Who we are
RVPlainly (https://rvplainly.com) is an independent reference site about RV systems and towing. It is run by Ville Laukkanen, who is the data controller for the personal data described here. Contact: hello@rvplainly.com.
Your privacy choices
When you first visit from the EU, the UK, Switzerland or a US state with a privacy law, a consent pop-up asks what you allow. It is run by our advertising partner, Mediavine, and it covers both advertising and our analytics. Until you agree, cookie-based analytics and personalised advertising stay off in the EU, the UK and Switzerland.
What we collect and why
Advertising
This site shows ads through Journey by Mediavine. Mediavine and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to show ads, limit how often you see the same ad, measure ad performance and, where you allow it, personalise ads. The details are in the Mediavine section below.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics 4 to see which pages people read, roughly where they come from (country and city level), what device and browser they use, and how they found the site. We keep this data for 14 months. Analytics cookies are set only after you agree in the EU, the UK and Switzerland.
We also use Microsoft Clarity to see how far people scroll and where they click, so we can make pages easier to use. Clarity records clicks, scrolling and mouse movement on our pages, and sets no cookies for visitors from the EU, the UK and Switzerland without consent. Microsoft processes this data under the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
Affiliate links
Some links to retailers earn us a commission if you buy, at no extra cost to you. When you click one, the retailer (for example Amazon) may set cookies to credit the referral to us. What happens after you leave our site is covered by the retailer's own privacy policy.
If you email us, we keep your message and address for as long as needed to answer it and to keep a record of any correction it led to. We do not add you to any list.
Hosting
The site is served by Cloudflare, whose servers process your IP address and technical request data to deliver pages and protect the site from attacks. Cloudflare keeps request logs for a short period for security purposes.
Legal basis
- Consent: analytics, personalised advertising and the cookies behind them (EU, UK and Switzerland).
- Legitimate interest: hosting, security, non-personalised advertising where the law allows it, handling affiliate referrals, and answering your email.
You can withdraw consent at any time with the "Change your privacy choices" link above.
Who receives your data
We do not sell your personal data for money. Data is shared with the services named on this page: Mediavine and its advertising partners, Google, Cloudflare, and the retailers you click through to. Some are based in the United States. Transfers there rely on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or on the European Commission's standard contractual clauses.
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you can ask us to show you the data we hold about you, correct it, delete it, limit or object to how we use it, or send it to you in a portable format. Residents of US states with privacy laws can also opt out of the sale or sharing of personal data and of targeted advertising, through the consent pop-up or the link above. Email hello@rvplainly.com and we will reply within a month.
If you think we have handled your data wrongly, you can complain to your local data protection authority. For the publisher's own authority, that is Spain's Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (aepd.es).
Children
This site is not aimed at children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect their data. If you think we have, email us and we will delete it.
Changes
We update this policy when our tools or partners change. The date at the top of the page shows the latest version.