As owner of this website (donutfollowthecrowd.com, referred to as either “Website”, “we”, “us”, “our” or “Don’t follow the Crowd”), we care a lot about your privacy and fully understand the importance of protecting your personal data and handling it with care. In the following section, we explain what personal data the Website collects, why the Website collects them, and how the Website may use them. Rest assured that protecting your personal data is our priority. We promise, we will never give your personal information (like your name and email address) to any third parties unless you specifically authorised us to do so (please read carefully, which data may be given to third parties).
Please note that we do not collect any of your personal information (like name or email address) unless this information was given to us by you (the Website’s site-visitor and/or user) by agreeing to our terms.
What personal data we collect
Don’t follow the Crowd collects the voluntarily given information of your name and your email address when you comment or submit a contact form. When you leave comments on the Website Don’t follow the Crowd collects the data shown in the comments form, and also your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Filling out a Contact Form, you are required to provide your name (you are free to choose, and may choose to use a nickname rather than your real name) and your email address (it’s important that you provide your actual email address, otherwise we won’t be able to contact you). Your name and your email address are only required, so we can reply to your message. You may also leave a note that you do not want to be contacted.
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Website. Usage Data may include information such as IP address, browser type, browser version, the pages of the Website 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, Don‘t follow the Crowd may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device 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. The Website may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit Don‘t follow the Crowd or when you access Don‘t follow the Crowd by or through a mobile device.
How your personal information might be used
The Website may use, store, and process personal information which may be used like this:
- to enable us to communicate with you
- to respond to your comments and/or inquiries,
- to send you updates, administrative emails, security alerts, account notifications, or updates on policies
- to provide, understand and improve Don’t follow the Crowd for your convenience
- to track and measure advertising on the Website
- to operate and maintain the Website;
- To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorised or illegal activity.
Anonymous Data
From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.
Cookies
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. If you leave a comment on the Website you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse this Website.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept Cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of Don‘t follow the Crowd.
Real Cookie Banner
To manage the cookies and similar technologies used (tracking pixels, web beacons, etc.) and related consents, we use the consent tool "Real Cookie Banner". Details on how "Real Cookie Banner" works can be found at https://devowl.io/rcb/data-processing/.
The legal basis for the processing of personal data in this context are Art. 6 (1) lit. c GDPR and Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest is the management of the cookies and similar technologies used and the related consents.
The provision of personal data is neither contractually required nor necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You are not obliged to provide the personal data. If you do not provide the personal data, we will not be able to manage your consents.
Advertising
Display Ads
Don’t follow the Crowd displays ads on the Website. These Display Ads serve content and advertisements whenever you visit My Website. Cookies may be used to choose what content or advertisements are displayed.
Retargeting Ads
From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.
Affiliate Program Participation
What are affiliate links? Very simple, whenever you click on a link and you purchase the product we recommend, we will earn a small commission at no cost to you. This is helping us to keep the blog up and running. So, all the commissions we earn are being put straight back into our website (or are donated to charity!). Please note that we only recommend products that we have tested and used, and we find valuable (unless indicated otherwise). None of the products are displayed to only make money – because, that’s not the point!
If you have any questions or any concerns, please always feel free to contact us at julia@dontfollowthecrowd.de.
Don’t follow the Crowd is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.com. As part of this Amazon Associates program, the Website will post customised links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilises cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.
What rights you have over your data
If you have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record-keeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.
Sensitive Personal Information
At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
Comment Section Rules
You are more than welcome to use the comment sections under each post on donutfollowthecrowd.com. We value the right of freedom of speech and free opinions. You are allowed to write whatever you want: share your experience, add useful information that could help other users, express your enthusiasm about the post, criticise! Whenever you comment, please be aware of the following:
By using the comment section under each post
- you agree not to harm, abuse, harass, threaten or intimidate any person (including the author of the posts). We do not allow any bullying on our website! You may criticise, but please, make it constructive (just be courteous to others). Please note that, if you violate this rule, we reserve the right to delete your comment.
- If we find your comment really helpful, we are more than happy to update our post accordingly and would love to mention you (your idea, your thoughts, your copyright). You agree that we can use the contact details you provided to ask for your permission.
Third-party Service Providers
We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorise us to share your information.
Don‘t follow the Crowd may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. For more information about each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information, please refer to their privacy policies which each will be linked below.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics tracks the different uses of the Website and provides information about user action on the Website. This service provider collects data like your IP address but never your personal data.
We use Google Analytics for aggregated, anonymized website traffic analysis. In order to track your session usage, Google drops a cookie (_ga)
with a randomly-generated ClientID in your browser. This ID is anonymized and contains no identifiable information like email, phone number, name, etc. We also send Google your IP Address. We use GA to track aggregated website behavior, such as what pages you looked at, for how long, and so on. This information is important to us for improving the user experience and determining site effectiveness. If you would like to access what browsing information we have - or ask us to delete any GA data - please delete your _ga
cookies, reach out to us via this form, and/or install the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On.
At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time in the Website’s sole discretion.
Children under 16
Don’t follow the Crowd is not intended for children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, please do not provide any information on the Website.
If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at julia@dontfollowthecrowd.de and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Residents of the EEA (European Economic Area)
If you are a resident in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws you have the rights, among other things, to access your personal data, to ensure the accuracy of your personal data, to have me to erase your personal data, and/or to restrict further processing of your personal data.
If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by Don’t follow the Crowd, please contact us at julia@dontfollowthecrowd.de.
If you believe that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection.
Residents of California, USA
Due to the Pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2019 (“CCPA”), you have certain rights with respect to your personal information. For the purposes of this section, personal information is used as defined in the CCPA.
Copyright
All content and images used on this website are owned by Don’t follow the Crowd (unless otherwise indicated) for use on this site only. Unauthorised use is prohibited.
You cannot copy, reproduce, transmit, distribute, download or transfer any of our content or photos without using a link on your website which redirects to our website, clearly indicating that the content or image belongs to us. Please do let us know when you use our content and/or photo (julia@dontfollowthecrowd.de) because we would simply love to know. You may also use our content and images for personal, non-commercial purposes. Any distribution of content from the Website beyond what is described herein constitutes copyright infringement.
Sometimes Don’t follow the Crowd is using third-party website’s contents and/or images. We will always ask the owner(s) of the website for permission and will always clearly indicate the origin using a link to redirect the user to third-party’s website (and whatever else is agreed on between Don’t follow the Crowd and the owner(s) of the third-party’s website).
If, in any case, you feel that we violated the copyright laws for your copyrighted content and/or images and it does not correspond to fair use, please send us an email (julia@dontfollowthecrowd.de and we will take down your content from this Website as soon as possible. NOTE: very important. As Don’t follow the Crowd is travelling and does not always have internet access, there might be the occasion that we get your email later than you were hoping for. If this case occurs, we do apologise for any inconvenience we may have caused and please understand that your email is handled with high priority.
Liability
Content
We always try to keep our posts updated and it’s very important to us that we only provide correct information. However, We can not be held responsible for any false, inaccurate, inappropriate or incomplete information on this website. We are a not scientists, doctors, or nutritionists, and everything that relates to food and/or health are personal experiences only and are all based on what we experienced. You should therefore not rely on any information for health or nutrition. The information contained on this blog are for general information purposes and are created for helping you.
Technical
Although we do our best to keep this website up and running smoothly, we take no responsibility for and will not be liable for the website being temporarily unavailable due to technical issues (or otherwise) beyond its control or for any damage arising from technical issues. Also, we cannot be held responsible for any loss or damage as a result of the use or access to this website.
Third-party links and websites
Don’t follow the crowd contains many links to direct you to third-party websites, for your convenience. Please note that we are not in control of any material or service on these websites. We cannot be held responsible for the content, accuracy, legality, completeness or function of third-party websites (links) or for any damage that arises by clicking on the link. Of course, we will not put anything dodgy on my blog but there are always possibilities (like hacker attacks, e.g.) that may arise and could cause you harm.
Use at your own risk
Any health, beauty or fitness advice or information provided on this website are to use at your own risk. You are responsible for evaluating your own health and physical condition before using or adapting the information on this website. If you’re having any doubts, please consult your physician first.
Contact Information
At any time, please contact us at julia@dontfollowthecrowd.de for questions related to this Privacy Policy.
Last updated: 25 Nov, 2023