Privacy Statement

Welcome to Editablemaps’s Privacy Policy

      • Hi there, we’re Editablemaps .com, (“Editablemaps”) and welcome to our privacy policy. This policy sets out how we handle your personal information if you’re an Editablemaps user or visitor to our Site.
      • When we say ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘Editablemaps’ it’s because that’s who we are and we own and run the Site.
      • If we say ‘policy’ we’re talking about this privacy policy. If we say ‘user terms’ we’re talking about the rules for using our Site.

The type of personal information we collect

      • We collect certain personal information about visitors and users of our Site.
      • The most common types of information we collect include things like: user-names, member names, email addresses, IP addresses, other contact details, payment information such as payment agent details, transactional details, support queries, and web analytics data.

How we collect personal information

      • We collect personal information directly when you provide it to us, automatically as you navigate through the Site, or through other people when you use services associated with the Site.
      • We collect your personal information when you provide it to us when you complete membership registration and buy items or services on our Site, subscribe to a newsletter, email list, submit feedback, or send us a communication.

Personal information we collect about you from others

      •  Although we generally collect personal information directly from you, on occasion, we also collect certain categories of personal information about you from other sources. In particular:
      •  financial and/or transaction details from payment providers located in the US or UK, in order to process a transaction;
      •  third party service providers (like Google, PayPal, 2CO, and Facebook) who are located in the US or UK, which may provide information about you when you link, connect, or login to your account with the third party provider. The information varies and is controlled by that service provider or as authorized by you via your privacy settings at that service provider; and
      • other third party sources/ and or partners from US,  whereby we receive additional information about you (to the extent permitted by applicable law), such as demographic data or fraud detection information, and combine it with information we have about you. For example, fraud warnings from service providers like identity verification service. We also receive information about you and your activities on and off the Editablemaps platform through partnerships, or about your experiences and interactions from our partner ad networks.

How we use personal information

      • To fulfill a contract, or take steps linked to a contract: in particular, in facilitating and processing transactions that take place on the Site, like where you purchase an item from our Site
      • Where this is necessary for purposes which are in our, or third parties, legitimate interests. These interests include:
        • operating the Site;
        • providing you with services described on the Site;
        • verifying your identity when you sign in to our Site;
        • responding to support tickets, and helping facilitate the resolution of any disputes;
        • updating you with operational news and information about our Site and services e.g. to notify you about changes to our Site, website disruptions or security updates;
        • carrying out technical analysis to determine how to improve the Site and services we provide;
        • monitoring activity on the Site, e.g. to identify potential fraudulent activity and to ensure compliance with the user terms that apply to the Site;
        • managing our relationship with you, e.g. by responding to your queries submitted to us on the Site or asking for your feedback;
        • managing our legal and operational affairs (including, managing risks relating to content and fraud matters);
        • training Editablemaps staff about how to best serve our user community;
        • improving our products and services.
        •  providing general administrative and performance functions and activities; and
      • Where you give us consent:
      • providing you with marketing information about products and services which we feel may interest you; and
      • For purposes which are required by law.
      • For the purpose of responding to requests by government, a court of law, or law enforcement authorities conducting an investigation.

When we disclose your personal information

      • We will disclose personal information to the following recipients:
        • companies that are in the Editablemaps group which are located in China;
        • authors of any items or services made available to you, so they can facilitate support and license validation, who maybe located in any of the countries our products are available in;
        • subcontractors and service providers who assist us in connection with the ways we use personal information (as set out above), in particular: website hosting providers which are located in US; technical and customer support services which are located in China; marketing and analytics services which are located in the US; security and fraud prevention services which are located in the US; subscription management services which are located in the US; payment processing services which are located in the US; identification verification services located in the US; and operational tooling services which are located in the US. Noting that our subcontractors and services providers may also transfer and access such information from other countries in which they have operations.
        • our professional advisers (lawyers, accountants, financial advisers etc.) which are located in China;
        • regulators and government authorities in connection with our compliance procedures and obligations;
        • a purchaser or prospective purchaser of all or part of our assets or our business, and their professional advisers, in connection with the purchase;
        • a third party to respond to requests relating to a criminal investigation or alleged or suspected illegal activity;
        • a third party, in order to enforce or defend our rights, or to address financial or reputational risks;
        • a rights holder in relation to an allegation of intellectual property infringement or any other infringement; and
        • other recipients where we are authorised or required by law to do so.

Where we transfer and/or store your personal information

      • We are based in China so your data will be processed in China and the US. Some of the recipients we have described in section 10 above, and to whom we disclose your personal information, are based outside China in places like the US. We do this on the basis of your consent to this policy. In order to protect your information, we take care where possible to work with subcontractors and service providers who we believe maintain an acceptable standard of data security compliance.

How we keep your personal information secure

      • We store personal information on secure servers that are managed by us and our service providers. Personal information that we store or transmit is protected by security and access controls, including username and password authentication, two-factor authentication, and data encryption where appropriate.

How you can access your personal information

      • You can access some of the personal information that we collect about you by logging in to your account. You also have the right to make a request to access other personal information we hold about you and to request corrections of any errors in that data. You can also close the account you have with us at any time. To make an access or correction request, contact us using the contact details at the end of this policy.

Marketing Choices regarding your personal information

      • Where we have your consent to do so (e.g. if you have indicated that you are interested in receiving newsletters from us), we send you newsletters by email about products and services that we feel may be of interest to you. You can ‘opt-out’ of such communications if you would prefer not to receive them in the future by using the “unsubscribe” facility provided in the communication itself.
      • You also have choices about cookies, as described below. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject cookies some parts of our Site may not work properly in your case.

Cookies (not the type you eat!) and web analytics

      • For more information about how we use cookies, web beacons and similar technologies see our cookie policy below and for more general information on cookies, see http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
      • When you visit our Site, there’s certain information that’s recorded which is generally anonymous information and does not reveal your identity. If you’re logged into your account some of this information could be associated with your account. We’re talking about the following kinds of details:
        • your IP address or proxy server IP address’;
        • the domain name you requested;
        • the name of your internet service provider is sometimes captured depending on the configuration of your ISP connection;
        • the date and time of your visit to the website;
        • the length of your session;
        • the pages which you have accessed;
        • the number of times you access our site within any month;
        • the file URL you look at and information relating to it;
        • the website which referred you to our Site; and
        • the operating system which your computer uses.

Information about children

      • Our Site are not suitable for children under the age of 16 years, so if you are under 16 we ask that you do not use our Site or give us your personal information (if you are a young tech wiz, please direct your nearest responsible adult to use the Site for you!). If you are from 16 to 18 years, you can browse the Site but you’ll need the supervision of a parent or guardian to become a registered user. It’s the responsibility of parents or guardians to monitor their children’s use of our Site.

Information you make public or give to others

      • If you make your personal information available to other people, we can’t control or accept responsibility for the way they will use or manage that data. There are lots of ways that you can find yourself providing information to other people, like when you post a public message on a forum thread, share information via social media, or make contact with another user (such as a third party Author) whether via our Site or directly via email. Before making your information publicly available or giving your information to anyone else, think carefully. If giving information to another user via our Site, ask them how they will handle your information. If you’re sharing information via another website, check the privacy policy for that site to understand its information management practices as this privacy policy will not apply.

How long we keep your personal information

      • We retain your personal information for as long as is necessary to provide the services to you and others, and to comply with our legal obligations. If you no longer want us to use your personal information or to provide you with the Editablemaps services, you can request that we erase your personal information and close your Editablemaps account. Please note that if you request the erasure of your personal information we will retain information from deleted accounts as necessary for our legitimate business interests, to comply with the law, prevent fraud, collect fees, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with investigations, enforce the terms of service and take other actions permitted by law. The information we retain will be handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

When we need to update this policy

      • We will need to change this policy from time to time in order to make sure it stays up to date with the latest legal requirements and any changes to our privacy management practices.
      • When we do change the policy, we’ll make sure to notify you about such changes, where required. A copy of the latest version of this policy will always be available on this page.

How you can contact us

      • If you have any questions about our privacy practices or the way in which we have been managing your personal information, please contact us editablemaps@outlook.com
      • We’re really glad you made it to the end of the privacy policy, because knowing this stuff is the best way to understand how your personal information is used and how to best manage it!

If you’re a user or visitor in the European Economic Area these rights also apply to you:

      • For the purposes of applicable EU data protection law (including the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (the “GDPR”), we are a ‘data controller’ of your personal information.
      • How you can access your personal information
      • You are also entitled to ask us to port your personal information (i.e. to transfer in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, to you), to erase it, or restrict its processing. You also have rights to object to some processing that is based on our legitimate interests, such as profiling that we perform for the purposes of direct marketing, and, where we have asked for your consent to process your data, to withdraw this consent as more fully described below.
      • These rights are limited in some situations – for example, we can demonstrate that we have a legal requirement to process your personal information. In some instances, this means that we may retain some data even if you withdraw your consent.
      • Where we require your personal information to comply with legal or contractual obligations, then provision of such data is mandatory: if such data is not provided, then we will not be able to manage our contractual relationship with you, or to meet obligations placed on us. In all other cases, provision of requested personal information is optional.
      • If you have unresolved concerns you also have the right to complain to data protection authorities. The relevant data protection authority will be the data protection authority of the country: (i) of your habitual residence; (ii) of your place of work; or (iii) in which you consider the alleged infringement has occurred.

Both personal information and personal data have the same meaning in the context of this Privacy Policy.

Editablemaps Privacy Policy, effective date 25 May 2018

 

Editablemaps cookies, web beacons and similar technologies

Hi, we’re Editablemaps. You’re probably here because you’re interested to know more about how we use cookies, web beacons and other similar technologies. As a part of our commitment to upholding a high standard of transparency in our Privacy Policy, we’ve created this guide to explain the tracking technologies we use on our Site.

What are cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies?

      • Typically, there are two types of tracking technologies we might use on our Site:
        • Cookies: these aren’t the type you eat they’re actually a small data file sent from a server to your web browser or mobile device that is stored on your browser cache or mobile device. There are ways you can control your cookies preferences and set whether you want to accept or reject cookies (see what your options are below).
        • Clear gifs, web beacons, web bugs: These are tiny graphics with a unique identifier similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the movements of web users between pages and webSite. Unlike cookies, which are cached on a user’s computer, clear gifs, web beacons and web bugs are embedded invisibly on web pages and are about the size of a single pixel.

What do we do with these technologies?

We use these tracking technologies for a few general purposes like:

      • To allow our Site to function correctly.
      • To understand how our Site are functioning and to inform any improvements in performance and our services.
      • To enhance your experience on our Site and provide functionality that means for example you don’t have to re-enter your details each time you engage with our Site or to record what purchases you’ve made on our Site.
      • To gather relevant data that helps us deliver marketing and advertising content relevant to your interests.

We might sometimes partner with third-party services who may use various tracking technologies to provide certain services or features on our Site, including targeted online marketing or relevant on-site messaging. These third-party services use cookies to anonymously collect data and allow them to recognize your computer or mobile device each time you visit any of our Site. No personally identifiable information is collected by these cookies. The anonymous data they collect is kept separate from the personal information about you as a user that we collect.

Your options when it comes cookies, web beacons and similar technologies

You can change your web browser’s settings to reflect your cookie preferences. Use these links to find out more information about cookie settings for these common browsers:

      1. Internet Explorer
      2. Firefox
      3. Chrome
      4. Safari

Also, you can opt out of third party advertising cookies at any time by visiting this page

Just keep in mind that if you disable cookies, web beacons and similar technologies there might be some functionality that will not work or not operate correctly on our Site.

If you have any questions about our privacy practices, please contact us editablemaps@outlook.com.

 

Last updated 27 May, 2018