Privacy Policy
At ResizeEarth, we are committed to protecting your privacy and being transparent about how we collect, use, and protect your information. This policy explains our practices in clear, simple terms.
Last updated: January 28, 2025
Quick Summary - What We Do and Don't Do
✅ What We Do:
- • Collect minimal anonymous usage analytics
- • Use cookies for basic site functionality
- • Protect any data we collect with industry standards
- • Give you control over your data and privacy settings
- • Provide the service completely free of charge
❌ What We Don't Do:
- • Collect personal information or create user accounts
- • Track you across other websites
- • Sell or share your data with third parties
- • Store your search history or map interactions
- • Show ads or use your data for marketing
Information We Collect
Automatically Collected Information
When you use ResizeEarth, we automatically collect limited technical information to help us improve the service and understand how it's being used:
📊 Usage Analytics
- • Pages visited and features used
- • Time spent on the site
- • General geographic location (country/region level)
- • Device type and browser information
- • Popular country comparisons (aggregated data)
🔧 Technical Information
- • IP address (anonymized for analytics)
- • Browser type and version
- • Operating system
- • Screen resolution and device capabilities
- • Referrer URL (how you found our site)
Information You Provide
ResizeEarth does not require user accounts or personal information to function. However, you may voluntarily provide information in these situations:
- • Contact Forms: If you contact us through our feedback forms, we'll receive your email address and message content
- • Bug Reports: Technical information you choose to include when reporting issues
- • Feature Requests: Ideas and suggestions you share with us
- • Social Media: If you interact with us on social media platforms
How We Use Your Information
🛠️ Service Improvement
We use analytics data to understand which features are most popular, identify technical issues, and improve the overall user experience. This helps us prioritize development efforts and fix problems.
🔒 Security and Performance
Technical information helps us maintain security, prevent abuse, optimize performance, and ensure the site works properly across different devices and browsers.
📞 Communication
If you contact us, we'll use your provided information to respond to your inquiries, address technical issues, or consider your feature suggestions.
Cookies and Local Storage
ResizeEarth uses minimal cookies and local storage to provide core functionality:
Essential Cookies
- • Map view preferences (projection, zoom level)
- • Selected countries (temporary session data)
- • Basic site functionality
- • Error reporting and debugging
Analytics Cookies
- • Anonymous usage tracking
- • Popular feature identification
- • Performance monitoring
- • Geographic usage patterns (aggregated)
Data Sharing and Third Parties
🚫 We Do NOT Share Your Data
ResizeEarth does not sell, rent, or share your personal information with third parties for commercial purposes. Your data stays private.
Limited exceptions where data might be shared:
- • Legal requirements (court orders, law enforcement requests)
- • Protecting our rights or preventing illegal activities
- • Anonymous, aggregated usage statistics (no personal information)
- • Essential service providers (hosting, analytics) under strict privacy agreements
Third-Party Services
🗺️ Map Data Services
We use OpenStreetMap and Natural Earth for map tiles and geographic data. These services may log requests for their own operational purposes. Check their respective privacy policies for details.
📊 Analytics Services
We may use privacy-focused analytics services to understand site usage. Any analytics data is anonymized and aggregated before being shared with these services.
Data Security and Retention
🔐 Security Measures
We implement industry-standard security measures to protect your data:
- • HTTPS encryption for all data transmission
- • Secure hosting infrastructure with regular updates
- • Limited access to any collected data
- • Regular security monitoring and audits
- • Minimal data collection reduces exposure risk
⏰ Data Retention
- • Session data: Cleared when you close your browser
- • Analytics data: Retained for 26 months, then automatically deleted
- • Contact form data: Kept for 2 years to track issues and improvements
- • Error logs: Retained for 90 days for debugging purposes
Your Rights and Choices
✅ What You Can Do
- • Disable cookies in your browser settings
- • Use private/incognito browsing mode
- • Request deletion of any contact form data
- • Ask questions about our data practices
- • Opt out of analytics tracking
📧 Contact Us For
- • Questions about this privacy policy
- • Requests to delete your contact data
- • Information about data we may have
- • Privacy-related concerns or complaints
- • Updates to your contact information
Children's Privacy
Age Requirement: ResizeEarth is designed for educational use by people of all ages, including children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe we have inadvertently collected such information, please contact us immediately and we will delete it promptly.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, legal requirements, or service features. When we make changes:
- • We'll update the "Last updated" date at the top of this policy
- • Significant changes will be announced on our main site
- • You can always find the current version at this URL
- • Continued use of the site constitutes acceptance of the updated policy
Contact Information
If you have questions, concerns, or requests related to this privacy policy or your data, you can reach us through: