Privacy Policy

At Mapometer Ltd, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is a description of the types of personal information we receive and collect when you visit mapometer.net, and how we safeguard your information. This website complies to all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.

Use of Cookies

Cookies are small files saved to the user's computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the user's interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

This website uses cookies (and HTML5 local-storage) to improve our users experience. We will ask for your consent to store cookies on your computer when you first visit the website. Since the operation of this website depends on the use of these cookies, we ask that, if you do not wish to use cookies with our website, that you refrain from accessing our website.

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google's privacy policy here for further information [ http://www.google.com/privacy.html ].

Collecting Data

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of data.

Information that you provide to us when you register with us. Including your email address.
Information that you provide to us for the purpose of creating event listings.
Information that you provide to us when purchasing services from us, including your name and billing address. Since we use an external payment service (currently PayPal), we do NOT store your credit / debit card details.
Information contained in any communication you send to us.
Log Files: As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in web server log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as BT or AOL), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Chrome), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited on our site.

Using your data

We may use the information we store about you in the following ways.

Enable you to use the services offer by our website.
Personalise our website for you.
Send you email notifications from the website.
Deal with enquiries or complaints you make regarding our website.
Administer our website and business.

If you have chosen to provide us with personal information to be published on our website, we will publish and use that information by the methods chosen by you.

All of our website payments are handles by our payment services provider (currently PayPal). We will share your information with them only to the extent necessary to enable them to processs your payments and to deal with refunds, queries and complaints regarding these payments.

Disclosing your data

We may disclose your data to the extent we are required to by law.

We may disclose your data in connection to any legal proceedings.

We will not supply your information to any third party without your express prior consent.

Retaining your data

We will retain your data to the extend we require to by law.

In accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, any personal information you supply to us is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use.

Copies of some data may be retained within our server backups for a period of up to 90 days beyond the point they are deleted from our live website.

We may retain data beyond the point where it would normally be deleted if we believe it may be pertinent to any ongoing or prospective legal action.