We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. Protecting your privacy when using our website is important to us, so please take note of the following information regarding the handling of your data:
Privacy Policy
We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation and this Privacy Policy. Generally, you can visit our website without providing any personal information. To the extent that personal data (such as name, address, or email addresses) is collected on our pages, this is always done on a voluntary basis, as far as possible. The data collected is evident from the respective input form. This data will not be passed on to third parties without your explicit consent. Please be aware that data transmission over the internet (e.g., when communicating by email) can have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible. The following statement provides an overview of how we ensure the protection of your data and what kind of data is collected for what purpose and to what extent.
Consent and Purpose Limitation
If the processing of personal data is necessary and there is no legal basis for it, we generally obtain the consent of the person concerned. When entering personal or business data (email addresses, names, addresses), the disclosure of your data is done on an expressly voluntary basis. By entering the data, you consent to the data being collected, processed, or used for the purpose of contacting, processing contracts, advertising, or safeguarding legitimate, own business interests. Data will not be collected, processed, or used for any other purpose. This consent can be revoked at any time with future effect. Your data will not be passed on unless you expressly desire it.
Cookies
To make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies on various pages. These are small text files stored on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, i.e., after closing your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and allow us or our partner companies to recognize your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and decide individually on their acceptance or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. If you do not accept cookies, the functionality and user experience of our website may be limited. For detailed information, please refer to the Cookie Policy (EU).
Embedded Content
Posts on this website may contain embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor had visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking services, and record your interaction with this embedded content, including your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Contacting us via my Website
You have the opportunity to contact us quickly and directly via email or the contact form provided on our website. Here too, the provision of personal data, at least first name, last name, and email address, is necessary. This data is only stored internally and used in the context of communication with the requester.
Usage of GREEN TRAVEL Calculator and participating in the Zero Impact Expedition Study
I am committed to protecting the privacy of users of the GREEN TRAVEL calculator and participants in the Zero Impact Expedition Study. This Privacy Policy explains how I collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use the Carbon Calculator Service or participate in the Zero Impact Expedition case study. I value your privacy and am dedicated to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy.
By using the service or participating in the study, you consent to the collection and use of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this policy, please do not access, use the service, or participate in the study.
Information Collection
I collect information that you voluntarily provide when you use the Carbon Calculator or participate in the Zero Impact Expedition Study. The information I collect includes, but is not limited to:
- Demographic Information: Including gender, age, and residence.
- Income Details: Information related to your income bracket.
- Carbon Footprint Data: Information related to your lifestyle and activities that contribute to your carbon footprint.
- Study-Specific Data: Additional information as part of the Zero Impact Expedition Study to understand environmental impact and lifestyle choices.
Please note that I do not collect personal identification information such as your name, address, or phone number. The information you provide is used in an anonymous form for statistical analysis and future publications.
Use of Information
The information I collect is used for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain the service and conduct the study.
- To improve the Carbon Calculator and study methodology by understanding how they are used.
- For statistical analysis to better understand the factors contributing to carbon footprints and environmental impact.
- For inclusion in future publications such as books, where all data will be presented in an aggregated and anonymous format.
I will not use your personal information for any purpose other than those outlined in this Privacy Policy without your consent.
Data Sharing and Disclosure
I do not share, sell, rent, or trade your personal information with third parties for their commercial purposes. I may disclose aggregated, non-personally identifying information for research, statistical analysis, and publications. This data is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
Data Security
I take the security of your information seriously and implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your data from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While I strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, I cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Your Rights
You have the right to access, update, or delete the information I have on you. If you wish to exercise these rights, please contact me at info(at)nature-nomad.world.
Comment Function in the Blog
Our website includes a blog. The blog is a publicly viewable portal where our authors write articles or general thoughts in blog posts. These posts can be commented on. When a comment is left, the name of the commenter and the date and time of the comment are stored and published along with the comment text. If you write a comment, it will be stored indefinitely along with metadata. For security reasons and to protect the rights of third parties, the IP address of the commenter is stored when a comment is made. Data will not be passed on to third parties unless it is legally required or serves the purpose of law enforcement.
Data Storage upon Registration and Comments
For users who register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also view and edit that information. If you have an account on this website or have left comments, you can request an export of your personal data from us, including all data you have given us. In addition, you can request the deletion of all personal data that we have stored about you. This does not include the data that we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Google Analytics
Our website uses Google Analytics (with anonymization function). Google Analytics is a web analytics service that collects, compiles, and evaluates data about the behavior of website visitors. For example, it records how long a person has visited our website, which subpages were clicked, and from which page the visitor came. These evaluations are predominantly used to optimize our website. Google Analytics uses cookies that enable an analysis of your use of the website. A detailed explanation of cookies can be found in the “Cookies” section. Our website uses Google Analytics with the extension “_anonymizeIp()”, so IP addresses are only processed in shortened form to exclude direct personal reference. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities, and to provide other services related to website and internet usage to the website operator. The cookies transmit personal data to us, including, among other things, the location from which our website was accessed. Every time you visit our website, these personal data, including your IP address, are transmitted to Google in the United States of America. Google stores these personal data in the United States of America. Google may pass on these personal data collected via the technical process to third parties. We point out that Google is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and thus ensures a data protection standard similar to the one prescribed by EU regulations. You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we point out that in this case, you may not be able to fully use all functions of our website. You can also prevent Google from collecting data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website and from processing this data by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. The operator of the Google Analytics component is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA. Further information on Google’s data protection can be found here: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy
Buzzsprout
Buzzsprout is a hosting platform for podcasts. When accessing some services on our website, additional personal data is processed through Buzzsprout. The categories of data processed include technical connection data from server access (IP address, date, time, requested page, browser information) and data for creating usage statistics. The purpose of processing is the delivery and provision of the website and the transmission of audio content. The legal basis for processing is your consent under Art. 6 (1) a GDPR. Data is transmitted to the independent responsible party Higher Pixels, 5133 San Jose Blvd, Jacksonville, FL 32207, United States of America (https://www.buzzsprout.com/). The legal basis for data transmission to Higher Pixels is your consent under Art. 6 (1) a GDPR. This may also involve the transmission of personal data to a country outside the European Union. The data transmission is based on your consent pursuant to Art. 6 Para 1 lit a in conjunction with Art. 49 Para 1 lit a GDPR. Further information on data processing by Buzzsprout can be found at https://www.buzzsprout.com/privacy.
YouTube
With your consent, our website uses the provider YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA, represented by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, for embedding videos. Normally, when you access a page with embedded videos, your IP address is sent to YouTube and cookies are installed on your computer. However, we have embedded our YouTube videos with the enhanced privacy mode. In this case, YouTube still contacts the Double Click service of Google, but according to Google’s privacy policy, personal data is not evaluated. According to YouTube, data is only transmitted to the YouTube server, especially which of our web pages you have visited, when you watch the video. If you click on the video, your IP address is transmitted to YouTube and YouTube learns that you have watched the video. If you are logged in to YouTube at the same time, this information is associated with your YouTube member account. You can prevent this by logging out of your member account before visiting our website. If you have configured your browser to not accept third-party cookies, these elements will not be stored. YouTube videos may not be retrievable in this case. We have no knowledge of the possible collection and use of your data by YouTube and have no influence over it. Further information can be found in YouTube’s privacy policy at www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/. We also refer to our general presentation in this privacy policy for the general handling and deactivation of cookies.
When visiting our Facebook page, where we present our content and offerings, certain information about you is processed. For more information about the processing of personal data by Facebook, please visit https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation. Facebook gives you the option to object to certain data processing; for more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads. We have the ability to evaluate anonymized statistics via our Facebook page, which gives us insights into the types of actions people take on our page (so-called “Insights”). These Insights are based on certain information about people who have visited our page. This processing of personal data is carried out by Facebook and us as joint controllers. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest according to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR, to evaluate the types of actions taken on our page and to improve our page based on these insights. As joint controllers, we have entered into an agreement with Facebook regarding the processing, which defines the distribution of data protection obligations between us and Facebook. Details about the processing of personal data for creating Insights and the agreement concluded between us and Facebook can be found at https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/information_about_page_insights_data. For information on the purpose and extent of data collection and the further processing and use of data by Facebook, as well as your related rights and settings options for protecting the privacy of users, please refer to Facebook’s privacy policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. If a user is a member of Facebook and does not want Facebook to collect data about them via the provider’s internet presence and link it to their membership data stored on Facebook, they must log out of Facebook before visiting the internet presence. It is also possible to block Facebook social plug-ins with add-ons for the user’s browser, e.g., with the “Facebook Blocker.”
Our pages integrate functions of the service Twitter. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. By using Twitter and the “Re-Tweet” function, the websites you visit are linked to your Twitter account and made known to other users. Data is also transferred to Twitter. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or their use by Twitter. For more information, please see Twitter’s privacy policy at http://twitter.com/privacy. You can change your Twitter privacy settings in your account settings at http://twitter.com/account/settings.
Our pages integrate functions of the service Instagram. These functions are offered by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA. If you are logged into your Instagram account, you can link the contents of our pages with your Instagram profile by clicking the Instagram button. This allows Instagram to associate your visit to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or their use by Instagram. For more information, please see Instagram’s privacy policy at http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.
We use social plugins of the social network Pinterest, operated by Pinterest Inc., 635 High Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, USA (“Pinterest”) on our site. When you access a page containing such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Pinterest’s servers. The plugin transmits log data to Pinterest’s server in the USA. This log data may include your IP address, the address of the visited websites that also contain Pinterest functions, type and settings of the browser, date and time of the request, your use of Pinterest, and cookies. For more information on the purpose, scope, and further processing and use of data by Pinterest, as well as your rights and options for protecting your privacy, please see Pinterest’s privacy policy: https://about.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy
Affiliate links
Our website may contain affiliate marketing links, which means we may get paid commission on sales of those products or services we write about. Our editorial content is not influenced by advertisers or affiliate partnerships. This disclosure is provided in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR § 255.5: Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.
Newsletter Data
If you wish to receive the newsletter offered on the website, we require an email address from you, as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the provided email address and agree to receive the newsletter.
For the consent-based sending of newsletters, we use the so-called double opt-in procedure. In this process, the potential recipient is added to a distribution list. Subsequently, the user receives a confirmation email to legally confirm the registration. The address is actively included in the distribution list only after confirmation.
We use this data exclusively for sending the requested information and offers.
Newsletter2Go is used as newsletter software. Your data is transmitted to Newsletter2Go GmbH. Newsletter2Go is prohibited from selling your data and using it for purposes other than sending newsletters. Newsletter2Go is a German, certified provider, selected according to the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation and the Federal Data Protection Act. More information can be found here: https://www.newsletter2go.de/informationen-newsletter-empfaenger/
The consent given for storing the data, the email address, and their use for sending the newsletter can be revoked at any time, for example, via the “unsubscribe” link in the newsletter.
The data protection measures are always subject to technical renewal, therefore we ask you to inform yourself about our data protection measures at regular intervals by viewing our privacy policy.
Rights of the Data Subject
You always have the right to confirm whether personal data concerning you is being processed. You also have the right at any time to obtain information about the personal data stored about you, their origin and recipients, and the purpose of storage. We will gladly provide you with the personal data stored about you in a structured, common, and machine-readable format. Furthermore, you have the right to information about the processing purposes, the categories of personal data being processed, and the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, particularly in the case of recipients in third countries or international organizations. If the personal data are not collected from the data subject, we will provide all available information on the source of the data. If possible, we will also inform you about the planned duration for which the personal data will be stored, or, if this is not possible, the criteria for determining this duration. We also inform you of the existence of a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority and the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, according to Article 22(1) and (4) GDPR, and in such cases, meaningful information about the involved logic, as well as the significance and envisaged consequences of such processing for the data subject. In accordance with legal provisions, you also have the right to rectification, blocking, and deletion (right to be forgotten) of these personal data. Furthermore, you can object to the processing of your data. In the event of a deletion request, we will comply with it immediately if one of the following reasons applies:
- The processing of personal data is no longer necessary.
- The data subject revokes their consent on which the processing is based according to Art. 6 Para. 1 a GDPR or Art. 9 Para. 2 a GDPR, and there is no other legal basis for the processing.
- The data subject objects to the processing according to Art. 21 Para. 1 GDPR, and there are no overriding legitimate reasons for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing according to Art. 21 Para. 2 GDPR.
- The personal data have been unlawfully processed.
- The deletion of personal data is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation under Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject.
- The personal data have been collected in relation to the offer of information society services according to Art. 8 Para. 1 GDPR.
In the case of processing personal data for direct marketing, you can object at any time to the processing of data for the purpose of such advertising. Your data will then no longer be processed for direct marketing purposes.
Further Information
Your trust is important to us. Therefore, we would like to be available to answer questions regarding the processing of your personal data at any time. If you have questions that this privacy statement could not answer or if you wish to receive more detailed information on a point, please contact us at any time at info(at)nature-nomad.world.