We at With a View are committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy applies to our website, any of its subdomains and browser extension, collectively called With a View.
The information we gather or process is used solely for the core functionality of With a View and to improve the quality and security of our service.
By accessing With a View, data is collected by us, which is passed to us by your device (e.g. your browser). The processing of this data takes place to enable the use of the services (connection, retrieval of data), for system security, for technical administration and optimization of our services. The data we collect can be separated into two types: Data provided by you and data that is automatically gathered by us to provide and optimize our services.
Registration: If you sign up to our platform to use more than the basic services we offer to anonymous users, we require certain personal information. We do this to be able to communicate with you and to provide our services in a secure and user-oriented way. Therefore we collect only a very limited amount of data from you like your name, the e-mail address, the country you are from, your age group and your personal password so that you are able to login to withaview.co. We are saving the e-mail address and your name for the purpose of the communication with you. The country and age are required to personalize the feed and recommendations.
Profile: Based on the data we collected during the sign-up process, we created a user profile for you, which can be used to share your own photos from spots around the world or to save spots so that you can find them later again. The user profile can be edited by you, so that you can individualize it by adding a description about yourself, a profile photo and by adding links to your website and/or social media profiles. All this information about you is optional and you have the right to edit, update, access and delete your personal information if you are terminating your registration on withaview.co. All of your profile data, account settings, and extension data (such as links) are transferred and stored securely, solely for your usage within our website and extension and not shared with any other third parties, except as specified in this policy.
Contact Form: As part of the services, withaview.co provides the possibility to submit any questions, comments, etc. through an electronically offered contact form. Please note that you must provide your name and email address as personal data usage and processing of the request in this case. The contact form, in general, is used like an e-mail you send to us and the data submitted by the form is only stored in the form of an e-mail, that is sent to our main contact address. We won't use the data you provide here for anything else than answering your request.
Profile: If you registered for our services, we additionally save the time of your last activity and your IP address for security reasons. IP addresses are used to transport data from the sender to the intended recipient. Similar to the mailing address on an envelope data packets are provided with an IP address that clearly identifies the recipient.
Google Analytics: with-A-view uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and which enable an analysis of your use of the with-A-view. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the with-A-view (including your truncated IP address) will be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored over there. with-A-view activated the IP anonymization so that your IP address will be truncated of the last digits. For this reason, backtracking to your person or the consolidation of this data with other data Google already may have collected about you is not possible anymore. Only in exceptional cases is the complete IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of with-A-view, Google will use this anonymized information to evaluate the use of the with-A-view, compiling reports on with-A-view activity for with-A-view operators and providing other with website and internet related services to with-A-view. Google may also transfer this information to third parties unless required by law or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; however, we point out that you may not be able to use all functions of with-A-view in this case.
You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie relating to your use of the with-A-view (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of these data by Google, by downloading and installing the following browser plugin, which is available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/
Cookies: If you leave a comment 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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
Google Cloud Image API: with-A-view uses the Google Cloud Image API application to analyze the images you upload and automatically map them to locations and travel categories. This also allows us to detect and block inappropriate content such as adult or violent content. During the analysis, there is the possibility that depicted persons are captured. Neither facial recognition nor any other identification takes place.
Google Maps: This with-A-view uses Google Maps to display geographical information in a visual way. By using Google Maps as an embedded service within with-A-view.com, Google is gathering data about the API users and the usage itself. You can find more information about this in the privacy statement of Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Open Street Maps: (1) We use data from OpenStreetMap, a free project with the aim of collecting freely utilisable geo-data and making it available in a database for general use (open data). In order to display the map to you, information about the use of the with-A-view including your IP address is communicated to OpenStreetMap. These services are operated by OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF), 132 Maney Hill Road, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B72 1JU, United Kingdom, on behalf of the OSM community. (2) In order to display the map for you, information about the use of the OSM services is communicated to OpenStreetMap. In addition, a so-called session cookie is stored on the visitor's computer. Details can be found in the section on Cookies. Information on how OpenStreetMap stores your data can be found at: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy
Cloudinary: To more efficiently manage the photos uploaded by you and display them, in compliance with Art. 6(1) a) and Art. 9(2) a) of the GDPR, we use the Cloudinary cloud-based optimization tool of Cloudinary Ltd., 111 W Evelyn Ave, Suite 206, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, USA (hereinafter "Cloudinary"). When you upload a photo, it is saved on Cloudinary's servers. Cloudinary is certified in compliance with the Privacy Shield Framework and therefore meets European standards for lawful order data processing. You can object to this processing at any time by simply informing us that you no longer wish to have such processing in the future. Please use the contact options of our company data privacy officer for this purpose. You can find detailed information on data protection and your privacy at the Cloudinary with-A-view: http://cloudinary.com/privacy and http://cloudinary.com/tos.
Facebook login: We allow you to sign up for and log on to with-A-view services via the Facebook Login feature. This replaces the otherwise necessary registration. To log in you are redirected to the Facebook server, where you sign on using your user information. This links your Facebook profile to our Services. By using this simplified login feature, you give us your consent to use the following information from your publicly visible profile: