This Privacy Policy is valid for the web sites aprsdirect.com, gliderradar.com and cwopviewer.com
If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at per@aprsdirect.com.
We consider the privacy of our visitors to be extremely important. This privacy policy document describes in detail the types of personal information is collected and recorded by our web sites (www.aprsdirect.com, www.gliderradar.com and www.cwopviewer.com) and how we use it.
We have no user accounts and will never ask our website visitors to enter any personal information.
Like many other Web sites, we makes use of log files. These files merely logs visitors to the site - usually a standard procedure for hosting companies. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, date/time stamp and referring/exit pages.
IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. We have no user accounts and will never ask our website visitors to enter any personal information, so that kind of information will never be in our log files.
We use this information only to detect and prevent unauthorized access and to maintain the security of our system.
Log files are saved for 7 days.
As is common practice with almost all professional web sites our web sites uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies...
You can prevent usage of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other web sites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the website. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
Our web sites uses no first-party cookies, but we use cookies provided by trusted third parties.
The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses cookie's to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you.
It is possible to opt-out of interest-based Google ads via the Google Ad Settings page or the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on.
For more information on Google AdSense see the official Google privacy policy.
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Facebook, Twitter, will set cookies through our web sites which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
Our current advertising partners:
These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology in their respective advertisements and links that appear on our web sites (www.aprsdirect.com, www.gliderradar.com and www.cwopviewer.com) and which are sent directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by our site's third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on the site.
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. This privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.
All CWOP-data published on our web sites is received from the CWOP-IS network. The data published on this website is not owned by us, it is publicly available information that has been sent to the CWOP-IS network by users all over the world. Each user that send data to the CWOP-IS network is responsible for their own transmitted data.
We will remove CWOP data when the data is no longer necessary to provide a good service.
All OGN-data published on this website is received from the OGN network (Open Glider Network). The data published on this website is not owned by us, it is publicly available information that has been sent to the OGN network by users all over the world.
We will only display information that can be used to identify an aircraft if the aircraft device details exists in the OGN Devices DataBase, and if the setting "I don't want this device to be identified" is deactivated. When we show an aircraft without identifiable information, we give the aircraft a temporary name that is only used for a maximum of 24h.
If you do not want your aircraft to be visible on OGN-websites like Glider RADAR you can just do any of the following option.
→ Set the "no-tracking" flag on your FLARM device configuration.
→ Add your device to the OGN Devices DataBase and activate the setting "I don't want this device to be tracked".
Read more about how to "Opt In" or "Opt Out" here.
We will remove OGN data when the data is no longer necessary to provide the service. No information older than 24 hours is publicly available (besides completely anonymous coverage data).
The web sites is using the HTML 5 Geolocation functionality to determine your current location (but only when a map is shown). We will not store or share your current location with other users or partners, your position will only be used to display your location. This website is secured by https to protect the exchanged data. If you do not want us to use your HTML 5 Geolocation, you can just avoid clicking on "Go to my current position" or turn off the location services in your browser.
The initial map position is based on your IP address, this is achived by using the ipapi service, available from http://www.ipapi.co.
We believe it is important to provide added protection for children online. We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children to observe, participate in and/or monitor and guide their online activity. We does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If a parent or guardian believes that www.aprsdirect.com, www.gliderradar.com or www.cwopviewer.com has in its database any personally-identifiable information of a child under the age of 13, please contact us immediately (using the contact in the first paragraph) and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
By using our web sites, you hereby consent to our privacy policy and agree to its terms.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on: 2022-07-25