Effective Date, Jurisdiction & Scope
This Privacy Policy is effective from May 2025 and applies to all visitors of keralanaturevibes.com. This website is operated from Kerala, India, and is subject to the Information Technology Act 2000 (India) and its associated rules, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 (India), and — where applicable to EU/EEA residents — the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR 2016/679).
At Kerala Nature Vibes (www.keralanaturevibes.com), the privacy of our visitors is a matter we take seriously. We believe you have a right to know exactly what information we collect, why we collect it, how we use it, and how long we keep it. This Privacy Policy is written in plain language so that it is easy to understand.
By using this website, you consent to the data practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any part of this policy, you are free to discontinue using our website at any time.
We collect several types of information depending on how you interact with our website. The table below gives a clear overview:
| Data Type | What We Collect | How Collected | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Server Log Data | IP address, browser type, ISP, referring URL, date/time, pages visited | Automatically via server logs | Security, analytics, site administration |
| Contact Form Data | Name, email address, message content, selected topic | When you submit our contact form | Responding to your inquiry |
| Newsletter Email | Email address | When you subscribe via our newsletter form | Sending eco-tourism updates (opt-in only) |
| Cookie Data | Browser preferences, session identifiers, ad interaction data | Automatically via cookies and web beacons | Site functionality, analytics, advertising |
| Analytics Data | Pages visited, time on site, device type, geographic region | Via Google Analytics (anonymised) | Understanding how visitors use our site |
| Ad Interaction Data | Ad impressions, clicks, interests inferred by Google | Via Google AdSense | Serving relevant advertisements |
Log Files
Like most websites, keralanaturevibes.com makes use of server log files. These logs record internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), referring and exit pages, date and time stamps, and the number of clicks. This data is used to analyse trends, administer the site, track user movement through the website, and gather aggregate demographic information. IP addresses and similar data are not linked to personally identifiable information unless required for security or fraud prevention purposes.
Contact and Newsletter Forms
When you choose to contact us through our contact form or subscribe to our newsletter, we collect the information you voluntarily provide — typically your name, email address, and message content. This information is used solely to respond to your inquiry or to send you the newsletters you have opted into. We do not subscribe you to any mailing list without your explicit consent, and you may unsubscribe at any time using the link provided in every email.
Contact form submissions are processed via Formspree (formspree.io), a third-party form handling service. Data submitted through our contact form is transmitted securely to Formspree's servers in accordance with their privacy policy. We retain this information only as long as necessary to address your inquiry.
We use the information we collect for the following specific and legitimate purposes:
- Providing and maintaining the website — ensuring content is served correctly and the site functions properly for all visitors
- Responding to your inquiries — replying to messages sent through our contact form in a timely and helpful manner
- Sending newsletters — delivering eco-tourism updates, travel guides, and content updates to subscribers who have opted in
- Website analytics — understanding how visitors navigate and use our site so we can improve content and user experience
- Displaying advertisements — serving relevant advertisements through Google AdSense (see Section 04 for full details)
- Affiliate referrals — tracking referrals to partner booking platforms (Booking.com, Viator, Aviasales, etc.) as described in our Affiliate Disclosure
- Security and fraud prevention — detecting and preventing abusive, fraudulent, or harmful activity on the website
- Legal compliance — meeting obligations under applicable Indian and international law
We do not use your personal data for automated decision-making or profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects on you. We do not sell your personal data to any third party.
Cookies are small text files placed on your device by websites you visit. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently, to remember your preferences, and to provide information to the website owner. keralanaturevibes.com uses cookies for the following categories of purpose:
How to Control or Delete Cookies
You can control and delete cookies at any time through your browser settings. The following links explain how to manage cookies in popular browsers:
- Google Chrome: Settings → Privacy and Security → Cookies and other site data
- Mozilla Firefox: Options → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
- Safari: Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data
- Microsoft Edge: Settings → Privacy, Search and Services → Clear Browsing Data
Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of this and other websites you visit. Essential cookies cannot be blocked without affecting site operation.
Web Beacons
Our website and the advertising networks we use may employ web beacons (also called pixel tags or clear GIFs) — small electronic images embedded in web pages or emails. Web beacons are used to deliver cookies, count visitors, and track the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They do not store personally identifiable information directly.
📌 Important — AdSense Disclosure
keralanaturevibes.com uses Google AdSense, a web advertising service provided by Google LLC, to display advertisements on our website. This is a clearly disclosed commercial relationship that helps fund the free content we publish.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve advertisements to visitors based on their prior visits to this website or other websites on the internet. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve advertisements to our visitors based on their visit to our site and/or other sites on the internet.
How Google AdSense Works on This Site
Google AdSense uses browser cookies — specifically DoubleClick cookies — to serve advertisements. These cookies allow Google to:
- Display advertisements relevant to your interests based on your browsing history across multiple websites
- Limit how many times you see the same advertisement
- Measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns
- Track ad interactions such as clicks and impressions
Opting Out of Personalised Advertising
You may opt out of personalised advertising served by Google in any of the following ways:
- Visit Google's Ads Settings page and adjust your advertising preferences
- Visit the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page
- Visit the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out tool
- If you are in the EU, use the EDAA Your Online Choices tool
- Install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on to prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics
Opting out of personalised advertising does not mean you will stop seeing advertisements on this website — it means the advertisements you see will not be tailored to your interests. Non-personalised ads may still be displayed.
EU Consent & Google Funding Choices
For visitors from the European Economic Area (EEA), Google requires that websites obtain consent before displaying personalised advertisements under GDPR. keralanaturevibes.com may display a consent notice to EEA visitors through Google's Funding Choices or a third-party consent management platform. Withdrawing consent prevents Google from using your data for personalised advertising on this site.
For more information about Google's data practices, please review Google's Privacy Policy.
No Advertiser Influence on Content
The advertisements displayed by Google AdSense are automatically selected by Google's algorithms. keralanaturevibes.com does not manually select advertisers and receives no payment to feature specific products, services, or companies within our editorial content. Our content remains independent of any advertiser relationship. For information on our affiliate partnerships (which are separate from Google AdSense), please see our Affiliate Disclosure.
This website contains affiliate links to third-party platforms including Booking.com, Tripadvisor, Trip.com, Aviasales, CheapOair, Kiwi.com, WayAway, Viator, AirHelp, and Compensair. When you click an affiliate link and complete a transaction on a partner platform, we may earn a commission.
Each of these third-party services operates under its own privacy policy and data collection practices. Kerala Nature Vibes is not responsible for the privacy practices of external websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party platform before providing personal or payment information.
Additionally, this website uses the following third-party services that may independently collect data:
| Service | Purpose | Data Collected | Privacy Policy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | Website analytics | Anonymised usage data, device, location region | Google Privacy |
| Google AdSense | Display advertising | Cookies, ad interaction data, inferred interests | Google Privacy |
| Formspree | Contact form processing | Name, email, message content submitted via form | Formspree Privacy |
| Google Fonts | Typography (Playfair Display, DM Sans) | IP address (logged briefly for CDN delivery) | Google Privacy |
| Unsplash | Stock photography | No personal data collected from visitors | Unsplash Privacy |
Kerala Nature Vibes does not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to any third party. We may share your data only in the following specific and limited circumstances:
- Service Providers: We may engage trusted third-party service providers (such as Formspree for form processing, Google for analytics and advertising) who access your data only to perform services on our behalf and are contractually obligated to protect it
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose your personal information if required by applicable law, court order, or lawful request by public authorities — including Indian government agencies or international legal cooperation requests
- Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or transfer of ownership of this website, your data may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify you before your data becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy
- Protection of Rights: We may disclose information where we believe disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of Kerala Nature Vibes, our users, or others
We Do Not Sell Your Data
We want to be absolutely clear: Kerala Nature Vibes does not engage in the sale of personal data. We do not participate in data broker markets. Any third-party access to your data is strictly limited to the service purposes described above.
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data. We are committed to honouring these rights within the timeframes required by applicable law.
Right to Access
You may request a copy of the personal data we hold about you and how it is being used.
Right to Rectification
You may request that we correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data we hold about you.
Right to Erasure
You may request that we delete your personal data where there is no compelling reason for us to continue holding it.
Right to Object
You may object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing or other legitimate interests we rely upon.
Right to Restrict Processing
You may request that we limit how we use your personal data in certain circumstances — for example, while a dispute about accuracy is resolved.
Right to Data Portability
Where processing is based on your consent, you may request a copy of your data in a structured, machine-readable format for transfer to another service.
Right to Withdraw Consent
Where we process your data based on consent (e.g. newsletter), you may withdraw that consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of prior processing.
Right to Lodge a Complaint
EU/EEA residents may lodge a complaint with their local Data Protection Authority. Indian residents may contact the Data Protection Board of India under the DPDPA 2023.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details in Section 12. We will respond within 30 days. We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling your request.
Unsubscribing from Our Newsletter
If you have subscribed to our newsletter and wish to unsubscribe, you may do so at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link included in the footer of every email we send. Once unsubscribed, your email address will be removed from our active mailing list within a reasonable timeframe. We may retain your email address on a suppression list to ensure we do not inadvertently re-add you.
keralanaturevibes.com is not directed at children under the age of 16 years, and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 16. In India, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 (DPDPA) defines a child as a person under 18 years of age — we do not knowingly collect data from minors under 18 without verifiable parental consent.
If you are a parent or guardian and you believe that your child has provided personal information to this website without your consent, please contact us immediately at the details provided in Section 12. We will take prompt steps to identify and remove any such information from our records.
Google AdSense and Child-Directed Content
In compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and Google's policies, we do not configure any section of this website as child-directed content for the purposes of Google AdSense. We do not use interest-based advertising on pages that are primarily intended for audiences under 13 years of age.
The security of your personal information is important to us. We implement reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These measures include:
- HTTPS encryption: All data transmitted between your browser and keralanaturevibes.com is encrypted using TLS/SSL (HTTPS). Look for the padlock icon in your browser address bar
- Access controls: Access to personal data collected via forms is limited to authorised personnel with a legitimate need to process it
- Third-party security: We work with reputable third-party providers (Google, Formspree) that maintain their own rigorous security standards
- Data minimisation: We collect only the minimum personal data necessary for the stated purposes
⚠️ No Absolute Guarantee
While we strive to use commercially reasonable means to protect your personal information, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security. In the event of a data breach that is likely to result in a risk to your rights and freedoms, we will notify you and relevant authorities as required by applicable law.
Data Retention
We retain personal data only for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected:
- Contact form submissions: Retained until your inquiry is resolved, and then deleted or anonymised within 12 months
- Newsletter email addresses: Retained until you unsubscribe or request deletion
- Server log data: Retained for up to 90 days for security monitoring, then automatically deleted
- Analytics data: Google Analytics retains aggregated anonymised data per Google's retention settings (configurable by us to 14–38 months)
keralanaturevibes.com contains links to external websites operated by third parties — including booking platforms, tourism organisations, government sites, and research institutions. These links are provided for your convenience and informational value.
We have no control over the content, privacy practices, or data collection of external websites. Clicking an external link takes you outside our website and beyond the scope of this Privacy Policy. We strongly encourage you to review the Privacy Policy of every website you visit, especially before providing any personal information.
The inclusion of a link to an external website does not constitute our endorsement of that site, its content, its operators, or any products or services it offers. This applies equally to affiliate partner platforms linked from this website — each of which operates under its own independent privacy policy.
Kerala Nature Vibes reserves the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time. We may update this policy to reflect changes in our data practices, new services we offer, changes to third-party partners, or updates to applicable privacy law.
When we make material changes, we will update the Effective Date shown at the top of this page. For significant changes that affect how we use your personal data, we will notify subscribers via email where we have email addresses. For all visitors, the updated policy will be prominently available at this URL.
Your continued use of keralanaturevibes.com following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review this page periodically.
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests relating to this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us. We will acknowledge your message promptly and respond within 30 days.
- Contact form: keralanaturevibes.com/contact.html
- WhatsApp: +91 96562 54035
- Website: www.keralanaturevibes.com
For privacy-related requests specifically — including data access, rectification, erasure, or objection — please use the subject line "Privacy Request" in your message so we can route it to the appropriate person promptly.
🌿 Privacy Questions?
If you have questions about how we handle your data, want to exercise your privacy rights, or simply want to understand more about our practices — we're happy to help. Contact us through the form on our contact page.
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