Geography Postcards.

This website, geopostcards.club, is developed and own by Viorel Stoicu. This website facilitates the exchange of postcards between collectors from all over the world.
This privacy policy will explain how I use the personal data that is collected from you when you use this website.

What data is collected?

Creating an account
When creating an account the following information is needed: Username, Password, Email, Country.

Delivery address
For being able to send/receive letters from other members the following information is needed: Name, Complete Postal Address (Street name, No., Zip code, Country)

Profile
Profile description, Languages, Country, Profile photo (avatar). This information is public and accesable by everyone including the search engines.

Usage of the service
Information about your activity on the website and content that you post: Exchanges sent/received, comments, images of the exchanges, messages to other members, posts on the discussion pannels, feedback on the exchanges.

Automated information
The application will collect information related to your activity: Registration date, Last login date. Date and time on posts, comments, messages.

Customer support
Messages and contact info when you contact me.

Payments
A record of the transactions is keept if you make payments to me.

How will your data be used?

Postal address
Your name and complete postal address is shared with other members when they get your profile for sending you a letter. Asigning partners for exchanges is done randomly. A member can't request an exchange with a specific member. This personal information is available to your partner until the exchange is completed.

Email
Your email address is used to automaticaly send tou notifications when you requst a partner for an exchange, when one of your letters arrives at the destination, when a member sends you a message trough the personal messaging system. Your email address can also be used by the admin to contact you about issues related to this website. Your email address is not shared with members or third parties.

Public profile
Your public profile includes the description, username, languages, country, registration and last activity date. Statistics about your exchanges. Your list with completed exchanges both sent and received.

Exchanges completed
Lists with completed exchanges and the details page of an exchange contain the username, country and avatar of the partners. Sent/received dates, feedback received. Uploaded photos of the exchange, comments. This informations are public and this pages have options to be shared on social media websites.

How is your data stored and secured?

Hosting
The server is located in a data center in European Union, Romania.

HTTP Protocol
The website uses http protocol. For the future the more secured shttp protocol will be used.

Deleting data
Your personal information is deleted when you request to delete your account. You can do so trough the contact details from the About page or trough the form from the contact page. Your personal data is deleted but some informations are keept: exchanges lists, posts, comments. This data is anonymized and can't identify you.

What are your data protection rights?
The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request for correction of your information you believe is inaccurate.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that your personal data is erased, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request for restricting the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request a transfer of the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, I have one month to respond to you.