Last updated: June, 1, 2020

The privacy of your data is important. We’ll only ever access your account to help you with a problem or remedy a software bug. We’ll never open any uploaded files unless you ask us to. We may log all access to all accounts by IP address, so we can always verify that no unauthorized access has happened for as long as the logs are kept.

When you sign up for GeoForums, we ask for your name, age, gender, and email address. That's just so you can personalize your new account, and we can send you updates or other essential information. We’ll never sell your personal info to third parties, and we won’t use your name or company in marketing statements without your permission, either.

When you write GeoForums with a question or to ask for help, we'll keep that correspondence, and the email address, for future reference. We also store any information you volunteer, like posts, for as long as it makes sense.

The only times we’ll ever share your info:

• To provide products or services you've requested, with your permission. We share data with the following services: Apple APIs, Google APIs, Digital Ocean, Firebase (owned by Google), and Google Admob.
• To investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Service, or as otherwise required by law.
• If GeoForums is acquired by or merged with another company.

You may have heard about the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) in Europe. GDPR gives people under its protection certain rights with respect to their personal information collected by us on the Site. Accordingly, GeoForums recognizes and will comply with GDPR and those rights, except as limited by applicable law. The rights under GDPR include:

• Right of Access. This includes your right to access the personal information we gather about you, and your right to obtain information about the sharing, storage, security and processing of that information.
• Right to Correction. This is your right to request correction of your personal information.
• Right to Erasure. This is your right to request, subject to certain limitations under applicable law, that your personal information be erased from our possession (also known as the “Right to be forgotten”). However, if applicable law requires us to comply with your request to delete your information, fulfillment of your request may prevent you from using GeoForums services and may result in closing your account.
• Right to Complain. You have the right to make a complaint regarding our handling of your personal information with the appropriate supervisory authority.
• Right to Restrict Processing. This is your right to request restriction of how and why your personal information is used or processed.
• Right to Object. This is your right, in certain situations, to object to how or why your personal information is processed.
• Right to Portability. This is your right to receive the personal information we have about you and the right to transmit it to another party.
• Right to not be subject to Automated Decision-Making. This is your right to object and prevent any decision that could have a legal, or similarly significant, effect on you from being made solely based on automated processes. This right is limited, however, if the decision is necessary for performance of any contract between you and us, is allowed by applicable European law, or is based on your explicit consent.

Many of these rights can be exercised by signing in and directly updating your account information. If you have questions about exercising these rights or need assistance, please contact us at support+geoforums@theparadigme.com.

As part of the services we provide, and only to the extent necessary, we may use certain third party processors to process some or all of your personal information. We use Apple APIs, Google APIs, Digital Ocean, Google Admob, and Firebase, all of which are cloud services providers. We have signed appropriate data processing contracts that comply with GDPR with each processor.

GeoForums may participate with law enforcement concerning imminent, ongoing, or recent violence. For anything else, we flat-out reject requests from local and federal law enforcement when they seek data without a court order. We wish for a safe world where individual liberty is respected.

All data is encrypted via SSL/TLS when transmitted from our servers to your browser. The database backups are also encrypted. Data isn’t encrypted while it's live in our database (since it needs to be ready to send to you when you need it), but it is while it’s at rest.

This App is operated in the United States. If you are located in the European Union or elsewhere outside of the United States, please be aware that any information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. By using our App, participating in any of our services and/or providing us with your information, you consent to this transfer.

GeoForums may update this policy once in a blue moon — we’ll notify you about significant changes in the app. If there is a change, you’ll see a new agreement in the application itself.

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