Last updated: 14 January 2023.
Privacy Policy for Sustainable Nights (sustainablenights.com), published by Roaming Media Pty Ltd in Australia, ABN 91 145 312 527.
We use your personal data to run and improve the Sustainable Nights website.
We never sell your personal information to third parties. We are not in the business of selling, renting or trading email lists with other companies and businesses for marketing purposes.
The following Privacy Policy provides information on when and why we collect your personal information, how we use it, the limited conditions in which we may disclose it and how we keep it secure.
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using Sustainable Nights, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you.
Personally identifiable information we collect may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address, if provided by you.
- First and last name, if provided by you.
- Usage Data
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using Sustainable Nights.
Usage Data may include information such as your device’s IP address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our site 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 Sustainable Nights by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device’s 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.
We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit Sustainable Nights or when you access Sustainable Nights by or through a mobile device.
How We Use Your Data
Website Analytics
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files may include your IP address, your ISP (internet service provider), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Chrome or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site as well as other non-personal data. This data is processed in a way that does not identify anyone. This data is accessed by a third party, Google Analytics. We do this to find out things like the number of visitors to the various parts of our website.
Cookies
Read our Cookie Policy for more information and managing cookie preferences.
Our website uses cookies to collect information. This includes information about browsing and purchasing behaviour, pages viewed and personal preferences when you visit our site and related sites. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as our comment system.
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or making comments.
Newsletter
As part of our newsletter mailing list, we collect certain personal information from you. This information includes your email address and other information you may provide. We collect this information to send you the newsletter you have signed up for, to occasionally contact you to provide additional information and to check every now and then that our records are correct and you are satisfied with our service and newsletter.
We use a third-party provider, Substack, to deliver our newsletter. Substack gathers and provides us with statistics around email openings and clicks using industry-standard technologies to help us monitor and manage our newsletter. For more information, please see Substack’s privacy notice. You can unsubscribe from our mailing list at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of all our emails.
Website Plugins
We use WordPress as our content management system along with a number of plugins to help manage the look and feel of our site. This includes social media plugins that provide share buttons to enable visitors to easily share blog posts to various social media platforms. These plugins place cookies and record visitor IP addresses to determine social share counts. This is used purely for the purpose of displaying share counts on blog posts.
We use Social Snap for social sharing. Read Social Snap’s privacy policy.
Advertising
Display Ads
We may use third-party advertisements on Sustainable Nights to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers information including but not limited to your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing Sydney real estate ads to someone in Sydney, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing travel ads to someone who frequents travel sites).
Retargeted Ads
We may engage in retargeting ad efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, for marketing purposes. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on past visits to websites.
Facebook: Opt-out of Facebook remarketing here.
Google: Opt-out of Google remarketing here.
Affiliate Marketing
Sustainable Nights participates in a number of affiliate marketing programs. This is done by adding links within text, images and banners which adds a cookie and tracks purchases on the merchant’s website. We then receive a commission for sales at no extra cost to you. Current affiliate programs on this website include but are not limited to Booking and Get Your Guide. Please see their privacy policies below:
Booking Privacy Policy
GetYourGuide Privacy Policy
Retention of Your Personal Data
Sustainable Nights will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the website’s functionality, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Delete Your Personal Data
You have the right to delete or request that we assist in deleting the personal data that we have collected about you.
Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of your personal data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Links to Other Websites
Sustainable Nights may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. 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.
Children
Sustainable Nights is not intended for children under the age of 16. Accordingly, we do not intend to collect personal information from anyone we know to be under 16 years of age. We do not intentionally collect, sell, or process the personal information of individuals under 16 years of age.
California Residents
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
To make a request, please contact us at: [email protected].
Requests to Delete
You can request that we delete any personal information about you that we have collected. Upon receiving a verified request to delete personal information, we will do so unless otherwise authorised by law.
To make a request, please contact us at: [email protected].
We are not required to respond to requests to know more than twice in a 12-month period.
GDPR
Under the European Union’s GDPR policy, you are entitled to view, amend, or delete the personal information we hold.
To make a request, please contact us at: [email protected].
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us by visiting: https://sustainablenights.com/contact/.