1. Privacy policy
1.1. Who is responsible for your information
Drivemefoody.com is a travel blog administered by Marcos Escudero Olano, resident in Madrid, Spain. He is the responsible for the treatment of data collected when writing comments in the website, subscribing to our newsletter or submitting contact forms in the website. Our contact e-mail address is: drivemefoody@gmail.com
1.2. Legitimate interest
The legal basis for treatment of your data is your free willing consent. In order to contact, subscribe or comment in this blog, it is required that you accept the terms and conditions of this privacy policy.
1.3. Third parties
Some of the data we collect in drivemefoody.com is shared with third parties, in most cases automatically. In this section, these addressees are listed and links to their privacy policy are provided.
Hosting: Bluehost, located in the United States of America, uses data in order to provide hosting services to drivemefoody.com.
Digital Marketing: The Rocket Science Group LLC (MailChimp), located in the United States of America, treats data in order to send e-mail communications.
Web data analytics: Drivemefoody.com uses Google Analytics, a service provided by Google, Inc. located in the United States of America. Google Analytics cookies help us distinguish between different users and understand how often a particular user may visit our Site, how the user got to our Site, and the user’s activity on our Site. Google developed two resources – How Google Uses Information from Sites or Apps that Use Our Services and Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on – to help provide website visitors more information and choice on how their data is collected when websites use Google services.
Advertisements: Google AdSense, a service provided by Google, Inc. We use this services to show advertisements to users who enter drivemefoody.com. When collaborating with Google in the scope of this service, cookies are used to show you advertisements related to your recent searches and to show you more relevant advertisements. Google developed two resources – Types of cookies used by Google and How Google uses cookies – to help provice website visitors more information on how their data is collected when website use this services.
1.4. Your data protection rights
As a user that has provided data to drivemefoody.com, you can exercise the following data protection rights, according to REGULATION (EU) 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), from now on referred to as “GDPR”. The Spanish Data Protection Law is also applicable (Ley Orgánica 3/2018, de 5 de diciembre, de Protección de Datos Personales y garantía de los derechos digitales, from now on referred to as “LOPD”)
The right to access to your personal data – You have the right to request drivemefoody.com for copies of your personal data free of charge.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Our Company correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Our Company to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Our Company erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Our Company restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Our Company’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The type of data we collect in drivemefoody.com (e-mail address and name), do not allow you to exercise the right to data portability.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: drivefoody@gmail.com
You will also be able to exercise any of these rights in the footer of most e-mail communications you will receive from us.
1.5. How will we use your data
In this section we will explain you how we use the personal data collected in drivemefoody.com. This usage depends on how the data was collected.
1.5.1. Contact form
In the contact form we request the following data: name and e-mail address. We request this data to be able to contact you in order to answer your inquiries. This data will be stored in our e-mail address drivemefoody@gmail.com. The information you provide us will remain stored in this e-mail address until you request its deletion.
1.5.2. Subscription form to our Newsletter
In the subscription form to our newsletter we request the following data: name and e-mail address. The reason why we request this data is to send you periodically by e-mail the content we publish in the blog. These communications are sent through servers belonging to The Rocket Science Group LLC (MailChimp), located outside of the European Union, in the United States of America. MailChimp is covered by the EU-US Privacy Shield agreement, adopted by the European Data Protection Supervisor. This link provides more information about MailChimp’s privacy policy. The information you provide is will remain in our distribution list until you unsubscribe. You will be able to unsubscribe following the links included in all our e-mail communications or requesting it explicitly by e-mail to drivemefoody@gmail.com.
1.5.3. Comment form
In order to comment in this blog, we require that you provide a name and an e-mail address. We do not allow anonymous comments. The data you provide us will be stored in servers belonging to Bluehost (our hosting service provider), located outside of the European Union, in the United States of America. Bluehost complies with the GDPR provisions. This link provides more information about Bluehost privacy policy and GDPR compliance. The information you provide us will remain stored in our server hosted by Bluehost until you request us to delete your comments.
In all cases, accepting the privacy policy through the double opt-in procedure will be interpreted as the free, specific, informed and inequivocal consent of the user to the treatment of his personal data of the type included in this document, in the terms of article 6 of LOPD, and to the international transfer of these data due to the location of the installations of the service providers mentioned in this document.
1.6. Cookies and embedded content
Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology. You can find more information in our cookie policy. The posts in drivemefoody.com can contain embedded media, e.g. Spotify playlists, YouTube videos or maps provided by Google Maps. Content embedded by other websites behaves in the same way as if you were visiting that other website, i.e. providers of this content can store data about you, use cookies, embed third-party content and track your interaction with said embedded content, including following your interaction with the content while you are connected to drivemefoody.com.
2. Legal disclaimer
2.1. Ownership
In compliance with the duty to inform expressed in article 10 of the Spanish Law on Services of Information Society and Electronic Commerce (Ley 34/2002, de 11 de julio, de Servicios de la Sociedad de la Información y del Comercio Electrónico), drivemefoody.com is declared as a personal website administered by Marcos Escudero Olano (which will be referred to as “the provider”) with legal address in Madrid (Spain).
2.2 Exclusion of liability
The provider will not be liable for any damage, loss or injury as a consequence of the activities of any website user and the usage they may give to the website content.
The provider will not be liable for the contents and opinions submitted by others in the website comments. If any of these contents or opinions are deemed offensive they will be removed immediately.
Drivemefoody.com contains external links to other websites not belonging to the provider. The provider will not be liable for the way these other websites treat personal data of their users.
The provider does not guarantee the availability and continuity of the website and will not be liable for any damage or loss produced or any technical flaw, of whichever kind or nature, that may derive from the use of the information and content of this website. Due to changes that data published in drivemefoody.com or mistakes of its authors, the provider does not guarantee the reliability, usefulness, truthfulness or exactitude of the information contained in this website. Any conflict resolution will be carried out under relevant Spanish and European Union law.
2.3. Intellectual property
All intellectual property rights of this website and of the different web pages within it, as well as all content included in this website and its web pages are exclusively the property of the web owner, except when it is signed by another person or otherwise explicitly mentioned (this includes the following non-exhaustive list: graphical design, source code, logos, photographs, drawings and other images, text, graphics, databases and other elements).
Therefore, the owner of this website explicitly reserves all rights. Likewise, all trading names, domains, brands or distinctive signs of any kind contained in this website are protected by law. The user can only access these elements and services for his own and private use and thus, the use of all or part of the contents of this website and web pages contained in it for public or commercial purposes is strictly prohibited, as well as distributing, communicating publically, modifying, altering or decompiling the said content, unless the website owner has consented to this use explicitly and in written form.
Therefore, the user admits that the reproduction, distribution, trading and, more generally, any other form of exploitation, using any procedure, of all or part of the content of this website will constitute a violation of the intellectual property rights of the website owner or the owner of the content within the website.
As a derogation of the previous paragraph, if you wish to use one of our photographs or texts in a non-commercial blog or website, you are entitled to do it, as long as you mention the source (drivemefoody.com or a link to the original post) and you do not modify it (e.g. by cutting it, adding elements to it or altering its colours, understanding these examples as an non-exhaustive list), except to change its size in order to adapt it to the page dimensiones. If you wish to use one of our photographs or texts in a commercial blog or website (e.g. for advertising or another for-profit activity), you will have to contact me by writing an e-mail to drivemefoody@gmail.com, so that I can inform you of our pricing conditions depending on your specific needs.
If you wish to link one of our posts, you can mention the source (drivemefoody.com, with a link to the original post) and use your own text to present it. This own text shall not include any paragraph of our post, nor an exact copy of any of its sentences.
2.4 Commenting policy
Comments are welcomed and encouraged on this site, but there are some instances where comments will be edited or deleted as follows:
- Comments deemed to be spam or solely promotional in nature will be deleted. Including a link to relevant content is permitted, but comments should be relevant to the post topic.
- Comments containing language or concepts that could be deemed offensive, abusive, threatening, pornographic, misleading or libelous will be deleted.
- Comments that attack an individual directly or that discriminate individuals on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), opinion, marital status, sexual orientation, or any other personal or social characteristic or status will be deleted.
- Comments that harass other posters will be deleted. Please be respectful toward other contributors.
- Anonymous comments will be deleted. We only accept comments from posters who identify themselves.
The owner of this blog reserves the right to edit or delete any comments submitted to the blog without notice. This comment policy is subject to change at any time.
The owner of this blog respects freedom of speech and comments that disagree or criticise the views exposed in this blog will not be deleted as long as they do not violate the rules of this commenting policy. The owner respects the privacy of the blog users.
If users wish to comment something that is not part of a blog article or that is too long to be reasonably included in a post comment, please write us at drivemefoody@gmail.com
2.5. Terms and conditions of use
The use of drivemefoody.com implies the full acceptance by the user of all terms and conditions of use existing when the user accesses the website. If the user does not agree with these conditions, he should refrain from using the website. The user will not use the website nor its services nor content in any way that violations relevant legislation in force.
The owner of this blog reserves the right to block access to the website without notice to any user that violates the provisions in this legal disclaimer section. The owner of this blog reserves the right to change the design, configuration and location of this website, as well as its contents and the conditions to user and access them. The user states and accepts that his access to this website and the contents herein included takes place freewillingly and consciously and under this sole responsibility. The user agrees to make an appropriate use of the website and its contents, in accordance with relevant legal provisions, these terms and conditions of use, moral, generally accepted custom and public order.
3. Cookie policy
Drivemefoody.com uses Google cookies, namely cookies from Google Adsense and Google Analytics. These links provide more information about Google cookies: Types of cookies used by Google and How Google uses cookies.
You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.
Furthermore, when using this website you accept data treatment by Google for the purposes stated above.
3.1. Google AdSense cookies
Drivemefoody.com uses Google AdSense, an advertising service provided by Google, Inc., a Delaware company, whose main address is in 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, United States of America (“Google”). Google, as a third-party service provider, uses the DART cookie that allows it to show advertisements to users based on their profile in our website. Drivemefoody.com has no access to or control of these cookies. You should read the privacy policy of these external advertising servers in order to obtain more detailed information of their data analysis practices and instructions to opt out of them.
3.2. Google Analytics cookies
Drivemefoody.com uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google. Google Analytics uses cookies, (text files in user computers) to help this website to analyse how users interact with the site. The information generated by this cookie about the use of the website (including the IP address) is directly transferred and stored by Google in servers in the United States of America. Google will use this information in our account in order to follow the interaction of users with this website, creating activity reports of this website and providing other services related to the website and internet activity. Google may transfer this information to others whenever it is required by applicable law or when others process this information for Google. Google will not link your IP address with any other information or data that Google may have.