This document informs Users about the technologies that help AlcoholFree.com to achieve the purposes described below. Such technologies allow the Owner to access and store information (for example by using a Cookie) or use resources (for example by running a script) on a User’s device as they interact with AlcoholFree.com.
For simplicity, all such technologies are defined as "Trackers" within this document – unless there is a reason to differentiate.
For example, while Cookies can be used on both web and mobile browsers, it would be inaccurate to talk about Cookies in the context of mobile apps as they are a browser-based Tracker. For this reason, within this document, the term Cookies is only used where it is specifically meant to indicate that particular type of Tracker.
Some of the purposes for which Trackers are used may also require the User's consent. Whenever consent is given, it can be freely withdrawn at any time following the instructions provided in this document.
AlcoholFree.com uses Trackers managed directly by the Owner (so-called “first-party” Trackers) and Trackers that enable services provided by a third-party (so-called “third-party” Trackers). Unless otherwise specified within this document, third-party providers may access the Trackers managed by them.
The validity and expiration periods of Cookies and other similar Trackers may vary depending on the lifetime set by the Owner or the relevant provider. Some of them expire upon termination of the User’s browsing session.
In addition to what’s specified in the descriptions within each of the categories below, Users may find more precise and updated information regarding lifetime specification as well as any other relevant information – such as the presence of other Trackers - in the linked privacy policies of the respective third-party providers or by contacting the Owner.
AlcoholFree.com uses so-called “technical” Cookies and other similar Trackers to carry out activities that are strictly necessary for the operation or delivery of the Service.
Preference Cookies store the User preferences detected on AlcoholFree.com in the local domain such as, for example, their timezone and region.
Personal Data processed: Tracker.
sessionStorage allows AlcoholFree.com to store and access data right in the User's browser. Data in sessionStorage is deleted automatically when the session ends (in other words, when the browser tab is closed).
Personal Data processed: Tracker.
By registering or authenticating, Users allow AlcoholFree.com to identify them and give them access to dedicated services. The Personal Data is collected and stored for registration or identification purposes only. The Data collected are only those necessary for the provision of the service requested by the Users.
The User registers by filling out the registration form and providing the Personal Data directly to AlcoholFree.com.
Personal Data processed: billing address, city, company name, country, county, date of birth, email address, field of activity, first name, gender, house number, language, last name, password, phone number, physical address, picture, prefix , profile picture, state, Tax ID, Tracker, Twitter handle, Usage Data, User ID, username, various types of Data, VAT Number, website, workplace and ZIP/Postal code.
Unless otherwise specified, AlcoholFree.com processes any payments by credit card, bank transfer or other means via external payment service providers. In general and unless where otherwise stated, Users are requested to provide their payment details and personal information directly to such payment service providers. AlcoholFree.com isn't involved in the collection and processing of such information: instead, it will only receive a notification by the relevant payment service provider as to whether payment has been successfully completed.
PayPal is a payment service provided by PayPal Inc., which allows Users to make online payments.
Personal Data processed: billing address, device information, email address, first name, last name, payment info, phone number, purchase history, Tracker, Usage Data, username and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: See the PayPal privacy policy – Privacy Policy.
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GoCardless is a payment service provided by GoCardless Limited.
Personal Data processed: billing address, email address, first name, last name, payment info, phone number, shipping address, Tracker, Usage Data and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Stripe is a payment service provided by Stripe Payments Ltd or by Stripe Technology Europe Ltd, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing.
Personal Data processed: billing address, email address, first name, last name, payment info, purchase history, Trackers, Usage Data and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: United Kingdom – Privacy Policy; United Kingdom – Privacy Policy.
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This type of service analyses the traffic of AlcoholFree.com, potentially containing Users' Personal Data, with the purpose of filtering it from parts of traffic, messages and content that are recognised as SPAM.
Google reCAPTCHA is a SPAM protection service provided by Google LLC.
The use of reCAPTCHA is subject to the Google privacy policy and terms of use.
Personal Data processed: answers to questions, clicks, keypress events, motion sensor events, mouse movements, scroll position, touch events, Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
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AlcoholFree.com uses Trackers to enable basic interactions and functionalities, allowing Users to access selected features of the Service and facilitating the User's communication with the Owner.
By registering on the mailing list or for the newsletter, the User’s email address will be added to the contact list of those who may receive email messages containing information of commercial or promotional nature concerning AlcoholFree.com. Your email address might also be added to this list as a result of signing up to AlcoholFree.com or after making a purchase.
Personal Data processed: city, company name, country, county, date of birth, email address, first name, gender, last name, phone number, physical address, profession, state, Tracker, Usage Data, website and ZIP/Postal code.
This type of service helps the Owner to manage tasks, collaboration and, in general, activities related to productivity. In using this type of service, Data of Users will be processed and may be retained, depending on the purpose of the activity in question.
These services may be integrated with a wide range of third-party services disclosed within this privacy policy to enable the Owner to import or export Data needed for the relative activity.
Google Sheets is an online spreadsheet and collaboration service provided by Google LLC.
Personal Data processed: city, company name, country, Data communicated while using the service, date of birth, device information, email address, first name, gender, geographic position, last name, password, phone number, physical address, profession, profile picture, Tracker, Usage Data, username, VAT Number, workplace and ZIP/Postal code.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
AlcoholFree.com uses Trackers to improve the quality of the user experience and enable interactions with external content, networks and platforms.
Content commenting services allow Users to make and publish their comments on the contents of AlcoholFree.com.
Depending on the settings chosen by the Owner, Users may also leave anonymous comments. If there is an email address among the Personal Data provided by the User, it may be used to send notifications of comments on the same content. Users are responsible for the content of their own comments.
If a content commenting service provided by third parties is installed, it may still collect web traffic data for the pages where the comment service is installed, even when Users do not use the content commenting service.
AlcoholFree.com has its own internal content comment system.
Personal Data processed: email address, first name, last name, phone number, Tracker, Usage Data, username and website.
Facebook Comments is a content commenting service provided by Facebook Ireland Ltd enabling the User to leave comments and share them on the Facebook platform.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy.
This type of service allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of AlcoholFree.com and interact with them.
This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.
Google Fonts is a typeface visualisation service provided by Google LLC that allows AlcoholFree.com to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Font Awesome is a typeface visualisation service provided by Fonticons, Inc. that allows AlcoholFree.com to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Google Maps is a maps visualisation service provided by Google LLC that allows AlcoholFree.com to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
YouTube is a video content visualisation service provided by Google LLC that allows AlcoholFree.com to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
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This type of service allows interaction with social networks or other external platforms directly from the pages of AlcoholFree.com.
The interaction and information obtained through AlcoholFree.com are always subject to the User’s privacy settings for each social network.
This type of service might still collect traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.
It is recommended to log out from the respective services in order to make sure that the processed data on AlcoholFree.com isn’t being connected back to the User’s profile.
The Facebook Like button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Facebook social network provided by Facebook Ireland Ltd
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy.
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The LinkedIn button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the LinkedIn social network provided by LinkedIn Corporation.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
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The PayPal button and widgets are services allowing interaction with the PayPal platform provided by PayPal Inc.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: See the PayPal privacy policy – Privacy Policy.
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The Twitter Tweet button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Twitter social network provided by Twitter, Inc.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
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The reddit button and widgets are services allowing interaction with the reddit platform provided by reddit inc.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
The Pinterest “Pin it” button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Pinterest platform provided by Pinterest Inc.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
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AlcoholFree.com uses Trackers to measure traffic and analyse User behaviour to improve the Service.
The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyse web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behaviour.
Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google LLC (“Google”). Google utilises the Data collected to track and examine the use of AlcoholFree.com, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
Google may use the Data collected to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
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Google Analytics on AlcoholFree.com has Advertising Reporting Features activated, which collects additional information from the DoubleClick cookie (web activity) and from device advertising IDs (app activity). It allows the Owner to analyse specific behaviour and interests Data (traffic Data and Users' ads interaction Data) and, if enabled, demographic Data (information about the age and gender).
Users can opt out of Google's use of cookies by visiting Google's Ads Settings.
Personal Data processed: Tracker, unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example) and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
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This type of service allows AlcoholFree.com to manage the creation, deployment, administration, distribution and analysis of online forms and surveys in order to collect, save and reuse Data from any responding Users.
The Personal Data collected depend on the information asked and provided by the Users in the corresponding online form.
These services may be integrated with a wide range of third-party services to enable the Owner to take subsequent steps with the Data processed - e.g. managing contacts, sending messages, analytics, advertising and payment processing.
AlcoholFree.com makes use of online forms that can be used to collect Data about Users.
Personal Data processed: answers to questions, billing address, city, country, date of birth, gender, marital status, name, payment info, phone number, physical address, profession, social media accounts , Tracker and workplace.
AlcoholFree.com uses Trackers to deliver personalised marketing content based on User behaviour and to operate, serve and track ads.
This type of service allows User Data to be utilised for advertising communication purposes. These communications are displayed in the form of banners and other advertisements on AlcoholFree.com, possibly based on User interests.
This does not mean that all Personal Data are used for this purpose. Information and conditions of use are shown below.
Some of the services listed below may use Trackers to identify Users or they may use the behavioural retargeting technique, i.e. displaying ads tailored to the User’s interests and behaviour, including those detected outside AlcoholFree.com. For more information, please check the privacy policies of the relevant services.
Services of this kind usually offer the possibility to opt out of such tracking. In addition to any opt-out feature offered by any of the services below, Users may learn more on how to generally opt out of interest-based advertising within the dedicated section "How to opt-out of interest-based advertising" in this document.
Facebook Lookalike Audience is an advertising and behavioural targeting service provided by Facebook Ireland Ltd that uses Data collected through Facebook Custom Audience in order to display ads to Users with similar behaviour to Users who are already in a Custom Audience list on the base of their past use of AlcoholFree.com or engagement with relevant content across the Facebook apps and services.
On the base of these Data, personalised ads will be shown to Users suggested by Facebook Lookalike Audience.
Users can opt out of Facebook's use of Trackers for ads personalisation by visiting this opt-out page.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
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This type of service allows AlcoholFree.com to display advertisements for third-party products or services. Ads can be displayed either as advertising links or as banners using various kinds of graphics.
Clicks on the icon or banner posted on the Application are tracked by the third-party services listed below, and are shared with AlcoholFree.com.
For details of which data are collected, please refer to the privacy policy of each service.
Amazon Affiliation is a commercial affiliation service provided by Amazon.com Inc.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Luxembourg – Privacy Policy.
This type of service allows AlcoholFree.com and its partners to inform, optimise and serve advertising based on past use of AlcoholFree.com by the User.
This activity is facilitated by tracking Usage Data and by using Trackers to collect information which is then transferred to the partners that manage the remarketing and behavioural targeting activity.
Some services offer a remarketing option based on email address lists.
In addition to any opt-out feature provided by any of the services below, Users may opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.
Users may also opt-out of certain advertising features through applicable device settings, such as the device advertising settings for mobile phones or ads settings in general.
Facebook Custom Audience is a remarketing and behavioural targeting service provided by Facebook Ireland Ltd that connects the activity of AlcoholFree.com with the Facebook advertising network.
Users can opt out of Facebook's use of Trackers for ads personalisation by visiting this opt-out page.
Personal Data processed: email address and Tracker.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
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Facebook Remarketing is a remarketing and behavioural targeting service provided by Facebook Ireland Ltd that connects the activity of AlcoholFree.com with the Facebook advertising network.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
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Google Ads Remarketing is a remarketing and behavioural targeting service provided by Google LLC that connects the activity of AlcoholFree.com with the Google Ads advertising network and the DoubleClick Cookie.
Users can opt out of Google's use of Trackers for ads personalisation by visiting Google's Ads Settings.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
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This policy refers to the usage of AlcoholFree.com and all related sub-sites which are connected to AlcoholFree.com and/or accessed by the use of your AlcoholFree.com account.
There are various ways to manage Tracker related preferences and to provide and withdraw consent, where relevant:
Users can manage preferences related to Trackers from directly within their own device settings, for example, by preventing the use or storage of Trackers.
Additionally, whenever the use of Trackers is based on consent, Users can provide or withdraw such consent by setting their preferences within the cookie notice or by updating such preferences accordingly via the relevant consent-preferences privacy widget, if available.
It is also possible, via relevant browser or device features, to delete previously stored Trackers, including those used to remember the User’s initial consent preferences.
Other Trackers in the browser’s local memory may be cleared by deleting the browsing history.
With regard to any third-party Trackers, Users can manage their preferences via the related opt-out link (where provided), by using the means indicated in the third party's privacy policy, or by contacting the third party.
Users can, for example, find information about how to manage Cookies in the most commonly used browsers at the following addresses:
Users may also manage certain categories of Trackers used on mobile apps by opting out through relevant device settings such as the device advertising settings for mobile devices, or tracking settings in general (Users may open the device settings and look for the relevant setting).
Notwithstanding the above, Users may follow the instructions provided by YourOnlineChoices (EU and UK), the Network Advertising Initiative (US) and the Digital Advertising Alliance (US), DAAC (Canada), DDAI (Japan) or other similar services. Such initiatives allow Users to select their tracking preferences for most of the advertising tools. The Owner thus recommends that Users make use of these resources in addition to the information provided in this document.
The Digital Advertising Alliance offers an application called AppChoices that helps Users to control interest-based advertising on mobile apps.
Users are free to decide whether or not to allow the use of Trackers. However, please note that Trackers help AlcoholFree.com to provide a better experience and advanced functionalities to Users (in line with the purposes outlined in this document). Therefore, if the User chooses to block the use of Trackers, the Owner may be unable to provide related features.
The Mindful Drinking Company Limited t/a AlcoholFree.com. Registered company address: 4 Providence Court, Pynes Hill, Exeter, Devon, EX2 5JL, England. Company No: 11950570.
Owner contact email: info@alcoholfree.com
Since the use of third-party Trackers through AlcoholFree.com cannot be fully controlled by the Owner, any specific references to third-party Trackers are to be considered indicative. In order to obtain complete information, Users are kindly requested to consult the privacy policies of the respective third-party services listed in this document.
Given the objective complexity surrounding tracking technologies, Users are encouraged to contact the Owner should they wish to receive any further information on the use of such technologies by AlcoholFree.com.
Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.
Information collected automatically through AlcoholFree.com (or third-party services employed in AlcoholFree.com), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilised by the Users who use AlcoholFree.com, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilised to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server's answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilised by the User, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User's IT environment.
The individual using AlcoholFree.com who, unless otherwise specified, coincides with the Data Subject.
The natural person to whom the Personal Data refers.
The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller, as described in this privacy policy.
The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of AlcoholFree.com. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of AlcoholFree.com.
The means by which the Personal Data of the User is collected and processed.
The service provided by AlcoholFree.com as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this site/application.
Unless otherwise specified, all references made within this document to the European Union include all current member states to the European Union and the European Economic Area.
Cookies are Trackers consisting of small sets of data stored in the User's browser.
Tracker indicates any technology - e.g Cookies, unique identifiers, web beacons, embedded scripts, e-tags and fingerprinting - that enables the tracking of Users, for example by accessing or storing information on the User’s device.
This privacy policy relates solely to AlcoholFree.com, if not stated otherwise within this document.
Latest update: 26 December 2023