Privacy Policy
Effective Date: December 16, 2024
This Privacy Policy outlines how MapMyWine collects, utilizes, and discloses your personal information as you engage with our Services. For inquiries or feedback regarding this Privacy Policy, please reach out to us at hello@mapmywine.com.
MapMyWine operates as a global online platform facilitator (“MapMyWine,” “we,” “our,” or “us”), offering a digital platform where registered users (“User”) can evaluate and discuss vineyard, wine retreat, and wine tour reviews and information (“Services”) through our website. The platform also allows Users to follow others to view their latest reviews and connect with social media contacts and more.
Our headquarters are located at Parmagade 13, 5., 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark. MapMyWine can be reached through our support page at:
https://mapmywine.com/contact/
This privacy policy governs all interactions with our websites, www.mapmywine.com (“Web”). Collectively, the Web and the upcoming App will constitute our service offerings to you (“Platform”).
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, ensuring to provide you with adequate notice before any new policies take effect.
Please be aware that it is possible to use our Platform without registration. In such cases, we collect data solely based on your agreement to our cookie policy, detailed under ‘Categories of personal data’.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the website, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to aid in spam detection. An anonymized string generated from your email address (also known as a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. You can review the Gravatar service privacy policy here. Upon the approval of your comment, your profile picture becomes publicly visible in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images that contain embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website, potentially compromising your privacy.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you have the option to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience, so you don’t have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
Visiting our login page triggers a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies, containing no personal data and discarded upon closing your browser. Logging in sets cookies to save your login information and screen display choices, with login cookies lasting two days and screen options cookies lasting a year. If you choose “Remember Me,” your login persists for two weeks. Logging out removes these cookies.
Editing or publishing an article saves an additional cookie in your browser, indicating the post ID of the article you edited, expiring after 1 day.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Such content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website directly.
These websites may collect data about you, employ cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged into that website.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Such content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website directly.
These websites may collect data about you, employ cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged into that website.
Who We Share Your Data With
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email to ensure security and prevent misuse.
How Long We Retain Your Data
Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to automatically recognize and approve follow-up comments. For users registering on our website, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile, which users can see, edit, or delete at any time (username cannot be changed). Website administrators can also see and edit this information.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have an account or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you’ve provided. You can also request the erasure of any personal data we hold about you, excluding any data we’re obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be vetted through an automated spam detection service to ensure the integrity and security of the website interactions.
Data Sharing Practices
The handling and sharing of our users’ personal data are crucial aspects of our operations. We share your personal information in limited circumstances, detailed as follows, except when it involves third-party vendors.
Your reviews may be shared with other users, but only with your explicit consent for such sharing.
We might disclose personal information about you if required by legal obligations.
You can control your cookie and consent preferences by adjusting the consent toggles found under the listed Purposes here (link to consent preferences). The storage of these cookies is contingent on your consent choices. However, the collected personal data might also be utilized when either we or a third-party partner have a legitimate reason to do so.
User Rights Under GDPR
Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you are entitled to several rights regarding your personal data:
- Access to Your Data: You have the ability to access your account at any time to view the personal information we hold about you. This includes the right to amend or delete any data, as well as to receive a copy of your personal data at no cost. Should you request additional copies or if your requests are deemed unfounded or excessive, we may charge a fee to cover our administrative expenses.
- Rectification of Data: If you find any personal data we hold about you to be incorrect or incomplete, you have the right to have it corrected. You can directly update your personal data via your account settings.
- Erasure of Data: You may request the deletion of your personal data under certain conditions.
- Restriction on Data Processing: In specific circumstances, you have the right to request that we limit the processing of your personal data.
- Objection to Data Processing: You have the right to object to the processing of your data for marketing purposes by revoking your consent at any time. This can be done by either deleting your profile or adjusting your account settings in the app.
To withdraw your consent or make any requests regarding your data, you can delete your profile or adjust settings in the app. Should you request to access, rectify, erase, or transfer your data, we may ask for additional information to verify your identity and protect your data. Requests can be made through our help page at:
If you have concerns about how your personal data is handled, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority. In Denmark, this authority is the Danish Data Protection Agency:
Datatilsynet Address: Borgergade 28, 1300 København K, Denmark Phone: 33 19 32 00 Email: dt@datatilsynet.dk
Privacy for Minors
Due to the nature of our Services, our Platform is designed for adult users of legal drinking age as per the laws of their respective jurisdictions. Should we be notified or come to believe that an individual below the legal drinking age has submitted personal information to us, we will immediately terminate the account and remove all associated personal information from our records.