MapItNow 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, MapItNow 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, MapItNow 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.
    • 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.

How we use your data

We use the data that you provide for the following purposes:
  • Providing the MapItNow 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 MapItNow 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 MapItNow 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 MapItNow feature, we may use the details you provide in the creation of the new feature.
  • Provide personalized MapItNow 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 MapItNow 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 MapItNow: Your information is used to improve the security, reliability, and availability of MapItNow. 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.