Welcome to Where Is This Place geographic location identification platform. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information and uploaded image data when you use our AI-powered geographic location identification services.
We may collect the following types of information:
- Personal Information: Name, email address, and contact details you provide when registering or contacting us.
- Image Data: Photos you upload for geographic location identification and their metadata (such as EXIF information).
- Search Queries: Geographic location search keywords and query history you enter.
- Usage Data: Information about how you interact with our website, including pages visited, features used, and time spent.
- Device Information: Details about the device you use to access our services, such as IP address, browser type, and operating system.
We use your information for the following purposes:
- To provide geographic location identification services by analyzing your uploaded photos using AI technology
- To process your search queries and return accurate geographic location information
- To maintain and improve our service quality
- To notify you about changes to our services
- To provide customer support
- To gather analysis or valuable information to improve our AI algorithms and services
- To monitor the usage of our services
- To detect, prevent, and address technical issues
- Your uploaded images are used solely for geographic location identification purposes
- Original images will be deleted within a reasonable timeframe after processing
- We will not use your images for any unauthorized purposes
- Uploaded images are sent for analysis to two processors: Google Cloud Vision, which recognises well-known landmarks, and Cloudflare Workers AI, which runs a vision-language model that reads legible text and recognises specific structures in the picture. Google states that it does not use content sent to Cloud Vision to train its models, and Cloudflare states that it does not use Workers AI inputs to train models or improve its services.
- If a photo still contains GPS coordinates in its EXIF metadata, those coordinates are sent to Google Maps or OpenStreetMap to look up the name of the place. The place name that results — or the text you type into the search box — is also looked up on Wikipedia to show background information.
We implement appropriate security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.
We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our services, provide services on our behalf, or assist us in analyzing how our services are used.
We and our partners use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to operate the website, remember your preferences, measure traffic, and serve advertising. Cookies are small files stored on your device. You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings; disabling some cookies may affect how the website functions. For more detail, see our Cookie Policy.
We use third-party advertising companies, including Google, to serve ads when you visit our website.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- These third parties may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, and other identifiers to collect information for ad measurement and personalization.
You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info. For more information on how Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.