Privacy and security

Walkingworld conforms to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679. We follow strict security procedures in the storage, processing and disclosure of information which you have supplied to us. Walkingworld is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others. We do not share your personal details with any third parties, including advertisers or partners.

We use your personal information solely to create your member profile and administrate your activities on the site, for instance when you download or contribute walks. We store in a computer database your personal profile and a record of the walks you have downloaded, either on the site or to the Walkingworld app.

Walkingworld also offers a free newsletter as a service to members, based on your voluntary subscription. You can elect not to receive email newsletters from us by accessing the My Walkingworld section of the site or clicking the link to unsubscribe at the bottom of each newsletter.

In common with most organisations, we share aggregate information about our users with our business partners and other third parties. This information shows user activity as a whole rather than on an individual basis and cannot be used to individually identify you.

The Walkingworld app accesses your location if you enable location services on your device (for instance by turning on the GPS). Your location data is only used for walk searches and for displaying your position on a map. We do not permanently store your location data in the app or pass it to our server.

Walkingworld offers the ability to change the personal information stored in your profile. This can be done in the My Walkingworld section of the site. If you have any difficulties in amending information, or if you wish us to delete your personal informaton completely, please contact support@walkingworld.com.  Please note that if we delete your personal information you will no longer be able to access your account.

You are also able to request a complete record of the information we hold on you, free of charge. We will supply this within 30 days in CSV format. In your request you must supply us with the email address with which you are registered on the site. We will verify this email address before providing you with a record of the information we hold on you.