Privacy Policy | NTripping

Who we are

Website address: https://ntripping.com.

Email correspondence: ntripping (at) gmail.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the website, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from these images.

Contact forms

When you complete the contact form on our website, we will ask you for a number of pieces of personal information, such as your name, email address and other details. This is obviously required for us to respond to your request.

If you do not use or submit an online form on the website, no data will be collected in that regard.

We will store the information you provide to us in our website database and a copy will be sent to our email client. Such storage allows us to efficiently access your data and respond to your request.

We will not use this data for any further purpose without your express further consent. We will never sell your information to any third-party.

We will only ask you for the minimum amount of information required to appropriately fulfil your request. This will usually be your name, contact details, and any specific information about your request.

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 comments, and provide anonymised tracking data to third-party applications like Google Analytics.

As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this website. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.

If you leave a comment on our website, you may opt-in to save your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this website, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has 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.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to better understand what people look at on our website.

When people visit our website, information about their visit (such as which pages they look at, how long they spend on the website and so on) is sent in an anonymous form to Google Analytics (which is controlled by Google).

The data contains information about anyone who uses our website from your computer, and there is no way to identify individuals from the data. As analytics information is not personal data, we do not specifically ask for your prior consent.

In addition to Google Analytics, we use a number of industry-standard Google services to provide particular pieces of website content. These include:

Google Fonts: we may use one or more of Google’s web fonts to ensure that our website content is displayed in a clear and consistent fashion across all of the different types of devices and browsers.
Google Maps: we may use the Google’s mapping services to provide dynamic geographic maps on our website

Google Recaptcha: we may use Google’s Recaptcha service (which provides the ‘I Am Not A Robot’ functionality) on our web contact forms. This is a security measure to prevent the abuse of our contact forms by automated programs.

Each of these services involves our website making a connection to one or more Google servers, and may result in Google placing cookies on your device.

You can read Google’s privacy policy here.

Like the vast majority of websites, we use social media cookies from Facebook on our website. The cookies are placed by Facebook, and we use them to understand the effectiveness of social media campaigns that we operate.

If you are not logged into Facebook when you view our website, then it is not possible for any personal information about your visit to be collected, and therefore we do not specifically ask for your prior consent.

If you are logged into Facebook when you view our website, then Facebook will know when you visit us. We do not have any access to the detail of that personal data, as you have consented to share it with Facebook, not us. We just get to see anonymised data about the numbers of people who have responded to our advertising or other social media activity.

You can learn about Facebook’s privacy policy here.

You can always use your browser’s ‘private’ or ‘incognito’ mode to browse websites anonymously.

Affiliates

Affiliate links include tracking codes. When you click on an affiliate link, you’re taken to a booking site or an online store. Upon purchase or booking, we’ll receive a small commission at no extra cost for you.

We only recommend products and services we believe in and use ourselves. That way, we help you make an informed purchasing choice. In return, by using our affiliate links, you help us support this website.

As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

Who we share your data with

We don’t share knowingly your data with any third-party providers.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

If you’ve contacted us via the contact form, we will keep your details indefinitely.

If you’ve opted-in for our mailing list, you have the chance to review, edit, and unsubscribe at any time.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this website or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments are checked through an automated spam detection service, Akismet. You can find their privacy policy here.

How we protect your data

Dedicated security software: we operate dedicated security scanning and access control software. This software is responsible for limiting login attempts to our website, blocking potentially malicious attempts to access our services, and regularly performing full file system scans.
Data encryption: this website is secured with SSL encryption, which means that all traffic to and from our servers is encrypted. This applies to our own administrative access to the website as well as that of users of our services.

Last updated: 18.02.2019