PRIVACY
Privacy notice
Overview
Destination360 is an independent travel magazine and destination-discovery platform. This notice explains what personal data we process, why, and how you can exercise your rights. For general enquiries, contact [email protected].
Analytics
We use Google Analytics on our production domains to understand which pages are read and how visitors find the site. When you arrive from an AI assistant such as ChatGPT, Perplexity or Claude, Google Analytics records a single referral event noting the assistant's domain and the landing page path (without query parameters). That event contains no name, email or other identifying detail, and is never linked to your community account.
General contact & forms
When you use our contact, partnership, corrections or newsletter forms, we collect the details you submit (such as your name and email) in order to respond and, where relevant, send the requested updates. Newsletter sign-ups are stored so we can email you. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Community contributions
Account data we collect
When you register for the community, we collect your email address, a display name you choose, and a password (stored only as a hashed value). We use your email to verify your account, send password-reset links, and communicate with you about your submissions.
Submission data we collect
When you submit a contribution, we store the destination or attraction you selected, your caption, an optional capture date, your creator display name, the photographs you upload (after browser-side optimisation that strips EXIF and GPS metadata), an optional YouTube or Vimeo link, and your consent records (including the terms version and acceptance timestamp).
Why we process it
We process this data to review, moderate and — when approved — publish your contribution on Destination360, and to communicate with you about its status. Moderation is manual: nothing becomes publicly visible until we approve it.
What is publicly visible
Only your chosen creator display name, your caption, the optional capture date, the optimised photographs and the video link are shown publicly — and only after approval. Your email address, IP address, password and authentication data, reset tokens, private moderation notes, moderation history and original EXIF/GPS metadata are never made public. Pending, rejected and removed media are not publicly accessible.
Your rights
You can request access to, correction of, or deletion of your account and associated data, and removal of your published media, by contacting [email protected] or from your account page. You can also delete your own still-pending submissions at any time.
Retention
Rejected, deleted and removed submissions and their media are retained only as long as reasonably needed for record-keeping and abuse prevention, then removed. Approved contributions may be retained or removed at our discretion following a removal request.
Contact
For general and partnership matters: [email protected]. For community account and contribution matters: [email protected].