NOT JUST COOKIES
1. Introduction
This is the Privacy Statement of Dutch-overlanders.com. It describes how your personal data collected by Dutch-Overlanders.com is handled.
It explains where your data is stored and for what purposes your data is stored. In addition, you will also find all your rights with regard to your data and how you can use those rights. The privacy statement will sometimes be changed due to, for example, legislative changes. It is therefore advisable to consult the statement periodically.
This statement is prepared on November 13, 2021.
2. Dutch-Overlanders.com
Dutch-Overlanders.com is an online magazine with news and stories about camper builds and overland travel stories. The content is provided by an independent editorial team, better known as Amy&RP. Dutch-Overlanders.com is a brand name.
There are situations in which your data is collected by Dutch-Overlanders.com. It is therefore important that you know what is done with it and how you can indicate your wishes regarding your data. That is what this statement is about.
3. Data Collected
Data Storage Location
We are a Netherlands based company. Our hosting provider Vimexx only uses data servers within the EU, ensuring that your data is securely stored and GDPR compliant.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics on our site for anonymous reporting of site usage. So, no personalized data is stored.
We do this because we would like to know which pages are visited the most on our website. This data is stored indefinitely within Google Analytics. Analytics’ data collection gives us the opportunity to keep the website interesting and keep it interesting for the target group. We do not use this data for retargeting and you will therefore not encounter automatic advertisements from Dutch-Overlanders.com anywhere outside the platform itself.
Mailing list
By signing up to our mailing list, you agree that we may send you an email every now and then with news, travel stories and tips how to build an overlanding vehicle. Your e-mail address will not be shared with a third party and you can unsubscribe from the mailing by clicking unsubscribe at the bottom of the mail. We keep your email address in a mailing program account which is secured with a password.
Registration Data
If you register on our website, we store your email address and any additional personal information added to your user profile. You can see, edit, or delete your personal information at any time. Website administrators can also see and edit this information.
Comments
When you leave comments on the website we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Contact Form
Information submitted through the contact form on our site is sent to our company email, hosted by VIMEXX.
These submissions are only kept for customer service purposes they are never used for marketing purposes or shared with third parties.
3. Embedded Content
Pages on this site may include embedded content, like YouTube videos, for example. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you 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. Below you can find a list of the services we use:
Youtube
We use YouTube videos embedded on our site. YouTube has its own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control. There is no installation of cookies from YouTube and your IP is not sent to a YouTube server until you consent to it. See their privacy policy here: YouTube Privacy Policy.
4. Cookies
This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. Cookies generally exist to make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the help section of your browser.
5. Third Party Access to Your Data
Dutch-Overlanders.com processes personal data on the basis of a legitimate interest,
a commercial interest. Think of offering services or products
from Dutch-Overlanders.com or one of our partners through our email newsletter. Your data will never be sold to third parties. The data provided by you, are the minimum data required for the provision of the services or products. For example, your e-mail address is required to be able to send the newsletter. If this mandatory information is not provided, Dutch-Overlanders.com will not be able to offer the relevant service.
If it is necessary to share data that you have shared with Dutch-Overlanders.com with third parties (for example, to offer a service), your permission will first be requested. Dutch-Overlanders.com reserves the right to disclose the information when required by law or when Dutch-Overlanders.com deems it justified to comply with a legal request/process or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Dutch-Overlanders.com. We always try to respect your right to privacy as much as possible.
Links to websites
We may post links to third party websites on this website. These third party websites are not screened for privacy or security compliance by Dutch-Overlanders.com, and you release us from any liability for the conduct of these third party websites. All these links, either displayed as text links or social media icons do not connect you to any of the associated third parties unless you explicitely click on them.
Dutch-Overlanders.com bears no responsibility for the information collected or used by any advertiser or third party website. We advise you to review the privacy policy and terms of service for each website you visit through third party links.
6. How Long We Retain Your Data For
If you register on our website, we also store the personal information you provide in your user profile. You can see, edit, or delete your personal information at any time. Website administrators can also see and edit that information. We retain this information until you decide to unsubscribe.
7. Your Data Rights
Right of access
You have the right to request your data at all times, which are recorded and stored at Dutch-Overlanders.com. You can do this by sending an e-mail to info@dutch-overlanders.com. You will then receive an overview of your data.
Right to rectification
Is your data incorrect? Or have your details changed? You have the right to have this rectified by Dutch-Overlanders.com. You can adjust your information used for the newsletter via the appropriate url at the bottom of each email.
Right to be forgotten
Do you no longer want your data to be stored with Dutch-Overlanders.com? Then you have the right to have your data deleted.
Right to submit a complaint
You have the right to submit a complaint to the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens) if you believe that Dutch-Overlanders.com does not handle your data correctly.
You can use of these rights via info@dutch-overlanders.com by sending your request or complaint. The aim is to respond within a week.
Your privacy is critically important to us. Going forward with the GDPR we aim to support the GDPR standard.
8. Questions?
Still having questions, please reach out to us via info@dutch-overlanders.com.
Thanks for reading! Amy & RP 🙂