1. Who We Are
Travocost is an online platform dedicated to discovering and sharing photographs, places, nature, minerals, rivers and other interesting discoveries contributed by its community.
2. What Personal Data We May Process
Depending on how you use Travocost, we may process limited technical or user-provided information.
- Information voluntarily provided when submitting a photograph.
- Photo title, description, category and tags submitted with an upload.
- Technical information necessary to operate and secure the website, such as IP address, browser information and server logs.
- Cookie and similar technology information, where applicable and according to your preferences.
3. Photographs and Uploaded Content
When you submit a photograph to Travocost, the photograph and the information you provide with it may be stored on our servers.
Submitted photographs may initially remain pending and may be reviewed before publication.
Once approved and published, the photograph, title, description, category and tags may be publicly accessible.
Please do not upload photographs or information that you do not have the right to publish.
4. Why We Process Personal Data
We may process information for the following purposes:
- To operate and maintain Travocost.
- To receive, process and publish submitted photographs.
- To prevent abuse, fraud, malicious uploads and security incidents.
- To maintain website security and technical functionality.
- To respond to requests or communications from users.
- To understand website usage where analytics technologies have been enabled with the appropriate consent.
- To display advertising where applicable and where the required legal basis or consent exists.
5. Legal Bases for Processing
Depending on the specific processing activity, Travocost may rely on one or more legal bases provided by the GDPR, including:
- Consent — where you have actively given permission for a specific processing activity.
- Legitimate interests — where processing is necessary for legitimate purposes such as website security and protection against abuse, provided that your rights and interests are not overridden.
- Legal obligation — where processing is necessary to comply with applicable law.
- Contract or pre-contractual steps — where applicable to a service or interaction requested by the user.
6. Cookies
Travocost may use cookies and similar technologies.
Some cookies may be strictly necessary for the website to function correctly. Other cookies, such as analytics or advertising technologies, may require your consent before they are activated.
You will be able to manage your cookie preferences through the Travocost Cookie Consent system.
More information will be available in our Cookie Policy .
7. Advertising
Travocost may display advertising from third-party advertising providers.
If advertising technologies involve cookies, identifiers or other forms of personal data processing that require consent, these technologies will be controlled through the applicable consent mechanism.
The specific advertising providers used by Travocost will be identified in this Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy when advertising services are activated.
8. Data Sharing and Third Parties
We do not intend to sell personal data.
Information may be processed by service providers where necessary to operate the website, such as hosting, infrastructure, security, analytics or advertising providers.
Such providers may process data only to the extent necessary for the services they provide and subject to applicable legal requirements.
9. International Data Transfers
Some service providers used by Travocost may process information outside the European Economic Area.
Where personal data is transferred outside the EEA, appropriate safeguards required by applicable data protection law will be used where necessary.
10. How Long We Keep Data
We keep personal data only for as long as it is reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, unless a longer retention period is required by law.
Published photographs and associated publication information may remain available on Travocost until they are removed or the applicable retention rules require otherwise.
11. Data Security
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to protect information against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, loss or destruction.
However, no internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
12. Your GDPR Rights
Depending on the circumstances, individuals may have rights including:
- The right to be informed.
- The right to access personal data.
- The right to request rectification.
- The right to request erasure.
- The right to restrict processing.
- The right to object to certain processing.
- The right to data portability where applicable.
- The right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
These rights are not absolute and may be subject to legal exceptions.
13. How to Exercise Your Rights
If you wish to exercise a data protection right, please contact the Travocost operator using the official contact details published on this page.
Requests will be handled in accordance with applicable data protection law. Under the GDPR, organisations generally have to respond to rights requests without undue delay and, in principle, within one month.
14. Children's Privacy
Travocost is not designed to knowingly collect personal data from children without appropriate authorisation where such authorisation is required by applicable law.
If you believe that a child has provided personal data to Travocost in circumstances where this was not appropriate, please contact us.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to Travocost, applicable law or the services we use.
The latest version will always be published on this page with its updated date.
16. Contact
For privacy-related questions or requests, please contact the Travocost operator:
Legal operator: [ADD LEGAL NAME]
Email: [ADD OFFICIAL EMAIL]
Address: [ADD REGISTERED ADDRESS]
17. Right to Lodge a Complaint
If you believe that your data protection rights have not been respected, you may have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority.
For individuals in Romania, the competent supervisory authority is the National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing (ANSPDCP).