Privacy Policy for Discovery Map

Last updated: 2024-08-26

1. Introduction

Discovery Map ("we", "our", or "us") operates the website https://discoverymap.com and associated applications (collectively, the "Services"). This Privacy Policy informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Services and the choices you have associated with that data.

2. Who We Are

Our website address is: https://discoverymap.com.

3. Data Collection and Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Services:

3.1 Personal Data

If you are a staff member or a franchisee and have access to our Adwiz, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data"). Personal Data may include, but is not limited to:

- Email address
- First name and last name
- Profile information

3.2 Usage Data

We may also collect information on how the Services are accessed and used ("Usage Data"). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Services that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

3.3 Comments and Submissions

When visitors leave comments/submissions on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor's IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

3.4 Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

3.5 Cookies

If you leave a comment/submission on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

4. Use of Data

Discovery Map uses the collected data for various purposes:

- To provide and maintain our Services
- To notify you about changes to our Services
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Services when you choose to do so
- To provide customer support
- To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Services
- To monitor the usage of our Services
- To detect, prevent and address technical issues

5. Data Protection Mechanisms for Sensitive Data

We implement a variety of reasonable security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information. These include:

- Encryption of data in transit using SSL/TLS protocols
- Encryption of sensitive data at rest
- Access controls and authentication mechanisms to prevent unauthorized access
- Secure development practices and code reviews

6. Retention and Deletion of Data

We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

If you leave a comment/submission, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

You can request the deletion of your Google user data at any time by contacting us at it@discoverymap.com. Upon receiving such a request, we will delete your data from our systems within a short period of time, unless we are required to retain it for legal reasons.

7. Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

8. Sharing, Transferring, and Disclosure of Google User Data

Discovery Map does not share, transfer, or disclose Google user data to any third parties, except in the following limited circumstances:

- When required by law or to comply with a valid legal process
- To protect the security of our Services
- To protect the rights or property of Discovery Map
- In the event of a business transfer or acquisition, in which case we would require the receiving party to respect the commitments set forth in this Privacy Policy

We do not sell Google user data to any third parties. Any use of Google user data is strictly limited to the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Policy and to providing and improving our Services.

If we ever need to share, transfer, or disclose Google user data beyond these circumstances, we will seek explicit consent from the affected users before doing so.

9. Your Data Protection Rights

You have certain data protection rights. If you wish to be informed about what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us at it@discoverymap.com.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

- The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you
- The right of rectification
- The right to object
- The right of restriction
- The right to data portability
- The right to withdraw consent

You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

- By email: it@discoverymap.com
- By visiting this page on our website: https://adwiz.discoverymap.com/about-us

12. Additional Notes

There are currently no public accounts on this site, but we make every effort to serve you the best travel maps and experiences regardless. If public accounts are implemented in the future, the privacy declarations in this policy will play a more prominent role.