Bazaarist Privacy Policy

The information we collect depends on how you interact with Bazaarist.

Information You Provide Directly

We may collect information you voluntarily provide, including:

• Name
• Display or public name
• Email address
• Account login information
• Country, city, or general location
• Travel destinations and dates
• Travel interests and preferences
• Trip budget information
• Travel style and desired pace
• Transportation and lodging preferences
• Dietary considerations
• Accessibility considerations
• Places or experiences you want to include or avoid
• Questions submitted through Ask a Local
• Messages and communications sent through Bazaarist
• Customer support requests
• Reviews, feedback, and survey responses
• Newsletter and marketing preferences
• Contributor application information
• Contributor profile information
• Photographs, biographies, recommendations, local insights, and other content you voluntarily submit
• Transaction and purchase information

Please do not provide sensitive personal information that Bazaarist has not specifically requested.

Payment Information

Payments may be processed by third-party payment providers.

Bazaarist may receive transaction-related information such as:

• Amount paid
• Product or service purchased
• Transaction identifier
• Payment status
• Billing country
• Limited payment-related information

When an independent payment provider processes your payment, Bazaarist may not directly receive or store your complete payment-card or banking information.

If you apply to become a Bazaarist contributor, we may collect information including:

• Name
• Preferred or public name
• Email address
• Age eligibility confirmation
• Country
• Cities or destinations you know firsthand
• Languages
• Relevant experience
• Skills
• Written application responses
• Availability
• Links or materials you voluntarily submit
• Interview information
• Recruitment communications
• Internal application evaluations
• Application status information

Contributor applicants should also review the separate Bazaarist Applicant Privacy Notice, which explains our handling of applicant information in greater detail.

If you are selected as a contributor, Bazaarist may later request additional information necessary for:

• Onboarding
• Contributor verification
• Agreements
• Payments
• Tax administration
• Legal compliance
• Creation and management of your contributor profile

Payment details, government identification documents, and formal verification materials are not ordinarily requested through the initial contributor application.

When you access or use Bazaarist, we and service providers supporting our platform may automatically collect certain information, including:

• IP address
• Browser type
• Device type
• Operating system
• Device or session identifiers
• Pages viewed
• Links clicked
• Referral URLs
• Approximate location derived from an IP address
• Dates and times of visits
• Website and feature interactions
• Website performance information
• Error and diagnostic information

We may collect this information through cookies, pixels, local storage, analytics technologies, server logs, and similar technologies.

Bazaarist may provide messaging, question-and-answer, support, contributor, or other communication features.

When you communicate through Bazaarist, we may collect and retain:

• The contents of messages
• Questions and answers
• Sender and recipient information
• Dates and times
• Related account information
• Reports or moderation information
• Information associated with a transaction, question, itinerary, or support request

Bazaarist may use automated systems and human review, where appropriate and permitted by applicable law, to detect or investigate:

• Harassment
• Threats
• Fraud
• Spam
• Attempts to move transactions off-platform
• Attempts to exchange private contact information for prohibited purposes
• Attempts to arrange prohibited personal meetups
• Sexual or inappropriate communications
• Other violations of Bazaarist policies

Communications may also be reviewed when necessary to investigate a user report, resolve a dispute, enforce our Terms of Use, protect users and contributors, prevent abuse, or maintain the integrity of the Services.

Bazaarist may use personal information to:

• Provide and operate the Services
• Create and manage user accounts
• Authenticate users
• Provide destination guides and travel information
• Provide Ask a Local services
• Create personalized itineraries
• Process purchases and transactions
• Administer credit balances
• Respond to support requests
• Communicate about accounts, orders, applications, and services
• Evaluate contributor applications
• Conduct contributor recruitment and onboarding
• Verify contributors
• Create and manage contributor profiles
• Personalize Bazaarist experiences
• Improve our website, content, products, and services
• Analyze platform usage and performance
• Detect and prevent spam, fraud, abuse, and duplicate submissions
• Detect prohibited off-platform solicitation
• Detect inappropriate or unsafe interactions
• Investigate reports of misconduct
• Enforce our Terms of Use and other policies
• Maintain platform security
• Maintain business and transaction records
• Comply with applicable laws
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal rights
• Protect Bazaarist, users, contributors, and others

Where permitted, we may also send newsletters, travel content, product announcements, or marketing communications.

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails through the unsubscribe option contained in those messages.

Unsubscribing from marketing emails does not prevent Bazaarist from sending necessary transactional, account, security, application, service, or purchase-related communications.

When you use Ask a Local, Bazaarist may collect:

• Your question
• Destination
• Associated account information
• Communications relating to the question
• Contributor responses
• Moderation information
• Information necessary to administer the service

Ask a Local is intended to operate within Bazaarist.

Bazaarist may review related communications when reasonably necessary to detect or prevent prohibited conduct, including attempts to exchange private contact information, arrange personal meetups, solicit off-platform payments or services, or engage in inappropriate interactions.

Questions or answers may be made public only when the applicable feature indicates that they may be published or you otherwise authorize publication.

When you request a personalized itinerary, Bazaarist may collect information such as:

• Destination
• Travel dates
• Number and type of travelers
• Budget
• Interests
• Travel style
• Desired pace
• Transportation preferences
• Lodging location or preferences
• Dietary considerations
• Accessibility considerations
• Special occasions
• Places you want to visit
• Places or activities you wish to avoid
• Other trip details you voluntarily provide

We use this information to understand your travel preferences and provide the requested itinerary service.

Please provide only information reasonably necessary for us to plan your trip.

Bazaarist may use cookies and similar technologies to:

• Operate essential website functionality
• Keep users signed in
• Remember preferences
• Maintain security
• Prevent fraud and abuse
• Understand platform usage
• Measure traffic and performance
• Diagnose errors
• Improve the Services
• Measure marketing effectiveness where applicable

Some technologies may be necessary for the Services to function.

Others may be optional depending on applicable law, your location, and the technologies Bazaarist uses.

Where required, Bazaarist will provide appropriate choices regarding non-essential cookies and similar technologies.

Bazaarist may share information with service providers, contractors, and technology companies that perform services on our behalf.

These providers may support:

• Website hosting
• Cloud infrastructure
• Databases
• Authentication
• Email delivery
• Payment processing
• Analytics
• Customer support
• Fraud prevention
• Security
• Communications
• Application management
• Moderation
• Business administration

These providers may process personal information as appropriate to provide their services to Bazaarist.

Bazaarist may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to:

• Comply with applicable law
• Respond to valid legal process
• Respond to lawful governmental requests
• Investigate fraud or abuse
• Investigate security incidents
• Investigate serious misconduct
• Enforce our Terms or agreements
• Protect the rights, property, or safety of Bazaarist, our users, contributors, or others
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims

Information may also be disclosed or transferred in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or similar business transaction.

We may share information when you direct or authorize us to do so.

Some areas of Bazaarist are intended to be publicly accessible.

Approved contributor profiles may include:

• Public name
• Photograph
• City, destination, or country
• Biography
• Local expertise
• Interests
• Contributor status
• Recommendations
• Published contributions

Travel questions, answers, reviews, photographs, recommendations, or other content may also be public when the relevant feature indicates that the information will be published.

Public information may be viewed, linked to, copied, indexed by search engines, or shared by others.

Contributor applications are not automatically public.

Submitting a contributor application does not create a public contributor profile.

Bazaarist generally does not require travelers and contributors to exchange personal contact information with each other in order to use Bazaarist services.

Users and contributors are prohibited under the Bazaarist Terms of Use from exchanging private contact information when the purpose is to move a Bazaarist-originated interaction, service, relationship, or transaction off-platform.

This restriction does not prevent legitimate discussion of third-party travel information, such as a hotel's public telephone number or a restaurant's public contact information.

Bazaarist does not sell personal information for money.

If future advertising, analytics, or marketing practices constitute a “sale,” “sharing,” or targeted advertising under applicable privacy law, Bazaarist will provide any notices or choices required by applicable law.

Bazaarist retains personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and for legitimate legal, security, accounting, operational, and business purposes.

This may include retaining information to:

• Maintain accounts
• Provide purchased services
• Maintain transaction records
• Administer contributor relationships
• Administer contributor applications
• Investigate misconduct
• Prevent fraud and abuse
• Enforce platform restrictions
• Resolve disputes
• Enforce agreements
• Comply with legal or accounting requirements

When information is no longer reasonably necessary, Bazaarist may delete, anonymize, or otherwise dispose of it in accordance with applicable law and our practices.

Bazaarist uses reasonable administrative, organizational, and technical safeguards intended to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

No website, network, database, storage system, or electronic transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

You are responsible for safeguarding your account credentials and should contact Bazaarist promptly if you believe your account has been accessed without authorization.

Bazaarist LLC is based in the United States and serves or may serve users and contributors in multiple countries.

If you access Bazaarist outside the United States, your information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in the United States or other countries where Bazaarist or its service providers operate.

Where applicable law requires specific safeguards for international transfers, Bazaarist will implement appropriate measures.

Depending on where you live and applicable law, you may have rights relating to your personal information.

These may include the right to:

• Request access
• Request correction
• Request deletion
• Request restriction of certain processing
• Object to certain processing
• Withdraw consent where applicable
• Request portability of certain information
• Opt out of certain advertising-related processing where applicable
• Appeal certain privacy decisions where required

These rights may be subject to legal exceptions.

To make a request, contact:

info@bazaarist.com

Bazaarist may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests.

Bazaarist's Services are not directed to children under 13, and Bazaarist does not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13 in circumstances in which parental consent is required.

The federal COPPA framework imposes additional requirements on certain websites and online services directed to children under 13 or that knowingly collect their personal information.

Contributor applicants must meet the minimum age requirements stated in the contributor application.

Bazaarist may link to or reference independent third parties such as:

• Airlines
• Hotels
• Restaurants
• Tour operators
• Attractions
• Transportation providers
• Booking services
• Retailers
• Maps
• Social-media platforms
• Affiliate partners

Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies.

Bazaarist may update this Privacy Policy as our Services or practices change.

When we do, we will update the Last Updated date.

Where applicable law requires additional notice or consent, we will provide it.

For questions or privacy requests:

Email: info@bazaarist.com