Last updated: July 14, 2026
Calm Girl Living respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and share information when you visit calmgirlliving.com, subscribe to our emails, download a free resource, contact us, or otherwise interact with the website.
1. Who We Are
Calm Girl Living is an independent wellness and lifestyle website operated from Norway.
The data controller responsible for the processing of personal data through this website is:
Business or legal name: Emilie Beck
Website: https://calmgirlliving.com
Email: contact@calmgirlliving.com
Country: Norway
In this Privacy Policy, “Calm Girl Living,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to the website operator identified above.
2. Information We Collect
The information we collect depends on how you interact with the website.
Information You Provide Directly
We may collect information you voluntarily provide, including:
- Your email address when you subscribe to our mailing list or request a free resource
- Your name, if you choose to provide it
- Information included in messages submitted through a contact form or sent by email
- Your email preferences and subscription status
- Any other information you voluntarily provide to us
Please do not send sensitive personal information through our contact forms or by email.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit the website, certain technical information may be collected automatically by our website, hosting provider, security tools, analytics services, or cookie technologies.
This information may include:
- Internet Protocol address
- Browser type and version
- Device type and operating system
- General geographic region
- Referring website or source
- Pages viewed and links clicked
- Date and time of access
- Website performance and error information
- Cookie identifiers and similar technical data
We generally use this information to operate, protect, understand, and improve the website.
3. How We Use Your Information
We may use personal information to:
- Deliver a free guide, download, or other resource you requested
- Send newsletters, updates, wellness content, product information, or promotional emails when you have subscribed
- Manage email subscriptions and unsubscribe requests
- Respond to questions, messages, or support requests
- Operate and maintain the website
- Understand how visitors use the website
- Improve our content, website design, and user experience
- Detect spam, fraud, security threats, or technical problems
- Maintain records required for legal or administrative purposes
- Comply with applicable legal obligations
- Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
We will not use your personal information for materially different purposes without providing appropriate notice or obtaining consent where required.
4. Legal Bases for Processing
Where the General Data Protection Regulation and Norwegian data protection law apply, we process personal data using one or more of the following legal bases:
Consent
We rely on consent when you voluntarily subscribe to receive marketing emails, newsletters, or similar communications.
You may withdraw your consent at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link included in our emails or contacting us at contact@calmgirlliving.com. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.
Steps Taken at Your Request
We may process your email address or other information when necessary to provide a resource, response, or service you specifically requested.
Legitimate Interests
We may process limited personal information where reasonably necessary for our legitimate interests, including:
- Operating and improving the website
- Understanding website performance
- Protecting the website from fraud, abuse, and security threats
- Responding to communications
- Maintaining appropriate business records
We consider the effect of this processing on your privacy rights before relying on legitimate interests.
Legal Obligations
We may process or retain information when necessary to comply with applicable laws, regulations, court orders, tax requirements, or lawful requests from public authorities.
5. Email Subscriptions and Free Resources
When you request a free resource or subscribe to Calm Girl Living emails, we collect your email address.
At the point of sign-up, you will recieve an email to confirm your subscription to our newsletter.
Our emails may include:
- Download link to the resource you requested
- Wellness and lifestyle content
- Website updates
- Information about new resources
- Affiliate recommendations
- Information about paid digital products or services
You may unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe link included at the bottom of each marketing email.
Unsubscribing from marketing emails may not prevent us from sending essential administrative messages directly related to a transaction, request, legal requirement, or privacy inquiry.
We currently use MailPoet to manage email subscriptions and deliver emails. This provider may process your email address, subscription status, engagement data, and related technical information on our behalf.
Read the provider’s privacy documentation for further information about its processing practices.
6. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Calm Girl Living may use cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, measure website use, maintain security, and understand how visitors interact with our content.
Cookies may include:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for essential website functions, security, form submission, consent management, or basic technical operation.
Analytics Cookies
Where enabled, analytics cookies help us understand matters such as which pages visitors view, how visitors reach the website, and how the website performs.
We use Jetpack and Google Analytics.
Marketing and Social Media Technologies
Where enabled, services such as Pinterest or other social platforms may use cookies, pixels, or similar technologies to measure referrals, advertising performance, or visitor interactions.
We use Pinterest tag.
Non-essential cookies or tracking technologies will be used only after obtaining consent where required by applicable law.
You can manage your choices through the website’s cookie banner or through your browser settings. Disabling some cookies may affect certain website functions.
7. WordPress, Hosting, and Website Providers
This website is built using WordPress.
Our hosting provider, WordPress plugins, security tools, form providers, backup providers, and other technical suppliers may process limited visitor information when necessary to provide their services.
Current providers may include:
- Website host: Hostinger
- Website platform: WordPress
- Email provider: MailPoet
- Contact-form provider: None
- Analytics provider: Jetpack
- Cookie-consent provider: None
- Security or anti-spam provider: None
These providers generally process information on our behalf under their own contractual and privacy obligations.
8. Affiliate Links and External Websites
Calm Girl Living may participate in affiliate programs.
This means we may earn a commission when you click an affiliate link or make a qualifying purchase, at no additional cost to you.
When you click an affiliate link, you leave calmgirlliving.com and visit a third-party website. That third party may collect information, use cookies, or track the referral according to its own privacy policy.
We do not control the privacy, security, or data-processing practices of third-party websites. You should review the privacy policy of any external website you visit.
Affiliate relationships are also explained in our Affiliate Disclosure.
9. How We Share Information
We do not disclose personal information except as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
We may share information with:
- Website-hosting and technical service providers
- Email-marketing and newsletter providers
- Analytics providers
- Security, spam-prevention, and fraud-prevention providers
- Professional advisers, such as accountants or legal advisers
- Government authorities or law-enforcement bodies when legally required
- A successor or purchaser in connection with a sale, transfer, merger, restructuring, or similar business transaction
Service providers are permitted to process information only as necessary to provide their contracted services or comply with applicable law.
We do not sell personal information for money.
Some analytics, advertising, or affiliate technologies may be legally classified as “sharing” or targeted advertising under certain privacy laws. Where applicable, visitors may be given additional choices through our cookie-consent system or by contacting us.
10. International Data Transfers
Some of our service providers may be located outside Norway or the European Economic Area, or may store information in other countries.
Where personal data is transferred outside the European Economic Area, we take reasonable steps to ensure that an appropriate transfer mechanism or safeguard is used where required. This may include:
- An adequacy decision
- Standard contractual clauses
- Other legally recognized safeguards
Where required, our service providers use legally recognised safeguards for transfers of personal information outside the European Economic Area. These may include an adequacy decision or the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses. Further information about the safeguards used by a particular provider may be found in that provider’s privacy notice or data processing terms.
11. How Long We Keep Information
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including legal, accounting, security, and recordkeeping requirements.
Generally:
- Email-subscriber information is retained until you unsubscribe, withdraw consent, or the mailing list is discontinued
- Contact messages may be retained for as long as necessary to respond and maintain relevant records
- Security logs and technical information may be retained for a limited period based on operational and security needs
- Consent records and unsubscribe records may be retained where necessary to demonstrate compliance and respect your communication preferences
We may retain limited information after an unsubscribe request to ensure that we do not send further marketing emails to that address.
12. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:
- Request access to personal information we hold about you
- Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
- Request deletion of your personal information
- Request restriction of certain processing
- Object to processing based on legitimate interests
- Withdraw consent at any time
- Request a portable copy of information you provided
- Lodge a complaint with a data-protection authority
- Opt out of certain marketing, targeted advertising, sale, or sharing activities where applicable
These rights are not absolute and may be subject to legal exceptions.
To exercise a privacy right, contact us at:
contact@calmgirlliving.com
We may need to request sufficient information to verify your identity before completing a request. We will respond within the time required by applicable law.
13. Complaints
You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Norwegian Data Protection Authority if you believe that your personal information has been processed unlawfully.
Datatilsynet — Norwegian Data Protection Authority
You may also contact the data-protection authority in the country where you live, work, or believe an infringement occurred.
We encourage you to contact us first so that we have an opportunity to address your concern.
14. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, organizational, and technical measures intended to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
However, no internet transmission, website, email system, or storage method can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
15. Children’s Privacy
Calm Girl Living is intended for a general adult audience and is not directed toward children.
We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under the age at which they may legally provide consent in their jurisdiction.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information through the website, contact us at contact@calmgirlliving.com so that we can review and, where appropriate, delete it.
16. Third-Party Links
The website may link to websites, products, platforms, or services operated by third parties.
This Privacy Policy applies only to calmgirlliving.com. We are not responsible for the content, security, availability, or privacy practices of third-party websites.
17. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when our practices, service providers, website functions, or legal obligations change.
The revised policy will be published on this page with a new “Last updated” date. Material changes may also be communicated through the website or by email where appropriate.
18. Contact Us
Questions, concerns, or privacy requests may be sent to:
Calm Girl Living
Operator: Emilie Beck
Email: contact@calmgirlliving.com
Country: Norway
Website: https://calmgirlliving.com