Privacy Policy & Affiliate Disclosure

Affiliate Disclosure

In accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) guidelines (16 CFR Part 255), Family Mile Guide discloses all material connections between this website and third-party companies whose products or services are mentioned or linked.

What "affiliate link" means

An affiliate link is a specially tracked URL. When you click an affiliate link and complete a qualifying purchase or action, Family Mile Guide may receive a small commission from the merchant. The price you pay is never affected — commissions are paid by the merchant, not added to your cost.

Our affiliate partners

Family Mile Guide currently participates in affiliate programs including, but not limited to:

• CJ Affiliate (Commission Junction) — connecting us to travel, insurance, and consumer brands
• Expedia Group — hotels, flights, and vacation packages
• AXA Travel Insurance — travel protection plans
• Other travel-related brands disclosed at the point of the relevant link

How we identify affiliate links

Affiliate links on this site are marked with a disclosure at the bottom of the relevant section or page. Links that go directly to official government or non-commercial websites (such as the official Tren Maya ticket site) are not affiliate links and are noted as such.

Our editorial independence

Affiliate relationships do not influence editorial content. We do not accept payment to write positive reviews, and we do not alter our honest opinions based on affiliate arrangements. If we have not personally researched or tested something, we say so. Our goal is to give families accurate, useful information — not to maximize commissions.

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how Family Mile Guide ("we," "us," or "our"), operated at https://familymilesguide.com, collects, uses, and shares information about you when you visit our website or subscribe to our email newsletter. By using this site, you agree to the practices described here.

1. Information We Collect

Information you provide directly:

• Email address — when you subscribe to our newsletter via any form on the site
• First name — optionally provided at subscription, used only to personalize emails if supplied

Information collected automatically:

• Usage data — pages visited, time on page, referring URL, browser type, and device type, collected via Microsoft Clarity
• Click data — links clicked, including affiliate links, tracked via CJ Affiliate and Pinterest
• Cookies and local storage — used to remember whether you have seen the email subscription popup (stored in your browser's localStorage under the key fmg_popup_shown)
• IP address — collected automatically by web servers and analytics tools; used for fraud prevention and geographic analytics only

We do not collect payment information, government IDs, or sensitive personal data of any kind.

2. How We Use Your Information

• To send you the email newsletter and automated welcome series you subscribed to
• To understand how visitors interact with the site and improve content
• To measure the performance of affiliate links
• To comply with legal obligations

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties for their own marketing purposes.

3. Email Marketing

We use Resend (resend.com) to manage our email list and deliver messages. By subscribing, you agree to Resend's privacy practices in addition to ours. Every email we send includes an unsubscribe link. You may opt out at any time, and your data will be removed from active mailing within 10 business days of your request.

4. Third-Party Services

We use the following third-party tools, each of which may collect data under their own privacy policies:

5. Cookies

Family Mile Guide does not set its own tracking cookies. Third-party services listed above (Clarity, Pinterest, CJ Affiliate) may set cookies on your device according to their own policies. You can control cookies through your browser settings or opt out of interest-based advertising at optout.aboutads.info and optout.networkadvertising.org.

6. Children's Privacy

This website is intended for adult readers. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If you believe a child has submitted personal information to us, please contact us immediately at hello@familymilesguide.com and we will delete it promptly.

7. California Residents — Your Rights Under the CCPA

If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) grants you the following rights with respect to your personal information:

• Right to Know — you may request a disclosure of the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you in the past 12 months
• Right to Delete — you may request deletion of personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions
• Right to Opt Out — we do not sell personal information; however, if that practice changes, you would have the right to opt out
• Right to Non-Discrimination — we will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights

To exercise your rights, email us at hello@familymilesguide.com with "CCPA Request" in the subject line. We will respond within 45 days.

8. Data Security

We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, loss, or misuse. However, no internet transmission is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee the absolute security of data transmitted to or stored on our systems.

9. Data Retention

Email subscriber data is retained for as long as you remain subscribed, plus up to 90 days following unsubscription, after which it is permanently deleted from our active systems. Analytics data is retained according to the third-party tool's own retention policies.

10. Links to Other Websites

This site contains links to external websites, including affiliate merchant sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any site you visit after leaving familymilesguide.com.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision. Continued use of the site after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or Affiliate Disclosure, or to submit a data request, please contact us at: