Privacy Policy

5forests.com collects some Personal Data from its Users.

This document contains a section dedicated to Users in the United States and their privacy rights.

This document also covers the cookies and similar technologies 5forests.com uses. See Cookies and similar technologies.

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Owner and Data Controller

Owner 5forests. Contact email: [email protected]

Types of Data collected

Among the types of Personal Data that 5forests.com collects, by itself or through third parties, there are: first and last name; email address; company or business name; website; the details Users choose to give in the contact form; IP address; device and browser information; Usage Data; Trackers.

Complete details on each type of Personal Data collected are provided in Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data. Personal Data may be freely provided by the User, or, in the case of Usage Data, collected automatically when using 5forests.com.

Fields marked as required in the contact form are needed to answer an enquiry. All other fields are optional, and Users are free not to fill them in.

Users are responsible for any third-party Personal Data obtained, published or shared through 5forests.com.

Mode and place of processing the Data

Methods of processing

The Owner takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data. The Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Owner, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to people involved with the operation of 5forests.com (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or to external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, hosting providers and IT companies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the Owner at any time.

Place

The Data is processed at the Owner’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. Depending on the User’s location, data transfers may involve transferring the User’s Data to a country other than their own. The place of processing for each service is listed in the section below.

Retention time

Unless specified otherwise in this document, Personal Data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for and may be retained for longer due to applicable legal obligation or based on the Users’ consent.

The purposes of processing

The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its Service, comply with its legal obligations, respond to enforcement requests, protect its rights and interests (or those of its Users or third parties), detect any malicious or fraudulent activity, as well as the following: Analytics, Tag Management, Contacting the User, Displaying content from external platforms, Managing contacts and sending messages, Consent management, Spam and bots protection, and Traffic optimization and distribution.

Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data

Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:

Analytics

The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior.

Google Analytics 4 (Google Ireland Limited)

Google Analytics 4 is a web analysis service provided by Google Ireland Limited (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of 5forests.com, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. In Google Analytics 4, IP addresses are used at collection time and then discarded before Data is logged in any data center or server. Users can learn more by consulting Google’s official documentation.

Google Analytics cookies are set only after the User accepts analytics cookies in the consent banner. Until then, and if the User declines, Google receives page-view information without cookies, which cannot be linked to the User across visits.

In order to understand Google’s use of Data, consult Google’s partner policy.

Personal Data processed: number of Users; session statistics; Trackers; Usage Data.

Place of processing: Ireland. Privacy Policy. Opt Out.

Category of Personal Information collected according to the CCPA: internet or other electronic network activity information.

This processing constitutes a Sharing in California.

Cloudflare Web Analytics (Cloudflare, Inc.)

Cloudflare Web Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Cloudflare, Inc. It counts page views and measures page performance without setting cookies.

Personal Data processed: Usage Data.

Place of processing: United States. Privacy Policy.

Category of Personal Information collected according to the CCPA: internet or other electronic network activity information.

Contacting the User

Contact form (5forests.com)

By filling in the contact form with their Data, the User authorizes 5forests.com to use these details to reply to their enquiry. Enquiries are stored in the website’s database.

Personal Data processed: name; business email address; company name; website; the services the User is interested in; the User’s business goals and any other details they choose to give; whether the User is an agency contacting 5forests on behalf of a client.

Category of Personal Information collected according to the CCPA: identifiers; commercial information.

Displaying content from external platforms

This type of service allows Users to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of 5forests.com. Embedded content only loads after the User accepts the relevant cookies in the consent banner.

YouTube video widget (Google LLC)

YouTube is a video content visualization service provided by Google LLC that allows 5forests.com to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.

Personal Data processed: Trackers; Usage Data.

Place of processing: United States. Privacy Policy.

Category of Personal Information collected according to the CCPA: internet or other electronic network activity information.

This processing constitutes a Sale in the United States, a Sharing in California, and Targeted Advertising in Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Nevada, Delaware, Iowa, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nebraska and Montana.

Managing contacts and sending messages

Mailchimp (Intuit Inc.)

Mailchimp is an email address management and message sending service provided by Intuit Inc. When a User downloads a resource from 5forests.com, the details they give in the download form are added to our Mailchimp audience, and we occasionally email them about our work and new resources. Every email includes a link to unsubscribe.

Personal Data processed: first name; last name; email address; website; business name.

Place of processing: United States. Privacy Policy.

Category of Personal Information collected according to the CCPA: identifiers.

Consent management

Cookie consent banner (CookieYes)

The cookie consent banner records the User’s choices in a cookie on the User’s device. To show the banner that applies to the User’s region, it sends the User’s IP address to CookieYes to look up the User’s country.

Personal Data processed: IP address; Trackers.

Privacy Policy.

Spam and bots protection

This type of service analyzes the traffic of 5forests.com, potentially containing Users’ Personal Data, with the purpose of filtering it from unwanted parts of traffic, messages and content that are recognized as spam or protecting it from malicious bots activities.

Cloudflare Bot Management and Turnstile (Cloudflare, Inc.)

Cloudflare Bot Management and Cloudflare Turnstile protect 5forests.com and its contact form from malicious bots. They are provided by Cloudflare, Inc.

Personal Data processed: IP address; device information; browser information; Trackers; Usage Data.

Place of processing: United States. Privacy Policy.

Category of Personal Information collected according to the CCPA: identifiers; internet or other electronic network activity information.

Tag Management

This type of service helps the Owner to manage the tags or scripts needed on 5forests.com in a centralized fashion. This results in the Users’ Data flowing through these services, potentially resulting in the retention of this Data.

Google Tag Manager (Google Ireland Limited)

Google Tag Manager is a tag management service provided by Google Ireland Limited.

Personal Data processed: Usage Data.

Place of processing: Ireland. Privacy Policy.

Category of Personal Information collected according to the CCPA: internet or other electronic network activity information.

Traffic optimization and distribution

This type of service allows 5forests.com to distribute its content using servers located across different countries and to optimize its performance. It filters communications between 5forests.com and the User’s browser.

Cloudflare (Cloudflare, Inc.)

Cloudflare is a traffic optimization and distribution service provided by Cloudflare, Inc. The way Cloudflare is integrated means that it filters all the traffic through 5forests.com, that is, communication between 5forests.com and the User’s browser.

Personal Data processed: IP address; Usage Data.

Place of processing: United States. Privacy Policy.

Category of Personal Information collected according to the CCPA: identifiers.

Cookies and similar technologies

Cookies are small files stored in the User’s browser. 5forests.com uses the cookies below. Strictly necessary cookies are set without consent, because the site cannot work securely without them. All other cookies are set only after the User accepts them in the consent banner.

Cookie	Set by	Purpose	Duration	Type
wt_consent	5forests.com	Remembers the User’s cookie choices	1 year	Strictly necessary
cf_clearance	Cloudflare	Records that the browser passed a security check, so it is not challenged again	Up to 1 year	Strictly necessary
_ga	Google Analytics	Distinguishes one visitor from another	13 months	Analytics (consent)
_ga_37W7YQPCEP	Google Analytics	Keeps track of the current session	13 months	Analytics (consent)
YouTube cookies	Google LLC	Set when a page with an embedded YouTube video is viewed	See Google’s Privacy Policy	Embedded content (consent)

How to manage cookie preferences

Users can change or withdraw their consent at any time through the cookie settings on 5forests.com.

Users may also use their own browser settings to see, block or clear cookies. Browser settings do not allow consent to be managed by category. Information about managing cookies in the most commonly used browsers is available here:

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Apple Safari
• Microsoft Edge
• Brave
• Opera

Blocking strictly necessary cookies may stop parts of 5forests.com, such as the contact form, from working.

Further information for Users

Legal basis of processing

The Owner may process Personal Data relating to Users if one of the following applies:

• Users have given their consent for one or more specific purposes.
• provision of Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with the User and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof;
• processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Owner is subject;
• processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner or by a third party.

In any case, the Owner will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

Further information about retention time

Personal Data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between the Owner and the User shall be retained until such contract has been fully performed. Personal Data collected for the purposes of the Owner’s legitimate interests shall be retained as long as needed to fulfill such purposes.

The Owner may be allowed to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever the User has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, the Owner may be obliged to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever required to fulfil a legal obligation or upon order of an authority. Once the retention period expires, Personal Data shall be deleted. Therefore, the right of access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period.

The rights of Users based on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Users may exercise certain rights regarding their Data processed by the Owner. In particular, Users have the right to do the following, to the extent permitted by law:

• Withdraw their consent at any time. Users have the right to withdraw consent where they have previously given their consent to the processing of their Personal Data.
• Object to processing of their Data. Users have the right to object to the processing of their Data if the processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent.
• Access their Data. Users have the right to learn if Data is being processed by the Owner, obtain disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the Data undergoing processing.
• Verify and seek rectification. Users have the right to verify the accuracy of their Data and ask for it to be updated or corrected.
• Restrict the processing of their Data. Users have the right to restrict the processing of their Data. In this case, the Owner will not process their Data for any purpose other than storing it.
• Have their Personal Data deleted or otherwise removed. Users have the right to obtain the erasure of their Data from the Owner.
• Receive their Data and have it transferred to another controller. Users have the right to receive their Data in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another controller without any hindrance.
• Lodge a complaint. Users have the right to bring a claim before their competent data protection authority.

Details about the right to object to processing

Where Personal Data is processed for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner, Users may object to such processing by providing a ground related to their particular situation to justify the objection.

Should Personal Data be processed for direct marketing purposes, Users can object to that processing at any time, free of charge and without providing any justification.

How to exercise these rights

Any requests to exercise User rights can be directed to the Owner through the contact details provided in this document. Such requests are free of charge and will be answered by the Owner as early as possible and always within one month.

Transfer of Personal Data outside of the European Union

Some of the services listed above process Data in the United States. Where this is the case, the transfer is carried out on the basis of an adequacy decision of the European Commission or of the standard contractual clauses provided by the European Commission. For further information, Users may contact the Owner through the contact details provided in this document.

Further information for Users in the United States

This section applies to Users who are residents in the following states: California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Nevada, Delaware, Iowa, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nebraska and Montana. For such Users, this information supersedes any other possibly divergent or conflicting provisions contained in the privacy policy.

Notice at collection

Identifiers

Personal Information collected or disclosed: name, email address, company name, website, IP address.

Purposes: Contacting the User; Managing contacts and sending messages; Spam and bots protection; Traffic optimization and distribution.

Retention period: for the time necessary to fulfill the purpose.

Sold or Shared: No.

Third parties: Intuit Inc., Cloudflare, Inc.

Internet or other electronic network activity information

Personal Information collected or disclosed: Usage Data, Trackers, number of Users, session statistics, device and browser information.

Purposes: Analytics; Tag Management; Displaying content from external platforms; Spam and bots protection.

Retention period: for the time necessary to fulfill the purpose.

Sold or Shared: Yes.

Targeted Advertising: Yes.

Third parties: Google Ireland Limited, Google LLC, Cloudflare, Inc.

Commercial information

Personal Information collected: the services the User is interested in and the details they give in the contact form.

Purposes: Contacting the User.

Sold or Shared: No.

What are the sources of the Personal Information we collect?

We collect the above-mentioned categories of Personal Information from you when you use 5forests.com. You provide Personal Information directly when you submit the contact form or a resource download form, and indirectly when you navigate 5forests.com, as some information about your visit is collected automatically.

Your privacy rights under US state laws

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you have:

• the right to know and to access your Personal Information;
• the right to correct inaccurate Personal Information;
• the right to request the deletion of your Personal Information;
• the right to obtain a copy of your Personal Information in a portable and usable format;
• the right to opt out of the Sale or Sharing of your Personal Information, and of Targeted Advertising;
• the right to non-discrimination. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.

How to exercise your privacy rights under US state laws

To exercise the rights described above, contact us through the contact details provided in this document. For us to respond to your request, we must be able to verify your identity. You can also opt out of Sharing and Targeted Advertising at any time by declining analytics and embedded-content cookies in the consent banner.

If you want to submit requests to opt out of Sale or Sharing and Targeted Advertising via a user-enabled global privacy control, such as the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”), you are free to do so and we will abide by such request.

We will respond to your request without undue delay, and in all cases within the timeframe required by applicable law. We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your request unless the request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.

Additional information about Data collection and processing

Legal action

The User’s Personal Data may be used for legal purposes by the Owner in Court or in the stages leading to possible legal action arising from improper use of 5forests.com or the related Services. The User declares to be aware that the Owner may be required to reveal personal data upon request of public authorities.

System logs and maintenance

For operation and maintenance purposes, 5forests.com and any third-party services may collect files that record interaction with 5forests.com (System logs) or use other Personal Data (such as the IP Address) for this purpose.

Changes to this privacy policy

The Owner reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by notifying its Users on this page. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom. Should the changes affect processing activities performed on the basis of the User’s consent, the Owner shall collect new consent from the User, where required.

Definitions and legal references

Personal Data (or Data) / Personal Information (or Information)

Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.

Usage Data

Information collected automatically through 5forests.com (or third-party services employed in 5forests.com), which can include: the IP addresses of the computers utilized by the Users, the addresses of the pages requested, the time of the request, the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User, and the time spent on and path through the pages of the site.

User

The individual using 5forests.com who, unless otherwise specified, coincides with the Data Subject.

Data Subject

The natural person to whom the Personal Data refers.

Data Processor (or Processor)

The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller, as described in this privacy policy.

Data Controller (or Owner)

The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of 5forests.com.

Sale

Any exchange of Personal Information by the Owner to a third party, for monetary or other valuable consideration, as defined by the applicable US state privacy law.

Sharing

Disclosing a consumer’s Personal Information to a third party for cross-context behavioral advertising, whether or not for monetary or other valuable consideration, as defined by the California privacy laws.

Targeted advertising

Displaying advertisements to a consumer where the advertisement is selected based on Personal Information obtained from that consumer’s activities over time and across nonaffiliated websites, as defined by the applicable US state privacy law.

European Union (or EU)

Unless otherwise specified, all references made within this document to the European Union include all current member states to the European Union and the European Economic Area.

Cookie

Cookies are Trackers consisting of small sets of data stored in the User’s browser.

Tracker

Any technology, such as Cookies, unique identifiers, web beacons or embedded scripts, that enables the tracking of Users, for example by accessing or storing information on the User’s device.

Legal information

This privacy policy relates solely to 5forests.com.

Latest update: 27 September 2026.