals prior to providing Safari Reviews with their personal information.

Information from Other Sources

We also may periodically obtain both personal and non-personal information about you from affiliated entities, business partners and other independent third-party sources and add it to other information about you. For example, if you visit Safari Reviews by “clicking-through” from a site operated by one of our business partners, and you have registered with that partner, then information about you that you have provided to that partner may be shared with us, such as contact information and demographic information.

Automatic Information

We automatically collect some information about your computer when you visit Safari Reviews. For example, we will collect session data, including your IP address, Web browser software, and referring Web site. We also may collect information about your online activity, such as content viewed and pages visited. One of our goals in collecting this automatic information is to help us understand the interests of our users and customize your user experience.

Cookies and Other Web Technologies

Cookies are small data text files and can be stored on your computer’s hard drive (if your Web browser permits).
Safarireviews.com uses cookies for the following general purposes:

  • To help us recognize your browser as a previous visitor and save and remember any preferences that may have been set while your browser was visiting our site. For example, if you register on our site, we may use cookies to remember your registration information, so you do not need to log into our site each time you visit. Please note that member IDs, passwords, and any other account-related data included in such cookies are encrypted for security purposes.

  • To help measure and research the effectiveness of website features and offerings, advertisements, and e-mail communications (by determining which e-mails you open and act upon).

The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers should tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable most types of cookies. Please note that if you refuse to accept cookies, you may not be able to access some of the tools offered on our site.

Our site also may use Web beacons (also known as clear gifs, pixel tags or Web bugs), which are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies that are placed in the code of a Web page. We use Web beacons to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our site to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to our site from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party Web site, and to improve site performance. We also may allow our service providers to use Web beacons to help us understand which emails have been opened by recipients and to track the visitor traffic and actions on our site. This helps us measure the effectiveness of our content and other offerings.

How we use your information

Safari Reviews uses the information we collect about you for the following general purposes: for registration and to manage your account, including to facilitate your access to and use of our site; to communicate with you in general, including to provide information about Safari Reviews and invitations from the Safari Reviews community; to enable us to publish your reviews, forum posts, and other content to the Safari Reviews community; to respond to your questions and comments; to measure interest in and improve our products, services, and Website; to notify you about special offers and products or services available from us or our partners that may be of interest to you; to otherwise customize your experience with Safari Reviews; to solicit information from you, including through surveys; to resolve disputes or troubleshoot problems; to prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities; to enforce our Terms of Use; and as otherwise described to you at the point of collection.

How you can access your information

We take reasonable steps to ensure that your information is relevant to its intended use, accurate, and complete. You can access and update your contact information by visiting your account page, the link to which being located on the top right of the Safari Reviews Web site, next to the Log Out button. You can close your Safari Reviews account by contacting us at the email address listed below, or through our contact form. We will send you an e-mail to confirm your request. Please note that after you close an account, you will not be able to sign in or access any of your personal information. However, you can open a new account at any time. Please also note that we may retain certain information associated with your account in our archives, including for analytical purposes as well as for recordkeeping integrity.

How we protect your information

We want you to feel confident about using Safari Reviews, and we are committed to protecting the information we collect. While no Website can guarantee 100% security, we have implemented appropriate administrative, technical, and physical security procedures to help protect the personal information you provide to us. For example, only authorized employees are permitted to access personal information, and they only may do so for permitted business functions. In addition, we use encryption when transmitting your personal information between your system and ours, and we employ firewalls and intrusion detection systems to help prevent unauthorized persons from gaining access to your information.

Children's privacy

Safari Reviews is a general audience site and does not offer services directed to children. Should an individual whom we know to be a child under age 13 send personal information to us, we will delete or destroy such information as soon as reasonably possible.

External links

If any part of the Safari Reviews website links you to other websites, those external websites do not operate under this Privacy Policy. We recommend that you examine the privacy statements posted on those other Websites to understand their procedures for collecting, using, and disclosing personal information.

Changes to this privacy policy

Safari Reviews may update this Privacy Policy in the future.

How you can Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@safarireviews.com, or through our Contact Page.