At La Vie En Marine, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information received and collected by La Vie En Marine and how it is used.
We only collect data that is needed to be able to provide the services we offer. In the following we will create transparency about the tools and services we use.
We process your personal data only when a legal basis under Article 6 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies. Depending on the context, the applicable legal bases are:
Consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR): e.g., for newsletter subscriptions, non-essential cookies, and Google Analytics.
Contractual necessity (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR): e.g., if you contact us in relation to a service or transaction.
Legal obligations (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR): e.g., for compliance with tax or data retention laws.
Legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR): e.g., to improve the website, ensure security, or answer general inquiries, provided your fundamental rights and freedoms are not overridden.
Privacy policy as constituted on 14.05.2024.
La Vie En Marine
Paula Waanders
Malkastenstr. 4, 40211 Düsseldorf
Germany
Telephone: +49 162 5638942
E-Mail: paula@lavieenmarine
Please never hesitate to contact us.
You can visit this website without giving any personal information. Like many other websites, La Vie En Marine uses log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.
La Vie En Marine runs on a server hosted by STRATO AG, Otto-Ostrowski-Straße 7, 10249 Berlin. A data processing agreement (DPA) has been concluded with the provider. This ensures that the provider processes the personal data transmitted by us only according to our instructions and in strict compliance with the GDPR.
La Vie En Marine uses cookies to store information about visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on which pages the user accesses or visits, customize web page content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.
Once you visited our website, you can decide yourself, how many cookies you want to allow by either accepting or declining the cookies via our Cookie Banner.
To be able to optimise our content and services, we use Google Analytics to track visitors’ and users’ behavior only after their approval via the Cookie Banner.
Furthermore if you are visiting our side from Europe the data of your visit is anonymized. That means your IP address is shortened and anonymized by Google.
The operating company of the Google Analytics component is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.
Although you can visit our website without handing in personal information, however, there are also moments when you providing us your personal data is necessary for us to provide certain services. These moments include receiving our newsletter, commenting on our postings or contacting us by e.g. mail or phone.
If you want to receive our newsletter, we need your mail address. To receive the newsletter we verify your mail address by „double opt-in“, which means after you requested the newsletter, we send you a confirmation which you then have to verify again. That step is necessary, so nobody else uses your mail address to request newsletters. Also it ensures to us that you really want to receiver our latest news.
If you decide, not to receive anymore mails from us, you can simply unsubscribe via the link in one of our mails or by requesting it personally via paula@lavieenmarine.com. Once you have done this, we will remove your mail address from our data base, so we will no longer bother you. When you change your mind about it, you can simply request the newsletter anew like described above.
We use the e-mail marketing tool Cleverreach provided by CleverReach GmbH & Co. KG, Schafjückenweg 2, 26180 Rastede. A data processing agreement (DPA) has been concluded with the provider. This ensures that the provider processes the personal data transmitted by us only according to our instructions and in strict compliance with the GDPR.
On my page and in my postings you have the option to use a contact form to get in touch with us. To be able to process your message we need you to provide the following information:
These are the information needed to process your message. Any other additional information is free of you to give. Your information will be deleted as soon as you ask us to or we no longer have any purpose in storing your data.
At each blogpost you have the option to publicly comment on my blogpost and engage in a discussion. To be able to process and publish your thoughts and opinions we need you to provide the following information:
If you want, you can get in touch via mail or call. If by contacting us your data is revealed, we collect that data to sucessfully reply to your message.
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:
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.
Personal data will be retained only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and processed, including any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
We store your data until:
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk, including encryption of personal data, to prevent the unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction of personal data.
Apart from the mentioned tools, plugins and service providers La Vie En Marine does not disclose your data to 3rd parties unless it becomes necessary by law enforcement or if we are obliged to in order to be able to provide certain services as stated in the above tools and plug ins used.
La Vie En Marine is a space, dedicated to help you plan the trips of your dreams. To be able to provide free content, we rely on affiliate marketing and advertisements placed on our website. That means that if you click on a link and purchase a product or service, we earn a commission. That commission comes at no additional costs for you. Please assume that every link on that page is an affiliate link.
We make no warranties or assurances as to the accuary, currency or completeness of the products or services containted on this website or any sites linked to or from this site. Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk. In no case we will be liable for any loss or damange. This goes without limitation, indirect or consequential to the loss or damage arising out of the usage of this website.
9.1 Right of Access
You have the right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you is being processed, and, where that is the case, access to that data and related information (Art. 15 GDPR).
9.2 Right to Rectification
You have the right to obtain the correction of inaccurate personal data or completion of incomplete data (Art. 16 GDPR).
9.3 Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”)
You have the right to request the deletion of your personal data if one of the grounds listed in Art. 17 GDPR applies, such as when the data is no longer necessary for the purposes it was collected for.
9.4 Right to Restriction of Processing
Under the conditions of Art. 18 GDPR, you may request restriction of processing — e.g., when contesting the accuracy of your data or lodging an objection.
9.5 Right to Data Portability
You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit that data to another controller (Art. 20 GDPR).
9.6 Right to Object & Withdraw Consent
You have the right to object at any time to processing of your personal data based on legitimate interest (Art. 21 GDPR).
If processing is based on your consent under Art. 6(1)(a) or Art. 9(2)(a) GDPR, you may withdraw that consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. Contact: paula@lavieenmarine.com
9.7 Right to Lodge a Complaint
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your personal data violates the GDPR (Art. 77 GDPR).
The competent authority for La Vie En Marine is:
State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of North Rhine-Westphalia (LDI NRW)
Kavalleriestraße 2–4, 40213 Düsseldorf
Website: https://www.ldi.nrw.de