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Privacy Policy


This Privacy Policy for slowroadtripping.com was updated April 13, 2023.

This privacy policy explains what personal data we collect when you use our website (the “Service”), how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it.

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9. Summary table

Who we are

https://slowroadtripping.com is our website address.
Slow road tripping is the name of our company.
Brewfecto is the name of the coffee calculator which is a blog post.
Suzanne Jacoby created this website.
Contact this website by any of these means:
  • Website contact page
  • send email to privacy at slowroadtripping dot com
  • postal mail to
Slow road tripping
PO Box 1542
Enka NC 28728
USA


What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Slow road tripping and its third-party service providers collect data about you. Between us we collect:

A) Personally identifiable information (PII), which is data that can precisely identify you:
  • name
  • email address
  • IP address (Internet Protocol address)
B) Other data about your device, location, and what you did when you visited:
  • technical information about your device, such as whether a phone or laptop, operating system, browser
  • your location
  • date of access
  • page visited and for how long
Data is automatically collected when you visit, use, or navigate this website. This may include your IP Address and data in section B) above.

You directly provide your email or name personally identifiable data (PII) when you subscribe to our mailing list or communicate with us by using the Contact Page.

Descriptions of what is collecting your data and why it is collecting it follow.

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)

When you use this website, your IP address, location, technical information about your device (such as whether a phone or desktop, operating system, browser), date/time, and page visited is collected by the Cloudflare Content Delivery Network (CDN). If the page you request is the Brewfecto coffee calculator, an additional CDN jsDelivr.net CDN collects similar information.

Why CDNs collect your data: Cloudflare and jsDelivr.net use data they collect about users to defend their service against attacks and to improve their service by performing analytics on the data to find bottlenecks. Neither track users nor target users for ads.
Legal basis for CDNs collecting your IP address: legitimate interests.
Why CDNs are used: A CDN speeds up the load time of the webpage onto your device.

This is a WordPress website using hosting provider Bluehost. The Bluehost website development system integrates Cloudflare CDN as an option for speeding up webpage load times for website visitors. The Cloudflare CDN acts as a proxy for our hosting provider (the origin server), serving copies of this website from servers around the world, often the server closest to you.

If you open the Brewfecto Coffee calculator post, your IP address, device configuration, etc. is collected by jsDelivr.net CDN, which in turn uses Third-Party CDNs such as Cloudflare, who also collect such data as described above about Cloudflare in order to perform Analytics on the information.
Why jsDelivr.net is used: in order to load a single means (idb-keyval) of saving your preferred brew settings to either your device's browser or a mobile app.

Analytics

Visiting this website notes your visit in third-party Cloudflare Web Analytics and locally (first party) with Burst Statistics WordPress plugin. Neither collects personally identifiable information (PII) such as an IP address.

Why this website collects your data for Analytics: To observe what web pages interest visitors, to deduce what language translations of what pages would benefit the most visitors.
Legal basis for collecting your data: consent by means of a cookie consent banner in regions with strong data privacy laws such as GDPR in the EU.

Cloudflare Web Analytics collects your device configuration, location, page visited, and date of access. Because it does not collect your IP Address or have any other means of identifying you, it can not track you. In other words, it can't tell if you visited more than one page or ever visited before. It works by means of a web beacon, a piece of code on each page of this website, transmitting your non-PII data to a Cloudflare server. Other terms for a web beacon are pixel tag and pixel tracker.

Burst Statistics is a WordPress plugin that collects anonymized, minimized data on this website's web server. It places a First-Party cookie in your device's browser that identifies you to our website's Burst Statistics database. See the next paragraph for more information about the cookie. Burst Statistics tracks your interaction with our website and no other websites. No third party has access to the information it collects. It collects your device type, browser, operating system, date of the visit, the website that led to your visit (referrer), page(s) visited, and whether you have visited within the past month.

Cookies

This website does not use third party cookies.

The WordPress plugin Burst Statistics creates a first-party persistent statistics cookie named burst_uid in your device's browser. The cookie stores an anonymous ID that identifies you to an analytics database on this website's server so it can count you as one visitor if you visit more than one page and if you have visited in the past month. The cookie lifespan is one month. See the Burst Statistics paragraph above in the Analytics section for a list of data about you that the Burst Statistics database on our web server collects.

The WordPress plugin GDPR Cookie Consent by WPEka creates two first-party cookies that begin with wpl_. The plugin uses MaxMind Geolocation to determine if your device's IP address implies your location is in a region with strong data privacy laws such as the European Union's GDPR. If your location matches where such a law is in force a banner will appear at the bottom of the page with a request to create cookies in your browser or app, with options to reject or accept them. Your response to the cookie consent banner is saved to cookies in your browser so it doesn't prompt you again in that browser for one year. The cookie lifespan is one year. Your IP address, the date, and your response to the cookie banner are also saved to a consent log database on this website's web server as proof of compliance with the ePrivacy Directive requirement that websites document and store cookie consent received from users.

IndexedDB local database

The Brewfecto coffee calculator remembers your preferences by using an IndexedDB database, which is persistent browser storage technology similar to a First-Party cookie. If you press a "Save" pushbutton in Brewfecto, the javascript downloaded by the jsDelivr.net CDN will create an IndexedDB database named Brewfecto in your browser or app and save your preferred brew settings to it.

Your brew information does not leave your device. If you save this website as a Progressive Web App, Brewfecto and your brew settings will work without a connection to the internet.

There are multiple legal bases for the Brewfecto coffee calculator creating an IndexedDB database in your browser:
1) Pressing a "Save" button is an explicit request for functionality, making it an "essential functional" or "strictly necessary" form of local storage.
2) Saving preferences is a legitimate purpose for writing to this form of local storage.
3) Pressing "Save" in the context of data input fields grants consent as the legal basis for writing persistent data to your device's browser. The IndexedDB database is not created unless you press a "Save" button.

Contact forms

This website has two contact forms: subscribing to the email list and sending a message via the Contact Page. Both involve typing your personally identifying data and pressing a "Submit" push-button. Therefore the legal basis for collecting PII is consent.

In the footer of each page of this website, you can enter your email address to join our mailing list. Sendinblue, an email marketing service, collects your email address and the date you subscribed. Your email address is used only for announcing new posts on this website. It is not shared with any third party. Your email address is kept until you unsubscribe. Every email you receive from us will have a link for unsubscribing.

On the Contact Page of this website, you can send us a message. It requires a name, email address, and message. Your message data is collected as email to a webmail service provided by our web hosting provider. We read it by means of the software cPanel and Roundcube. The resulting email will be deleted within 30 days of settling whatever you are sending the message about. Your email address will not be added to the subscriber list and will not be shared with any third party.

Who we share your data with

We do not sell your personal data.
We share your data with the following third-party service providers:

Cloudflare Content Delivery Network (CDN)
data shared: IP address, location, date/time, device configuration, page visited
why we share your data: Cloudflare collects your data for its own use. Cloudflare shares some of its aggregated data about this website with us.
Cloudflare's Privacy policy, the role of “End Users”
why we use this service: speed up webpage load time

jsDelivr.net CDN
data shared: IP address, date/time of request, device configuration, page visited
why we share your data: jsDelivr.net collects your data for their own use. We don't have access to it.
jsDelivr.net Privacy policy, in role of “Data Subject”
why we use this service: allow Brewfecto calculator page to save your brew preferences in both website browser and app

Cloudflare Web Analytics
data shared: location, date/time, device configuration, page visited
why we share your data: to have a way to analyze what pages of this website get the most visitors
Cloudflare's Privacy policy, the role of “End Users”
why we use this service: So the website developer can observe what web pages get the most traffic, what countries visitors are in

Sendinblue email marketing platform
data shared: email address, date joined
why we share your data: to organize emailing information to subscribers
why we use this service: So the website developer can announce new blog posts to you by email

How long we retain your data

If you send a message through the contact page, it is transmitted to us as email. We delete the email within 30 days of settling any questions.

If you subscribe to our mailing list, we keep your email address in Sendinblue until you unsubscribe.

Burst Statistics analytics data is stored on our hosting server indefinitely.

The Cookie Consent Log on our web server stores your data indefinitely.

What rights you have over your data

Cloudflare states in the last paragraph in Data Subject Rights and Choices section of Cloudflare's Privacy Policy that they have no direct relationship with you, the End User. They go on to say contact the Customer website, which is us, Slow road tripping. The Cloudflare CDN is necessary for page loading speed, so it can't be skipped. In nations where GDPR applies, Cloudflare Web Analytics can be rejected in the cookie consent banner. Previously collected Cloudflare Web Analytics can't be isolated because it has no means of identifying you such as with an IP address.

jsDelivr.net says in their Privacy Policy to contact them if you'd like to know what data they have about you or if you would like it deleted. Their third-party CDNs have data about you too.

You may unsubscribe from our mailing list at any time by sending us a message through the contact form or emailing privacy at slowroadtripping dot com. Every subscriber email from us (which will originate from Sendinblue) will have an unsubscribe link.

If you'd like email you send by way of the Contact Page to be deleted immediately, say that in your message or send a follow-up message that you want your messages deleted immediately. Otherwise, it will be deleted within 30 days.

Where your data is sent

Our web server is located in the United States. If you are accessing our Website from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed by us on our web server and by those third parties with whom we may share your personal information in the United States, and other countries.

Cloudflare primarily stores your information in the United States and the European Economic Area, though they may transfer and access your information from around the world. Cloudflare safeguards the transfer of personal data from the EEA to the United States by means of EU standard contractual clauses. More information about Cloudflare's safeguards is in their privacy policy's International Information Transfer section and GDPR compliance reference page.

jsDelivr.net processes your data in Poland, an EU member state. jsDelivr.net uses third-party Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) Cloudflare and Fastly. The third-party CDN that serves you the javascript library on behalf of jsDelivr will collect your IP address and other usage data for their own internal analytics and security. Both third-party CDNs are based in the United States with servers around the world.

If you subscribe to our mailing list, Sendinblue stores your email address on servers hosted in Europe.

If you send a message to us through the Contact Page, it is transmitted as an email to this website's hosting provider server in the United States. The email service is cPanel using Roundcube webmail.

Privacy policies of other websites

The Slow road tripping website contains links to other websites that are not operated by us. This Privacy Policy does not address the privacy policy and other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any website or service that may be accessible via a link on the Service. 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.

Some of the websites we link to are informational and not commercial. Others are affiliate links to commercial websites which sell products we use and recommend and which pay this website a commission for the referral if it leads to a sale. If you are being tracked for ads, ads for our affiliate websites may show up when you visit unrelated websites. Search the internet on "How to protect your online browser privacy" if you would like to avoid being targeted for ads. The US Federal Trade Commission's Consumer Advice resources about Online Privacy has a helpful overview.

Contact information

For privacy-specific concerns, email privacy at slowroadtripping dot com or use the Contact Page on this website.

Summary table

The text above follows one of the standard incremental organizing layouts for data privacy policies. Below the key points are rearranged into a table with links to the details above. The table is too wide to comprehend on a smartphone, but perhaps helpful on a laptop or desktop.
Key points of this privacy policy
Processors, Third parties, Service providers, cloud service, WordPress plugin
Personally
Identifiable
Info?
Cloudflare CDNJsDelivr.net CDNCloudflare Web AnalyticsBurst Statisticssubscribe to email list, Sendinbluemessage to Contact Form, email
Data type(PII)lawfulness of processing
Email addressPII✓ consent✓ consent
NamePII✓ consent
IP addressPII✓ legitimate interests
locationno✓ legitimate interests– , but it uses 3rd party CDNs that do ✓✓ consent where GDPR applies
date of accessno✓ legitimate interests✓ consent where GDPR applies
page visitedno✓ legitimate interests✓ consent where GDPR applies
device configurationno✓ legitimate interests✓ consent where GDPR applies
legend: ✓ means data type is collected, – means data type is not collected
the text following ✓ or – is the legal basis for processing that piece of data, either consent or legitimate interests
Third party infoCloudflare CDNJsDelivr.net CDNCloudflare Web AnalyticsBurst Statisticssubscribe to email list, SendInBluemessage to Contact Form, email
TriggerView any page on this websiteView the Brewfecto postView any page on this websiteEnter email address, press Subscribe buttonEnter fields on contact form, press Submit button
Purpose of using the serviceVistor sees faster website load timeUser of Brewfecto able to save preference settings to browser or app in IndexedDB persistent storageWebsite developer gains insight into the audience for each web pageDeveloper organizes subscriber email list, notificationsVisitor communicates with this website's developer
Why we collect this dataThird party performs analytics on data to improve their serviceThe website developer observes the website's analytics results in order to improve the websiteTo have an email address to notify when we publish a new postFor the developer to respond to questions by email
How we store this data⊢Third party stores it⊣First party, on this website's web serverThird party stores itFirst party, on this website's web server webmail
Servers base locationUnited StatesEuropean Union, PolandUnited StatesUnited StatesEuropean Union, FranceUnited States
Third party privacy policyPrivacy policy in role of “End Users”Privacy policy in role of “Data Subject”Privacy policy in role of “End Users”Privacy policyPrivacy policycPanel website administration, using Roundcube webmail free software