This Privacy Policy applies to the Site and all products and Services offered by the Vanlifezone Project. It describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use Our Services and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using Our Services, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Personal Data

We may collect personal identification information from Users in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when Users visit our Site, register on the Site, place an order, fill out a form, respond to a survey, and in connection with other activities, services, features, or resources we make available on our Site.

Users may be asked for, as appropriate, name, email address, mailing address, phone number, and credit card information.

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

3. Information from Third-Party Social Media Services

In the event of a user login feature, the Company will allow You to create an account and log in to use the Service through the following Third-party Social Media Services:

Google

Facebook

Twitter

LinkedIn

If You decide to register through or otherwise grant us access to a Third-Party Social Media Service, We may collect Personal data that is already associated with Your Third-Party Social Media Service's account, such as Your name, Your email address, Your activities or Your contact list associated with that account.

You may also have the option of sharing additional information with the Company through Your Third-Party Social Media Service's account. If You choose to provide such information and Personal Data, during registration or otherwise, You are giving the Company permission to use, share, and store it in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.

4. Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. Third-Party Tracking Technology used in the Service include:

Google Analytics and Google AdSense

Google Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses 'cookies', which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

Google AdSense

Our website also uses Google AdSense, a program run by Google that allows publishers in the Google Network of content sites to serve automatic text, image, video, or interactive media advertisements that are targeted to site content and audience. These advertisements are administered, sorted, and maintained by Google. Google AdSense uses cookies to help serve the ads based on your visits to our website and other websites on the Internet.

You can opt-out of personalized ads by visiting Google's Ads Settings (https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated).

Simple Analytics

Our website uses Simple Analytics to collect anonymous data about website usage. Simple Analytics does not collect personal data but provides us with aggregated information to improve the performance of our website.

Hotjar

We use Hotjar to analyze user behavior on our website. Hotjar helps us understand how you interact with our website by providing us with visual representations of user actions and anonymized reports.

Cookies

Technology we use may include Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.

Web Beacons

Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be 'Persistent' or 'Session' Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser. Learn more about cookies on the Free Privacy Policy website article.

We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

Necessary / Essential Cookies: Type: Session Cookies, Administered by: Us, Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.

Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies: Type: Persistent Cookies, Administered by: Us, Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.

Functionality Cookies: Type: Persistent Cookies, Administered by: Us, Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.

Vanlifezone uses cookies on its website. By using our website, you consent to the use of cookies as described in this policy.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons, including to remember your preferences, understand how you use our website, and to provide you with personalized content and advertising. We also use Google Analytics and Google AdSense to analyze how users interact with our website and to serve ads based on users' interests.

Preventing Cookies

You can prevent cookies from being stored by setting your browser software appropriately. However, please note that by doing so, you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to the fullest extent.

Google Analytics Cookies

In addition, users can prevent Google's collection of data generated by the cookie and relating to their usage of the website (including their IP address) and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in that is available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Changes to Our Cookie Policy

We may update this policy from time to time, so please check this page regularly for updates.

How We Use Collected Information

The Company may collect and use Users' personal information for the following purposes:

To run and operate our Site

To personalize user experience

To process payments

To send periodic emails

To respond to inquiries, questions, and/or other requests

We adopt appropriate data collection, storage, and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information, and data stored on our Site.

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.

To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.

For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.

To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.

To provide You with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.

To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.

For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.

For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact You.

For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.

With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.

With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.

With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If You interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, Your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see Your name, profile, pictures and description of Your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of Your activity, communicate with You and view Your profile.

With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

If you are a California resident, you have certain rights under the CCPA. You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. You also have the right to request that we delete any personal information about you that we have collected or maintained, subject to certain exceptions. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights.

If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the CPRA. These include the right to request correction of your personal information, the right to know whether your personal information is sold or disclosed, the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, and the right to request that your personal information be deleted.

California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)

CalOPPA requires us to disclose how we respond to 'Do Not Track' signals from your browser. At this time, we do not currently respond to 'Do Not Track' signals.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain rights under the GDPR. These include the right to access, rectify, or erase your personal data, the right to restrict processing of your personal data, the right to object to processing of your personal data, and the right to data portability. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe that we have violated any of your rights under the GDPR.

Delete Your Personal Data

You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

Comply with a legal obligation

Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company

Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service

Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public

Protect against legal liability

As a company, we act as a data controller for the personal data we collect from our site visitors. We use this data to analyze the interaction and movement of visitors on our site. Additionally, we collect personal information such as name, email address, and campervan ownership through a form on our site. Visitors may also submit articles and photos to be published in our magazine, which is available both online and in physical form. As data controller, we are responsible for ensuring that all personal data is processed lawfully, fairly, and transparently, in accordance with GDPR requirements.

Security of Your Personal Data

If you decide to submit your story to Vanlifezone, you acknowledge and agree that the content you provide, including any images or photographs, may be used by us in any media, including print and digital, for editorial and promotional purposes. By submitting your content, you grant us the right to use, modify, and publish your story and images as we please to ensure the highest quality possible. You confirm that you have obtained all necessary permissions from every recognizable person in your provided images to use, alter and distribute these images in any way necessary and hereby pass these permissions on to us.

Please note that once your article, images and media have been submitted to Vanlifezone, they are cleared for publication and you have no right to revoke them. Additionally, in the event that your content has been published in the magazine or in any other media, your content will be publicly available and cannot be retracted.

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

If your data is in our system and we have your email address, we will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the 'Last updated' date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us: office@vanlifezone.com