Privacy Policy
Last modified: August 20, 2024
This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how Net-Zero Airline Ranking (“Net-Zero Airline Ranking”, "we", "us" or "our") collects, uses, discloses, transfers, and otherwise processes and handles (collectively, “Processes”) your personal data. By accessing or using our website and services, or otherwise interacting with us, you are deemed to have read, understood, and agreed to our Processing of your personal data as outlined in this Privacy Policy.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We may collect personal information that you provide to us when you subscribe to the Net-Zero Airline Ranking. Specifically, your email address and name. We also collect information when you post comments or participate in the comment section on the Net-Zero Airline Ranking or otherwise when you contact us. All of this information is gathered as raw data via our publishing platform, Ghost.
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through our Website may include:
- Name and email address that you provided at the time you subscribed to the Net-Zero Airline Ranking.
- You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, "posted") on public areas of the Website or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, "User Contributions").
Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies.
The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service by enabling us to:
- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
- Store information about your subscription (paid vs free version).
- Recognize you when you return to our Website to provide either the free or paid version
- Data surrounding email open rates and click rates.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection is provided by our platform Ghost.
Purposes for Collecting Personal Information
We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent.
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us for the following purposes:
- Facilitate account creation both for the free or paid version of our newsletter and additional content.
- Allow us to deliver the newsletter to your inbox.
- To provide you with notices about your account, including expiration and renewal notices.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website including commenting and our “Like” feature.
- For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our Website, products, and services.
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
- For any other purpose with your consent.
How we share data
Net-Zero Airline Ranking may share your personal data from time to time as detailed below. We take reasonable measures to ensure that third parties with whom we collaborate protect your personal data.
Net-Zero Airline Ranking does not sell your personal data.
Integration with third parties
Net-Zero Airline Ranking integrates with third party platforms to provide you with a seamless range of features and services. Where you request integrations with third parties, we may share data with them as required to facilitate and give effect to the integration.
Data storage
The Net-Zero Airline Ranking runs on publication platform Ghost. Ghost Foundation’s servers are located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. By using our services, you consent to the transfer and storage of your data on Ghost servers. From time to time, Ghost Foundation may also use third party vendors and hosting partners to store data. These third party vendors and hosting partners may be located in a country other than The Netherlands or your country of residence. By using Ghost services, you also agree to us sharing data from you with their third party vendors and hosting partners so that we can provide you with our services.
Website Analytics
Our website uses Plausible Analytics to help us understand visitor trends and the effectiveness of our marketing outreach. We chose Plausible Analytics because it is a privacy-focused company and platform that eschews personally identifiable information in favor of anonymous aggregate data. See the Plausible Analytics Data Policy.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose deidentified, aggregated information about our users for the purposes of contacting advertisers. This information is related to our audience size and statistics related to engagement via email open rates, click rates, and other raw data related to the usage of our site.
Additionally, we may disclose your information in the following way:
- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
- For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
- Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.
You may also send us an email at info@sustainable.aero to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or might have been copied or stored by other Website users.
Data Security & Payment
All payment transactions are handled by Ghost via Stripe. You may find their privacy notice here: https://stripe.com/gb/ssa.
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
Changes
We may periodically update this Privacy Policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Net-Zero Airline Ranking primary account holder information or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:
info@sustainable.aero