Effective: April 1, 2018

Updated: October 8, 2025.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://periodicadventures.com

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on this site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact Forms

When you provide us with your personal information (i.e. email address, name, etc), you are consenting to our storage, use, and disclosure of that information as outlined in this Privacy Policy. We may use this information to provide you information you have requested, such as free materials, and to contact you with newsletters, marketing, promotional materials, surveys, and other information we deem useful to you, all of which may be sent and created via a third party. If at anytime you wish to unsubscribe from our communications, simply click ‘unsubscribe’ at the bottom of the email or contact alanna@periodicadventures.com or use the contact form. Please allow 5 business days to update our subscriber list.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you login to this page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). 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, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We use third-party service providers for web analytic services, such as Google Analytics, on this website, to provide us with statistics and other information about visitors to the site. This information helps us to improve our website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including enabling us to estimate our audience size and usage patterns.

Affiliate Disclosure

Some pages on this website allow you to purchase products and services provided by other merchants. Some of the links that are posted on the website are “affiliate links,” This means that if you click on the link and purchase an item, we will receive an affiliate commission, at no extra cost to you.

If you purchase an item or service via a link posted on this website, please refer to the merchant’s privacy and data collection practices that are likely different from those on this website.

Periodic Adventures is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program.

Periodic Adventures is a participant in the Travel Payouts Program, which partners with travel affiliates such as Rentalcars.com, GetYourGuide.com, and Hotels.com.

Periodic Adventures is a participant in the Stay22 Program, which partners with travel affiliates such as Booking.com.

Periodic Adventures is an affiliate for Tinggly, Fever, PacSafe, and other brands via Impact and AvantLink.

Advertising

This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement/

Who we share your data with

We don’t share your data. We value your trust.

A third party, Kit (previously ConvertKit), is used for all email communication. The information collected on this site is stored through Kit service, but are only accessible by Periodic Adventures. You may view the Kit privacy policy at https://kit.com/privacy.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its 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.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

Fully complying with the European General Data Protection (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), users have the right to withdraw their consent at anytime, object to the processing of their data if the processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent, access their data, verify and seek rectification of their data, restrict the processing of their data, have their personal data removed or deleted, receive their data and have it transferred to another controller, and lodge a complaint.

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also 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. You may exercise your right to prevent such processing by contacting alanna@periodicadventures.com or through our contact form.

Where we send your data

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

How we protect your data

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers behind firewalls and encrypted at-rest, as well as, encrypted in transit via SSL. Keep in mind, the transmission of information via the internet is never completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our website. However, any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the website.

Policy Changes

We reserve the right to change the policies listed above at any point. Upon revision the effective date at the top will be changed to reflect the update.

If you have any questions concerning the policies of Periodic Adventures, you may email me at alanna@periodicadventures.com