Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy explains:

We've tried to keep things as simple as possible, but if terms such as cookies, IP address or browser are not familiar to you, you may want to look these up first over at Wikipedia. Your privacy matters to us, so please do take the time to get to know our policies, and if you have any questions, let us know.

Information we collect

We collect information to make it easier for you to use our website. This includes things such as which language you speak, and where you are located.

We collect information in two ways:

Information that you give us by typing directly into a form. This includes the personal information, such as your name, email address, and website, that you enter when you sign up for an account, as well as your reports and photos of manta ray encounters.

Information that we get from your use of MantaWatch. This includes information from other service providers, such as Facebook or Twitter, that you connect to your account. This information includes:

Device information

We may collect device-specific information (such as your hardware model or operating system version) to help us develop MantaWatch, and to tailor the content we display to the devices that you use.

Log information

When you use our services or view content we provide, we may automatically collect and store certain information in server logs to help us identify issues and improve your experience. This may include:

Local storage

We may collect and store information (including personal information) locally on your device, using mechanisms such as browser web storage (including HTML 5) and application data caches. This is primarily to allow you to use MantaWatch offline, for example, while on board a boat.

Cookies and anonymous identifiers
We use various technologies to collect and store information when you visit MantaWatch, which may include one or more cookies or anonymous identifiers sent to your device. These cookies allow you to login and maintain a secure session with our service.

How we use information that we collect

We use the information that we collect to improve your user experience, and to develop and improve our service. For example, we may use your location information to automatically fill in a manta encounter form with your current country.

When you contact MantaWatch, we may keep a record of your communication to help resolve any issues that you might be facing. We may use your email address to inform you about our latest news and updates.

We will ask for your consent before using information for a purpose other than those set out in this Privacy Policy.

MantaWatch processes personal information on our servers in many countries around the world. We may process your personal information on a server located outside the country where you live.

Information that you share

While using MantaWatch you may decide to share information with others. Remember that when you share information publicly, it may be indexable by search engines. We provide various options for you to share and remove your content.

Accessing and updating your personal information

We aim to provide you with access to your personal information. If that information is wrong, we strive to give you ways to update it quickly or to delete it – unless we have to keep that information for legitimate business or legal purposes. When updating your personal information, we may ask you to verify your identity before we can act on your request.

We may reject requests that are unreasonably repetitive, require disproportionate technical effort (for example, developing a new system or fundamentally changing an existing practice), risk the privacy of others or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes).

Where we can provide information access and correction, we will do so free of charge, except where it would require a disproportionate effort. We aim to maintain our services in a manner that protects information from accidental or malicious destruction. Because of this, after you delete information from our services, we may not immediately delete residual copies from our active servers and may not remove information from our backup systems.

Information that we share

We do not share personal information with companies, organizations and individuals outside MantaWatch unless one of the following circumstances applies:

With your consent

We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside MantaWatch when we have your consent to do so. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.

For external processing

We provide personal information to our affiliates or other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

For legal reasons

We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside MantaWatch if we have a belief in good faith that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to:

We may share aggregated, non-personally identifiable information publicly and with our partners, such as publishers, advertisers or connected sites. For example, we may share information publicly to show trends about the general use of our services.

If MantaWatch is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, we will continue to ensure the confidentiality of any personal information and give affected users notice before personal information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Changes

Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent. We will post any Privacy Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Privacy Policy changes).