Privacy Policy
Last Updated: 16th February 2025
At Kasama Distant Shores, we are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal data when you visit our website kasamadistantshores.com in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
1. Data Controller
The data controller responsible for processing your personal data is:
🏢 Kasama Distant Shores
📧 hello@kasamadistantshores.com
📍 Avenida de Ramon y Cajal, 107, Madrid, Spain
2. Data We Collect
We collect and process the following types of personal data:
✅ Contact Form Data: When you submit a contact form, we collect your name, email address, phone number (if provided), and message content to respond to your inquiry.
✅ Usage Data (Google Analytics): We use Google Analytics to collect anonymous usage statistics such as pages visited, time spent on the site, and device/browser type. This helps us improve the website experience.
3. How We Use Your Data
We process your personal data for the following purposes:
📩 To respond to inquiries submitted via the contact form.
📊 To analyze website traffic and improve user experience (Google Analytics).
🔐 To ensure security and prevent fraud on our website.
4. Legal Basis for Processing
Under GDPR, we rely on the following legal bases:
📌 Legitimate Interest: Processing inquiries from the contact form.
📌 Consent: When you accept cookies (Google Analytics tracking).
5. Data Retention
We keep your personal data only as long as necessary:
🗂️ Contact form submissions: Up to 12 months after responding.
📊 Google Analytics data: Automatically deleted after 14 months, as per Google’s policies.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
6. Data Sharing & Third-Party Services
We do not sell your data. However, we share necessary data with:
🔹 Google Analytics (Usage data for website analytics).
🔹 Hosting providers (For website functionality).
Google Analytics may transfer data outside the EU, but it complies with EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework standards.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
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.Please see https://quic.cloud/privacy-policy/ for more details.
7. Comments
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. 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.
8. Your Rights Under GDPR
As an EU resident, you have the right to:
✔️ Access your personal data
✔️ Request corrections or deletion
✔️ Object to data processing
✔️ Withdraw consent (for analytics)
✔️ File a complaint with the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD)
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
To exercise your rights, contact us at hello@kasamadistantshores.com.
9. Cookies & Tracking
We use cookies to improve user experience. You can manage or disable cookies in your browser settings or via our Cookie Policy.
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 visit our login page, 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.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
10. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page.
For any questions, please contact us at hello@kasamadistantshores.com.