Last updated: 21 May 2022

1. Who we are?

The Lifestyle Democracy website is registered on the domain www.lifestyledemocracy.com (the “site”), which is managed by Diemocracy OÜ (“our company”, “we”, “our”).

Our company holds the company registration number 14751141 and it is located on Kiriku tn 6, Tallinn, 10130, Republic of Estonia, and you can contact us at the following e-mail address: .

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information we receive from users (“you”, “users”) of the site.

2. What data do we collect?

We are not in the business of collecting data.

While using our site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information (“personal information”) such as:

your name,
your email address,
Internet Protocol (IP) address (anonymized)

We try to limit the personally identifiable information we collect from you to the minimum required to get in touch with you or analyze where you are located and how you use the site to make it more intuitive.

3. How do we collect your data?

You provide us directly with most of the personal information we receive from you. In summary, you provide us information when you:

Use or view our website via your browser to understand what pages you are visiting and what were the referring websites.
Voluntarily sign up for the newsletter form, use the contact form, email us, comment on the blog posts, subscribe to support us through crowdfunding or membership platforms.

4. How we use your data?

We do not sell your personal information. We use the data you share to get in touch with you via email and understand how you interact with the website.

We use several third-party services to operate the site that collect personal information based on your consent. Here we explain in more detail how we collect your data:

Analytics & Cookies

Services used: CloudFlare, Plausible Analytics, Koko Analytics, Litespeed Cache, JetPack, WooCommerce, Pinterest

When you access our website, you agree your IP address may be collected by CloudFlare, Plausible Analytics and Koko Analytics for web analytics purposes. For website caching, we use CloudFlare’s and LiteSpeed Cache’s services.

For our web shop services we rely on JetPack, WooCommerce and Pinterest.

CloudFlare

Cloudflare is a global content delivery network (CDN) provider that speeds up the delivery of the website across multiple locations by caching it. In other words, Cloudflare stores the website on its servers around the world and shows it to different visitors from the nearest location. Instead of a visitor from Japan connecting to a US server (where the website is hosted), the user will see the version available on Cloudflare’s servers in Japan, thus saving time and energy used to display the website.

We rely on CloudFlare analytics to understand how users engage with the website and what are the posts and features most sought after.

We will not know your exact location based on your anonymized IP, but we will know your location at the country level. We want to know your location more broadly to understand where users are coming from and create content that suits these audiences better.

We strive to eliminate all unnecessary cookies. Currently, there are two cookies served by Cloudflare to offer the analytics and caching services. For more information about how they handle your data, you can read here.

For more information, please refer to CloudFlare’s Privacy Policy.

Plausible Analytics

Plausible Analytics is privacy-first, open-source analytics service provider. Plausible was carefully selected out of the multitude of options to strike a balance between protecting your data and providing us with useful analytics to improve our services.

For more information, please refer to Plausible’s Privacy Policy.

Koko Analytics

Koko Analytics is an open-source, privacy by design and self-hosted analytics tool. The tool does not use any external services and respects your privacy. The Koko Analytics setup on our website has the cookies option disabled.

For more information, please refer to Koko Analytic’s official website.

LiteSpeed Cache

This site utilizes caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary, and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary. We may use QUIC.cloud services to process & cache your data temporarily.

For more information, please refer to https://quic.cloud/privacy-policy/ for more details.

JetPack (& WooCommerce)

Our site uses analytics cookies delivered by JetPack and WooCommerce, both services operated by Auttomatic. These two services are required for the proper functioning of the web shop. JetPack and WooCommerce services are operated by Auttomatic Inc., 60 29th Street #343 San Francisco, CA 94110 United States of America.

JetPack and WooCommerce are used to support our e-commerce operations. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

For more information about how Auttomtic (JetPack and WooCommerce) handles your data, please refer to Auttomatic’s Privacy Policy.

Pinterest

Our site uses analytics cookies from Pinterest. Pinterest services are operated by Pinterest, Inc., 505 Brannan Street San Francisco, CA 94107 United States of America.

If you visit one of our pages featuring a Pinterest link, a connection to the Pinterest servers is established. Here the Pinterest server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.

If you’re logged in to your Pinterest account, Pinterest allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Pinterest account.

Pinterest is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

For more information about how Pinterest handles your data, please refer to Pinterest’s Privacy Policy.

For more information

If you want to learn more about cookies and how to control them, please visit All About Cookies.

Web Fonts

Services used: System Fonts

For uniform representation of fonts, this website uses web fonts served from our website. We do not rely on Google or other third-party fonts, thus we do not needlessly compromise your privacy.

If your browser does not support web fonts, your device will use a standard system font. We sacrifice some font design options for privacy.

Contact Form

Services used: Contact Form 7 Plugin, Zoho Email

When you want to get in touch with us, you do so by using the contact form in the “Get in Touch” page. We require your name and email to get in touch with you. We use the Contact Form 7 plugin for communication. You can read more about Contact Form 7 plugin.

When you use the form, we receive the email at . We use Zoho’s email services to communicate with you. We chose Zoho because of their commitment to privacy and robust ecosystem of applications to simplify our work and better serve you.

We store the information (name, email, subject, services you are interested in and your message) that you provide through the contact form on our Zoho Drive to better understand what types of services you are interested in and to get in touch with you about the requested service.

We do not share this information with other third parties. Further information about handling user data on Zoho’s servers can be found in Zoho’s privacy policy.

Comments

Services used: Contact Form 7 Plugin

When users leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. Read more about the Gravatar service privacy policy. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

Embedded content from other websites

Services used: Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Pinterest, Memberful, Patreon, ConvertKit

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Facebook

Our site uses links to our company’s Facebook page. Facebook services are operated by Facebook, Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America.

If you visit one of our pages featuring a Facebook link, a connection to the Facebook servers is established. Here the Facebook server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.

If you’re logged in to your Facebook account, Facebook allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Facebook account.

Facebook is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

For more information about how Facebook handles your data, please refer to Facebook’s Data Policy.

YouTube

Our site uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.

If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube.

Twitter

Our site uses links to our company’s Twitter’s page. Twitter services are operated by Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, United States of America.

If you visit one of our pages featuring a Twitter link, a connection to the Twitter servers is established. Here the Twitter server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.

If you’re logged in to your Twitter account, Twitter allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Twitter account.

Twitter is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

For more information about how Twitter handles your data, please refer to Twitter’s Privacy Policy.

Our site uses links to our company’s Pinterest page. Pinterest services are operated by Pinterest, Inc., 505 Brannan Street San Francisco, CA 94107 United States of America.

If you visit one of our pages featuring a Pinterest link, a connection to the Pinterest servers is established. Here the Pinterest server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.

Pinterest is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

For more information about how Pinterest handles your data, please refer to Pinterest’s Privacy Policy.

Memberful

We indirectly collect personal information (name, email) from you if you become a subscriber through our Memberful page (available through the Support page).

Memberful LLC is a Patreon Company. Patreon Inc., 395 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94306, United States of America. For more information about how Memberful handles your data, please refer to Memberful’s Privacy Policy.

Patreon

We indirectly collect personal information (name, email) from you if you become a subscriber through our Patreon page (www.patreon.com/lifestyledemocracy).

Patreon services are managed by Patreon Inc., 395 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94306, United States of America. For more information about how Patreon handles your data, please refer to Patreon’s Privacy Policy.

Services used: ConvertKit

We offer a newsletter service via ConvertKit for your convenience. If you sign-up for the newsletter via our website you agree that your personal information will be processed in accordance with ConvertKit’s Privacy Policy.

5. What is our Store Policy?

We use Woocommerce as our store and payments provider. Please read how your data will be processed if you use our store.

While you visit our store, we’ll track…

Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping
Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!

We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.

When you make a purchase…

When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:

Send you information about your account and order
Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
Process payments and prevent fraud
Set up your account for our store
Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
Improve our store offerings
Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them

if you create an account…

If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.

We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.

We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.

Who on our team has access?

Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:

Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.

Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill orders, process refunds and support you.

What third-party providers may process your information?

Store Merchandise Provider

Our third-party service provider for the merchandise that we provide is handled through, Printful, whose services are managed by Printful Inc. 11025 Westlake Dr, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273, United States of America. For more information about how Printful handles your data, please refer to Printful’s Privacy Policy.

We will share only the required information with our third-party provider to supply you with the requested merchandise or handle the eventual refunds. This information may include:

Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.

International Tax Handling & Shipping

Our third-party provider for handling international taxes such as U.S. sales taxes or European Union VAT (Value Added Tax) is through the support of JetPack.

Data Used: For payments with PayPal or Stripe: purchase total, currency, billing information. For taxes: the value of goods in the cart, value of shipping, destination address. For checkout rates: destination address, purchased product IDs, dimensions, weight, and quantities. For shipping labels: customer’s name, address as well as the dimensions, weight, and quantities of purchased products.

Data Synced (?): For payments, we send the purchase total, currency and customer’s billing information to the respective payment processor. Please see the respective third party’s privacy policy (Stripe’s Privacy Policy and PayPal’s Privacy Policy) for more details. For automated taxes we send the value of goods in the cart, the value of shipping, and the destination address to TaxJar. Please see TaxJar’s Privacy Policy for details about how they handle this information. For checkout rates we send the destination ZIP/postal code and purchased product dimensions, weight and quantities to the carrier directly or via EasyPost, depending on the service used. For shipping labels we send the customer’s name, address as well as the dimensions, weight, and quantities of purchased products to EasyPost. We also store the purchased shipping labels on our server to make it easy to reprint them and handle support requests.

6. how we handle payments?

Should you choose to make financial contributions to support Lifestyle Democracy, Stripe and PayPal are our payment services providers. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to Stripe or PayPal, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.

Stripe services are managed by Stripe Inc., 510 Townsend Street
San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. For more information about how Stripe handles your data, please refer to Stripe’s Privacy Policy.

PayPal services are managed by PayPal Inc., 2211 N 1st St, San Jose, CA 95131, United States of America. For more information about how PayPal handles your data, please refer to PayPal’s Privacy Policy.

7. Who we share your data with?

We do not share or sell your data with any organization except the selected third-party service providers to make the website user-friendly.

Please visit the section “How we use your data?” for more information.

8. Changes To This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of February 15, 2021.

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: