1. Our commitment to privacy
Not a Tourist knows that you take your privacy seriously. We do, too. We are committed to be transparent with you about our data practices and to give you control over personal data we collect about you. We don’t sell your personal data and by default your settings are privacy friendly. In this Privacy Policy, we outline the reasons why we need to process your Personal Data and the manner in which it is processed. You will also read about your rights and what you can ask us to do with your personal data.
Not a Tourist knows that you take your privacy seriously. We do, too. We are committed to be transparent with you about our data practices and to give you control over personal data we collect about you. We don’t sell your personal data and by default your settings are privacy friendly. In this Privacy Policy, we outline the reasons why we need to process your Personal Data and the manner in which it is processed. You will also read about your rights and what you can ask us to do with your personal data.
Not a Tourist knows that you take your privacy seriously. We do, too. We are committed to be transparent with you about our data practices and to give you control over personal data we collect about you. We don’t sell your personal data and by default your settings are privacy friendly. In this Privacy Policy, we outline the reasons why we need to process your Personal Data and the manner in which it is processed. You will also read about your rights and what you can ask us to do with your personal data.
Not a Tourist knows that you take your privacy seriously. We do, too. We are committed to be transparent with you about our data practices and to give you control over personal data we collect about you. We don’t sell your personal data and by default your settings are privacy friendly. In this Privacy Policy, we outline the reasons why we need to process your Personal Data and the manner in which it is processed. You will also read about your rights and what you can ask us to do with your personal data.
3. How do we collect and process your personal data?
3.1 Creating an account
You can create an account to create and download our guides and lists. When you register for an account we ask you to provide some basic information about yourself, such as:
Name
E-mail address
Password
Some of your personal preferences
We process this data as it is necessary to deliver Not a Tourist to you (legal basis: the performance of the agreement).
3.2 Using Not a Tourist with an account
As a registered user, you can start using Not a Tourist. It is up to you how you use Not a Tourist. You can create your guides and lists, share them with your friends. You can save location that you like and recommend, such as restaurants or bakeries, and share these lists and guides as you will. You can also sell these recommendations if you want to.
Depending on how you use Not a Tourist, we process the following data:
Your personal info, such as your name, biography text and e-mail address
Your location
Your added content, such as lists, guides, places saved, reviews, photos, videos, venues, likes, comments, tips and more
Your searches
Whom you follow and who follows you
Technical information to make Not a Tourist work well, such as your IP-address, device type, browser type, screen size and preferred language
We process this data as it is necessary for the performance of the agreement.
You can delete all of your added content whenever you like. When you do, it will no longer be visible to others and be deleted from our servers. You can also delete your entire account. When you do, we will delete all of your data 90 days after, so please download your data beforehand. If you haven’t used Not a Tourist for more than six years we will send you two reminders to ask you if you still want us to keep your data. If there is no response, we will permanently delete your account.
3.3 Finding your friends
You can find out which friends of yours are using Not a Tourist by giving us access to your contact list (your phone address book). In case you opt to do so, we collect and process the following data:
The e-mail addresses of your contacts
The legal basis is the performance of the agreement with you. We use this information to show you which friends of yours already have a Not a Tourist account, and to let these friends know that you have joined. We are only using the e-mail addresses of your local contacts, which will be sent to our servers periodically in order to find matches with our existing users. We do not store this information on our servers and we do not use this information for any other purpose. You can stop sharing this data with us at any time by revoking the Contacts permission in your devices setting.
Location data
With Not a Tourist, you can track your trips and the places that you visited or recommend. To make this possible we process your location data. For each individual trip you can choose if you want to enter locations manually or track your location automatically.
Manual - if you prefer not to automatically track your location, you can manually add content and all the places you have been. You can add photos and videos and tip the places you liked best. You will still have a list of your recommendations, however your route will not be tracked in full detail and you will miss some functionalities that require continuous location access. The legal basis is performance of the agreement with you.
Automatic - for a better experience, you can have us track your location automatically. When you do, you will be able to see and share every places next to you. When we know your location we can also send you recommendations for places to see and things to do near you.
You can also grant us access to your location for other purposes than tracking your location. With your (specific and separate) consent, we will collect your location when you open the app or occasionally in the background, to suggest adding a place when it looks like you’re travelling. If you have given such consent, we only store your last known location and we never store your full location history.
If you don’t want to share your location anymore you can withdraw your consent, and deny us access through your device settings.
Sharing your recommendations
Not a Tourist is a community. We allow you to not only keep track of your favorite places for yourself, but to share them with whomever you like.
You can change the sharing settings for a specific trip at any time. For every individual trip, you can choose with whom you want to share your experience:
Only me - Your lists and guides will only be visible by you.
Your community - Only people that follow you and people that you’ve shared your secret link with, are able to see the details of your profile.
Public - Inspire fellow travelers! Everyone can see your trip and details for free, or for a fee.
Think carefully about which data you share and who you share it with. By default your trip is only visible to your followers. Please be aware that when you set your trip to public, anyone may be able to see your live location. Share responsibly!
3.3 Using Not a Tourist without an account
You can view public lists and guides and lists and guides for which you have received a secret link without a Not a Tourist account. To facilitate this, Not a Tourist processes only the necessary technical information, such as your IP-address, phone type, browser type, screen size and preferred language. The legal basis is the performance of the agreement with you.
3.4 Purchasing our products
You can purchase lists and guides from other creators. Not a Tourist will need to process the following information:
Your account details
Payment and billing information
This is necessary for the performance of the agreement with you, for giving you access to your order. We retain your payment information as part of your account settings, so that if you order another product in the future, you don’t need to enter your details again.
3.5 Improving, securing and optimizing Not a Tourist
Not a Tourist is constantly in development. We need certain data to optimize your experience and to improve the services. This concerns, for example, the following data:
How you interact with the app or website, such as search terms, pageviews and messages
Device information, such as hardware model, OS version, unique ID, browser type, language and WiFi information
Location data
Information collected by cookies and similar technologies
Crash data
The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest to improve the App, by analyzing how the App is used, what problems are encountered and what improvements are necessary. We will limit this processing as much as possible, for instance by pseudonymising the data.
3.6 Cookies
When you visit our App or Website, small text files are stored on your computer, smartphone or other device. These files are called cookies. Cookies help us to function, analyze and personalize the website. We do not make use of tracking cookies to personalize content or show advertisements. For detailed information on the use of cookies, see https://www.notatourist.me/cookie-policy.
3.7 Social Media
If you follow us on social media or communicate with us or about us on social media, we may have access to a part of your public profile data. Not a Tourist also follows social media channels and may have access to public profile information by doing so.
We do this in order to increase our social media activity, respond to queries, and analyze customer satisfaction. The legal basis for this is our legitimate interest to improve our services.
3.8 Customer Satisfaction Surveys
Not a Tourist conducts customer surveys in several ways. If you contact support or make a purchase, you may receive an invitation to participate in a customer satisfaction surveys. For this purpose we process information such as your e-mail address, the reason for sending you a survey and the results of the survey.
We use the results to improve the quality of our services and products. The legal basis is the performance of the agreement with you.
3.9 Mailing
You can subscribe to our mailings. For this, we need your name and email address. The legal basis for this is your consent. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ button in each email. If you are no longer subscribed, we will remove your name and email address from our mailing list.
You may also receive mails which are necessary for the performance of the agreement with you, such as a confirmation of your account creation, password reset request or changes to our legal documentation.
3.10 Support
You can contact our support department for any issues related to our services. When you do, we process your account details and the contents of your issue, in order to answer your request, on the basis of the performance of the contract with you.
3.11 Contracting Partners
We sometimes make use of contracting partners, such as IT providers. We may need to process some personal data of our contacts with such partners. We do this for the performance of the contract with these partners.
3.12 Protection of Rights
Lastly, we may need to process your data to protect our rights or the rights of third parties and to enforce our Terms of Service or policies, for instance to protect our intellectual property rights when they are violated. We may also share your data as part of a business sale, merger, investment, change in control or transfer of Not a Tourist. The legal basis for this are our legitimate business interests.
4. How do we share your personal data?
We have never sold your personal data to third parties for commercial purposes, and we have no intentions to do so in the future. We only share your personal data when necessary for offering our services, as described here.
We provide personal data to third parties who process personal data on our behalf. We enter into a processing agreement with our processors in which we legally bind our processors to process your personal data in accordance with the GDPR. We share data, for instance, with:
Hosting service providers to store our user data
Companies which help us analyze usage of the App and Website
In addition, we may be required by law to provide your information to a third party
Other parties may also be involved in the performance of the agreement with you as an independent or joint controller. We will inform you about it when this is the case.
Your personal data will only be stored or processed outside the European Union (and the EEA) by us or by third parties if this is in accordance with the applicable regulations for the transfer of personal data to countries outside the European Union. This means that we will only transfer your personal data to countries outside the European Union if the European Commission has decided that the third country in question ensures an adequate level of protection, or if other appropriate safeguards are put in place, such as the use of unchanged standard data protection clauses that have been approved by the European Commission.
5. How do we secure your data?
Not a Tourist takes the protection of personal data seriously and takes appropriate measures to prevent misuse, loss, unauthorized access, unwanted disclosure and unauthorized alteration.
6. What rights do you have?
You have the right to access, correction or erasure of your data. You can also ask us to restrict the processing or transfer your personal data and you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data.
To exercise these rights, contact us at support@notatourist.me. You can also submit a complaint to the Personal Data Authority.
Thank you for reading our privacy policy. We hope you trust us with your personal data. Travel safe, and share responsibly!