Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask You to provide certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. This may include:

• Email address
• First name and last name
• Usage Data

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service. It may include:

• Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address)
• Browser type and version
• Pages of our Service that You visit
• Time and date of Your visit
• Time spent on those pages
• Unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data

User-Generated Content

When you submit content (e.g., images, product details) through our product review submission form, we collect:

• Uploaded images and text details for potential publication
• Your email address for verification purposes (not displayed publicly or used for marketing)
• Consent for social media usage of submitted images (if granted by checking the box during submission)
  Note: Images uploaded through our review submission form are displayed on our website reviews section. However, these images will only be shared on our social media platforms if explicit consent is provided via a checkbox during submission.

The collected content is stored securely in our backend and reviewed before publication. Email addresses collected for verification are not used for marketing purposes unless explicit consent is given.

Email Marketing Information

If You subscribe to our newsletters or submit your email via our forms, we collect the following information:

• Email address
• First name and last name
• Information about email marketing events, such as message delivery, openings, clicks, and management of marketing consent.

We use Klaviyo to manage and analyze email marketing activities. With Your consent, we use the collected data to:

• Send You newsletters and personalized digital marketing.
• Target advertising to send You offers likely to be of most interest.

The information used includes:

• Your email address
• Information on newsletter delivery, opening, and clicking
• Website browsing behavior and history (if cookies are enabled)

Klaviyo’s privacy practices are outlined in their Privacy Notice.

Website Development Information

We utilize the information collected from our customers to enhance our products and services and to improve our customer service. This includes analyzing browsing activities on our online platform to refine the user experience. Our analyses primarily rely on aggregated or anonymized data; however, some of this data may be considered personal. Such data includes:

• IP address of the user’s device
• Date and time of service usage
• Hardware and software details
• Type of internet browser
• Operating system information
• Application version and language settings

For more details, refer to Google’s privacy statement.

This site utilises 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. Please see https://quic.cloud/privacy-policy/ for more details.

Contact form

When contacting us through the contact form under Ekotera.org/contact we store your email, IP address, and name to be able to respond to Your inquiry, however, we do not use this information for marketing purposes unless consent has explicitly been given to do so.

Comments

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

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Analytics

We use MonsterInsights, which integrates Google Analytics, to track and analyze user activity on our Website. This helps us understand how visitors interact with our site and improve user experience. The data collected through Google Analytics may include:

• IP address (anonymized)
• Browser type and version
• Device type
• Pages viewed
• Time spent on the Website
• Referring/exit pages
• Geographical location (generalized)

Google Analytics may use cookies to track this information. You can manage your cookie preferences or opt out by installing Google’s Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Google Maps APIs

Our Website uses the Google Maps API to provide interactive location maps. These include JavaScript API, Places API, Geocoding API, and Directions API. When you use this feature, Google may collect certain data, including:

• IP address
• Location information (if location services are enabled)
• Device/browser information

This data is processed according to Google’s Privacy Policy.

You can manage how location data is shared by adjusting your device or browser settings.

By using Ekotera, users are bound by Google’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

When using our interactive maps, you:

Agree for your personal data to be processed by Ekotera, for the purpose(s) of displaying map tiles, geocoding addresses and calculating and display directions..

Agree for your personal data, provided via map API calls, to be processed by the API provider, for the purposes of geocoding (converting addresses to coordinates), reverse geocoding and generating directions.

Some visual components of WP Go Maps use 3rd party libraries which are loaded over the network. At present the libraries are Google Maps, Open Street Map, jQuery DataTables and FontAwesome. When loading resources over a network, the 3rd party server will receive your IP address and User Agent string amongst other details. Please refer to the Privacy Policy of the respective libraries for details on how they use data and the process to exercise your rights under the GDPR regulations.

WP Go Maps uses jQuery DataTables to display sortable, searchable tables, such as that seen in the Advanced Marker Listing and on the Map Edit Page. jQuery DataTables in certain circumstances uses a cookie to save and later recall the “state” of a given table – that is, the search term, sort column and order and current page. This data is held in local storage and retained until this is cleared manually. No libraries used by WP Go Maps transmit this information.

Please see here and here for Google’s terms. Please also see Google’s Privacy Policy. We do not send the API provider any personally identifying information, or information that could uniquely identify your device.

Where this notice is displayed in place of a map, agreeing to this notice will store a cookie recording your agreement so you are not prompted again.