Legal Documentation

Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 2025

1. Data Controller

This website is operated by NATALIA SEROCUROVA ("we", "us", or "our"). For questions regarding data protection and personal privacy, you may contact our designated privacy representative via email at [email protected].

2. Scope of Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how NATALIA SEROCUROVA collects, stores, protects, and discloses personal information obtained through our website, online forms, newsletter subscription mechanisms, and associated editorial services, in accordance with applicable United States state and federal privacy statutes.

3. Categories of Collected Data

We may process the following categories of information:

Directly Provided Information: Full name, email address, optional contact telephone numbers, and inquiry details submitted through our contact and commission forms.
Automatically Collected Information: Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, device identifiers, time stamps, pages visited, and referring URLs collected through server logs and analytics cookies.
Cookie Preferences: Consent signals recorded through our Google Consent Mode v2 compliance banner.

4. Purposes and Legal Bases for Processing

Processing Purpose	Data Categories	Legal Ground / Standard
Responding to editorial and travel commission inquiries	Name, email, message content	Legitimate business interest / Pre-contractual steps
Website security and DDoS mitigation	IP address, browser headers, request logs	Legitimate interest (system integrity)
Aggregated audience analytics	Pseudonymous identifier, session metrics	Freely given consent (Google Consent Mode v2)

5. Google Consent Mode v2 and Cookies

Our website utilizes Google Consent Mode v2. Non-essential storage categories—including analytics and personalized advertising—remain in a denied status by default until you deliberately provide consent via our cookie banner. You can alter or revoke your selections at any time using the "Cookie Settings" tool situated in our site footer.

6. Third-Party Sharing and Disclosures

We do not sell, rent, or lease your personal data. We disclose information only to vetted service providers acting on our behalf (such as cloud hosting and infrastructure partners), pursuant to strict confidentiality agreements, or when legally compelled by lawful judicial process.

7. Data Retention

Inquiry communications are retained only as long as necessary to fulfill the relevant service request or comply with legal and taxation recordkeeping obligations, after which data is securely purged or anonymized.

8. User Privacy Rights

Under applicable United States and international regulations, you possess rights to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data held by NATALIA SEROCUROVA. To exercise these rights, please submit a written request to [email protected].

9. Children's Privacy

Our website and services are not directed to individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly solicit or maintain personal details from minors.