Privacy Policy - Monkey on the Roads

Last Updated: September 25, 2025

This Privacy Policy describes how Monkey On The Roads (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and shares your personal information when you use our website https://monkeyontheroads.com (the “Site”).

By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. We may use your data to operate, manage, develop, and promote our blog content, and occasionally to contact you with details of new travel guides, blog posts, or special offers related to the Site.

Information We Collect

a) Information You Voluntarily Provide:

Comments: When you leave a comment on a blog post, we collect the data shown in the comments form (your name and email address).
Newsletter Sign-up: When you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your email address.
Contact Forms: When you use our contact form, we collect your name and email address so we can respond to your inquiry.

b) Information Collected Automatically:

Log Data: Like most site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site. This may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Site and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier.

How We Use Your Information

To operate, maintain, and improve the Site.
To send you our newsletter and promotional communications (you can unsubscribe at any time).
To respond to your comments and inquiries.
To track Site usage via Google Analytics.
To display advertisements via Google AdSense.

Cookies and Third-Party Services

We use cookies and third-party services that have their own privacy policies.

Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to analyze web traffic. To protect your privacy, we have implemented IP anonymization. This means Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of your IP address within member states of the European Union and other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. You can opt-out of Google Analytics using this browser add-on.
Google AdSense: We use Google AdSense to serve advertisements. Google uses cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites. You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings.
Social Media Buttons: Our Site includes social media buttons (e.g., for Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest). These buttons may set a cookie to enable the functionality of the button. Interactions are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing them.
Embedded Content: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos from YouTube, maps from Google Maps). 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.

Who We Share Your Data With

We do not sell your personal data. We only share data with trusted Service Providers (like our email newsletter service, Google Analytics, and Google AdSense) to operate the Site. These partners are prohibited from using your data for any other purpose.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

How Long We Retain Your Data

Comments: Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
Newsletter Data: We retain your email address for our newsletter until you unsubscribe. Every newsletter email contains an “unsubscribe” link for you to do this instantly.
Contact Form Entries: We retain contact form submissions for a period of six months for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes.

Your Data Protection Rights

You have certain rights regarding your personal data:

Access: You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you.
Correction: You can request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate.
Erasure: You can 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.
Opt-out: You can opt-out of our email communications at any time by using the unsubscribe link in the emails.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at monkeyontheroads@gmail.com.

Children’s Information

We do not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you believe that your child has provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately, and we will do our best to promptly remove such information from our records.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date.

Contact Us

For any questions, contact us at: monkeyontheroads@gmail.com.