TL;DR: For ark.greensteps.me landing page and blog (/about and /page/*) visitors, we do not use cookies and we do not collect any personal data. If you decide to create an account on the ARK (register), we ask for the bare minimum and do not share this data with any third party services.

At ARK, we are committed to complying with GDPR, CCPA, PECR and other privacy regulations. The privacy of your data — and it is your data, not ours! — is a big deal to us. That is why we use Plausible Analytics, a privacy-oriented alternative to Google Analytics. Take a look at Plausible Analytics’ Data Policy for details on the information that is collected when you visit the ARK.

In this policy, we lay out what data we collect and why, how your data is handled and your rights to your data. We promise we never sell your data: never have, never will.

As a visitor to the ARK

The privacy of our website visitors is important to us so we do not track any individual people. As a visitor to ark.greensteps.me:

• No personal information is collected
• Only cookies that save your preferences (like language) are stored in the browser
• No information is shared with, sent to or sold to third-parties
• No information is shared with advertising companies
• No information is mined and harvested for personal and behavioral trends
• No information is monetized

We run the Plausible Analytics script to collect some anonymous usage data for statistical purposes. The goal is to track overall trends in our website traffic, it is not to track individual visitors. All the data is in aggregate only. No personal data is collected. You can view the data that is collected in Plausible Analytics live demo.

Data collected includes referral sources, top pages, visit duration, information from the devices (device type, operating system, country and browser) used during the visit and more. You can see full details in Plausible Analytics data policy.

As a logged-in ARK user

Our guiding principle is to collect only what we need and that we will solely process this information to provide you with the service you signed up for.

We use a select number of trusted external service providers for certain service offerings. These service providers are carefully selected and meet high data protection, data privacy and security standards.

We only share information with them that is required for the services offered and we contractually bind them to keep any information we share with them as confidential and to process personal data only according to our instructions.

Here’s what that means in practice:

What we collect and what we use it for

• An email address is required to create an account. You need to provide us with your email address if you want to create a ARK account. That’s just so you can log in and personalize your new account, and we can send you notifications, updates or other essential information.