Privacy Policy

Effective date: June 23, 2026
Last updated: June 23, 2026

Traveling Savvy Seniors respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information responsibly and transparently.

This Privacy Policy explains how Traveling Savvy Seniors (“Traveling Savvy Seniors,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, stores, and shares personal information when you visit travelingsavvyseniors.com, subscribe to our communications, contact us, submit a form, purchase a product or service, or otherwise interact with our website.

By using our website, you acknowledge that you have reviewed this Privacy Policy. Where consent is required for optional cookies, email marketing, or other activities, we will request that consent separately.

1. Who We Are

Traveling Savvy Seniors provides travel information, educational resources, books, digital products, planning services, and guidance for adults age 50 and older who are interested in travel, slow travel, and living abroad.

Our website address is:

https://travelingsavvyseniors.com

Questions or requests regarding this Privacy Policy may be sent to:

contactus@travelingsavvyseniors.com

2. Information We May Collect

The information we collect depends on how you interact with the website.

Information You Provide Directly

We may collect information you voluntarily provide, including:

• Your name

• Email address

• Telephone number, when requested

• Billing address

• Account or login information, if customer accounts are available

• Order and purchase details

• Appointment or consultation information

• Travel preferences, goals, questions, or planning details you submit

• Information included in contact forms, intake forms, surveys, comments, or customer-support messages

• Newsletter and resource-subscription preferences

• Reviews, testimonials, or other content you choose to submit

Please do not submit sensitive personal, financial, medical, or identification information unless it is specifically requested and reasonably necessary for the service you are purchasing.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the website, certain technical information may be collected automatically, including:

• Internet Protocol address

• Browser and device type

• Operating system

• Approximate geographic location

• Referring website or source

• Pages viewed

• Date and time of visits

• Links, buttons, or website features used

• Cookie and consent preferences

• Diagnostic, security, and performance information

This information may be collected through cookies, analytics tools, server logs, security tools, and similar technologies.

3. How We Use Information

We may use personal information to:

• Operate, maintain, secure, and improve the website

• Respond to inquiries, questions, and customer-support requests

• Process purchases and payments

• Deliver books, digital resources, services, reports, or other purchases

• Schedule and provide planning sessions or consultations

• Send order confirmations, receipts, appointment details, download instructions, and service-related communications

• Manage customer accounts when accounts are available

• Provide requested lead magnets, checklists, guides, or other resources

• Send newsletters and promotional communications when a person has subscribed or otherwise provided appropriate permission

• Understand how visitors use the website

• Improve website content, accessibility, performance, products, and services

• Detect spam, fraud, abuse, security incidents, and technical problems

• Maintain financial, tax, accounting, and business records

• Enforce our agreements, policies, and legal rights

• Comply with applicable laws, regulations, court orders, or lawful government requests

• Protect the rights, safety, property, and security of Traveling Savvy Seniors, our customers, and others

We will not use personal information for a materially different purpose without providing appropriate notice and obtaining consent when required.

4. Purchases, Orders, and WooCommerce

Our store and checkout functions are powered by WooCommerce.

When you purchase a product or service, we may collect information such as:

• Your name

• Email address

• Billing address

• Telephone number, if requested

• Items or services purchased

• Order total

• Payment status

• Transaction identifiers

• IP address and device information

• Notes or information submitted with the order

We use this information to process and fulfill purchases, communicate with customers, provide services, manage downloads, issue receipts, handle refunds or disputes, prevent fraud, and maintain required business records.

Guest checkout may be available, which allows you to complete a purchase without creating a permanent website account.

5. Payment Processing

Payments are processed through a third-party payment provider, such as Stripe.

When you submit payment information, data needed to authorize, complete, secure, and document the transaction is transmitted to the payment processor. This may include your name, billing details, email address, order total, transaction information, device information, and fraud-prevention data.

Traveling Savvy Seniors does not ordinarily receive or store your complete payment-card number. Payment processors maintain their own privacy, security, fraud-prevention, and legal-compliance practices.

We may retain limited payment information, such as the payment status, transaction identifier, payment method type, and last digits of a card, when supplied by the processor and reasonably necessary for receipts, refunds, accounting, or customer support.

6. Planning Sessions and Services

When you purchase or request a strategy session, travel-planning service, report, consultation, or similar service, we may collect information about your travel interests, preferred destinations, timing, budget range, accessibility needs, and other planning considerations.

We use that information to communicate with you and provide the service you requested.

Please avoid including medical diagnoses, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, complete financial-account information, or other highly sensitive information in ordinary forms or emails. When specific information is needed, we will explain why it is requested.

Traveling Savvy Seniors provides educational and planning support. Information submitted through our website does not create a medical, legal, immigration, tax, financial-advisory, or fiduciary relationship.

7. Email Subscriptions and Mailchimp

We use Mailchimp or a similar email-service provider to manage newsletter subscriptions, deliver requested resources, and send email communications.

When you subscribe, we may collect:

• Your name

• Email address

• Subscription date and source

• Consent records

• Email preferences

• Information about email delivery, opens, clicks, and unsubscribes

We use this information to deliver the communications you requested, improve our email content, maintain subscription records, and honor unsubscribe requests.

Promotional email consent is separate from purchasing a product or submitting a general inquiry. A purchase does not automatically require you to subscribe to promotional emails.

You may unsubscribe from promotional messages at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in the email. We may retain limited information necessary to document and honor your unsubscribe request.

We may still send non-promotional communications that are necessary to complete a transaction or provide a requested service, such as receipts, appointment details, download links, security notices, and customer-support messages.

8. Contact Forms, Intake Forms, and Surveys

When you complete a contact form, consultation form, questionnaire, intake form, survey, or similar submission, we collect the information entered in that form.

Forms may be processed through WordPress plugins such as Fluent Forms or similar services. We use submitted information to:

• Respond to your request

• Evaluate whether a service fits your needs

• Schedule or provide a service

• Deliver requested information

• Improve our resources and services

• Maintain records of customer communications

• Detect spam and abuse

Submitting a general form does not automatically enroll you in promotional email or text-message marketing unless the form includes a separate, clear choice and you provide the requested consent.

9. Analytics

We use Google Analytics, implemented through tools such as MonsterInsights, to better understand how visitors use our website.

Analytics information may include:

• Pages viewed

• Visit duration

• Referring source

• General geographic area

• Browser and device type

• Operating system

• Website interactions and events

We use this information to improve website content, performance, navigation, usefulness, and visitor experience.

Google Analytics may process an IP address briefly to derive general location information. Google states that IP addresses are not logged or stored in Google Analytics 4.

Optional analytics technologies are managed through our cookie-consent system where required. You may adjust your analytics preferences through the website’s Privacy Settings or Manage Consent controls.

10. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies are small files or identifiers stored on or accessed through your device. We use cookies and similar technologies for purposes such as:

• Keeping the website functioning

• Maintaining security

• Remembering privacy preferences

• Supporting shopping-cart and checkout functions

• Processing orders

• Understanding website traffic and performance

• Supporting embedded content

• Measuring marketing activity when applicable

Necessary Cookies

Necessary or functional cookies support essential website operations, including security, shopping-cart features, checkout, payment processing, and saving consent preferences. These technologies may operate without optional consent when they are required to provide a service you requested.

Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the website so we can improve its content and performance. Where required, these cookies are used only after the visitor gives consent.

Marketing and Embedded-Media Cookies

Some third-party media, social-network, or marketing services may place cookies or collect technical information when their content is loaded. Where required, these services are blocked or limited until appropriate consent is given.

You may accept, reject, or adjust optional cookie categories through the consent banner or Privacy Settings control. Necessary cookies cannot always be disabled through the banner because the website may not function properly without them.

Additional details about the cookies and services used on the website are provided in our separate Cookie Policy.

11. Comments and User-Submitted Content

When visitors leave comments or submit public content, we may collect the information shown in the submission form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser information to help detect spam and abuse.

An anonymized identifier created from an email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether the commenter uses that service. After a comment is approved, a profile image associated with Gravatar may be visible publicly alongside the comment.

Comments, reviews, testimonials, and other material submitted for public display may be visible to other visitors. Do not include information in public submissions that you do not want others to see.

12. Embedded Content and Third-Party Links

Our pages may include embedded videos, images, maps, social-media posts, forms, articles, or other content supplied by third parties, such as YouTube, Instagram, or similar platforms.

Embedded content may behave as though you visited the third party’s website directly. Depending on your consent settings, the provider may collect device information, use cookies, record interactions, or associate activity with an existing account you have with that provider.

Our website may also link to third-party websites. We do not control and are not responsible for the privacy, security, accuracy, or content practices of third-party websites. Review the privacy policies of those services before providing personal information.

13. Website Hosting and Security

Our website may be hosted and supported by service providers such as Hostinger. Hosting providers may process technical data, server logs, backups, account information, and other information required to deliver, maintain, and secure the website.

We may use security services and plugins, such as Wordfence or similar tools, to detect malicious traffic, unauthorized access, spam, malware, and other threats. These services may process IP addresses, browser information, login attempts, and technical details related to website security.

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards intended to protect personal information. However, no website, transmission method, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

14. How We Share Information

We do not sell personal information for money.

We may share personal information with service providers when reasonably necessary to operate our website and business. These providers may include:

• Website hosting and technical-support providers

• WooCommerce and WordPress service providers

• Payment processors such as Stripe

• Email providers such as Mailchimp

• Analytics providers such as Google Analytics

• Form, scheduling, and customer-communication providers

• Website security, fraud-prevention, and spam-detection services

• Cloud-storage, backup, and information-technology providers

• Accountants, attorneys, insurers, and professional advisers

Service providers may access information only as needed to provide services, comply with legal obligations, protect systems, or perform agreed business functions.

We may also disclose information:

• When required by applicable law, regulation, legal process, or lawful government request

• To investigate fraud, security incidents, or suspected illegal activity

• To enforce agreements or protect legal rights

• To protect the safety or property of our customers, visitors, business, or others

• In connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, sale, restructuring, or transfer of some or all business assets

If ownership or control of the business changes, personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law and appropriate notice.

15. International Processing and Data Transfers

Traveling Savvy Seniors serves an international audience and uses service providers that may process information in the United States and other countries.

Privacy and data-protection laws may differ from those in your location. When required, we and our service providers use recognized safeguards for international data transfers.

By interacting with the website and providing information, you understand that information may be processed in countries other than the country where you live, subject to applicable legal protections.

16. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, unless a longer period is required or permitted by law.

Retention periods may vary according to the type of information:

• Contact and inquiry records may be retained while a request is active and for a reasonable follow-up period.

• Newsletter information may be retained while you remain subscribed and afterward as needed to document and honor an unsubscribe request.

• Pending, failed, or cancelled order information may be retained for a limited period for troubleshooting, fraud prevention, and customer support.

• Completed and refunded order records may be retained for accounting, tax, legal, fraud-prevention, dispute-resolution, and recordkeeping purposes.

• Consent records may be retained as needed to document privacy and communication choices.

• Security logs and backups may be retained for limited operational and security periods.

• Information connected with legal claims, chargebacks, or disputes may be retained until the matter is resolved and any applicable limitation period has expired.

When information is no longer reasonably required, we may delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it.

Certain records cannot always be deleted immediately when we must retain them for legal, accounting, security, tax, fraud-prevention, or contractual purposes.

17. Your Privacy Rights and Choices

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

• Request access to personal information we maintain about you

• Request correction of inaccurate information

• Request deletion of certain information

• Request restriction of or object to certain processing

• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent

• Request a portable copy of certain information

• Opt out of promotional email communications

• Change your cookie and analytics preferences

• Request information about categories of information collected or disclosed

• Submit a complaint to an appropriate data-protection authority

These rights are subject to applicable exceptions and verification requirements.

To submit a privacy request, email:

contactus@travelingsavvyseniors.com

Please include enough information for us to understand and verify the request. We may ask for additional information to confirm your identity and protect personal information from unauthorized access.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising a privacy right available under applicable law.

18. Cookie and Consent Choices

You may review or change optional cookie choices by reopening the Privacy Settings or Manage Consent tool displayed on our website.

Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that occurred lawfully before withdrawal. Some website functions may not work correctly when optional technologies are declined, although necessary shopping, security, and checkout functions should remain available where possible.

You can also control cookies through your browser settings. Blocking all cookies at the browser level may affect website functions, including carts, checkout, login, saved preferences, and embedded content.

19. Email Choices

You may unsubscribe from promotional emails by clicking the unsubscribe link in any marketing email.

Unsubscribing from promotional messages does not prevent us from sending necessary transactional or service-related messages connected to:

• An order or payment

• An appointment or consultation

• A requested download

• A customer-support matter

• A refund or dispute

• Website security

• A legal or policy notice

20. Children’s Privacy

Traveling Savvy Seniors is intended for adults and is not directed to children under the age of 13.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that a child under 13 has submitted personal information, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

A parent or legal guardian who believes a child has submitted information may contact us at contactus@travelingsavvyseniors.com.

21. Do Not Track and Browser Signals

Some browsers provide Do Not Track or similar privacy signals. Because there is not one universally accepted standard for responding to every browser signal, our response may depend on available technology and applicable law.

Our cookie-consent controls allow visitors to manage optional analytics and marketing technologies directly on the website.

Where legally required and technically supported, we may recognize applicable opt-out preference signals.

22. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our website, services, technology, vendors, business practices, or legal obligations.

When we make changes, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. Material changes may also be communicated through the website, email, or another appropriate method when required.

We encourage you to review this page periodically.

23. Contact Us

Questions, concerns, or privacy requests may be sent to:

Traveling Savvy Seniors
Website: https://travelingsavvyseniors.com
Email: contactus@travelingsavvyseniors.com