Privacy & Cookie Policy

This policy explains how CivilsRoute ("we", "us", "the Service") handles information when you use civilsroute.co.uk, and what cookies are set on your device while you do. CivilsRoute does not require an account or sign-up to use — the tool is designed to work without you providing any personal information to us directly.

1. Information We Collect

CivilsRoute does not require registration and does not knowingly collect names, email addresses, or other directly identifying information as a condition of using the map tool. Coordinate pins, routes, and measurements you create during a session are held in your browser only, for the purpose of the tool's own functionality (for example, exporting your work to CSV, GPX, or KML) — this data is not transmitted to or stored on our servers.

If you contact us directly (for example, via the Contact form), we collect the information you voluntarily provide — such as your name, email address, and message content — solely to respond to your enquiry.

2. Cookies & Similar Technologies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device by a website to store information such as your preferences or browsing activity. CivilsRoute uses cookies for two purposes:

• Functional cookies: to remember settings such as your selected operational region, so you don't need to reselect it on every visit.
• Advertising cookies: this site displays advertisements served by Google AdSense. Google and its advertising partners use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website and other websites.

3. Google AdSense & Third-Party Advertising

This site uses Google AdSense to display advertisements. As required under Google's advertising policies, we disclose the following:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
• Users may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. Alternatively, users can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for interest-based advertising by visiting aboutads.info.

You can find further detail on how Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps at Google's Privacy & Terms page.

4. Managing Cookies

Most web browsers let you refuse or delete cookies through their settings. Refusing cookies may mean some parts of this site — such as remembering your selected region — won't function as intended. Advertising cookies can also be managed independently of your browser settings via the opt-out links in Section 3 above.

5. Your Rights (UK GDPR)

Where we hold personal data you've provided directly to us — for example, your name, email address, and message if you use the Contact form — we process it on the basis of your consent in submitting it, and only for as long as needed to respond to your enquiry. Under UK data protection law, you have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you
• Rectification of inaccurate or incomplete data
• Erasure of your data ("right to be forgotten")
• Restrict how your data is processed
• Object to how your data is being used

To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the details in Section 7 below. If you're unhappy with how we've handled your data, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK's data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

6. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. Continued use of the Service after a change constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

7. Contact

For questions about this policy, or to exercise your data rights, please contact us via the Contact form in the map application.