Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: December 04, 2024

This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of your information when you use our website (the “Service”) and informs you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

We use your personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy forms an integral part of our Service Terms and Conditions.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • Account means a unique account created for you to access our Service or parts of our Service.
  • Entrepreneur (referred to as either “the Entrepreneur”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to Frank Richter, Nam. V. Rezace 646/12, 36001 Karlovy Vary, Business ID: 17813409, Tax ID: CZ686147776.
  • For the purpose of the GDPR, the Entrepreneur is the Data Controller.
  • Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing the details of your browsing history on that website among its many uses. More specific information is available in our Cookie Policy.
  • Country refers to: Czech Republic.
  • Data Controller, for the purposes of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), refers to the Entrepreneur as the legal person which alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data.
  • Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone, or a digital tablet.
  • Instagram Account refers to the public profile specifically created by the Entrepreneur on the Instagram social network, accessible from https://www.instagram.com/a.tinytraveler.
  • Facebook Fan Page is a public profile specifically created by the Entrepreneur on the Facebook social network, accessible from https://www.facebook.com/people/A-Tiny-Traveler/61566045177198.
  • Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
  • For the purposes of GDPR, Personal Data means any information relating to you such as a name, an identification number, location data, online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity.
  • Service refers to the Website.
  • Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Entrepreneur. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Entrepreneur to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Entrepreneur, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Entrepreneur in analyzing how the Service is used. For the purpose of the GDPR, Service Providers are considered Data Processors.
  • Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
  • Website refers to A Tiny Traveler, accessible from https://atinytraveler.com.
  • You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Under GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), you can be referred to as the Data Subject or as the User as you are the individual using the Service.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include:

  • Email address
  • First name and last name

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’s 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.

We may also collect information about your interactions with our Instagram Account, including likes, comments, and direct messages.

For more detailed information regarding tracking technologies and cookies please visit our Cookie Policy.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Entrepreneur 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.
  • To manage and respond to interactions on our Instagram Account, including comments, direct messages, and other engagement metrics.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

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, for payment processing, and 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 Entrepreneur 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. We only share personal data that is strictly necessary to perform such a purpose.
  • 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.
  • With your consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
  • With Instagram: When you interact with our Instagram Account, your information may be shared with Instagram according to their privacy policy.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Entrepreneur 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 e.g., accounting law), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Entrepreneur will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes based on our legitimate interest or your consent. 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.

Your registration Account-related data is kept as long as you have an active Account and purchases and orders data (without bank account or payment details) for 5 years after the deletion of Account for possible legal disputes. We may use this data for promoting our products and services to you when you have given us such consent.

You have the right to request data deletion from our system. For this, we may need to delete your Account depending on your request. In case you have requested data deletion, we still keep the data that we retain for legal obligation purposes for as long as the law obliges us.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Entrepreneur’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 from those from your jurisdiction.

Some of our data processing is carried out by our Data Processors outside the European Union/European Economic Area so your Personal Data might be sent outside the EU/EEA. In such instances, we will ensure that the transfer of your Personal Data is carried out in accordance with applicable privacy laws and that appropriate contractual, technical, and organisational measures are in place (Standard Contractual Data Protection Clauses “SCC”).

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

The Entrepreneur 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 (DPA+SCC).

9. Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

10. Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data

The Service Providers We use may have access to Your Personal Data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process, and transfer information about Your activity on Our Service in accordance with their Privacy Policies.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page.

Email Marketing

We may use Your Personal Data to contact You with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to You when You have given us explicit consent to do so. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from Us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email We send or by contacting Us.

We may use Email Marketing Service Providers to manage and send emails to You.

Mailchimp

Mailchimp is an email marketing sending service provided by The Rocket Science Group LLC.

For more information on the privacy practices of Mailchimp, please visit their Privacy policy: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

Instagram

We maintain an Instagram Account to engage with our audience and share content. When you interact with our Instagram Account, Instagram may collect and process your data according to its privacy policy. For more information on Instagram’s privacy practices, please visit the Instagram Data Policy.

11. GDPR Privacy

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under GDPR

We may process Personal Data under the following conditions:

  • Consent: You have given Your consent for processing Personal Data for one or more specific purposes.
  • Performance of a contract: Provision of Personal Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with You and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.
  • Legal obligations: Processing Personal Data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Entrepreneur is subject.
  • Vital interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary in order to protect Your vital interests or of another natural person.
  • Public interests: Processing Personal Data is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Entrepreneur.
  • Legitimate interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Entrepreneur.

In any case, the Entrepreneur will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

Your Rights under the GDPR

The Entrepreneur undertakes to respect the confidentiality of Your Personal Data and to guarantee You can exercise Your rights.

You have the right under this Privacy Policy, and by law if You are within the EU, to:

  • Request access to Your Personal Data. The right to access, update or delete the information We have on You. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of Your Personal Data directly within Your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact Us to assist You. This also enables You to receive a copy of the Personal Data We hold about You.
  • Request correction of the Personal Data that We hold about You. You have the right to have any incomplete or inaccurate information We hold about You corrected.
  • Object to processing of Your Personal Data. This right exists where We are relying on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for Our processing and there is something about Your particular situation, which makes You want to object to our processing of Your Personal Data on this ground. You also have the right to object where We are processing Your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes.
  • Request erasure of Your Personal Data. You have the right to ask Us to delete or remove Personal Data when there is no good reason for Us to continue processing it.
  • Request the transfer of Your Personal Data. We will provide to You, or to a third-party You have chosen, Your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to automated information which You initially provided consent for Us to use or where We used the information to perform a contract with You.
  • Withdraw Your consent. You have the right to withdraw Your consent on using your Personal Data. If You withdraw Your consent, We may not be able to provide You with access to certain specific functionalities of the Service.

Exercising Your GDPR Data Protection Rights

You may exercise Your rights of access, rectification, cancellation, and opposition by contacting Us. Please note that we may ask You to verify Your identity before responding to such requests. If You make a request, We will try our best to respond to You as soon as possible.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about Our collection and use of Your Personal Data. For more information, if You are in the European Economic Area (EEA), please contact Your local data protection authority in the EEA.

12. Social Media Presence

Data Controller for Social Media Accounts

The Entrepreneur is the Data Controller of Your Personal Data collected while using the Service. As operator of the Facebook Fan Page https://www.facebook.com/people/A-Tiny-Traveler/61566045177198 and the Instagram Account https://www.instagram.com/a.tinytraveler, the Entrepreneur and the operators of the social networks Facebook and Instagram are Joint Controllers.The Entrepreneur has entered into agreements with Facebook (which owns Instagram) that define the terms for use of the Facebook Fan Page and Instagram Account, among other things. These terms are mostly based on the Facebook Terms of Service and Instagram Terms of Use.Visit the Facebook Privacy Policy and Instagram Data Policy for more information about how Facebook and Instagram manage Personal data or contact Facebook online, or by mail: Facebook, Inc. ATTN, Privacy Operations, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States.

Social Media Insights

We use the Facebook Insights function and Instagram Insights in connection with the operation of our social media accounts and on the basis of the GDPR, in order to obtain anonymized statistical data about Our users. For this purpose, Facebook and Instagram place Cookies on the device of the user visiting Our social media accounts.For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook and Instagram, please visit Facebook Privacy Policy and Instagram Data Policy.

Children’s Privacy

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.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites (i.e., MS Teams, Zoom or similar for webinar purposes) 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.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

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.

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.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

  • By email: contact@atinytraveler.com