How GeoDigg handles information

Scope

This policy covers geodigg.com pages, forms and features. GeoDigg is part of the SpiderTaz Network. Other network sites, news publishers and third-party websites linked from GeoDigg have their own policies.

Browsing GeoDigg

You can read GeoDigg without an account. Like most websites, our hosting servers keep standard technical logs (such as IP address, browser, requested page, referring page and time) to operate, secure and troubleshoot the site.

Stories on GeoDigg link to the original news articles and notices. When you follow one of those links, you leave GeoDigg and the publisher's own policies apply.

Your location

GeoDigg organizes stories by place, not by tracking you. GeoDigg does not ask for your device's location and does not collect a precise location for visitors. The places you see are the places a story is about, matched from the reports themselves.

If GeoDigg later offers features such as "near me" or local interest signals, they will be optional, will use only approximate areas, and will never publish where you are. This policy will be updated before any such feature is offered.

Accounts

GeoDigg has no separate accounts or passwords. You sign in on SpiderTaz with your SpiderTaz Network account, and SpiderTaz tells GeoDigg who you are. While you are signed in, GeoDigg keeps your network account number and display name in its session. GeoDigg also keeps what its features need: your community reports and photos, your digs and the problem reports you send. GeoDigg never sees or keeps your password.

If you are signed in when you use the contact form, your message is linked to your network account so it can be answered there.

Community reports, votes and comments

Community reports and the photos you add to them are public once published. They show your SpiderTaz Network display name and are labeled as community reports. You choose the city a report is about; GeoDigg does not use your device location. A new member's first three reports are reviewed before they appear.

Photos are re-encoded when you upload them, which removes hidden data such as camera details and any location stored in the file. The original file is not kept. Photos are stored privately and shown only with their published report.

Digs (votes) are stored with your network account number so each member counts once and you can undo a dig. GeoDigg shows only the total, never who dug a story. Problem reports you send are seen only by moderators. GeoDigg keeps a record of moderation decisions (what was done, by whom and when).

Before you share a photo or report, make sure it does not reveal private information about other people, such as faces of bystanders in sensitive situations, license plates or home addresses. GeoDigg may blur, generalize or withhold an exact location when publishing it could put someone at risk.

Contact requests

The contact form stores your name, email, subject, message, the reason you chose, your browser's user-agent and the page it was sent from, in the SpiderTaz Network's shared support ticket system so the request can be answered. Contact requests do not store your IP address.

Cookies and browser storage

GeoDigg uses one essential session cookie (geodigg_session) to keep you signed in, protect forms from forgery and show a confirmation after you submit. Your appearance choice (system, light or dark, shared across SpiderTaz Network sites) and your cookie-notice choice are kept in your browser's local storage. See the Cookie Notice.

How information is used

• Show local stories and the sources behind them.
• Respond to contact, correction and removal requests.
• Operate, secure, debug and improve the site.
• Prevent spam, abuse, fraud and attacks.
• Keep records of corrections and moderation decisions.

Sharing

GeoDigg does not sell personal information. Information may be shared with hosting and service providers, SpiderTaz Network operators who run shared systems (such as support tickets and network accounts), and legal or safety responders when needed to operate the site, answer requests, protect rights and safety, comply with law or investigate abuse.

SpiderTaz Network notices or tools may appear at the top or bottom of pages. Links to other sites, including news publishers and the SpiderTaz Search form, send you to those sites, which may receive your browser data and what you type there.

Retention and security

GeoDigg keeps information as long as reasonably needed for the site, records, security, legal obligations, dispute handling and backups. GeoDigg uses reasonable safeguards, but no website or transmission is perfectly secure; do not submit sensitive information that is not needed.

Children

GeoDigg is not intended for children under 13. Do not submit personal information about a child. If you believe a child has submitted personal information, contact us so it can be reviewed and removed.

Your choices

You can read GeoDigg without submitting anything and keep only the essential cookie. You can ask us to correct or remove information you provided, or a story that is wrong about you, where legally and technically reasonable. Some records may be kept for security, legal, backup or abuse-prevention purposes.

Changes and contact

This policy will change as GeoDigg adds features. The date above shows the latest revision.

Contact GeoDigg about privacy