Privacy Policy

Elephant on the Road is committed to safeguarding your privacy. Contact us at if you have any questions or problems regarding the use of your Personal Data and we will gladly assist you. Our Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand what personal data we may collect from you, how we collect it, how we use it, how we protect it, how we may share it, how you can access or change it, and how you can limit our sharing of it.

• “Service” refers to the Company’s services accessed via the Site, in which users can opt-in, purchase, or enter for free.
• The terms “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to the Company’s website.
• “You” refers to you, as a user of our Site or our Service.

By using this site or/and our services, you consent to the Processing of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.

Definitions

Personal Data – any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Processing – any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data.
Data subject – a natural person whose Personal Data is being Processed.
Child – a natural person under 16 years of age.

Data Protection Principles

We promise to follow the following data protection principles:

• Processing is lawful, fair, transparent. Our Processing activities have lawful grounds. We always consider your rights before Processing Personal Data. We will provide you information regarding Processing upon request.
• Processing is limited to the purpose. Our Processing activities fit the purpose for which Personal Data was gathered.
• Processing is done with minimal data. We only gather and Process the minimal amount of Personal Data required for any purpose.
• Processing is limited to a time period. We will not store your personal data for longer than needed.
• We will do our best to ensure the accuracy of data.
• We will do our best to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of data.

How We Collect Your Information

We collect and “Non-Personal Information” and “Personal Information.”

Non-Personal Information is data that cannot be used to personally identify you. It is simply anonymous data. This includes general demographic information we may collect, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform types, preferences you submit and preferences that are generated based on the data you submit.

Personal Information is data that can be used to personally identify you. This includes your email address and first name. This data is provided to us by you voluntarily via an opt-in form, email, phone, or contacting us via our website.

This Site only contacts individuals who specifically request that or in the event that they have signed up to receive my free email communications. This Site collects personally identifying information from my users during online purchasing. Generally, this information includes name and e-mail address for registration to receive our free newsletters and name, email address, postal address, and credit card information when purchasing my products or services. All of this information is provided to me by you.

Data We Gather

1. Internet Traffic Data

Internet traffic data includes the name of the website you came from (known as the “referring URL”), your internet service provider information, the IP address of your computer/the proxy server you use to access the Internet, your web browser type, the type of mobile device, your computer operating system, and data about your browsing activity when using our website. We do not collect personally identifying information through this process, and it is used to analyze user traffic to help improve our website to provide a better user experience.

2. Cookies

This website uses cookies, which are small pieces of data or a text file that is downloaded and stored on your computer or mobile device to help us improve your access to our site. We use a cookie to collect Non-Personal information about you and keep a record of your preferences when using our services. For example, we may use cookies to collect your browsing patterns, IP address, and internet service provider. We also obtain information about our users via Facebook pixels and Google Analytics in order to get data that will help us improve our website and marketing.

You can remove cookies stored in your computer via your browser settings. Alternatively, you can control some 3rd party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform such as optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.

By agreeing to accept our use of cookies, you are giving us, and third parties we partner with, permission to place, store, and access some or all the cookies described below on your computer.

3. When entering and using our website

When you enter and use our website and agree to accept cookies, some of these cookies may contain your Personal Information.

4. When buying products or services

If you purchase products or services from us, we collect your first and last name, email address, physical address, credit card or other payment information, phone number, and other information listed.

How We Use Your Personal Data

We use your Personal Data in order to:

• Provide our service to you. This includes, for example, registering your account; providing you with other products and services that you have requested; providing you with promotional items at your request and communicating with you in relation to those products and services; communicating and interacting with you; and notifying you of changes to any services.
• Enhance your customer experience;
• Fulfill an obligation under law or contract;
• To send you newsletters and campaign offers;
• For other purposes we have asked your consent for.

As long as you have not informed us otherwise, we consider offering you: products/services that are similar or same to your purchasing history/browsing behavior to be our legitimate interest.

We might process your Personal Data for additional purposes that are not mentioned here, but are compatible with the original purpose for which the data was gathered.

We will inform you of any further Processing and purposes.

Who Else Can Access Your Personal Data

We do not share your Personal Data with strangers. Personal Data about you is in some cases provided to our trusted partners in order to either make providing the service to you possible or to enhance your customer experience.

1. Google Analytics Privacy Notice

This website uses Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our website. Google Analytics collects information from users such as age, gender, location, interests, internet browser, how often they visit our website, and what pages they visit. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to analyze traffic, improve our marketing, and improve our website.

For more information on how Google collects and processes your data, visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.

You can prevent Google Analytics from using your information by opting out at this link: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

• IP Address
• Operating System type
• Operating System version
• Device Type
• Language of the website
• Web browser type
• Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

3. Third Parties

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your Personal Information to other individuals or business entity without your consent. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when its release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property or safety.

We only work with Processing partners who are able to ensure an adequate level of protection to your Personal Data. We disclose your Personal Data to third parties or public officials when we are legally obliged to do so. We might disclose your Personal Data to third parties if you have consented to it or if there are other legal grounds for it.

How We Secure Your Data

We do our best to keep your Personal Data safe.  We use safe protocols for communication and transferring data (such as HTTPS). We use anonymising and pseudonymising where suitable. We monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks.

Your information is stored at the list server that delivers this site’s newsletters (https://www.mailerlite.com). Your information can only be accessed by me. All of the newsletters or emails that are sent to you by this Site include an unsubscribe link in them. You can remove yourself at any time from our newsletters or mailing list by clicking on the unsubscribe link that can be found in every communication that I send you.

Even though we try our best we can not guarantee the security of information. However, we promise to notify suitable authorities of data breaches. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.

If you have an account with us, note that you have to keep your username and password secret.

Children

This website is not directed to anyone under the age of 13, although we realize that a child under the age of 13 may try to access our website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 13. If we learn that we have gathered personal information from anyone under the age of 13 without the consent of a parent or guardian, we will delete that information as soon as possible. If you are a parent or guardian and believe we have collected such information, please contact us at melissa.elephantontheroad@gmail.com.

Security Policy

Protecting your information is a top priority for us. When you submit personal information to the Site, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect personal information, that information is encrypted and transmitted to us by secure servers. We implement a variety of security measures when a user enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information including encryption and firewalls. Unfortunately, these measures do not guarantee that your personal information will not be accessed and misused over the internet.

Your Rights

You have the right to opt-out of any further contact from us or our affiliates by following the instructions at the bottom of each email. You may also change your contact preferences by contacting us at melissa.elephantontheroad@gmail.com

Links To Other Websites

This website may provide links to third-party websites that are out of our control. This Privacy Policy applies to information collected by us through Elephant on the Road. Once you leave our website, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy. This means that this Privacy Policy does not apply to your use of a third-party website accessed by clicking a link on our website and the privacy policy of that other website will apply to your access or use of that site. We encourage our users to read the privacy statements of other websites before proceeding to use them.

Terms And Conditions

Please also visit our Disclosure Policy section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time and all updates will be posted on this page.

Contact Information

If you require more information or have any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us at melissa.elephantontheroad@gmail.com.

This policy was last modified on June 2, 2020.