Who is responsible
This website, inlovewithmadeira.com, belongs to In Love With Madeira Podcast. In Love With Madeira is the name of our podcast, not a company. The podcast is run by Catherine Flores and Mark Daamen, who are jointly responsible for your data (the “controllers”).
If you have any question about your data, or want to use any of your rights below, just email us at contact@ecovillagemadeira.com. We share this inbox with Ecovillage Madeira, our other project.
Visiting this website
When you open a page, your browser automatically sends some technical information to the server that hosts the site: your IP address, the date and time, the page you asked for, the address of the page you came from and your browser type. Our hosting provider, Cloudflare, Inc. (101 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA), processes this information on our behalf only to deliver the website and keep it secure, and keeps the server logs for a short period only. Cloudflare serves the site from data centres around the world, so this data may also be processed in the United States, under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in running a working, secure website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
We do not use cookies, analytics, tracking pixels or advertising tools. Fonts and images are stored on our own server, so visiting the site does not send your data to Google, YouTube or anyone else. The one exception is the episode videos, explained below.
The newsletter
If you sign up for our newsletter, we collect your first name and email address. We use them only to email you when a new episode comes out and to share Madeira news and tips we think you'll like. The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), which you can withdraw at any time.
When you press “Sign me up”, the form sends your first name and email address straight to ActiveCampaign. Nothing from ActiveCampaign loads on our pages before that, and the form sets no cookies.
We send the newsletter with ActiveCampaign, which stores your details for us as our processor under a data processing agreement. ActiveCampaign is based in the United States; transfers there are protected by the EU–US Data Privacy Framework and/or the European Commission's standard contractual clauses. Like most newsletter tools, ActiveCampaign records whether an email was opened and which links were clicked, which helps us see what you find interesting.
Every email has an unsubscribe link. When you unsubscribe, we stop emailing you and delete your details, unless we need to keep a record that you unsubscribed so we don't email you again by mistake.
Episode videos (YouTube)
Each episode page shows the episode video. Until you press play, you only see a picture stored on our own server, and nothing is loaded from YouTube. When you press play, the video loads from YouTube (Google Ireland Limited) in its privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com). From that moment, your browser connects to YouTube's servers, which receive your IP address and technical details about your browser and the page you are on, and YouTube may store information on your device, as it does when you watch on youtube.com. Google may also process this data in the United States, under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework.
We only load the video because you ask for it by pressing play, so the legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and the rules on storing information on your device). If you'd rather not, use the “Open in YouTube” link or just read the write-up below the video. More in Google's privacy policy.
Spotify, Instagram and other links
Our episodes are also on Spotify, and we're on Instagram. Our website only links to them, and to the websites of our guests; nothing from these services loads on our pages. If you click through, you leave our site and the privacy policy of that service applies. The “jump to a moment” links on episode pages open the episode on YouTube itself.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you have the right to:
- ask which personal data we hold about you and get a copy of it,
- have incorrect data corrected,
- have your data deleted,
- restrict or object to how we use it,
- receive your data in a common, machine-readable format,
- withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting anything we did before.
You can also complain to a data protection authority. In Portugal this is the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD), www.cnpd.pt. We'd appreciate the chance to sort it out with you first, though.
Changes to this policy
If we change how we handle your data, for example by adding a new tool, we'll update this page.
Last updated: 30 October 2026