Privacy Policy

Last Updated: May 25, 2018

Reykjavikexpress is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to our website. You have the right to browse our site without providing any personal information. Reykjavikexpress is also committed to protecting the privacy of newsletter subscribers and those who provide us with information that allows us to contact them. When you visit our website, sign up for a priority list, or enter personal information into any forms on our website, we require you to provide personal information about yourself. We also collect browsing information.

This Privacy Policy governs the collection, handling, and use of your personal information. By using our website, you consent to the data practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these terms, you should discontinue browsing and refrain from using our website, products, or services

We regularly update this Privacy Policy, and we advise you to visit this page and review it periodically. If you are on any of our mailing lists, you will be notified by email when this Privacy Policy changes.

1. Important Information

1.1. How to Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy or the handling of your personal information, please send us an email at gt@gtyrfingsson.is.

1.2. Does Reykjavikexpress Share Your Information?

Reykjavikexpress does not rent or sell personally identifiable information to third parties.

1.3. Changes to the Privacy Policy

Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be updated on this page, and we encourage everyone to check this Privacy Policy regularly to review any changes. If significant changes are made to our Privacy Policy, we will send an email notification to all our subscribers. This helps you stay informed about the information we collect, how we use it, where we collect it, and under what circumstances, if any, it is disclosed. Continued use of our website, subscription services, and/or the provision of personal information to us will be subject to the then-current Privacy Policy.

2. Definitions

2.1. “Sensitive Information”

This refers to credit card details, personal financial information (bank account status), ID numbers, or information about mental or physical health.

2.2. “Personal Information”

This refers to any information you voluntarily submit to us that identifies you personally, including contact details such as your name, email address, company name, mailing address, phone number, or any other information about you or your company.

Personal information may also include information about transactions—whether free or paid—that you enter on the website, as well as information about you available on the internet, for example on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Google, or other publicly available information from our service providers.

2.3. “Browsing Information”

This refers to information about your browsing behavior, cookies, and retargeting cookies. A cookie is a text file placed on your hard drive by a web server. Cookies are not used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Browsing information also includes details about your computer and your visits to this website, such as your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referring site, length of visit, and number of pages viewed. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you. One primary purpose of cookies is to provide a more convenient browsing experience and save you time. A cookie’s purpose is to inform the web server that you have returned to a specific page.

Click [here] (link not provided) for information on how to disable cookies.

3. Information We Collect

3.1. When You Visit Our Website

You are free to visit and browse our website without providing personal information. However, when you visit our website, sign up for email lists, services, or subscriptions, we do require personal information. We also collect browsing information.

3.2. Collection of Personal Information

Reykjavikexpress collects personally identifiable information provided by visitors, which refers to any information you voluntarily submit to us that identifies you personally, such as your email address, mailing address, phone number, name, company name, or any other details about you or your company. Personal information may also include transactions (free or paid) that you enter on our website, as well as information about you that is publicly available on the internet (e.g., Instagram, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter) or provided by our service partners. Below is a list of how we collect personal information from visitors and what information we gather:

Email Newsletters

To sign up for our email newsletters, we require:

(a) Name

(b) Email address

This information is necessary to receive our newsletter. Reykjavikexpress uses Campaign Monitor to collect and send email newsletters. You can read their privacy policy here: [Campaign Monitor Privacy Policy] (link not provided).

Contact Forms

To contact us in order to open communication of any kind, answer questions, etc., Reykjavikexpress has various forms on its website requiring different information, although most ask for:

(a) Name

(b) Email address

In order for Reykjavikexpress to respond to you, we require this information.

Online Purchases

When you purchase a product or service from Reykjavikexpress, we use a third-party e-commerce system. You can click [here] (link not provided) to view its privacy policy. If you provide credit card information, we use it solely to verify payment capability and to process your payment. We use a third party to process card transactions and finalize payments. You can view their terms here: [Borgun Terms] (link not provided). Transactions are secured with SSL encryption, and credit card information is never sent by email. Credit card details are deleted from our system on a regular basis.

4. How We Use the Information We Collect

4.1. Use of Personal Information

Personal information collected by Reykjavikexpress is primarily used for the purpose it was collected: to distribute documents and send email newsletters. Reykjavikexpress may also use your information for the following:

To inform you of new products, services, or information that may interest you.

To send promotional material.

To compile information with other subscribers’ data to assess the effectiveness of our marketing and analyze general demographic.

Reykjavikexpress may contact you to send surveys and analyze data to gain insights into patterns relating to the industry, products, services, or other business-related areas.

In addition to the uses mentioned elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, we may use personal information to:

(a) send you information that we believe may interest you by mail, email, or other channels;

(b) enhance your browsing experience by personalizing the website and improving our services;

(c) send you marketing materials related to our business or carefully selected third parties we think may be of interest to you;

(d) provide other companies with statistical information about our users—though this data will never be used to identify individual users.

We may use contact information to get in touch with you on behalf of our partners regarding special offers we believe may interest you. In such cases, we will not transfer your personally identifiable information to any third party. Additionally, we may share data with trusted partners to contact you based on your request for information, to help us perform statistical analysis, or to provide support services. These third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

4.2. Retargeting

Reykjavikexpress uses retargeting, utilizing cookies and conversion pixels from vendors such as Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, to show you targeted ads and marketing content about our products or services through the Google Display Network and social media platforms. You may see ads from us as a result of visiting our website. We also use custom audiences based on email addresses of our subscribers and customers, enabling us to show our ads and offers related to our products or services to you on Facebook and other social media channels. No personally identifiable information is used for any purpose other than delivering specific content from us.

LinkedIn: Opt out of LinkedIn retargeting [here].

Facebook: Opt out of Facebook retargeting [here].

Twitter: Opt out of Twitter retargeting [here].

Pinterest: Opt out of Pinterest retargeting [here].

Google: Opt out of Google retargeting [here].

We use browsing information to administer and improve our website and services. We may also use browsing information alone or combined with personal information to provide you with personalized information about Reykjavikexpress.

Reykjavikexpress and its partners use cookies and similar technologies for analytics, site administration, user tracking, and gathering demographic information in aggregate.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can typically modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer.

4.3. Anti-Spam Policy

Reykjavikexpress will only send emails to users who have explicitly requested to receive emails from us. Reykjavikexpress is strongly opposed to spam and will only send you messages we believe may be of interest to you. Examples include:

Signing up for our newsletter list.

Filling out one of our contact information forms.

All communications will be relevant to the context in which you provided your information.

Reykjavikexpress uses a third party to store and distribute our newsletter.

4.4. External Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please note that Reykjavikexpress is not responsible for the privacy policies or content of such sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our website and to read the privacy and anti-spam policies of every site that collects personally identifiable information. Reykjavikexpress is not responsible for the data collection or use of personal information on any linked sites.