Privacy Policy
When you use the Merikipe website, we collect information about your activity on and interaction with the site, such as your IP address(es), your device and browser type, what pages on our site you visit and for how long, and identifiers associated with your devices. If you’ve given us permission through your device settings, we may collect your location information.
If using the website purely for information purposes, i.e. if you have not submitted personal information in order to opt into the Merikipe Newsletter list, we shall only collect the personal data which your browser transmits to our server. We collect the following data which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to guarantee stability and security:
• IP address
• Date and time of the query
• Time zone
• Content of the request (specific page)
• Access status / HTTP status code
• Data volume transferred in each instance
• Browser
• User’s operating system and user interface
• Browser software language and version
Personal data (including name and email address) is collected when a user submits this information through our sign-up form. All personally identifiable information is provided voluntarily. The provided information is used to facilitate later contact regarding upcoming trips and information, and Merikipe news.
This personal data will be maintained and managed by MERIKIPE for the purpose of correspondence with newsletter list members. The information is stored in a password-protected online database. You may opt-out of this correspondence at any time by using the unsubscribe link included at the bottom of each email.
Use of external tools on our website
We have integrated various tools from different companies into our website, which allow us to evaluate user behavior.
Google Analytics
The controller has integrated the component Google Analytics on this website.
Google Analytics is a web analytics service. Web analysis is the gathering, collection and analysis of data about the behavior of visitors to websites. Among other things, a web analysis service collects data on which website a data subject has come to a website from (so-called referrers), which subpages of the website were accessed or how often and for which period of time a subpage was viewed. A web analysis is mainly used to optimize a website and for the cost-benefit analysis of Internet advertising.
The operator of the Google Analytics component is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.
Google Analytics uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google might transfer the personal information collected via this technical procedure to third parties.
On behalf of the operator of the website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity and to provide further services related to website and internet use to us. The IP address transferred through your browser to Google Analytics will not be combined with other data held by Google.
You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software.
In addition, you may prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
This browser add-on informs Google Analytics via JavaScript that no data and information about website visits may be transmitted to Google Analytics. In addition, a cookie already set by Google Analytics can be deleted at any time via the Internet browser or other software programs.
Further information and Google‘s applicable privacy regulations can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser. They serve to enable our systems to recognize your browser and display our website in the best possible way.
We store some of this information for a period of 12 months, but most cookies we use expire at the end of the browsing session.
Merikipe | Arroyo Grande, CA 93420 | gobeyond@merikipe.com