Privacy & Cookies Policy

At The Wilder Route, we are committed to protecting & respecting your privacy. Please read through our privacy & cookie policy carefully to understand our views & practices regarding your personal data & how we will treat it.

As a blog & interactive van life, nature, alternative living, travel & adventure site we love to connect with you & by visiting this website, you are accepting & consenting to the practices described in this policy.

This Data Protection & Privacy Policy refers to thewilderroute.com which is part of The Green Club Ltd (Company number: 11483353) registered at 27 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3AX, UK.

Copyright

Unless credit has otherwise been given all materials & views contained within this website are our own – including all video, audio, photography & written content which remain the copyright of The Wilder Route – Copyright © 2016 –  2021 The Wilder Route. All Rights Reserved.

All copying, of any kind, is strictly prohibited.

Should you wish to use or enquire about using any of our content including photographs please contact us at hello@thewilderroute.com

The Cookies We Use

How You Can Block Cookies

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.

However, please be aware that blocking cookies may affect your ability to use this website. In particular, you may not be able to access all or parts of the website or use the functionalities contained on it.

Personal Data We Collect

Our website collects personal data by itself or through third parties.

Data we (thewilderroute.com) collect are:

• Cookies
• Email Address

We will collect & process the following categories of data about you:

• Information you give us. This is information about you, that you give us by filling in forms on our website (Site), interacting with the Site or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise.  It includes information you provide when you sign up to our emails & newsletter service, make an enquiry about our products & services or email us with any questions/enquiries.

The information you give us will include all or more likely some of the following information – your name, address, e-mail address & phone number, as well as preliminary information about your business.

• Information we collect about you. This is information that we collect automatically about your visit during your time on the Site. It typically involves technical information & is often collected using small data files called “cookies”. This information helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse the Site & also to indicate where the Site requires improvement.

More information on how cookies work, what cookies we use & why can be found in our Cookie Policy (see above).

• Information we receive from other sources. This is information that we receive about you if you use any of the other websites we operate. In this case, we will have informed you when we collected that data if we intend to share those data internally.  We will also have told you for what purpose we will share your data.

This also includes information that we receive from third parties, such as business partners, sub-contractors in technical services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers & so on. We will notify you when we receive information about you from them & the purposes for which we intend to use that information.

We will not send you spam or pass your details onto 3rd Parties outside thewilderroute.com.

Social Media Platforms

We operate social media platforms. These platforms are, in most cases, operated outside of the EU & do not comply with the current Data Privacy Act & subsequent GDPR provision although they may well conform to the U.S Privacy Shield protocol.

It is our process & protocol that any personally identifiable data gathered on these platforms is only in response to users interacting out of their own volition with our marketing pages. The contact is deemed as a legitimate business enquiry. The personal contact data is removed from the site once the enquiry is processed or the user has requested so.

Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our website. We anonymise this data at the point of collection & automatically delete user & event data that is older than two years.

How We Collect Your Data

• When you sign up for our email updates & newsletter
• When you visit our website
• When you click through to use third party products or services
• When you contact us directly

Contacting Our Users

Mailing List & Direct Email Marketing (This website)

When you opt-in to receive email updates & newsletter emails from us, your email address will be added to our mailing list. Members of this mailing list may receive email messages containing information of commercial or promotional nature. These emails may concern this website, products related to our service offered by our affiliate partners, or other products offered by thewilderroute.com.  We may also send you emails to help improve our products, such as a survey. You can unsubscribe here & in the footer of every email, you can update your email preferences here.

Personal data collected:

• Email address
• First Name

Where We Store Your Data

All information that you provide to us is stored on our, or our selected business partners, secure servers (Siteground, WordPress & Mail Chimp), & we will take reasonable steps to protect your information in accordance with this policy, including (without limitation):

• Using SSL certificates
• Using anti-virus protection software
• Encrypting data
• Carrying out regular back-ups

Data is also captured & stored by third party cookies which is explained below. This is also outlined in the section ‘The Cookies We Use’ above.

Commercial Affiliation

This service allows this website to display advertisements for third-party products or services. Adverts can be displayed either as advertising links, banners, or widgets using various kinds of graphics & interactive platforms. Clicks on these services are tracked by third party services & shared with this site.

We are commercially affiliated with the following companies which use the following information.

Hostelworld – Through Performance Horizon Group Ltd – You can view their Privacy Policy HERE

• Cookies
• Usage data

Get Your Guide – You can view their Privacy Policy HERE

• Cookies
• Usage data

Booking.com – You can view their Privacy Policy HERE

• Cookies
• Usage data

Amazon – You can view their Privacy Policy HERE

• Cookies
• Usage data

Retention Period

The data retention for cookies is outlined above in our ‘The Cookies We Use’ section. Data is kept for the time necessary to provide the service requested by you, or stated by the purposes outlined in this document,  you can always request that we suspend or remove the data. We will delete your data if you choose to delete your account. You can unsubscribe to our emails & newsletter anytime by following this LINK.

Your Rights

This Privacy Policy is intended to provide information with regards to the collection, processing & use of your data. You can always contact us at hello@thewilderroute.com if you have any further questions or with regards to exercising these rights.

At any time, you can contact us to withdraw consent, suspend further processing, object to our use of data for marketing purposes, demand access &/or a copy of your data, amend your data, or request for it to be deleted.

You have the following rights under law in respect of your personal information:

• The right to be informed about the collection & use of your personal information;
• The right of access to your information to verify the legality of our use of it;
• The right to request that inaccurate or incomplete information about you is rectified;
• The right to request the deletion or removal of your information where there is no further reason for us to use it (such as you have withdrawn your consent);
• The right to restrict the use of your information;
• The right to obtain & reuse the information that we have about you for your own purposes;
• The right to object to certain uses (such as for marketing purposes); &
• The right not to be subject to a decision that has a legal effect on you that has been based on an automated decision.

This site contains links to & from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers & affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies & that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Changes To Our Privacy Policy

Any changes we make to our privacy policy, in the future will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy & cookie policy. This policy was last updated 06/05/2021

Data Protection Officer

We have appointed a data protection officer for you to contact if you have any questions about our privacy & cookie policy or personal data handling practices. Our data protection officer’s name & contact information are as follows:

Adam – hello@thewilderroute.com

We hope you continue to enjoy using our website & the service that we provide to you.