Privacy Policy & Disclaimer

We have made revisions to our Travel Dudes Service, Privacy Policy and Travel Dudes Rules, effective October 06th, 2020. By continuing to use our services after October 06th, you agree to the new Travel Dudes Service, Privacy Policy and Travel Dudes Rules.

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Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the services, including our various websites, SMS, APIs, email notifications, applications, buttons, and widgets, (the “Services” or “Travel Dudes”), and any information, text, graphics, photos or other materials uploaded, downloaded or appearing on the Services (collectively referred to as “Content”). Your access to and use of the Services are conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms. By accessing or using the Services you agree to be bound by these Terms.

1. Basic Terms

You are responsible for your use of the Services, for any Content you post to the Services, and for any consequences thereof. The Content you submit, post, or display will be able to be viewed by other users of the Services and through third party services and websites (in your profile you can choose what personal information is visible for others). You should only provide Content that you are comfortable sharing with others under these Terms.

You may use the Services only if you can form a binding contract with Travel Dudes GmbH and are not a person barred from receiving services under the laws of Germany or other applicable jurisdiction. If you are accepting these Terms and using the Services on behalf of a company, organization, government, or other legal entity, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to do so. You may use the Services only in compliance with these Terms and all applicable local, state, national, and international laws, rules and regulations.

The Services that Travel Dudes GmbH provides are always evolving and the form and nature of the Services that Travel Dudes GmbH provides may change from time to time without prior notice to you. In addition, Travel Dudes may stop (permanently or temporarily) providing the Services (or any features within the Services) to you or to users generally and may not be able to provide you with prior notice. We also retain the right to create limits on use and storage at our sole discretion at any time without prior notice to you.

The Services may include advertisements and affiliate links, which may be targeted to the Content or information on the Services, queries made through the Services, or other information. The types and extent of advertising and affiliate links by Travel Dudes on the Services are subject to change. In consideration for Travel Dudes granting you access to and use of the Services, you agree that Travel Dudes GmbH and its third party providers and partners may place such advertising and affiliate links on the Services or in connection with the display of Content or information from the Services whether submitted by you or others.

2. Privacy

Any information that you provide to Travel Dudes is subject to our privacy policy (see section beneath), which governs our collection and use of your information. You understand that through your use of the Services you consent to the collection and use (as set forth in the Privacy Policy) of this information, including the transfer of this information to Germany and/or other states and/or other countries for storage, processing and use by Travel Dudes. As part of providing you the Services, we may need to provide you with certain communications, such as service announcements and administrative messages. These communications are considered part of the Services and your Travel Dudes account, which you may not be able to opt-out from receiving.

3. Passwords

You are responsible for safeguarding the password that you use to access the Services and for any activities or actions under your password. We encourage you to use “strong” passwords (passwords that use a combination of upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols, best 12 or more characters long) with your account. Travel Dudes cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with the above.

4. Content on the Services

All Content, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, is the sole responsibility of the person who originated such Content. We may not monitor or control the Content posted via the Services and, we cannot take responsibility for such Content. Any use or reliance on any Content or materials posted via the Services or obtained by you through the Services is at your own risk.

We do not endorse, support, represent or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any Content or communications posted via the Services or endorse any opinions expressed via the Services. You understand that by using the Services, you may be exposed to Content that might be offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate, or in some cases, postings that have been mislabeled or are otherwise deceptive. Under no circumstances will Travel Dudes GmbH be liable in any way for any Content, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any Content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed, transmitted or otherwise made available via the Services or broadcast elsewhere.

5. Your Rights

You retain your rights to any Content you submit, post or display on or through the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, edit, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed). This license is you authorizing us to make your content available to the rest of the world and to let others do the same.

You agree that this license includes the right for Travel Dudes GmbH to provide, promote, and improve the Services and to make Content submitted to or through the Services available to other companies, organizations or individuals who partner with Travel Dudes for the syndication, broadcast, distribution or publication of such Content on other media and services, subject to our terms and conditions for such Content use. These rules exist to enable an open ecosystem with your rights in mind. But what’s yours is yours – you own your Content (and your photos are part of that Content).

Such additional uses by Travel Dudes GmbH, or other companies, organizations or individuals who partner with Travel Dudes GmbH, may be made with no compensation paid to you with respect to the Content that you submit, post, transmit or otherwise make available through the Services.

We may modify or adapt your Content in order to transmit, display or distribute it over computer networks and in various media and/or make changes to your Content as are necessary to conform and adapt that Content to any requirements or limitations of any networks, devices, services or media.

You are responsible for your use of the Services, for any Content you provide, and for any consequences thereof, including the use of your Content by other users and our third party partners. You understand that your Content may be syndicated, broadcast, distributed, or published by our partners and if you do not have the right to submit Content for such use, it may subject you to liability. Travel Dudes GmbH will not be responsible or liable for any use of your Content by Travel Dudes in accordance with these Terms. You represent and warrant that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the rights granted herein to any Content that you submit.

6. Your License To Use the Services

Travel Dudes GmbH gives you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to use the software that is provided to you by Travel Dudes as part of the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling you to use and enjoy the benefit of the Services as provided by Travel Dudes GmbH, in the manner permitted by these Terms.

7. Travel Dudes Rights

All right, title, and interest in and to the Services (excluding Content provided by users) are and will remain the exclusive property of Travel Dudes GmbH and its licensors. The Services are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of Germany and foreign countries. Nothing in the Terms gives you a right to use the Travel Dudes name or any of the Travel Dudes trademarks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features. Any feedback, comments, or suggestions you may provide regarding Travel Dudes, or the Services is entirely voluntary and we will be free to use such feedback, comments or suggestions as we see fit and without any obligation to you.

8. Restrictions on Content and Use of the Services

Please review the Travel Dudes Rules (which are part of these Terms) to better understand what is prohibited on the Service. We reserve the right at all times (but will not have an obligation) to remove or refuse to distribute any Content on the Services, to suspend or terminate users, and to reclaim usernames without liability to you.

We also reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information as we reasonably believe is necessary to
(i) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request,
(ii) enforce the Terms, including investigation of potential violations hereof,
(iii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues,
(iv) respond to user support requests, or
(v) protect the rights, property or safety of Travel Dudes, its users and the public.

Travel Dudes GmbH does not disclose personally identifying information to third parties except in accordance with our Privacy Policy (see section beneath).

Except as permitted through the Services, these Terms, you have to use the Travel Dudes API if you want to reproduce, modify, create derivative works, distribute, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, or otherwise use the Content or Services. We encourage and permit broad re-use of Content. The Travel Dudes API exists to enable this.

You may not do any of the following while accessing or using the Services:
(i) access, tamper with, or use non-public areas of the Services, Travel Dudes’s computer systems, or the technical delivery systems of Travel Dudes’s providers;
(ii) probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any system or network or breach or circumvent any security or authentication measures;
(iii) access or search or attempt to access or search the Services by any means (automated or otherwise) other than through our currently available, published interfaces that are provided by Travel Dudes (and only pursuant to those terms and conditions), unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with Travel Dudes (NOTE: crawling the Services is permissible if done in accordance with the provisions of the robots.txt file, however, scraping the Services without the prior consent of Travel Dudes is expressly prohibited);
(iv) forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email or posting, or in any way use the Services to send altered, deceptive or false source-identifying information; or
(v) interfere with, or disrupt, (or attempt to do so), the access of any user, host or network, including, without limitation, sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming, mail-bombing the Services, or by scripting the creation of Content in such a manner as to interfere with or create an undue burden on the Services.

9. Copyright Policy

Travel Dudes respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects users of the Services to do the same. We will respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with applicable law and are properly provided to us.

If you believe that your Content has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide us with the following information:
(i) a physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf;
(ii) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
(iii) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;
(iv) your contact information, including your address, telephone number, and an email address;
(v) a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
(vi) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

We reserve the right to remove Content alleged to be infringing without prior notice, at our sole discretion, and without liability to you. In appropriate circumstances, Travel Dudes will also terminate a user’s account if the user is determined to be a repeat infringer.

10. Ending These Terms

The Terms will continue to apply until terminated by either you or Travel Dudes as follows.

You may end your legal agreement with Travel Dudes at any time for any reason by deactivating your accounts and discontinuing your use of the Services. You do not need to specifically inform Travel Dudes when you stop using the Services. If you stop using the Services without deactivating your accounts, your accounts may be deactivated due to prolonged inactivity.

We may suspend or terminate your accounts or cease providing you with all or part of the Services at any time for any reason, including, but not limited to, if we reasonably believe:
(i) you have violated these Terms or the Travel Dudes Rules,
(ii) you create risk or possible legal exposure for us; or
(iii) our provision of the Services to you is no longer commercially viable.

We will make reasonable efforts to notify you by the email address associated with your account or the next time you attempt to access your account.

In all such cases, the Terms shall terminate, including, without limitation, your license to use the Services, except that the following sections shall continue to apply: 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, and 12.

Nothing in this section shall affect Travel Dudes’s rights to change, limit or stop the provision of the Services without prior notice, as provided above in section 1.

11.Disclaimers and Limitations of Liability

Please read this section carefully since it limits the liability of Travel Dudes and its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, related companies, officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives, partners, and licensors (collectively, the “Travel Dudes Entities”). Each of the subsections below only applies up to the maximum extent permitted under applicable law. Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of implied warranties or the limitation of liability in contracts, and as a result the contents of this section may not apply to you. Nothing in this section is intended to limit any rights you may have which may not be lawfully limited.

A. The Services are Available “AS-IS”

Your access to and use of the Services or any Content are at your own risk. You understand and agree that the Services are provided to you on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis. Without limiting the foregoing, to the maximum extent permitted under applicable law, THE Travel Dudes GMBH ENTITIES DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

The Travel Dudes GmbH Entities make no warranty and disclaim all responsibility and liability for:

(i) the completeness, accuracy, availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Services or any Content;
(ii) any harm to your computer system, loss of data, or other harm that results from your access to or use of the Services or any Content;
(iii) the deletion of, or the failure to store or to transmit, any Content and other communications maintained by the Services; and
(iv) whether the Services will meet your requirements or be available on an uninterrupted, secure, or error-free basis.

No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained from the Travel Dudes GmbH Entities or through the Services, will create any warranty not expressly made herein.

B. Links

The Services may contain links to third-party websites or resources. You acknowledge and agree that the Travel Dudes GmbH Entities are not responsible or liable for:

(i) the availability or accuracy of such websites or resources; or
(ii) the content, products, or services on or available from such websites or resources. Links to such websites or resources do not imply any endorsement by the Travel Dudes GmbH Entities of such websites or resources or the content, products, or services available from such websites or resources.

You acknowledge sole responsibility for and assume all risk arising from your use of any such websites or resources.

C. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE Travel Dudes GmbH ENTITIES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS OR REVENUES, WHETHER INCURRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, OR ANY LOSS OF DATA, USE, GOOD-WILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, RESULTING FROM

(i) YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF OR INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICES;
(ii) ANY CONDUCT OR CONTENT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE SERVICES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF OTHER USERS OR THIRD PARTIES;
(iii) ANY CONTENT OBTAINED FROM THE SERVICES; OR (iv) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, USE OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR CONTENT.

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF THE Travel Dudes GmbH ENTITIES EXCEED THE GREATER OF FIFTY EURO (€50.00) OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID Travel Dudes, IF ANY, IN THE PAST SIX MONTHS FOR THE SERVICES GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.

THE LIMITATIONS OF THIS SUBSECTION SHALL APPLY TO ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, STATUTE, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHERWISE, AND WHETHER OR NOT THE Travel Dudes GmbH ENTITIES HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH DAMAGE, AND EVEN IF A REMEDY SET FORTH HEREIN IS FOUND TO HAVE FAILED OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

12. General Terms

A. Waiver and Severability

The failure of Travel Dudes GmbH to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be deemed a waiver of such right or provision. In the event that any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, then that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in full force and effect.

B. Controlling Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms and any action related thereto will be governed by the laws of the country of Germany without regard to or application of its conflict of law provisions or your state or country of residence. All claims, legal proceedings or litigation arising in connection with the Services will be brought solely in the federal or state courts located in Cologne, Germany, and you consent to the jurisdiction of and venue in such courts and waive any objection as to inconvenient forum.

C. Entire Agreement

These Terms, the Travel Dudes Rules and our Privacy Policy are the entire and exclusive agreement between Travel Dudes GmbH and you regarding the Services (excluding any services for which you have a separate agreement with Travel Dudes that is explicitly in addition or in place of these Terms), and these Terms supersede and replace any prior agreements between Travel Dudes and you regarding the Services. Other than members of the group of companies of which Travel Dudes is the parent, no other person or company will be third party beneficiaries to the Terms.

We may revise these Terms from time to time, the most current version will always be at TravelDudes.org/privacy-policy. If the revision, in our sole discretion, is material we will notify you via an e-mail to the email associated with your account. By continuing to access or use the Services after those revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Terms.

Travel Dudes Privacy Policy

We require certain information to provide our services to you. For example, you must have an account in order to upload or share content on Travel Dudes. When you choose to share the information below with us, we collect and use it to operate our services.

Travel Dudes instantly connects people everywhere to what’s most meaningful to them. Any registered user can send and share a post to the public by default and can include other content like photos, videos, and links to other websites. What you say on Travel Dudes may be viewed all around the world instantly.

When you use Travel Dudes, even if you’re just looking at posts, we receive some personal information from you like the type of device you’re using and your IP address. You can choose to share additional information with us like your email address, phone number, address book contacts, and a public profile. We use this information for things like keeping your account secure and showing you more relevant content, people to follow, events, and ads.

This Privacy Policy describes how and when Travel Dudes collects, uses and shares your information when you use our Services. Travel Dudes receives your information through our various websites, SMS, APIs, email notifications, applications, buttons, widgets, and ads (the “Services” or “Travel Dudes”) and from our partners and other third parties. For example, you send us information when you use Travel Dudes from our website, submit posts. When using any of our Services you consent to the collection, transfer, manipulation, storage, disclosure and other uses of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. Irrespective of which country you reside in or supply information from, you authorize Travel Dudes GmbH to use your information in Germany and any other country where Travel Dudes GmbH operates.

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us here.

Information Collection and Use

We collect and use your information below to provide our Services and to measure and improve them over time.

Information Collected Upon Registration:

When you create or reconfigure a Travel Dudes account, you provide some personal information, such as your name, username, password, and email address. Some of this information, for example, your username, is listed publicly on our Services, including on your profile page and in search results. Some Services, such as search, public user profiles and viewing lists, do not require registration.

Additional Information:

You may provide us with profile information to make public, such as a short biography, your location, your website, or a picture. You may provide information to customize your account, such as a cell phone number. We may use your contact information to send you information about our Services or to market to you. You may use your account settings to unsubscribe from notifications from Travel Dudes. You may also unsubscribe by following the instructions contained within the notification or the instructions on our website. We may use your contact information to help others find your Travel Dudes account, including through third-party services and client applications. You may choose to upload your address book so that we can help you find Travel Dudes users you know. We may later suggest people to follow on Travel Dudes based on your imported address book contacts, which you can delete from Travel Dudes at any time. If you email us, we may keep your message, email address and contact information to respond to your request. If you connect your Travel Dudes account to your account on another service in order to cross-post between Travel Dudes and that service, the other service may send us your registration or profile information on that service and other information that you authorize. This information enables cross-posting, helps us improve the Services, and is deleted from Travel Dudes within a few weeks of your disconnecting from Travel Dudes your account on the other service. Providing the additional information described in this section is entirely optional.

Posts, Following and other Public Information:

Our Services are primarily designed to help you share information with the world. Most of the information you provide us is information you are asking us to make public. This includes not only the posts you share and the metadata provided with posts, such as when you submit, but also the lists you create, the people and keywords you follow, the posts you mark as favorites or share, and many other bits of information that result from your use of the Services. Our default is almost always to make the information you provide public for as long as you do not delete it from Travel Dudes, but we generally give you settings to make the information more private if you want. Your public information is broadly and instantly disseminated. For instance, your public user profile information and public posts may be searchable by search engines and are immediately delivered our APIs to a wide range of users and services. When you share information or content like photos, videos, and links via the Services, you should think carefully about what you are making public.

Location Information:

You may choose to publish your location in your posts and in your Travel Dudes profile. You may also tell us your computer or mobile device to send us location information. We may use and store information about your location to provide features of our Services, such as posts with your location, and to improve and customize the Services, for example, with more relevant content like local trends, stories, ads, and suggestions for people to follow.

Links:

Travel Dudes may keep track of how you interact with links across our Services, including our email notifications, third-party services, and client applications, by redirecting clicks or through other means. We do this to help improve our Services, to provide more relevant advertising, and to be able to share aggregate click statistics such as how many times a particular link was clicked on.

Cookies:

Like many websites, we use cookies and similar technologies to collect additional website usage data and to improve our Services, but we do not require cookies for many parts of our Services. A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to your computer’s hard disk. Travel Dudes may use both session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you interact with our Services, to monitor aggregate usage by our users and web traffic routing on our Services, and to customize and improve our Services. Most Internet browsers automatically accept cookies. You can instruct your browser, by changing its settings, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit. However, some Services may not function properly if you disable cookies.

Log Data:

Our servers automatically record information (“Log Data”) created by your use of the Services. Log Data may include information such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, the referring web page, pages visited, location, your mobile carrier, device and application IDs, search terms, and cookie information. We receive Log Data when you interact with our Services, for example, when you visit our websites, sign into our Services, interact with our email notifications, use your Travel Dudes account to authenticate to a third-party website or application, or visit a third-party website that includes a Travel Dudes button or widget. Travel Dudes uses Log Data to provide our Services and to measure, customize, and improve them. If not already done earlier, for example, as provided below for Widget Data, we will either delete Log Data or remove any common account identifiers, such as your username, full IP address, or email address, after 18 months.

Widget Data:

We may tailor content for you based on your visits to third-party websites that integrate Travel Dudes buttons or widgets. When these websites first load our buttons or widgets for display, we receive Log Data, including the web page you visited and a cookie that identifies your browser (“Widget Data”). While we have the Widget Data, we may use it to tailor content for you, such as suggestions for people to follow on Travel Dudes. Tailored content is stored with only your browser cookie ID and is separated from other Widget Data such as page-visit information. This feature is optional and not yet available to all users. If you want, you can suspend it or turn it off, which removes from your browser the unique cookie that enables the feature. For posts, Log Data, and other information that we receive from interactions with Travel Dudes buttons or widgets, please see the other sections of this Privacy Policy.

Third-Parties – Advertisers, other Ad Partners and Affiliates:

Third Parties, like advertising and affiliate revenue allows us to support and improve our services. We use the information described in this Privacy Policy to help make our advertising more relevant to you, to measure its effectiveness, and to help recognize your devices to serve you ads and affiliate links on and off of Travel Dudes. Our ad partners and affiliates share information with us such as browser cookie IDs, mobile device IDs, hashed email addresses, demographic or interest data, and content viewed or actions taken on a website or app.

Travel Dudes uses a variety of third-party services to help provide our Services, such as hosting our various blogs and content, and to help us understand the use of our Services, such as Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity. These third-party service providers may collect information sent by your browser as part of a web page request, such as cookies or your IP address. Third-party ad partners may share information with us, like a browser cookie ID or cryptographic hash of a common account identifier (such as an email address), to help us measure ad quality and tailor ads. For example, this allows us to display ads about things you may have already shown interest in.

By using our site, you agree that we and our partners can collect and use this data.

Travel Dudes adheres to the Coalition for Better Ads, which is being adopted by many major players in the ad industry and includes Behavioral Advertising (also referred to as “interest-based advertising”) and respects the DAA’s consumer choice tool for you to opt out of interest-based advertising at https://optout.aboutads.info.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising

For information regarding data collection by Mediavine ad partners including how to opt out of data collection, please click here.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

We do not disclose your private personal information except in the limited circumstances described here.

Your Consent:

We may share or disclose your information at your direction, such as when you authorize a third-party web client or application to access your Travel Dudes account.

Service Providers:

We engage service providers to perform functions and provide services to us in Germany and abroad. We may share your private personal information with such service providers subject to confidentiality obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy, and on the condition that the third parties use your private personal data only on our behalf and pursuant to our instructions.

Law and Harm:

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Policy, we may preserve or disclose your information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation or legal request; to protect the safety of any person; to address fraud, security or technical issues; or to protect Travel Dudes’s rights or property. However, nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party’s, including a government’s, request to disclose your information.

Business Transfers:

In the event that Travel Dudes GmbH is involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, your information may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. The promises in this Privacy Policy will apply to your information as transferred to the new entity.

Non-Private or Non-Personal Information:

We may share or disclose your non-private, aggregated or otherwise non-personal information, such as your public user profile information, public posts, the people you follow or that follow you, or the number of users who clicked on a particular link (even if only one did).

Modifying Your Personal Information

If you are a registered user of our Services, we provide you with tools and account settings to access or modify the personal information you provided to us and associated with your account.

You can also permanently delete your Travel Dudes account. In that case your account will be deactivated and then deleted. When your account is deactivated, it is not viewable on Travel Dudes.org.

Our Policy Towards Children

Our Services are not directed to persons under 13. If you become aware that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us at message@Travel Dudes.org. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we take steps to remove such information and terminate the child’s account.

EU Safe Harbor Framework

Travel Dudes GmbH complies with the U.S.-E.U. and U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement. To learn more about the Safe Harbor program, please visit the the Wikipedia website about Data Protection Directive.

Changes to this Policy

We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our use of your information and will always be at TravelDudes.org/privacy-plolicy. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you via an email to the email address associated with your account. By continuing to access or use the Services after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.

Travel Dudes Rules

Our goal is to provide a service that allows you to discover and receive content from sources that interest you as well as to share your content with others. We respect the ownership of the content that users share and each user is responsible for the content he or she provides. Because of these principles, we do not actively monitor and will not censor user content, except in limited circumstances described below.

Content Boundaries and Use of Travel Dudes

In order to provide the Travel Dudes service and the ability to communicate and stay connected with others, there are some limitations on the type of content that can be published with Travel Dudes. These limitations comply with legal requirements and make Travel Dudes a better experience for all. We may need to change these rules from time to time and reserve the right to do so. Please check back here to see the latest.

  • Impersonation: You may not impersonate others through the Travel Dudes service in a manner that does or is intended to mislead, confuse, or deceive others.
  • Trademark: We reserve the right to reclaim usernames on behalf of businesses or individuals that hold legal claim or trademark on those usernames. Accounts using business names and/or logos to mislead others may be permanently suspended.
  • Private Information: You may not publish or post other people’s private and confidential information, such as credit card numbers, street address or Social Security/National Identity numbers, without their express authorization and permission.
  • Violence and Threats: You may not publish or post direct, specific threats of violence against others.
  • Copyright: We will respond to clear and complete notices of alleged copyright infringement. Our copyright procedures are set forth in the Terms of Service.
  • Unlawful Use: You may not use our service for any unlawful purposes or in furtherance of illegal activities. International users agree to comply with all local laws regarding online conduct and acceptable content.
  • Misuse of Travel Dudes Badges: You may not use badges, such as but not limited to the Promoted or Verified Travel Dudes badge, unless provided by Travel Dudes. Accounts using these badges as part of profile photos, header photos, background images, or in a way that falsely implies affiliation with Travel Dudes may be suspended.

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Abuse and Spam

Travel Dudes strives to protect its users from abuse and spam. User abuse and technical abuse are not tolerated on Travel Dudes.org, and may result in permanent suspension. Any accounts engaging in the activities specified below may be subject to permanent suspension.

  • Serial Accounts: You may not create multiple accounts for disruptive or abusive purposes, or with overlapping use cases. Mass account creation may result in suspension of all related accounts. Please note that any violation of the Travel Dudes Rules is cause for permanent suspension of all accounts.
  • Targeted Abuse: You may not engage in targeted abuse or harassment. Some of the factors that we take into account when determining what conduct is considered to be targeted abuse or harassment are:
    • if you are sending messages to a user from multiple accounts;
    • if the sole purpose of your account is to send abusive messages to others;
    • if the reported behavior is one-sided or includes threats
  • Username Squatting: You may not engage in username squatting. Accounts that are inactive for more than six months may also be removed without further notice. Some of the factors that we take into account when determining what conduct is considered to be username squatting are:
    • the number of accounts created
    • creating accounts for the purpose of preventing others from using those account names
    • creating accounts for the purpose of selling those accounts
    • using feeds of third-party content to update and maintain accounts under the names of those third parties
  • Invitation spam: You may not use Travel Dudes.org’s address book contact import to send repeat, mass invitations.
  • Selling usernames: You may not buy or sell Travel Dudes usernames.
  • Malware/Phishing: You may not publish or link to malicious content intended to damage or disrupt another user’s browser or computer or to compromise a user’s privacy.
  • Spam: You may not use the Travel Dudes service for the purpose of spamming anyone. What constitutes “spamming” will evolve as we respond to new tricks and tactics by spammers. Some of the factors that we take into account when determining what conduct is considered to be spamming are:
    • If you have followed and/or unfollowed large amounts of users in a short time period, particularly by automated means (aggressive following or follower churn);
    • If you repeatedly follow and unfollow people, whether to build followers or to garner more attention for your profile;
    • If your updates consist mainly of links, and not personal updates;
    • If a large number of people are blocking you;
    • If a large number of spam complaints have been filed against you;
    • If you post duplicate content over multiple accounts or multiple duplicate updates on one account;
    • If you post multiple unrelated updates to a topic using # or keywords, trending or popular topic, or promoted trend;
    • attempt to bring attention to a service or link;
    • If you add a large number of unrelated users to lists in an attempt to bring attention to an account, service or link;
    • If you repeatedly create false or misleading content in an attempt to bring attention to an account, service or link;
    • Randomly or aggressively favoriting posts through automation or manually in an attempt to bring attention to an account, service or link;
    • Randomly or aggressively sharing accounts through automation or manually in an attempt to bring attention to an account, service or link;
    • If you repeatedly post other users’ account information as your own (bio, posts, url, etc.);
    • If you post misleading links (e.g. affiliate links, links to malware/click jacking pages, etc.);
    • If you add links to your posts for SEO purposes;
    • If you use posts for self-advertising and/or promotion of your brand and/or services;
    • Creating multiple misleading accounts in order to gain followers;
    • Selling followers;
    • Purchasing followers;
    • Using or promoting third-party sites that claim to get you more followers (such as follower trains, sites promising “more followers fast,” or any other site that offers to automatically add followers to your account);
  • Pornography: You may not use obscene or pornographic images in either your profile photo, header photo, or user background.

Your account may be suspended for Terms of Service violations if any of the above is true. Accounts created to replace suspended accounts will be permanently suspended.

Accounts engaging in any of these behaviors may be investigated for abuse. Accounts under investigation may be removed from Search for quality. Travel Dudes reserves the right to immediately terminate your account without further notice in the event that, in its judgment, you violate these Rules or the Terms of Service.

We may revise these Rules from time to time; the most current version will always be find here.

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