Privacy Policy

Golden Hour Travel LLC is a travel business located in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States. For any privacy-related questions or requests, contact us at chris@travelwithgoldenhour.com.

Information you provide to us. When you enter our giveaway, submit a travel inquiry, or subscribe to our email list, you may provide:

• First and last name
• Email address
• Travel interests and preferences
• Travel timeline or planning horizon
• Marketing consent selection (whether you opted in to receive marketing emails)
• Referral information, including a referral code you were sent by a friend, the referral link you share, and any successful referrals attributed to you
• Any additional information you choose to include in a message to us

Information collected automatically. When you visit this website, we and our service providers may automatically collect:

• Device and browser information (device type, operating system, browser type and version, screen size, language)
• IP address and approximate location derived from it
• Referring URL, pages viewed, links clicked, time spent, and other usage data
• Cookie identifiers, pixel identifiers, and similar advertising and analytics identifiers
• UTM parameters and other campaign tracking data present in the URL

We do not knowingly collect government identifiers, financial account numbers, or precise geolocation.

We use the information described above to:

• Administer the Golden Hour Travel 1-Year Anniversary Giveaway, including verifying entries, tracking referrals, contacting winners, and awarding prizes
• Respond to travel inquiries and provide the travel-related information or services you request
• Send marketing emails about travel offers, updates, and content — but only if you opted in
• Operate, maintain, secure, debug, and improve this website
• Measure the performance of our marketing, understand how visitors use the site, and improve our content and offers
• Deliver, measure, and optimize advertising, including retargeting people who have visited our site and building custom or lookalike audiences
• Detect, prevent, and address fraud, abuse, and violations of our giveaway rules or terms
• Keep business records and comply with applicable legal, tax, and recordkeeping obligations

This website uses cookies, pixels, local storage, and similar technologies to make the site work, remember your preferences, measure performance, and support advertising.

Google Analytics 4. We use Google Analytics 4, provided by Google, to understand how visitors use our site. Google Analytics may set cookies and collect information such as IP address, device and browser information, pages viewed, and events (for example, form starts and completions). You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing Google’s browser add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Meta Pixel. We use the Meta Pixel, provided by Meta Platforms, Inc., to measure the effectiveness of our advertising, to show relevant ads to people who have visited our site (retargeting), and to build custom and lookalike audiences on Meta platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. The Meta Pixel may collect information such as pages viewed, buttons clicked, form activity, device and browser information, and cookie identifiers. You can manage ad preferences and opt out of interest-based advertising through your Facebook and Instagram ad settings and through industry opt-out tools at optout.aboutads.info and youradchoices.com.

Most browsers let you refuse or delete cookies through browser settings. Blocking cookies may affect how this website works.

If you check the marketing consent box when entering the giveaway or otherwise subscribe, we will add you to our email marketing list and send you emails about travel offers, updates, and content from Golden Hour Travel. Every marketing email includes an unsubscribe link.

You can unsubscribe at any time by:

• Clicking the “unsubscribe” link in any marketing email you receive from us, or
• Emailing us at chris@travelwithgoldenhour.com with the subject line “Unsubscribe.”

We may still send you transactional messages related to your giveaway entry (for example, entry confirmation, referral confirmation, or winner notification) even if you have not opted in to marketing.

We do not sell your personal information for money. We share personal information only in the ways described below:

• Service providers. We share information with vendors that help us operate the site and our business, under contracts that require them to protect the information and use it only to provide services to us. These include:
  • Brevo — email marketing platform used to store our marketing subscriber list and send marketing and transactional emails
  • Lovable Cloud and Supabase — hosting, database, and application infrastructure used to run this website and store giveaway entries and related data
  • Google (Google Analytics 4) — website analytics
  • Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta Pixel) — advertising measurement, retargeting, and custom/lookalike audiences
• Advertising partners. As described in Section 4, we work with advertising platforms (such as Meta) to measure and deliver ads. Depending on your jurisdiction, sharing information with these platforms for advertising purposes may be considered “sharing” or “targeted advertising” under applicable state privacy laws.
• Legal and safety. We may disclose information when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, respond to lawful requests from public authorities, enforce our terms or the giveaway’s Official Rules, protect our rights or property, or protect the safety of any person.
• Business transfers. If Golden Hour Travel is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of assets, information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to this Privacy Policy.

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

• Giveaway entry data and other personal information may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to administer the giveaway, maintain business records, comply with legal obligations, prevent fraud, analyze business performance, and support legitimate business purposes.
• Marketing subscriber information may be retained until you unsubscribe, withdraw consent, or request deletion, subject to any applicable legal recordkeeping requirements.
• Analytics and advertising data is retained according to the settings and default retention periods of the applicable platform (for example, Google Analytics 4 and Meta).

When information is no longer needed, we take reasonable steps to delete or de-identify it.

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. This includes access controls on our database, encrypted connections (HTTPS) between your browser and our website, and reliance on established infrastructure providers. No method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

You may:

• Access or correct the personal information you have provided by emailing us at chris@travelwithgoldenhour.com.
• Request deletion of your personal information by emailing us at the same address. We will honor your request except where we need to retain information to complete an active giveaway entry, comply with legal obligations, prevent fraud, or exercise legal rights.
• Unsubscribe from marketing emails as described in Section 5.
• Withdraw marketing consent at any time by unsubscribing or contacting us. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of any processing that occurred before you withdrew it.
• Opt out of analytics and advertising cookies using the tools described in Section 4 and your browser settings.

Please include enough information in your request for us to reasonably verify your identity and locate your records.

Depending on where you live, your state’s privacy law may give you additional rights regarding your personal information, such as the right to know what personal information a business has collected about you, the right to request deletion or correction of that information, the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information or of targeted advertising, and the right not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights. To exercise any state privacy right that is available to you, email us at chris@travelwithgoldenhour.com and identify the right you want to exercise. We will respond as required by applicable law.

Golden Hour Travel LLC operates in the United States, and our website, database, and service providers are located in or may transfer data to the United States. If you access this website or submit information to us from outside the United States, you understand that your information will be processed in the United States, where privacy laws may differ from those in your country. By using the site or submitting information, you consent to that transfer and processing.

This website and the Golden Hour Travel 1-Year Anniversary Giveaway are intended for adults. The giveaway is open only to individuals who are 18 years of age or older (or the age of majority in their state of residence). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, contact us at chris@travelwithgoldenhour.com and we will take steps to delete it.

Our website and emails may link to third-party websites, social media platforms, or travel suppliers we do not control. This Privacy Policy does not apply to those third parties. We encourage you to read their privacy policies before providing them with personal information.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, provide additional notice (for example, by email or a notice on the website). We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we collect, use, and protect your information.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or want to exercise any of your privacy rights, contact us at: