Effective Date: [2025-01-01]
The Wander Crew (“we,” “us,” or “our”) values your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you interact with our YouTube channel, website, and contests.
1. Who We Are
Our website address is: http://thewandercrew.org.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of personal information:
- YouTube usernames from users who comment on our videos (for engagement and contest participation).
- Contact information (such as email addresses or social media profiles) if you voluntarily provide it to claim a contest prize.
- Mailing addresses from giveaway winners, solely for prize delivery.
- Comments Data: When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
- Media Data: If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS), as visitors can extract this data.
We do not collect sensitive personal data or payment information.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the collected data for the following purposes:
- Contest Entries & Winner Selection: To select and contact winners of our subscriber giveaways.
- Prize Fulfillment: To send prizes to contest winners.
- Engagement & Community Building: To interact with our subscribers in YouTube comments and on social media.
- Site Functionality: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience.
We do not sell, rent, or trade any personal data to third parties.
4. Cookies & Tracking
- If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last for one year.
- If you visit our login page, a temporary cookie is set to determine if your browser accepts cookies, discarded when you close your browser.
- Login cookies last for two days; screen options cookies last for a year. “Remember Me” extends login persistence to two weeks.
- If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is saved in your browser indicating the post ID, expiring after one day.
5. Embedded Content
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves as if you visited that website directly, which may collect data, use cookies, or track interactions.
6. Data Retention & Security
- Contact information provided by giveaway winners will be deleted after the prize is successfully delivered.
- Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to recognize and approve follow-ups automatically.
- Registered users can edit or delete their personal information at any time (except usernames, which cannot be changed).
- We take reasonable precautions to protect user data but cannot guarantee complete security over the internet.
7. Third-Party Services & Sharing Data
- Our content is hosted on YouTube, and their Privacy Policy applies when you interact with our videos (YouTube Privacy Policy).
- The Gravatar service may receive a hash of your email to check for a profile picture (Gravatar Privacy Policy).
- Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
- If we use external tools such as a random comment picker for giveaways, those services may have their own privacy policies.
8. Geographic Scope & Compliance
- Location: The Wander Crew is based in Canada.
- Our giveaways comply with Canadian laws regarding online contests.
- We will only ship contest prizes to locations where shipping from Canada is reasonable and available. If shipping to a winner’s location is not feasible, we reserve the right to select an alternate winner.
9. Your Rights Over Your Data
- If you have an account or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you.
- You can also request that we erase any personal data, except data required for legal, administrative, or security purposes.
10. Children’s Privacy
- The Wander Crew content is family-friendly, but we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent and believe your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us, and we will take appropriate action.
11. Contact Information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can reach us at: 📧 Email: info@thewandercrew.org
By engaging with The Wander Crew on YouTube or participating in our contests, you agree to this Privacy Policy. We may update this policy from time to time, and the latest version will always be available on our website.
Last Updated: [2025-02-03]