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Last updated: February 29, 2020

Monica Lent
c/o Factory Works GmbH
Lohmühlenstraße 65, 12435 Berlin
VAT ID: DE327569789

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Use of Not a Nomad Blog (https://notanomadblog.com)

You are reading Not a Nomad Blog (hereafter referred to as the “website”) of your own free will. If you don’t accept these Terms and Conditions, you should cease using this website immediately. But if you do want to read some fabulous travel articles and helpful tips for working abroad, do keep reading!

I reserve the right to change these terms at any point in time, without advance notice. If you are the kind of person who is concerned about that, you can check back here often.

Although I do my best to provide you with the most up-to-date information, it’s possible I make a mistake or that my articles become outdated. I make no representations or warranties of any kind (expressed or implied) about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, sustainability, or availability of any of the experiences, information, products, or services contained on NNB for any purpose.

In particular, when it comes to things like prices, addresses, opening hours, and things of that nature, you should really double-check these things. Often such information is seasonal or subject to change. If you don’t want to suffer major disappointment or inconvenience, it’s best to double check these kinds of things with the provider directly.

If you happen to find something that is inaccurate or outdated, don’t hesitate to send me an email so I can update it. I’d be grateful for that!

Unless otherwise noted, I (Monica Lent of Not a Nomad Blog) am the legal copyright holder of ALL (written, multi-media, and graphic) material on this website. It may not be be used, re-printed, or re-published without my prior, written consent.

Opinions expressed by any third parties on my blog (such as those writing comments or guest posts) do not represent the the position or belief of Not a Nomad Blog. I’m not responsible for this content.

Hold harmless

All the information provided on Not a Nomad Blog is the personal opinion of Monica Lent, and not others. This includes (but is not limited to) my membership organizations or employers.

I’m not providing you with anything that could be called professional, legal, medical, or any other kind of official recommendations. Any information you choose to follow is at your own risk. Please contact a lawyer, doctor, or your mother for an official referral to a competent professional.

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I do my best to make sure my web server is always up and running. If it goes offline, I will do my best to get it back up. But sometimes I am busy and have things to do, so it might take a while. So I don’t gaurantee that my website will be available at all times.

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I, Monica Lent of Not a Nomad Blog, reserve the right to do anything with this blog that I wish. Change its focus, convert it to a paid platform, shut it down, change these terms of service. Literally anything.

I reserve the right to moderate and delete any comments submitted to Not a Nomad Blog without notice. It’s my blog, I do what I want!

Privacy statement

Your information wll only be shared with essential third-party providers that are needed to run this website. For example, Google Analytics, Disqus (comments), Mailchimp, ConvertKit (newsletter), and Mediavine. You can continue reading to learn exactly which service providers I am working with.

Advertisers and sponsors

I am not responsible for the actions of my advertisers or sponsors. If you purchase a product or service based on a link on my website, you must follow up with that company directly to resolve any issues, not with Not a Nomad Blog.

Any product, claim, statistic, quote, or other representation of a product should be followed up directly with the manufacturer.

Affiliate Disclosure

Not a Nomad Blog contains affiliate links. This essentially means that if you use one of my links to purchase a product, I will earn a small commission at no cost to you. I do my best to only recommend products that I either use personally or have thoroughly researched. Every review on my website will be presented honestly. I am very grateful when you use my links to make a purchase!

I currently participate in the following affiliate programs:

  • Amazon Associates: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. This program uses cookies in order to associate commissions.
  • Agoda.com: I recommend hotels and accommodation through agoda.com. You can read their privacy policy here
  • Booking.com: I recommend hotels and accommodation through booking.com. You can read their privacy policy here
  • Rentalcars.com: I recommend booking rentalcars through rentalcars.com. You can read their privacy policy here
  • CJ: I participate in this affiliate network in order to recommend you activities on TripAdvisor. You can see their privacy policy here
  • GetYourGuide: I recommend GetYourGuide for tours and activities. You can read their privacy policy here .
  • Viator: As an alternative to GetYourGuide, I sometimes recommend tours on Viator. You can read their privacy policy here
  • Klook.com: As an alternative to GetYourGuide, I sometimes recommend tours on Klook. You can read their privacy policy here
  • Ona Bags: I’m a big fan of Ona’s camera bags, and I recommend them on this site. You can read their privacy policy here
  • Skimlinks: Skimlinks is an affiliate network, and I participate in their network to recommend you products from their merchants. You can read their privacy policy here
  • Kelly Moore Bags: Kelly Moore’s bags are an alternative to Ona, and I link to their products as well. You can read their privacy policy here
  • JRailPass.com: This site is a reseller of the Japan Rail Pass, which I recommend. You can read their privacy policy here

What information do I collect and how it is used?

Information you voluntarily submit to the website: For example, when you sign up for my newsletter and you give me your email address and your first name. I’ll store that information so I can email you later! Or, if you leave a comment, that information is stored as well.

Information I collect from others: I might get information about you from other sources, for example my Disqus comments.

Automatically collected information: For example, when you visit my website, some information is collected automatically like your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the website. I also track some events on the page, for example which link you click in my top navigation so I know what’s popular!

Cookies: There are a few cookies this site stores, but not many. Cookies may also be placed by integrated tools I’m using, you’ll find those listed below.

How your information may be used

  • To operate and maintain the website
  • To send you newsletters, if you opted-in to receive them. You can opt-out using a link provided in every newsletter.
  • To respond to your comments or questions
  • To provide you with support
  • To track and measure advertising on the website
  • To protect, investigate, or deter illegal activity

Third-party use of information

I may share your information with a select number of third-parties, when you decide to use this website. Each third party’s use of your personal information is subject to their privacy policies.

Third party service providers used on this website

  • Google Analytics – This service tracks website usage and provides information such as referring websites. Google Analytics may capture IP address, but does not record any other personal information.
  • ConvertKit – This service records your name, email address, and the page you were viewing when you decided to join my newsletter. Please refer to ConvertKit's privacy policy for further details. Previous to ConvertKit, I used MailChimp.
  • Disqus – This comment plugin allows you to leave comments on my website. You are able to post either as a guest, via a social account, or with an email login. Please refer to Disqus' privacy policy for further details.
  • Instagram – I have a script installed that allows me to embed Instagram posts.
  • Pinterest – I have a script installed that allows me to embed Pinterest pins.
  • Affilimate – This service tracks clicks on affiliate links. It does not store IP addresses or personal information.

Programmatic advertising

The Website uses Mediavine to manage all third-party advertising on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website. The cookie may collect information relating to your use of the Website, information about your device such as the device’s IP address and browser type, demographic data and, if you arrived at the Website via a link from a third-party site, the URL of the linking page.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site.

The Website may collect IP addresses and location information to serve personalized ads and pass it to Mediavine. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. You may also visit http://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and http://optout.networkadvertising.org/# to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

Mediavine partners with the following data processors:

  1.  Pubmatic.   You may find Pubmatic’s privacy policy through this link.  The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Pubmatic and its demand partners for interest-based advertising.  Statistical information and other non-cookie technologies (such as eTags and web or browser cache) may be used by third parties on this Website.  Browser settings that block cookies may have no effect on these technologies, but you may clear your cache to delete such trackers.  Data collected from a particular browser or device may be used with another computer or device that is linked to the browser or device on which such data was collected.  
  2. Criteo.  You may find Criteo’s privacy policy through this link.  The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Criteo and its demand partners for interest-based advertising.   Criteo may collect, access, and use non-identifying data to improve the Criteo Technology and other Criteo products, programs, and/or services. This non-identifying data may include on-site user behavior and user/page content data, URLs, statistics, or internal search queries. The non-identifying data are collected through the ad call and stored with a Criteo cookie for a maximum period of 13 months.
  3. Pulsepoint.  You may find Pulsepoint’s privacy policy through this link.
  4. LiveRamp.  You may find LiveRamp’s privacy policy through this link.  When you use the Website, we share information that we may collect from you, such as your email (in hashed, de-identified form), IP address or information about your browser or operating system, with LiveRamp Inc, and its group companies (‘LiveRamp’). LiveRamp may use a cookie on your browser and match your shared information to their on- and offline marketing databases and those of its advertising partners to create a link between your browser and information in those other databases. This link may be shared by our partners globally for the purpose of enabling interest-based content or advertising throughout your online experience (e.g. cross device, web, email, in-app, etc.) by third parties unaffiliated with our website. These third parties may in turn link further demographic or interest-based information to your browser. To opt out of LiveRamp’s targeted advertising, please go here: https://liveramp.com/opt_out/
  5. RhythmOne.   You may view RhythmOne’s privacy policy through this link.  RhythmOne uses cookies and similar tracking technologies (such as mobile device identifiers and digital fingerprinting) to provide its services.  RhythmOne may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please visit the following webpage: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
  6. District M.  You may find District M’s privacy policy through this link.
  7. YieldMo.  You may find YieldMo’s privacy policy through this link.  If you want to opt out of receiving interest based ads from Yieldmo or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link. 
  8. The Rubicon Project.  You may find Rubicon’s privacy policy through this link.  If you want to opt out of receiving interest based ads from Rubicon or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link.   You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page.
  9. Amazon Publisher Services.   You may find Amazon Publisher Services’ privacy policy through this link.
  10. AppNexus.   You may find the AppNexus privacy policy through this link.
  11. OpenX.  You may find OpenX’s privacy policy through this link.
  12. Verizon Media formerly known as Oath.  You may find Verizon Media’s privacy policy through this link.  You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
  13. TripleLift.  You may find TripleLift’s privacy policy through this link.  To opt out of receiving interest-based advertising (including retargeting) from TripleLift’s services through the use of cookies in your current browser and for more information on what it means to opt-out, please go to www.triplelift.com/consumer-opt-out. 
  14. Index Exchange.  You may find Index Exchange’s privacy policy through this link.  You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
  15. Sovrn.  You may find Sovrn’s privacy policy through this link.
  16. GumGum.  You may find GumGum’s privacy policy through this link.   GumGum may (i) use place and use cookies on end users’ browsers or use web beacons to collect information about end users who visit such Publisher Websites and (ii) link such collected end user information to other end user information provided by third parties in order to deliver targeted Advertisements to such end users.
  17. Digital Remedy.   You may find Digital Remedy’s privacy policy through this link.

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Thanks a ton for visiting my website, I hope you enjoy it!

- Monica