Privacy policy

Short version: govitas sets no cookies, uses no third-party analytics, loads nothing from third-party servers and does not know who you are unless you write to us.

Visitor count

An exception to what this page otherwise says about outside services: every page loads a small counting script from analytics.axaix.app, the network's own statistics server. It is hosted in a data centre in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and the data is not passed on to third parties.

The script sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser. It records the page viewed, the page the visit came from, screen width and language, the broad device type, browser and operating system, and clicks on downloads and on links to other websites. Your IP address is used only briefly to determine country and city and to form a daily hash, then discarded and never stored. The hash changes every day, so a visitor cannot be recognised from one day to the next. Raw data is deleted after twelve months. If your browser sends “Do Not Track”, the visit is not counted.

The legal basis is our legitimate interest in measuring the reach of these pages with as little data as possible (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

Advertising

Through the counting script, every page also loads the advertising script ad.member.show/axaix.js. On the network’s magazines it shows labelled ads from members of the member.show network, and the banner images are served from banner.member.show. Both addresses belong to the network itself and are hosted by the provider Hostinger. No data is passed on to advertisers or any other third parties.

The advertising script sets no cookies, stores nothing in your browser and builds no user profiles. Which ad appears depends only on the page viewed and its language. Impressions and clicks are counted solely as totals per ad, page and day, and your IP address is not stored for this. A click on an ad passes briefly through ad.member.show and then on to the advertiser.

The legal basis is our legitimate interest in funding the magazines through advertising and showing advertisers the reach of their ads (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

1. Controller

NexTao GmbH, Königsallee 27, 40212 Düsseldorf, Germany, e-mail info@govitas.com, telephone +49 1577 5588 888.

2. Hosting and server logs

This website is hosted by Hostinger International Ltd. in a data centre within the European Union. When you open a page, the web server records the requested address, the date and time, the transferred data volume, the browser type and the IP address in a log file for security purposes. Log files are deleted automatically after 14 days at the latest. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in the secure operation of the site (Art. 6 (1) f GDPR). A data processing agreement is in place with the hosting provider.

3. No cookies, no tracking, no third-party content

govitas does not set cookies and does not use third-party analytics, advertising or social media services. Fonts, images, films, scripts and map graphics are delivered from our own domain. No content is loaded from Google, Meta or other third parties when a page opens, so no data reaches other companies through your visit. Maps are our own graphics, not embedded map services.

4. Tools, quiz and local storage

The Vitality Score, Trip Designer, Jet Lag Planner, Longevity Day, Walk the World, Retreat Budget, Breathe and the Longevity Quiz run entirely in your browser. Your inputs are never transmitted to us. So that your last inputs are still there when you return, the browser stores them locally on your device (local storage). This is not a cookie, we have no access to it, and you can delete it at any time through your browser settings. Answers to the Vitality Score are health-related information; they never leave your device.

5. Sharing

The share buttons are plain links. Only when you click WhatsApp, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest or Telegram does the respective service open with the text and the link, and from then on its privacy rules apply. Result pictures are drawn in your browser and downloaded directly to your device.

6. Contact form and newsletter

The contact form and the newsletter sign-up come from formdialog.com, the form service of NexTao GmbH. It runs on its own server at Hostinger in Frankfurt am Main, sets no cookies and loads nothing from third parties. With the form it learns on which govitas page it is shown.

When you write to us through the contact form, we process the details you enter (name, e-mail address, subject, message) to answer your request (Art. 6 (1) b GDPR). The message is delivered to our editorial mailbox by e-mail, stored in the form service and deleted once it is no longer needed. To fend off abuse we keep the IP address of every submission for 14 days (Art. 6 (1) f GDPR).

The newsletter uses double opt-in: after signing up you receive an e-mail with a confirmation link, and only the click on it subscribes you. Unconfirmed sign-ups are deleted after 30 days. As proof of your consent we store the time and IP address of the sign-up and of the confirmation. Your e-mail address stays on our list until you unsubscribe, which is possible with every issue (Art. 6 (1) a GDPR). We do not pass data on to third parties.

7. Poll

The poll on the home page counts votes anonymously. We store only the chosen answer and, instead of your IP address, a short pseudonym that changes monthly, to prevent repeat votes.

8. Your rights

You have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection under Art. 15 to 21 GDPR. Write to info@govitas.com. You may also complain to a data protection supervisory authority; the authority responsible for us is the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of North Rhine-Westphalia.

9. Changes

We update this policy when the site changes. Last revised: September 2026.