Privacy Policy for Waves and Whispers

Effective Date: June 15, 2026

At Waves and Whispers, accessible from wavesandwhispers.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Waves and Whispers and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our service to you.

• Personal Data: While using our site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you, such as your name, email address, or contact details (e.g., if you subscribe to a newsletter or fill out a form).
• Log Files: Waves and Whispers follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. The information collected includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks.

Like any other website, Waves and Whispers uses "cookies". These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

• Provide, operate, and maintain our website
• Improve, personalize, and expand our website
• Understand and analyze how you use our website
• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
• Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
• Send you emails
• Find and prevent fraud

To help support and maintain this website, Waves and Whispers may earn money or receive financial compensation in various ways, including but not limited to:

• Affiliate Marketing: We may embed affiliate links into our content. If you click on an affiliate link and make a purchase, we may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you.
• Advertisements: We may display advertisements (such as Google AdSense or other network ads). These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Waves and Whispers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs.
• Sponsored Content: We may occasionally publish sponsored posts or product reviews for which we receive financial compensation or free products.

Please note that we only recommend products, services, or cruises that we believe will add value to our readers. Third-party ad servers have no access to or control over cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Waves and Whispers's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• The right to request access to the personal data we hold about you.
• The right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete data.
• The right to request that we erase your personal data under certain conditions.
• The right to request that we restrict or object to the processing of your data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Waves and Whispers does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at:

• Email: carrie.byrd@fora.travel
• www.foratravel.com/advisor/carrie-byrd

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