Privacy Policy for PresenceMap.com and PresenceMap Companion Extension
Effective Date: 01.01.2025
Welcome to PresenceMap.com and the PresenceMap Companion Chrome Extension (“Extension”). Your privacy is important to us, and this Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your information.
1. Who We Are
Our website address is: https://www.presencemap.com
2. Information We Collect
We collect information to provide better services to users. This includes:
A. Information Collected by the PresenceMap Companion Extension
- Website Content: The extension extracts text-based content from webpages using a CSS query selector, based on user input.
- Clipboard Data: The extension may copy extracted content to the user’s clipboard but does not store or transmit this data to external servers.
- Stored Preferences: The extension may save user-selected query selectors locally for convenience.
B. Information Collected by PresenceMap.com
- User Account Information: When signing up, we collect email addresses, usernames, and authentication credentials.
- Business Mapping Data: Users may submit company-related data for mapping purposes.
- Usage Data: We may collect logs of interactions with our website to improve services.
C. Comments and Media
- When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
- An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
- If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
3. Cookies and Embedded Content
- 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 visit our login page, 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.
- Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
4. How We Use Your Information
We use collected information for the following purposes:
- To enable users to extract and manage business mapping data.
- To provide clipboard functionality for extracted content.
- To store user preferences and improve user experience.
- To ensure security and prevent unauthorized access.
The PresenceMap Companion Extension does not transmit any extracted data to PresenceMap.com unless explicitly requested by the user (e.g., via an “Import to PresenceMap” feature in the future).
5. Data Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell or share user data with third parties, except in the following cases:
- To comply with legal obligations or law enforcement requests.
- To protect the security of our services and prevent fraud.
- If PresenceMap.com undergoes a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, with notice provided to users.
6. Data Retention and User Rights
- If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
- For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
- If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you, except for data we are required to keep for legal or security purposes.
7. Security of Your Information
We implement industry-standard security measures to protect stored user data. However, users should be aware that no method of transmission over the Internet is completely secure.
8. Where Your Data is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
9. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this policy from time to time. Users will be notified of significant changes via email or announcements on our website.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Email: contact@presencemap.com
Website: https://www.presencemap.com
By using PresenceMap.com and the PresenceMap Companion Extension, you agree to this Privacy Policy.
Last Updated: 01.01.2025