Privacy
Effective Date: January 1, 2019
Last Updated: March 24, 2019
We understand that online privacy is important to users of METARmaps.com. This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information. If you choose to use our website, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The Personal Information that we collect are used for providing and improving our services. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.
Information Collection and Use
For a better experience while using our website, and to enable you to purchase our products, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, email address, phone number, postal address, credit card information, and WiFi username and password. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you. METARmaps.com will not share, sell, lend, or lease your Personal Information except to the extent it is necessary to process transactions, provide services that you have requested, or as required by law.
In addition to our direct collection of information, our third party service vendors (such as credit card companies, payment processors such as PayPal and Stripe, shipping companies, and banks) who may provide such services as credit card transaction processing, credit services, insurance, and shipping services may collect this information from you in order to complete your purchase and deliver your items. We do not control how these third parties use such information, but we do ask them to disclose how they use personal information provided to them. Note that personally identifying information provided for payments processed by a third party payment processor and/or merchant credit transaction services are subject to their respective privacy policies. Also, some of these third parties may be intermediaries that act solely as links in the distribution chain, and do not store, retain, or use the information given to them.
Website Usage Information
METARmaps.com uses industry standard analytics packages and web server logs that automatically gather limited information on visitors to our website and store this anonymous information in server log files. This information may include your Internet Protocol ("IP") addresses, location, browser type and version, the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our web site, the web sites visited just before and just after our web site, operating system used, date/time stamps, and other statistics. This information does not identify individual users; it is used only for site administration, as well as for analysis of website usage and trends.
Cookies
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files containing a string of characters that a website may place on your computer or mobile device. Cookies allow a website or third party service recognize your device. Cookies can serve many functions including helping the website owner understand how their site is used, analyzing site performance, helping to remember your preferences, and generally improving your browsing experience. Cookies can also be used to help ensure the marketing you see online is more relevant to your interests.
In general, cookies won't collect information that directly identifies you. Instead they collect more general information about how users use the website, how long they stay, and their general geographic location. Some cookies can collect personal information. For example, when you check "remember me" on a login form, that website will set a cookie containing your username.
For more information about cookies, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie
How we use cookies?
As is common practice with almost all websites, this site stores and retrieves information on your browser using cookies. These cookies are used to help the site function as you would expect it to, track website usage and performance, monitor the performance of our advertising campaigns, and track whether or not you have agreed to our use of cookies on this site. This information is not personally identifiable to you.
Types of Cookies
There are 4 general categories of cookies: Necessary, Performance, Functionality, and Targeting.
Necessary cookies are essential to the operation of the website. They enable you to use the website and its features. Disabling these cookies will cause you to not be able to use certain parts of the website.
Performance cookies track the way visitors arrive on and use our website, as well as website performance. They may also collect information about how you use the website. Information collected is used for internal business processes and improving user experience on our website.
Functionality cookies allow us to remember your preferences, determine whether you are logged in, and customize your user experience. This information in these cookies may be anonymous, and they are not used to track your browsing activity on other sites or services.
Targeting cookies are used for advertising purposes. Cookies from us, our advertising partners, or other third party providers, allow us to keep track of our advertising results. These cookies can remember that your device has visited a site or service, and may also be able to track your device's browsing activity on sites or services other than METARmaps.com. Information from these cookies may be shared with third parties such as advertising networks and providers to deliver our advertising and to measure the performance and effectiveness of our advertising. They can also provide aggregated usage statistics to us and third party advertising partners or services.
Cookies in use
METARmaps.com currently uses Google Analytics to track site activity and performance. We may also use Google Ads and Facebook cookies to track the performance of our advertising. Squarespace visitor tracking is also enabled as an adjunct usage assessment tool and to remember whether or not you have agreed to our use of cookies on the site.
How long will cookies stay on my device?
The length of time a cookie will stay on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your computer or mobile device until they expire or are deleted.
How to delete and disable cookies
To disable cookies, visit the following link and navigate to the instructions for your browser or device: https://www.wikihow.com/Disable-Cookies. Note that disabling cookies may cause this and other websites you visit to not function properly, and may cause some features to be inaccessible to you.
To disable cookies, visit the following link and navigate to the instructions for your browser or device: https://www.wikihow.com/Clear-Your-Browser%27s-Cookies.
Security
We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information. Sensitive information, such as credit card numbers, is protected by industry standard encryption protocols designed to protect information sent over the Internet. While we take commercially reasonable measures to maintain a secure site, no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security. We will not be held liable for any such security breaches.
Links to Other Sites
Our Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Children’s Privacy
We request that children under the age of 13 not use our website. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately upon being posted on this page.