This is the privacy policy for the In and Around Sarajevo website.This privacy policy explains how your personal data or personal information is collected, used, shared, transfered, and sold.

Personal data is any information about you by which you can be identified or be identifiable. Personal data can include information such as:

• - your name, date of birth, etc,
• - information about your devices, such as your IP address, which is a numerical code to identify your device that can provide information about the country, region or city where you are based
• - information regarding how you interact with and use the website

Sometimes the site may contain links to sites and services that are are separate to the site. These sites and services have their own privacy policies. If you follow a link away from the In and Around Sarajevo website, you should read the privacy policy shown on their site.

We collect your personal data when you visit our website, in line with applicable laws. This includes:

• - personal data we generate about you, e.g. personal data we use to authenticate you, or personal data in the form of your IP address or your preferences.

Regarding personal data we generate about you, when you use our site, we may use cookies or simialr technology to collect data including:

• - your IP address - a numerical code to identify your device, together with the country, region or city where you are based.
• - your geolocation data - your IP address can be used to find information about the latitude, longitude, altitude of your device, its direction of travel, your GPS data and data about connection with local Wi-Fi equipment.
• - information on how you interact with our services.
• - your browsing history of the content you have visited on our sites, including how you were referred to our sites via other websites.
• - details of your computer, mobile, TV, tablet or other devices, for example, the unique device ID, unique vendor or advertising ID and browsers used to access our content.

We will not collect special categories of data from you - such as personal data concerning your race, political opinions, religion, health or sexual orientation.

We collect your personal data:

• - when you access and interact with our site.
• - when you use mobile devices to access our content.
• - through cookies and other similar technology
• - when you contact us via email.

We use your personal data to:

• - understand our readers, promote our services and operate our site efficiently for the creation, publication and distribution of travel and tourism content onlin. For example to:
• - analyse what content has been viewed on our site so that we can understand how they are used and improve our content.
• - to show personalised advertising by identifying your interests and to create “segments” of particular types of audiences so that we may show you advertisements that may be more relevant to your interests and the ‘’segments’’ you may be in.
• - to collect and log IP addresses to improve the website and monitor website usage.

We may share your data with other organisations that provide services on our behalf. For example:

• - error tracking software providers, such as Sentry and Google Firebase, to help us diagnose and fix errors and optimise the performance of our website
• - service providers that help provide us with insights and analytics that help us to improve our products and services. For example, we use Google Analytics to understand how visitors engage with our site. If you don’t want Google Analytics to be used in your browser, you can install the ‘Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On’, provided by Google.

We may also share your data collected through our websites and apps with our advertising partners. Read more about cookies further down on this page.

We keep your personal data for only as long as we need to. How long we need your personal data depends on what we are using it for.

Cookies

A cookie is a small file that can be placed on your device that allows us to recognise and remember you.

When you visit our sites or when you use our apps, we may collect personal data from you automatically using cookies or similar technologies. It is also the case that third parties may be placing and reading cookies on you browser, or using web beacons to collect information as a result of ad serving on this website.

We may use cookies to:

• - understand how you use our site.
• - work with partners to deliver to you relevant advertising, such as Google (please follow this link here to read How Google uses data when you use the sites or apps of one of their partners).

We use different types of cookies:

• - Performance cookies which measure how often you visit our sites and how you use them
• - Advertising cookies that are used to collect information about your visit to our site, including the content you have viewed, the links you have followed and information about your browser, device and your IP address. The advertising techniques we use do not collect personal data such as your name, email address, postal address or phone number.

We may also share and receive online data collected through cookies and similar technology with our advertising partners. This means that when you are on another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our sites. We may also show you advertising on our sites based on your browsing patterns on other sites that we have obtained from our advertising partners.

Online retargeting is another form of online advertising that allows us and advertising partners to show advertising based on your browsing patterns and interactions with other sites. The use of cookies may mean that when you are on another site, you may be shown advertising based on what you have looked at on our sites. For example, if you have visited the website of an travel booking site, you may start seeing adverts from that same travel booking site displaying special offers or showing you the products you were browsing. This allows companies to advertise to you if you leave their website without making a purchase.

It is also possible to stop your browser from accepting cookies altogether by changing your browser’s cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your browser. The following links may be helpful and are examples from two of the most common browsers:

• Chrome Cookie Settings
• Firefox Cookies

If we decide to change our privacy policy we will post the changes here. The most recent changes to this privacy policy were made on: 14 March 2021.

To reach the primary contact regarding data related issues you can email contact@inandaroundsarajevo.com