Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Website: FSI Blogs US

Last Updated: June 13, 2025

Here on FSI Blogs US, we take your privacy very seriously. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect when you visit our website, how we use it and certain choices and rights available to you as a visitor. Please read this policy carefully as you agreed to these practices by using this website.

About This Website

FSI Blogs US is a travel blog that focuses on destination guides, itineraries, travel tips and Practical tips for travelers. To that end, we aim to produce useful, fact-checked, original copy that enables travellers to plan and go on their trips smoothly.

Information We Collect

When you use our website, we can collect the following information:

What we collect: Usage data such as pages you visit, time spent on those pages, your browser and device type and possibly the referring URLs when you first opened our service (if local policy permits), which are automatically obtained through analytics tools.

Cookies: These are small text files that are stored in your browser and assist us to offer you a happier experience, serving ads relevant to you.

Voluntarily Submitted Information: When you submit an email or a contact form, we collect your name and email address in order to reply back.

Comment Data: If you comment on an article then we collect the data that you provide in such comments, including your name, email address and the text of those comments;

We never ask for sensitive personal information like financial records, government identification numbers, or health-related information.

How We Use Your Information

What we collect and why we collect it

Work on our website and content — operate / maintain / improve

Use analytics to understand how visitors interact with our site in an anonymous manner

Serve targeted advertisements to you via third party ad networks

Answer your questions, comments or feedback

Meet your legal obligations where these exist

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Our site uses cookies to improve your experience and serve you relevant advertisements. Cookies are tiny text files left on your computer by your browser. You have the ability to control or deactivate cookies at any time via your browser settings, though please note that deactivating cookies may trigger problems with parts of our internet site.

Types of cookies we use.

Necessary Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be deactivated in our systems.

Analytics Cookie: These help us understand how visitors use our website, for example Google Analytics.

Advertising Cookies → Utilized by ad networks to deliver ads of interest to you based on your browsing history.

Google AdSense and Third-Party Advertising

We make use of Google AdSense to serve advertisements on our website. We and our third-party service providers use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our Website and other websites, which enables Google and its partners to serve ads that may be of interest to you.

You can opt-out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings or aboutads.info

When a third party places an advertisement on our website, we do not control the content of that advertisement. To allow third-party ad vendors, including Google, to use cookies, web beacons, and the like to collect information about your activity so that they can better target ads. See Google’s Privacy Policy for more information.

Google Analytics

For knowledge on site traffic and improving our content, we use Google Analytics. Essentially, Google Analytics tracks things like your partial location, browser and device type, along with the pages that you visit. This data is anonymous and not associated with any personally identifiable information. You can refuse to be tracked by Google Analytics if you install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Affiliate Links and Sponsored Content

Please note some items on FSI Blogs US will use an affiliate link, for example to lodging platforms, bookings or travel equipment. That means, at no extra cost to you, if you click a link and purchase an item we may earn a small commission. We only recommend products and services that we believe will benefit our readers and all sponsored posts and affiliate links are clearly marked within the post.

Third-Party Links

Some areas of our Services may contain links to external websites. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies of such sites or the contents of any such sites, and we recommend that you review the privacy policy of each third-party site you visit.

Data Retention

The information we hold will be kept only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes set out in this policy, or as required by law. We store analytics data in an anonymous form for analysis.

Children’s Privacy

The FSI Blogs US website is not directed to children under age 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us immediately (using the contact form here) and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Your Rights

The rights you have in respect of your Personal Data may vary depending on the territory where you reside:

The right of access to the data you hold on us

Requesting correction or deletion of data

The right to opt out of customized advertising

Right to withdraw consent if processing is based on a lawfulness of processing

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details below.

Security

We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect information from unauthorized access, loss or misuse. Nevertheless, if you transmit information to us over the Internet or through email we can not guarantee complete security as no method of internet transmission is ever 100% secure.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

Our practices change, we may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make changes, we’ll revise the last updated date at the top of this page (the current date is October 2023), so please check it from time to time.

Contact Us

Contact UsIf you have any questions, concerns or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or your personal data please contact us:

Email: info@fsiblogsus.com

Ezoic Services

We also use Ezoic Inc. (“Ezoic”) which provide services to us, including for managing third party interest based advertising on this website. Especially that Ezoic may use various technologies on this website, including tools for presentation of content, advertisement and advertisement to visitors which may both first and third party cookies.

A cookie is a piece of data sent to your device by a web server which enables the website to remember information about your browsing behaviour. First-party cookies belong to your visiting site and third-party cookies are set by anyone other than the owner of the visited website. Ezoic or its and partners will place third-party cookies, tags, beacons and pixels to track interactions with ads and improve ad targeting. The use of cookies may give you access to content and features of the website – disabling cookies may prevent this, while rejecting cookies does not delete ads but will lead them to a situation of non-personalized advertising. Learn more about cookies and how to manage them here.

When building personalized ads, the following information can be collected, used and stored in a cookie:

An email (does not contain the actual email address; hash or encrypted form of it.)

We may also combine any of this data with information independently acquired by Ezoic or its partners to target advertisements on multiple platforms and websites. Ezoic partners may also collect further information; including but not limited to unique identifiers, ad IDs, location data, usage information, device details as well as traffic and referrer attributes and interactions between visitors/users/ websites/ ads to segment audiences for cross-device/browser/app targeted advertising. Learn more about interest-based advertising and how to manage your preferences here.

Read more about Ezoic’s privacy policy here, or learn more about Ezoic advertisers and other partners here.