OG VENICE ITALY TRAVEL GUIDE
  • Venice City Guide
    • About Venice
    • Tips & Tricks
    • WiFi & Cellular Phone Service
    • Transportation
    • Food >
      • Cicchetti Spots
      • Restaurants
      • Rialto & Shops
      • Bakeries & Pastry Shops
      • Speciality Food Shops
    • Bars & Nightlife >
      • Rialto Bars
      • Castello Bars
      • Dorsoduro Bars
      • Cannaregio Bars
      • Santa Croce Bars
      • San Marco Bars
    • Lido Beaches >
      • Beaches
      • Lido Snacks
    • Shopping >
      • Fine Art & Antique Books
      • Murano Glass & Sculpture
      • Murano Glass Jewelry
      • Fine & Designer Jewelry
      • Leather Goods & Handbags
      • Clothing & Shoes
      • Bookstores
      • Artisan Shops & Souvenirs
      • Vintage & Second Hand
      • Florists & Flower Shops
    • Necessities >
      • Hardware & Electronics
    • Excursions
    • Key Resources
  • Venice Tours, Walks & Excursions
    • Island Farms & Wine
    • Inside Murano Glass Tour
    • Murano Glass for Interior Design
    • Veneto Excursions
    • Gourmet Shopping Tour
    • Lido Market Stroll
    • Artisan Shopping Walk
    • Private Historical Tours
    • Tours FAQ
  • Travel Consulting
  • Images

OG Venice Travel Guide Privacy Policy

OG Venice Travel Guide respects your privacy.  We appreciate the time you spend reading our website and the efforts you make to keep in contact with us, including joining our mailing list. OG Venice Travel Guide, www.ogvenice.com, takes your privacy very seriously. We do not ever sell, rent or share your personal information. We do not collect, nor attempt to collect, personally identifying information from visitors to our website beyond the information absolutely necessary to respond to your emails, send our newsletters, or confirm your participation in tours and experiences designed by us.
​

OG Venice Travel Guide is a sole proprietorship registered in the State of Connecticut, USA. Our address is: 5 Glen Court, Greenwich, CT. We can be reached via email at: marjorie@ogvenice.com, via telephone in Italy at: +39 327 959 7542, or via US Mail at: 5 Glen Court, Greenwich, CT USA.

OG Venice collects website users names and email addresses when that information is voluntarily provided to use through our mailing list opt-in forms or the contact forms on this website.  We use this information to deliver the occasional email newsletter and to respond to direct contact from our website visitors.  The website also uses cookies, to enhance your experience navigating through the site, and Google Analytics, to help us assess how well the website is performing.  Neither Cookies, nor Google Analytics give us any personally identifying information about the visitors to this website.  

​Types of data that we and/or this website collect:

Our host, data collector and data processor:

This website is built using the tools provided by Weebly Inc. and hosted on servers belonging to Weebly Inc.. Weebly Inc. is a United States Corporation headquartered in California. When you enter information into this website, for example, when you use our contact forms, Weebly collects with information as passes it on to us. View Weebly's privacy policy HERE.

Our Mailing List:

In order to include you in our mailing list, we must ask you for certain personal information. This information includes your name, email address and, sometimes, your birth month and day. We do not ever sell, rent or trade our mailing list with other publishers or anyone else. And, we take the extra step of deleting all information about subscribers who choose to unsubscribe from our mailing lists.

We use a third-party provider, MailChimp, to store our mailing list and deliver our newsletter. MailChimp gathers statistics about email openings and link clicks using industry standard technologies. Reviewing this information helps us improve our communication strategy and newsletter content. For more information on how MailChimp treats subscriber data, please see MailChimp’s privacy notice.

You can unsubscribe from our mailing list at any time of the day or night by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our emails or by emailing us directly at:
marjorie@ogvenice.com.

Ticketing Data:

We do not sell event, tour or excursion tickets directly through this website, nor do we collect any financial data or credit card information from our website visitors. Ticketing for excursions, tours and events designed by us is managed through Eventbee Inc, a California Corporation. The information collected by Eventbee in order to issue your tickets may include your name, telephone number, email address, the date of the event or excursion your are attending and payment information. Beyond your name, contact information, and the date of your event, we do not have access to any other information collected by Eventbee. Please see Eventbee's privacy policy.

Cookies:

Like most websites, www.ogvenice.com uses cookies, small data files which are placed on your computer or other devices used for navigating the internet. The function of the cookie is to remember when your computer or device accessed our website and how you navigate through it. Cookies are essential for enabling you to seamlessly navigate our website. Cookies are also used to tailor the products and services offered or advertised to you on our website and elsewhere on the internet.

What are cookies used for:

Cookies on www.ogvenice.com are used for:
  • Technical purposes essential to website navigation,
  • Analytical purposes, essential to understanding our website performance, and,
  • For the delivery of relevant marketing and advertising notices.
We do not ever seek to discover users' personally identifying information through cookies. We do not have access to the information stored in the cookies.

How to disable cookies:

We can not prevent our website from setting cookies, but you can!
You have control over whether or not, and what type of cookies this and other website set on your computer and devices. If you want to disable cookies you need to change your website browser settings to reject cookies.  How to do so depends on which browser you use. Details on how to disable cookies for the most popular browsers are described below:
For Microsoft Internet Explorer:
  1. Choose the menu “tools” then “Internet Options”
  2.  Click on the “privacy” tab
  3. Select the setting the appropriate setting
For Google Chrome:
  1. Choose Settings> Advanced
  2. Under "Privacy and security," click “Content settings”.
  3. Click “Cookies”
For Safari:
  1. Choose Preferences > Privacy
  2. Click on “Remove all Website Data”
For Mozilla firefox:
  1. Choose the menu “tools” then “Options”
  2. Click on the icon “privacy”
  3. Find the menu “cookie” and select the relevant options
For Opera 6.0 and further:
  1. Choose the menu Files”> “Preferences”
  2.  Privacy

Google Analytics:

We use Google Analytics tools to assess this website's performance. Google Analytics collects and shows us standard internet log information and details of visitor behavior patterns. We review this log periodically to discover information such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site, which pages are most popular, and how visitors navigate through the website as a whole. The information collected by Google Analytics and shown to us does not include any personally identifying information about our website visitors. We do not make, and do not allow Google Analytics to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website.

AddThis Analytics:

We use AddThis analytics to assess the social media sharing, copy & paste, and printing performance of this website. AddThis collects and shows us a standard log of information regarding how many times website visitors shared our content on social media, copied and pasted our content and printed our content. The information collected by AddThis and provided to us does not include any personally identifying information. We do not make, nor request AddThis to make, any attempt to discover the personal identities, or personal social media profiles, of our website users. View AddThis' privacy policy HERE.

Access to Your Personal Information & The Right to Be Forgotten:

You have the right to request at any time to know the full extent of any personal information that has been collected about you through this website. You also have the right to “be forgotten” by having us permanently delete any information about you that we have.  OG Venice always permanently deletes the personal information of any users who unsubscribe from our mailing lists.

Changes to This Privacy Notice:

OG Venice Travel Guide is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that our privacy practices and policy are in compliance with all appilcable laws. Accordingly, we may update this policy from time to time to ensure that your privacy is protected to highest possible degree. Users will be immediately informed of any updates to our privacy policy.
Looking for something special in Venice?  OG Venice Travel Guide has more than 250 listings. Search Inside: 
Privacy Policy
Contact Us
Media Kit
© 2018 OG Venice Italy