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If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, you can contact us at Campingfreaks@gmail.com and include ‘Privacy Policy’ in the subject line. Privacy Policy Overview What Categories of Information We May Process Sensitive Personal Information How We Collect or Create Information Purposes for Which We May Process Your Information Direct Marketing Cookies, Similar Technologies and Online Behavioral Advertising What is the Lawful Basis for Processing Personal Information What Information We Disclose to Third Parties International Transfers of Information Data Security Data Accuracy Data Minimization Data Retention What Can I Do to Control My Information? Terms of Use Contact Details How this Privacy Policy May Change 1. Privacy Policy Overview Summary – Policy Overview This Policy explains how we may Process your information. This Policy may be amended or updated from time to time, so please check it regularly for updates. Camping Freaks owns, operates, or provides access to, several interactive features and services. This Privacy Policy applies to all information collected about you when you interact with the Services, regardless of how it is collected or stored, and describes, among other things, the types of information collected about you when you interact with the Services, how your information may be used, when your information may be disclosed, how you can control the use and disclosure of your information, and how your information is protected. Except as otherwise noted in this Privacy Policy, Camping Freaks is a data controller (as that term is used under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”)), which means that we decide how and why the information you provide to us is processed. This Policy may be amended or updated from time to time to reflect changes in our practices with respect to the Processing of your information, or changes in applicable law. We encourage you to read this Policy carefully. This Privacy Policy covers information collected through the Camping Freaks website. 2. What Categories of Information We May Process Summary – Categories of Information We May Process We may Process: your personal details (e.g., your name); demographic data (e.g., your age); your contact details (e.g., your address); records of your consents; purchase details; details of your employer (where relevant); information about your interactions with our content or advertising; and any views or opinions you provide to us. We may also Process information about you from your use of our Services (e.g., the type of device you are using, the internet service provider, etc.), including your interactions with content. “Personal Information” means information that is about any individual, or from which any individual is directly or indirectly identifiable. “Process”, “Processing” or “Processed”means anything that is done with any Personal Information, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction. We may Process the following categories of Personal Information about you: Personal details: your name; username or log in details; password; areas or topics of interest; information provided in response to quizzes or surveys or to use certain career-related programs. Demographic information: gender; age/date of birth; nationality; salutation; job title, company information, education, work experience and other professional information; and language preferences. Contact details: postal address; telephone and/or mobile number; email address; and your public social media handles or profile(s). Consent records: records of any consents you may have given, together with the date and time, means of consent and any related information (e.g., the subject matter of the consent). Location information: location data that describes the precise geographic location of your device (“Precise Location Data”). Purchase and payment details: records of purchases and prices; invoice records; payment records; billing address; payment method; cardholder or accountholder name; payment amount; and payment date. Employer details: where you interact with us in your capacity as an employee, the contact information of your employer (including name, address, telephone number and email address) to the extent relevant. Views and opinions: any views and opinions that you or other users choose to send to us, or publicly post about us on social media platforms.We also collect other kinds of information from you or other sources, which we refer to as “Other Information” in this Policy, which may include but is not limited to: Information about your use our content, such as usage data and statistical information which may include Browsing history including the websites or other services you visited before. Searches for and interactions with e-commerce opportunities, such as merchants and offers contained in the Services. Non-precise information about the approximate physical location (for example, at the city or zip code level) of a user’s computer or device derived from the IP address of such computer or device (“GeoIP Data”). Device identification (“ID”), which is a distinctive number associated with a smartphone or similar handheld device, but is different than a hardware serial number. Advertising ID, which is a unique, user-resettable identification number for advertising associated with a device (e.g., iOS uses the Identifier for Advertising (or “IDFA”) and Android uses Google Advertising ID). Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, which is a unique string of numbers automatically assigned to your device whenever you access the Internet. Information collected through the use of cookies, eTags, Javascript, pixel tags, device ID tracking, anonymous identifiers and other technologies, including information collected using such methods and technologies about (i) your visits to, and interaction and engagement with, content and ads on third party websites, applications, platforms and other media channels (“Channels”), and (ii) your interaction with emails including the content and ads therein (collectively, “Online Data”). Device type, settings and software used. Log files, which may include IP addresses, browser type, ISP referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamps and/or clickstream data, including any clicks on customized links. Web Beacons, which are electronic files that allow a website to count users who have visited that page or to access certain cookies. Pixel Tags, also known as clear GIFs, beacons, spotlight tags or web bugs, which are a method for passing information from the user’s computer to a third party website. Local Shared Objects, such as Flash cookies, and Local Storage, such as HTML5. Mobile analytics to understand the functionality of our mobile applications and software on your phone. Under certain circumstances and depending on applicable law, some of this Other Information may constitute Personal Information. Personal Information together with Other Information is hereinafter referred to as “User Information”. 3. Sensitive Personal Information Summary – Sensitive Personal Information Where we need to Process your Sensitive Personal Information for a legitimate purpose, we do so in accordance with applicable law. To the extent that information we collect is recruitment data or another special category of personal data subject to GDPR, we ask for your explicit consent to process the data. We obtain this consent separately when you take actions leading to our obtaining the data, for example, when you sign up for a newsletter on our site or agree to allow us to track you. You can withdraw your consent at any time by unsubscribing from our newsletters as set out in Section 6 or adjusting your preferences as set out in Section 15. 4. How We Collect or Create Information Summary – Collection and Creation of Information We may collect or obtain User Information about you: directly from you (e.g., where you contact us); in the course of our relationship with you (e.g., if you make a purchase); when you make your Personal Information public (e.g., if you make a public post about us on social media. We may also create User Information about you, such as records of your interactions with us. Camping Freaks is not responsible for Personal Information you volunteer about yourself. This Policy does not cover the practices of third parties who may provide information about you to Camping Freaks. Collection of User Information: We may collect User Information about you from the following sources: Data you provide: We may obtain your Personal Information when you provide it to us (e.g., where you sign up for emails, newsletters or SMS messages; register for site membership; contact us via email, telephone or by any other means; make a purchase; etc.). Relationship data: We may collect or obtain your Personal Information in the ordinary course of our relationship with you (e.g., if you purchase a service from us). Data you make public: We may collect or obtain your Personal Information that you clearly choose to make public, including via social media (e.g., we may collect information from your social media profile(s) if you make a public post about us) or through our chats Content and advertising information: If you choose to interact with any third party content, we may receive User Information about you from the relevant third party. Third party information: We may collect or obtain your Personal Information from third parties who provide it to us. This may include offline channels such as through telephone or direct mail efforts; from customers, vendors, suppliers, third parties, commercially available or publicly-available sources (e.g., data brokers, data aggregators, public databases, etc.); third party affiliate network operators; referral sources; and social network sites or services (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.). If you use a third party connection or log-in (e.g., Facebook Connect, Twitter, or Google+) to access the Services, create a membership,access our content or forward our content to another person, platform or service, we may also receive your username or email address for those third party services or other information available about you or collected from you on those services. Please note that Camping Freaks is not responsible for the information you volunteer about yourself in the discussions in certain public areas of our website such as forums, blogs, wikis, chat rooms, private messages, message boards or other publicly accessible interaction, or information that you choose to make public in your member profile that allow users to upload or post content. We discourage users from posting such Personal Information in this fashion. You can change your publicly available information at any time via your profile page. To request removal of your Personal Information from these areas, please contact us using using the information on the Contact Us page. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your Personal Information, in which case we will let you know we are unable to do so and why. This Privacy Policy does not cover the practices of third parties, including those that may disclose information to Camping Freaks. Creation of User Information. We may also create User Information about you, such as records of your interactions with us and details of your purchase history, for internal administrative purposes and analysis. We may also use User Information you have provided to us with data obtained from third parties to enhance our records or enhance our ability to provide products and services, such as appending additional information to your profile. 5. Purposes for Which We May Process Your Information Summary – Purposes for Which We May Process Your Information We may Process User Information for the following purposes: communicating with you; providing advertising to you, analyzing engagement with our audience; observing user engagement and purchase activity ,offering lead generation services; marketing our services and offerings to current and prospective customers; managing our IT systems; financial management; conducting surveys and quizzes; ensuring the security of our systems; conducting investigations where necessary; compliance with applicable law; and improving our Services. The purposes for which we may Process User Information, subject to applicable law, include: Provision of the Services to You: Providing the Services to you from Camping Freaks or its partners including (i) offering of contests, as well as chat areas, forums and communities, (ii) management of your account, and (iii) customer support and relationship management. Offering and Improving the Services: operating and managing the Services for you; providing personalized content to you; communicating and interacting with you; identifying issues with our Services and planning improvements to or creating new Services; and notifying you of changes to any of our Services. Identification: using information from third parties to verify information about you in order to provide the Services (e.g. verify your mailing address to send you requested products or services. Surveys and Quizzes: engaging with you for the purposes of obtaining your views on our Services, as well as learning more about your interests, including your interest in third parties and their offerings. Research: analyzing, benchmarking and conducting research based on User Information and your interactions with our website. Communications: communicating with you via any means (including via email, telephone, text message, social media, post or in person) regarding content and other information in which you may be interested, subject to ensuring that such communications are provided to you in compliance with applicable law; maintaining and updating your contact information where appropriate; and obtaining your prior, opt-in consent where required. Advertising: providing advertising based on your interests and interactions, including using User Information to serve you advertisements, as well as licensing segments of User Information to third parties. Audience Engagement: identification and development of audience engagement, advertising and promotional strategies on various platforms and channels. User Engagement and Purchases: tracking purchase traffic and activity across the website, including review of your browsing history (if available); provision of analytics and measurement of cost of traffic against money being made. Commerce Offerings: using cookies to track your browsing history and the amount of money spent at a particular third party merchant’s site to offer coupons and other offers that are relevant to your shopping experience. Lead Generation: producing customer leads that are shared with third party advertisers through marketing campaigns, including but not limited to email marketing and site placements. Marketing to Customers: We may market to current and prospective customers and their employees who have indicated an interest in doing business with, or have previously conducted business with, Camping Freaks in order to further generate and promote our business. Such efforts include sending marketing emails or conducting phone calls to drive the purchase of advertising, marketing our lead generation, job boards, and other business services offered by Camping Freaks. IT Administration: administration of Camping Freak's information technology systems; network and device administration; network and device security; implementing data security and information systems policies; compliance audits in relation to internal policies; identification and mitigation of fraudulent activity; and compliance with legal requirements. Security: electronic security measures (including monitoring of login records and access details) to help mitigate the risk of and provide the ability to identify and rectify a security incident. Financial Management: general business and financial management purposes, including: economic, financial and administrative management; planning and reporting; personnel development; sales; accounting; finance; corporate audit; and compliance with legal requirements Investigations: detecting, investigating and preventing breaches of policy, and criminal offences, in accordance with applicable law. Legal Proceedings: establishing, exercising and defending legal rights. Legal Compliance: Subject to applicable law, we reserve the right to release information concerning any user of Services when we have grounds to believe that the user is in violation of our Terms of Use or other published guidelines or has engaged in (or we have grounds to believe is engaging in) any illegal activity, and to release information in response to court and governmental orders, other requests from government entities, civil subpoenas, discovery requests and otherwise as required by law or regulatory obligations. We also may release information about users when we believe in good faith that such release is in the interest of protecting the rights, property, safety or security of Camping Freaks,any of our users or the public, or to respond to an emergency. 6. Direct Marketing Summary – Direct Marketing We may Process your User Information to contact you with information regarding services that may be of interest to you. You may unsubscribe for free at any time. We may Process your User Information to contact you via email, telephone, direct mail, or other methods of communication to provide you with information regarding the Services that may be of interest to you. We may send information to you regarding the Services, upcoming promotions and other information that may be of interest to you, using the contact details that you have provided to us and always in compliance with applicable law. You may unsubscribe from our newsletter lists at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions included in every email we send. We will not send you any emails from a list you have selected to be unsubscribed from, but we may continue to contact you to the extent necessary for the purposes of any other Services you have requested or for additional emails you have signed up for. 7. Cookies, Similar Technologies and Online Behavioral Advertising Summary – Cookies, Similar Technologies and Online Behavioral Advertising We may Process your User Information by placing or reading Cookies and similar technologies Certain tracking technologies enable us to assign a unique identifier to you, and relate information about your use of the Services to Other Information about you, including your User Information for the purposes of learning more about you so we can provide you with relevant content and advertising. We and our partners also use these technologies to analyze trends; administer the Services; collect and store information such as user settings, anonymous browser identifiers and video viewing history; supplement to our server logs and other methods of traffic and response measurement; track users’ location and movements around the Services; gather demographic information about our user base; and to improve our understanding of traffic on the Services, visitor behavior, and responses to promotional campaigns. Camping Freaks and/or certain third parties may collect information about you for online behavioral advertising purposes in order for you to receive relevant interest-based advertising on the Services and on other websites, platforms and media channels. We use Online Data as well as other User Information to send you online behavioral ads. Online Data is aggregated with the Other Information and data we collect and/or similar data collected by partners to create groups of users and certain general-interest categories or segments that we have inferred. We use this information to get a more accurate picture of audience interests in order to serve ads we believe are more relevant to your interests. Camping Freaks and its partners may use cookies and other tracking technologies to analyze trends, administer Services, track users’ movements around the Services and on third party sites, devices and applications, and to gather demographic information about our user base. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level, but if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on the Services. To manage Flash cookies, please click here. Please see our Cookie Policy for more information, including a more in-depth explanation of what cookies are, the different types of cookies used on the Services, and how to change or delete them. Tracking technologies on the Services may be deployed by Camping Freaks and/or by our service providers or partners. Certain tracking technologies enable us to assign a unique identifier to you, and relate information about your use of the Services to other information about you, including your User Information. We may match information collected from you through different means or at different times and use such information along with offline and online information obtained from other sources (including from third parties), including, but not limited to, demographic information and updated contact information, for the purposes of learning more about you so we can provide you with relevant content and advertising. When you receive email messages or newsletters fro m us, we may use web beacons, customized links, clear GIFs or similar technologies to determine whether the email has been opened and which links you click in order to provide you with more focused email communications or other information, and/or to aggregate that information with other data we collect to use for some or all of the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. We and our partners (including but not limited to e-commerce partners, affiliates, and analytics providers) also may use technologies such as pixel tags, e-tags, IP addresses, Local Shared Objects, Local Storage, Flash cookies and HTML5 to analyze trends; administer the Services; collect and store information such as user settings, anonymous browser identifiers and video viewing history; supplement our server logs and other methods of traffic and response measurement; track users’ location and movements around the Services; gather demographic information about our user base; and to improve our understanding of traffic on the Services, visitor behavior, and responses to promotional campaigns. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these third party companies on an individual and aggregated basis. For example, we may connect information about your IP address to known corporate or User Information and use the associated information related to aggregate content preferences to assist in our efforts to market services to you or the originating corporation(s). We may use mobile analytics software to collect data and to better understand the functionality of our mobile software, devices and applications on your phone and other devices. This software may record information such as how often you use the application, the events that occur within the application, aggregated usage, performance data, and where the application was downloaded from. We may link this information to User Information. Camping Freaks and/or certain third parties may collect information about you for online behavioral advertising (“OBA”) purposes in order for you to receive relevant interest-based advertising on the Services and on other websites, platforms and media channels. OBA is also referred to as interest-based advertising. Camping Freaks may use display ads to maintain the running of this website.

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