Map Pedometer Privacy Policy
We take your privacy seriously. This policy describes what personal
information we collect and how we use it.
Routine Information Collection
All web servers track basic information about their visitors. This
information includes, but is not limited to, IP addresses, browser
details, timestamps and referring pages. None of this information can
personally identify specific visitors to this site. The information is
tracked for routine administration and maintenance purposes, and lets
us know what pages and information are useful and helpful to visitors.
Cookies
Where necessary, Map Pedometer uses cookies to store information about a
visitor's preferences, login status, and history in order to better serve the visitor
and/or present the visitor with customized content.
- If you click the Remember checkbox prior to searching for a map location,
Map Pedometer will save the coordinates of the location in a browser cookie
on your computer. Other users of your computer may be able to view the saved
location. If you do not want the cookie to be created, do not check the "Remember" checkbox when search for
a map location.
- When you log in to this site, a session cookie is used to maintain your user session.
If you do not want a session cookie to be created, do not log in to this site.
If you select the checkbox "Log me on automatically each visit" when logging in, a cookie will be created
to enable this functionality. If you do not want the cookie to be created, do not check the "Log me on automatically each visit" checkbox.
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Advertising partners and other third parties may also use cookies,
scripts and/or web beacons to track visitors to our site in order to
display advertisements and other useful information. Such tracking is
done directly by the third parties through their own servers and is
subject to their own privacy policies.
- Additional cookies may be created to store information about your site preferences.
Google Advertising Cookies
- This site uses Google advertising which are displayed on most pages of this website. Google creates cookies when placing ads on this website.
- Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on their visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings
- What is the DoubleClick DART cookie? The
DoubleClick DART cookie is used by Google in the ads served on
publisher websites displaying AdSense for content ads. When users visit
an AdSense publisher's website and either view or click on an ad, a
cookie may be dropped on that end user's browser. The data gathered
from these cookies will be used to help AdSense publishers better serve
and manage the ads on their site(s) and across the web. Users may opt
out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content
network privacy policy. Visit the Google Privacy Center for more details:
http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
Google Analytics
This site uses Google Analytics. We request IP address anonymization from Google Analytics.
Google describes IP Anonymization in Analytics
here.
You can find out how the use of
Google Analytics affects your privacy
here.
Map Data
If you click on the "Save Route" button after entering map route information, your
route information will be saved.
All saved routes are publicly available and can be
seen by other users. If you do not save your route, your route data will not be
stored and will not be available to other users. You may post links to
your saved route information on any website. Users clicking on
your saved route link will see the route information which you saved.
If you are logged in when you save your route, your user id number will be
stored with your saved route. Storing your user id information with your routes
will allow you to retrieve a list of the routes that you saved. If you do not want
your user id number to be stored with your saved routes, log out of the site before
saving routes. Your IP address may be stored with any map routes that you create.
Deleting routes:
- Routes created when you are not logged in: Routes created when you are not logged in are anonymously saved, not associated with you, and CANNOT be deleted.
- Routes created when you are logged in: You may delete any or all of the routes you saved when logged in by using the My Routes page to delete individual routes.
Activity Log
The Activity Log page allows you to easily save your daily activities to our website.
Only registered users that are logged in to our site can enter information in the activity log.
The information you enter on the activity log will be saved and associated with your user account.
Deleting your activity log data: You may delete any or all of the information in your activity log using the delete mechanism on the Activity Log page.
User account
Your email address is required in order to create a user account. The email address is needed to allow you to verify your
user account, recover your password, and to obtain service related support for your user account.
Although this site has never sent marketing or advertising email messages, we may send marketing and/or advertising email messages in the future.
By creating a user account, you agree that we may send you marketing and/or advertising email messages.
Any marketing and/or advertising email messages will be accompanied by a link allowing you to easily opt out of future marketing and/or advertising email.
Deleting your account: If you would like to have your account deleted, contact us by clicking on the "Contact Map Pedometer" link at the bottom of the Forum page.
See additional information on this page which describes how to delete data saved with your account such as map routes and your activity log.
Forum
Comments entered on the Forum pages can be seen by other users.
If you do not want your comments to be publicly viewable, do not enter
comments on the Forum pages.
All comments are reviewed by site administrators before comments are posted to the website.
Attempting to post spam, advertising, and external site links in the forum may result in the termination of
your user account with or without advanced notice.
How we use your data
We use the data that you provide for the following purposes:
- Providing the Map Pedometer services: The information you provide on our site is used to provide you with the services
and functionality on our site. For example, when you save your route, the route information will be stored on
our servers. This allows the route information to later be displayed on our site.
- Maintaining and improving Map Pedometer services: We use your information to make sure our services are working as intended.
This includes troubleshooting issues that you may report to us, tracking website problems, and service outages.
For example, if you report a problem via email or our forum, we will use your provided information to help
identify the problem.
- Creating new Map Pedometer services and features: We may use the information that we collect to aid in the creation of new features and
services. For example, if you request a new Map Pedometer feature, we may use the details you provide in
the creation of the new feature.
- Provide personalized Map Pedometer services: We use your data to provide personalized services. For example, if you create
a user account and save map routes, we use your user account information along with your saved routes to
display the routes that you created.
- Measure Map Pedometer performance: We may used data collected on our site for analytics and measurements to determine how
our website is used. For example, we may use statistical information on the number map tiles loaded per map
layer in order to determine the popularity of each map layer.
- Sending email: Your email address may be used to send you email messages. For example, if you
send us an email, we will use your email address to reply to your email. If you create a user account, we may
use your email address to send you email messages.
- Security, reliability, and availability of Map Pedometer: Your information is used to improve the security, reliability,
and availability of Map Pedometer. This includes the detection and prevention of service abuse, technical issues, and security issues.
Facebook
Portions of this site may make use of Facebook links and applications. Please check
the Facebook website for their privacy policy and how you can control
the availability of your Facebook information.
Twitter
Portions of this site may make use of Twitter links and applications. Please check
the Twitter website for their privacy policy and how you can control
the availability of your Twitter information.
Controlling Your Privacy
Note that you can change your browser settings to disable cookies if
you have privacy concerns. Disabling cookies for all sites is not
recommended as it may interfere with your use of some sites. The best
option is to disable or enable cookies on a per-site basis. Consult
your browser documentation for instructions on how to block cookies and
other tracking mechanisms.