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Copyright

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Fair use

If you wish to use our content, then you need our written permission. Copying or republishing a significant portion of the content of a single page or multiple pages on this website, even in spun and/or translated form, is not fair use. In the case of fair use, where you happen to for example incidentally quote a few sentences of a single page of our content, then properly cite us as a source, on the very same page as the quote, and add a visible, clickable and followable (as opposed to nofollow) link with link text to the page with the original content on our website. Make sure both people and search engines can follow the link directly to the page that is the original source.

Third party images

The abovementioned may not apply to all images on this website as the images can come from a wide range of sources with a wide range of licenses. Besides our own copyrighted images, this website does contain some images that are for example purchased, cited to give the reader an impression of the discussed brand or object, used with the consent of the copyright holder, used as part of an affiliate or partner agreement, released under a license allowing its use by us and/or created by third parties and released in the public domain. For further information about specific images released under a license where attribution is required you can visit the attribution page.

Attribution

The attribution page allows people to easily look up the attribution details of the images that require an attribution. This is comparable to how other prominent websites give attribution and a best practise based on the creative commons recommendations. Or to quote (on 3 July 2018):

“The licenses explicitly permit licensees to satisfy the attribution requirement with a link to a separate page for attribution information. This was already common practice on the internet and possible under earlier versions of the licenses, and Version 4.0 alleviates any uncertainty about its use.” – What’s New in 4.0 – creativecommons.org

“There is no one right way; just make sure your attribution is reasonable and suited to the medium you’re working with. That being said, you still have to include attribution requirements somehow, even if it’s just a link to an About page that has that info. ” – Best practices for attribution – wiki.creativecommons.org

Third party brands

This website also contains some brands and plugins that are owned by their respective parties.

Privacy and cookie policy

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Functional cookies

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Analytic cookies

Analytic cookies are used to analyze user activity, characteristics and traffic patterns on our website. This is done for example to find out which pages on this website are popular in which countries and how people traveled to and from pages with the aim to improve our product.

Analytics: Google Analytics

On this website we use Google Analytics. As we respect the privacy of our users we have set our Google Analytics settings in a very privacy friendly manner. Which means the last part of IP addresses are anonymized. Sharing data is disabled. And remarketing data is disabled.

Tracking cookies

Tracking cookies can be used to check which websites a browser visited to create a profile about the user, for example to show ads relevant to your interest. We do not place any first party tracking cookies.

Tracking: Affiliate banners

As we respect the privacy of our users our affiliate banners are static images and do not place any cookies.

If you leave this website via one of our links, then please be aware that other websites have their own privacy and cookie placement policies. If you depart from this website via an affiliate link then our affiliate partner might place a tracking cookie, which allows our partner to credit us and/or give you access to special offers and discounts.

Tracking: Google Adsense

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Embedded content cookies

On this website we may have social media, maps, videos, weather widgets and other content from third parties embedded. Please be aware that due to the way the internet works it is possible that third parties use embedded content to place functional, tracking or analytic cookies on your computer. Please read the privacy and/or cookie policies of these services to find out how they handle your data.

For more information you can check out the websites of these services. The services in question are: YouTube, Google Maps and Vimeo.

Data this website processes

This website allows you to post comments or reviews, which is only possible if we process the information you submit to us. If you post a comment or review then all information you enter in the fields plus your IP address will be stored to show your post on our website, give your post your desired identity, to load your WordPress Gravatar and as a spam prevention measure.

This website also keeps traffic logs to prevent abuse of this website, which contains information given off by your browser and your IP address. The information in these logs are stored temporarily and deleted regularly.

Applicable laws

Meet The Cities is owned by Starnaval from the Netherlands and the website is hosted in the Netherlands. As such it falls under Dutch jurisdiction.

Disclaimer

We reserve the right not to publish, to remove and to edit third party content, such as guest blogs, comments and reviews, on our website. It is possible some information on this website is inaccurate, incomplete or outdated, so we cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information on this website. No rights can be derived from the information given on this website. We are not responsible for the actions of readers or third parties that are based on information on this website.

Feel free to contact us

We value the quality and integrity of our website so if there is a problem with certain content don’t hesitate to contact us at our email address, which can be found on the ‘about us’ page.