Privacy Policy

Who We Are

Our website address is: https://comeseenewmexico.com. Come See New Mexico is dedicated to providing travel information, guides, and content related to the state of New Mexico.

What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist with spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here. After approval of your comment, your profile picture (if available) will be visible to the public alongside your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

We use cookies to improve your experience on our site, including for purposes related to affiliate marketing. These cookies help us track purchases made after you click on an affiliate link on our site. This allows us to earn commissions from our affiliate partners, such as Amazon, Walmart, BestBuy, Target, and others.

When you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience, so you do not have to fill in your details again when leaving another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will set up several cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.

For users in regions that require consent for the use of cookies, such as the European Union, we will display a cookie banner notifying you of our use of cookies and providing you with an option to consent before any cookies are stored on your device.

Affiliate Links

As part of our participation in various affiliate marketing programs, such as the Amazon Associates Program, we use affiliate links on our site. If you click on an affiliate link and make a purchase, we may earn a commission. Cookies are used to track the purchase back to our site, but these cookies do not collect personally identifiable information.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Email Newsletter and Marketing

We collect email addresses when you sign up for our email newsletter or for marketing purposes related to future merchandise or paid promotions. We will not share your email address with third parties. However, we may share anonymized demographic information with third parties to collaborate on marketing efforts.

Who We Share Your Data With

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. Additionally, we may share anonymized and aggregated data with third-party analytics services to help us understand and improve our website performance and user experience. Demographic information may be shared with third parties for marketing collaborations, but no personally identifiable information will be shared.

Affiliate Partners

We participate in affiliate marketing programs, which means we may share anonymized data with our affiliate partners, such as Amazon, Walmart, BestBuy, Target, and others, for the purpose of tracking commissions. These programs use cookies to track the purchases made after you click on an affiliate link on our site.

How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is to ensure we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if applicable), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Email addresses collected for newsletters and marketing will be retained as long as you remain subscribed. You can unsubscribe at any time, and your email address will be removed from our active mailing lists.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where Your Data Is Sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Additionally, we may use third-party email service providers to manage our newsletters and marketing emails, and your data may be processed through these services.

Affiliate-related data may be shared with our affiliate partners for the purpose of tracking commissions. This data is anonymized and does not include any personally identifiable information.