PRIVACY POLICY

last updated: 14th December, 2020

We are a private netork of Global Digital Nomads. Purpose of our platform is to connect Digital Nomads based on matching interest, goals, skills, country or citizenship. Secondly, we have a mission to find remote jobs, gigs and projects for our members. For this reason, we collect your personal information. We are not in a business of selling, renting or leasing your personal information. Lets us explain you in detail on what personal information we collect. You will be happy to read that everything is collected is for you matching with other members, finding you opportunities and getting you a date.

Read the privacy policy to learn how your data is handled.

Digital Nomads Nation (“DNN”, “we”, “us”, "platform", or “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) applies to your use of the DNN platform located at https://digitalnomadsnation.org on all platforms (the “Website”).

DNN is currently an unregistered entity and therefore not a direct subject to the laws of any nation tho as a closed community, we are highly respect & committed to provide the privacy to you and your data. This Policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose information. Some nations may not offer a level of privacy protection as great as that offered in other jurisdictions. In jurisdictions where we are subject to different or more restrictive local laws, we may adjust our practices in those jurisdictions to comply with local laws. Otherwise, we make no representation that the practices described in this Policy are compliant with laws of any jurisdiction that apply to the collection, security, use, and disclosure of information. Information that is collected or stored may, subject to applicable law, be disclosed or transferred to any jurisdiction. When information is transferred, it will be handled in accordance with the applicable laws.

By using this Website, you agree to the privacy practices described in this Policy, Code of conduct, and the Terms of Service Agreement (“Agreement”). This Policy shall be taken and considered part of the Agreement as if the Agreement was completely set out therein.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

DNN collects two kinds of information about you: (a) personally identifiable information; and (b) non-personally identifiable information.

  • Personally Identifiable Information We collect

    Personally identifiable information is information that identifies you or another person. When you engage in certain activities and features on the Website, we may ask you to provide certain personal information about yourself, including:

    Personal Profile: Email, Age, Profile picture, goal, current city (IP) & citizenship, device info

    We ask this data to connect you with other members based on your goal, country or citizenship It also helps members to message you which we notify you on your email. Email is used to create your unique account, send you email, Picture is used to know who you are, other members feel comfortable engaging with you as well.

    Work Profile: Skills, Education, Experience, rate, Preferences

    We ask this information to match you with remote jobs, projects and gigs. Your goals preferences, content, allow lets us help to connect with other members with similar goals or send you content which is highly helpful for you next goal.

    Dating Profile: Age, gender, marital status, number of kids, interests, hobbies, personal pictures

    Digital Nomad dating feature let the members browse other members profile (if enabled, you can totally turn off your dating profile). To make a perfect match we like to ask you this information, members will review profile and send a message for friendship or dating. After all love is not that blind.

    (3)payment information - *currently we do not process payments. When we do we will use a payment processors who will collect your credit card, address and phone number as this is the requirement by banks and anti-money laundering laws of almost all the countries to process money.

You may decline to provide personally identifiable information through the Website. Our system would not work without the information.We do not sell, rent or lease your information in any capacity but we would respect your concern of privacy. You can request to delete your data and close your account by going to Profile settings and make this request. information we ask you to provide is mandatory. If you decline to provide the concent, you may not be able to use the platform due to engineering. We are extremely sorry for this.

  • Non-Personally Identifiable Information. Non-personally identifiable information is information that does not identify you or another person. Non-personally identifiable information includes: (i) session and usage data; (ii) log data; and (iii) aggregate information.
  • Session and Usage Data. Session and usage data is information about your use of the Website, without limitation, connection and service-related data submitted to us through the use of the Website. Session and usage data includes information relating to the connection request, server communication, and data sharing, including: network measurements; quality of service; time and date of the use of the Website; and upon your consent, your location. We may also aggregate session and usage data as described in the aggregate information section below. Session and usage data does not include any personally identifiable information nor does it include content you may transmit or share through the use of the Website (such as name, address, and calendar appointments).
  • Log Data. When you interact with us or use the Website, our systems may automatically collect your unique user device number, the IP address, type of browser or operating system you use, and the dates and times of your use.
  • Aggregate Information. Aggregate information is data we collect about a group or category of services or users from which individual user identities have been removed. In other words, information on how you use the Website, may be collected and combined with information about how others use the Website, but no personally identifiable information will be included in the resulting aggregate information. Aggregate information helps us understand trends in our users’ needs so that we can better consider new features or otherwise tailor the Website.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

  • Personally Identifiable Information. We may use your personally identifiable information to: (i) provide products and services; connect you with other members based on your profile preference and information (ii) resolve disputes, calculate and collect fees, and troubleshoot problems; (iii) verify your identity and the information you provide; (iv) encourage a safe online experience and enforce our policies; (v) customize your experience, analyze usage of the Website, improve and measure interest in our products and services, and inform you about the Website, services, products, and updates; (vi) provide you with information that may affect your use of the Website, the products and services; (vii) communicate marketing and promotional offers; (viii) provide customer service; and (ix) perform certain other business activities.

During the course of our business, we may use your personally identifiable information to deliver information to you that is targeted to your interests. We may share some information with other users to create networking between members and share with service providers, companies to create job opportunities, job applications, product discounts and software integration to provide valuable tools and opportunities. Upon receipt of the first communication of this type, you will have the opportunity to opt-out of future communications by clicking on unsubscribe link or by following unsubscribe instructions described within the communication or otherwise notifying us at [email protected]. We may, however, send you messages through email or other means of communications as part of our services regarding administrative matters, updates, disputes, and customer service issues regarding the products or services, and you will not be able to opt out of receiving such messages.

From time to time, we may implement solutions designed to more efficiently capture your communications preferences. In any such event, we will strive to reflect any previously stated communicated preferences within such solutions.

We may also use your personally identifiable information as we believe necessary or appropriate, in any manner permitted under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence to: comply with legal process; respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; enforce our terms and conditions; protect our operations; protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others; and allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

  • Non-Personally Identifiable Information. We may use your non-personally identifiable information for any purpose, including, but not limited to, for our own internal purpose to measure traffic patterns; to understand demographics, customer interest, and other trends among our users; to provide, improve, and modify the Website; and for promotion and marketing purposes.
    • Use of cookies. We use cookies which are tiny files downloaded to your browsers which store all your data described in the policy. This is the industry standard and unfortunately cannot be disabled. If you like to disabled cookies you can clean your broswer but it will be downloaded again on your next visit. We have provided details on what data we will collect and how we will use it in this document.

GDPR Data Protection for EU Members. We love & Respect data privacy laws.

Right to be forgotten

Under GDPR, each of our members or subscribers in the EU has the right to erasure (or the right to be forgotten), meaning they can contact us to request and ask to delete all of your personal data from our systems. You can delete all their personally identifiable data by clicking a link "request to delete account". It could take up to 28 days before we completely delete your Personal data.

Right to access and data portability:

You can request to get a copy of your own personally identifiable information we have. We are a tiny team so it could take upto 3 weeks to process your request and send your data on email

Right to rectification:

You can change or update your personal information from Personal profile, Work profile and Dating Profile. within your profile page.

Our Data Processors

We've also choosen and reviewed our vendors to make sure they are GDPR compliant as well and have signed GDPR-ready data processing agreements with us. We are listing all of them here for you

  • Vendor: AWS Amazon Web Services

    Website: https://aws.amazon.com

    Purpose: Application server & database hosting

    Type of personal data processed: All user data stored in the database on AWS servers

    Location of processing: Frankfurt, Germany

    Store Cookies: No.

    Compliance mechanism: Standard Contractual Clauses

    Article 28 Data Processing Agreement: Data Processor Agreement in place complying with Article 28 GDPR

  • Vendor: GetGist

    Website: https://getgist.com

    Purpose: Marketing, Support & Sales platform

    Type of personal data processed: Prospect & Existing Customer Contact details, sessions data & support Correspondence (Live chat)

    Location of processing: US

    Store Cookies: Yes. GetGist store & use cookies to keep your login and web sessions history including page visited to provide you support as well as use for marketing communication

    Compliance mechanism for ex-EEA transfer: Standard Contractual Clauses

    Article 28 Data Processing Agreement: Data Processor Agreement in place complying with Article 28 GDPR

  • Vendor: Involve.me

    Website: https://involve.me

    Purpose: Marketing, Support & Sales platform

    Type of personal data processed: Data collected with feedback form or Ambassador and volunteer application data

    Location of processing: US

    Store Cookies: Yes. It stores cookies to remember your answers to survey and allow you continue your survey if you didnt complete the last time.

    Compliance mechanism for ex-EEA transfer: Standard Contractual Clauses

    Article 28 Data Processing Agreement: Data Processor Agreement in place complying with Article 28 GDPR

  • Vendor: Google & Firebase

    Website: https://cloud.google.com

    Purpose: Login, authentication, website traffic

    Type of personal data processed: user email & password.

    Store Cookies: Yes. We store & use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page.

    Location of processing: Distrubuted around the world

    Compliance mechanism for ex-EEA transfer: Standard Contractual Clauses

    Article 28 Data Processing Agreement: Data Processor Agreement in place complying with Article 28 GDPR

The DNN platform is compliant with GDPR Data Protection guidelines, as will be displayed in our Privacy policy. For more information about GDPR Data Protection and your rights, please refer to https://gdpr.eu/data-privacy/.

HOW WE MAY DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION

  • Personally Identifiable Information. We may disclose and you hereby consent to our disclosing of your personally identifiable information to: (i) service providers and others who help with our business operations and assist in services including, but not limited to, application development, Website hosting, maintenance, data analysis, infrastructure provision, IT services, customer service, email delivery services, payment processing, marketing, analytics, and enforcement of our Terms of Service Agreement and other agreements; (ii) other users of the site to identify you to anyone to whom you send messages or make comments through the Website; (v) persons or entities with whom you consent to have your personally identifiable information shared; (vi) third parties in order to prevent damage to our property (tangible and intangible). (vii) merchants and payment processors; and (viii) third parties as we believe necessary or appropriate, in any manner permitted under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence to: comply with legal process; respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; enforce our Terms of Service Agreement and other agreements; protect our operations; protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others; and allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

We will not sell, rent, or lease your personally identifiable information to a third party without your express permission, unless required by law.

  • Non-Personally Identifiable Information. We may disclose non-personally identifiable information for any purpose. Remember, non-personally identifiable information cannot be used to identify you or another person.

PUBLIC AREAS AND THIRD-PARTY POSTINGS

We may provide areas on the Website where users can publicly post information about themselves, including, but not limited to, names, photos, designs, comments, messages, and other content. This information may be accessible by other Website users, third-party users, members of the public, and may appear on other websites and in web searches. As a result, this information could be read, collected, and used by others. We do not control or endorse the information posted by third-party users, are not liable for your or third-party posts to the Website, and specifically disclaim any liability resulting from such posts.

THIRD PARTIES AND THIRD-PARTY SITES

Upon your consent, the Website may access third-party information through application interfaces (API). We may provide links to third-party Websites as a service to you to help you, or negotiate a group discount for the members including you . When you click on links of third parties in a Website, you may leave the Website, you must be abide to their terms and privacy policy.

This Policy does not cover any collection, use, or disclosure by third parties through any applications, Websites, products, or services that we do NOT control or own, or any third-party features or services made available through the Website. By using the Website, you expressly relieve DNN from any and all liability arising from your use of any third-party website.

The inclusion of a link or accessibility of third-party Websites does not imply endorsement of such third-party Website by us. All trademarks, trade names, and logos of third parties featured on the Website belong to their respective owners.

Each merchant and third party payment processor collects and shares your information according to its own privacy policy and terms of service. DNN is not responsible for the actions of third party processors or merchants, including how such entities treat your information. You are responsible for knowing and understanding their policies and terms.

DATA RETENTION

We will retain your personally identifiable information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law. Your personally identifiable information may or may not be encrypted while stored or archived by us.

USERS UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE

Our Website is not directed to persons under the age of 13. If you become aware that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us at  [email protected]. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If we become aware that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal information, we take steps to remove such information. By using this Website, you are representing to us that you are not under the age of 13. If you are under 13 years of age, you are not authorized to use this Website.

Information Request

Users can request certain information regarding the disclosure of certain “personal information”. To make such a request, please email us at [email protected]

SECURITY

If you create an account on the Website, you are responsible for protecting the security of your account, its content, and all activities that occur under the account or in connection with the Website. Do not share your private account information with others. You must immediately notify DNN of any unauthorized uses of your account or any other breaches of security.

DISCLAIMER

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS PRIVACY ACT NOTICE (18 U.S.C. 2701-2711): WE MAKE NO GUARANTY OF CONFIDENTIALITY OR PRIVACY OF ANY COMMUNICATION OR INFORMATION TRANSMITTED ON THE SITE OR ANY WEBSITE LINKED TO THE SITE. WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR THE PRIVACY OF INFORMATION, E-MAIL ADDRESSES, REGISTRATION, AND INDENTIFICATION INFORMATION, DISK SPACE, COMMUNICATIONS, CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION OR TRADE SECRET INFORMATION, OR ANY OTHER CONTENT TRANSMITTED OVER NETWORKS ACCESSED BY THE SITE, OR OTHERWISE CONNECTED WITH YOUR USE OF THE SITE.

UPDATES TO PRIVACY POLICY

DNN will notify users of updates to this Policy. We will notify users of any updates to this Policy by changing the “last updated” notice set forth at the top of this Policy and by requiring users to agree to an updated version of this Policy. Any subsequent updates of this Policy, do not affect the legally binding nature of previous agreements between DNN and users regarding earlier versions of this Policy.

CONTACT US

If you have questions or comments about this Policy or our privacy practices, or to report any violations or abuse of the Website, please contact us at [email protected]