Privacy

Summary

• In order to create an account, win badges and communicate through the system you will need to disclose information as described below.
• You can use Discover Explore without disclosing personal information simply browsing pages and not creating a user account.
• You can change your account details at any time.
• Your information will never be used for secondary uses. We will never sell your email address or other personal information.
• We will only disclose your information when required to do so by law, or when Discover Explore believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Discover Explore, third parties, or the public at large.
• Children aged under 13 are requested to sign-up through a parent or guardian. Once an account is approved children are unable to use any free text or personally identifiable mapping tools.

Website Visitors (for those aged under 13 see additional information below

Like most website operators, Discover Explore collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Discover Explore’s purpose in collecting non-personally-identifying information is to better understand how Discover Explore’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Discover Explore may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Discover Explore also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Discover Explore does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

Website visitors aged under 13

There are a number of features that we use to help safeguard children. All of these guards are in place until they reach their 13th birthday when their accounts automatically turn into normal user accounts.

If you are aware of a user who is aged under 13 but is using a 13+ account please email hello@discoverexplore.co.uk and their account will be edited or suspended.

Registration through parents and guardians: Visitors who declare that they are aged under 13 are asked to register through their parent or guardian’s email address. An email is then sent to the supplied email account with an activation code that must be clicked before the registration can be completed.

Anonymous user accounts: Visitors are asked to use display names which are not their own. The only information which could be identifiable on a profile page is a user name and profile picture. Users can share their profile page’s URL address with other people.

Minimal personally-identifying information is collected on registration: All that we collect is a parent or guardian’s email address, a name which is not their own and if you would like us to send email updates to that address.

Deleting emails after responding to them: It is out policy to delete personal email addresses provided by children after we have made one time responses to them.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Discover Explore’s website choose to interact with Discover Explore in ways that require Discover Explore to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Discover Explore gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors to provide a username and email address. In each case, Discover Explore collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Discover Explore. Discover Explore does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Information users post as comments in their explorer logs will NOT be made publicly available. However, we do advise you not to disclose any personal information (phone numbers, email addresses etc.) and if you do so this is at your own risk.

If using Discover Explore on a GPS enabled mobile device location data will be collected in order to display relevant content which is nearby and other location based services.

By stating which missions you have completed you in effect publish locations of where you have been and when. Only mark missions complete if you agree for this information to be made publicly available and you are happy for people to be able to see when and where you have been.

Aggregated Statistic

Discover Explore may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors. For instance, Discover Explore may reveal how many visits, downloads, points or other interactions a particular missions got. However, Discover Explore does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

We will collect, store and use any personal data and information in compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998. It’s your responsibility to keep your personal data accurate and up-to-date. If you register with us, you consent by doing so to our processing the personal data that you submit for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. All data which is held about you can be accessed through your profile page.

Discover Explore discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors (such as The Workshop who built the website), and affiliated organisations (such as the Heritage Alliance) that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Discover Explore’s behalf or to provide services available at Discover Explore’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organisations may be located outside of your home country; by using Discover Explore’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Discover Explore will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors, and affiliated organisations, as described above, Discover Explore discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Discover Explore believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Discover Explore, third parties, or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a Discover Explore website and have supplied your email address, Discover Explore may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Discover Explore and our products. You can opt out of this service at any time on your ‘Explorer profile page. We primarily use our newsletter, blog and twitter feed to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Discover Explore takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Discover Explore uses cookies to help Discover Explore identify and track visitors, their usage of Discover Explore website, and their website access preferences. Discover Explore visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Discover Explore’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Discover Explore’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Discover Explore may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Discover Explore’s sole discretion. Discover Explore encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

This privacy policy has been adapted from the Wordpress privacy policy which is available under a creative commons license.

http://wordpress.org/about/privacy
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5