Privacy Policy

This policy applies to all processing of personal data carried out by Oolel Maps in connection with its websites, mobile application, and related services, including contact forms, user accounts, developer accounts, audience measurement tools, technical logs, cookies, geolocation services, and navigation features.

For the purposes of this policy, the terms "user", "you", and "your" refer to any person who visits the sites, uses the mobile application, or interacts with Oolel Maps services.

The personal-data processing carried out by Oolel Maps relies on different legal bases, depending on context and applicable regulation.

Oolel Maps websites may use cookies and similar technologies to ensure the technical operation of the sites, measure audience, produce traffic statistics, and personalize certain features, in line with your choices and applicable regulation.

When consent is required, a banner or cookie-management module lets you accept, refuse, or configure the use of non-necessary cookies.

You can also change cookie-related settings at any time through your browser settings, subject to its capabilities.

Personal data may be disclosed, on a need-to-know basis, to authorized Oolel Maps staff, technical providers and hosts, analytics tools, mapping, navigation, payment, or billing solutions, as well as commercial or institutional partners where necessary for the requested service or authorized by you.

Map tile requests made from the application or website may be served through a content-delivery or tile-hosting provider, which may log technical request metadata (such as IP address and user agent) for security and abuse-prevention purposes.

Data may also be disclosed to administrative, regulatory, or judicial authorities where required by law or to defend a right in court.

Where providers act on behalf of Oolel Maps, appropriate contractual commitments govern the confidentiality, security, and compliance of processing.

Data may be hosted and processed in different countries, notably where the servers, teams, or providers of Oolel Maps are located.

Where applicable regulation requires it, appropriate safeguards are put in place to frame any data transfer to a country outside your jurisdiction, for example through standard contractual clauses or other recognized mechanisms.

You can obtain further information on such transfers by contacting Oolel Maps at the details shown at the end of this policy.

Personal data is retained only for the time necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, extended where applicable by legal limitation or archiving periods.

By way of indication:

• Account data is retained as long as the account is active, then archived or deleted after a period of inactivity, subject to legal obligations.
• Technical and security logs are retained for a limited period, as needed for security and abuse prevention.
• Location data used for navigation is retained for the time necessary to provide the service, then deleted, anonymized, or aggregated where possible.
• Contribution audit history (versions of edits, the identity of the contributor, and associated technical metadata) is retained for as long as the underlying map content exists, to preserve the integrity and auditability of the map.
• Data needed to comply with legal obligations or manage a dispute may be retained for the period required by law or until the dispute is resolved.

In accordance with applicable regulation, you may, where relevant, have the following rights over your personal data: access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection, portability, and withdrawal of consent where the processing relies on it.

Where data has been integrated into the publicly accessible map as a community contribution, exercising the right to erasure may result in the contribution being de-linked from your account rather than fully removed, in order to preserve the integrity of the shared map.

You may also, depending on your jurisdiction, lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

Oolel Maps implements appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, disclosure, or unauthorized access.

These measures may include encryption, pseudonymization, access management, strong authentication, security logging, and internal backup and incident-management procedures.

Users are invited to protect their credentials, use a strong password, and log out after use on shared devices.

Where the Oolel Maps application or services offer location-based features, their use may require activating certain permissions on your device.

In this context:

• Enabling geolocation is optional when the feature is not essential to the requested service.
• You can, depending on your device settings, authorize location only while using the app, always, or refuse it.
• You can, depending on the available settings, limit the precision of location or fully disable access to position.
• Location data may be used to provide the requested route, improve the quality of services, or offer personalization features, subject to your choices and legal requirements.

Oolel Maps does not use automated decision-making producing legal effects concerning you based solely on profiling, unless specifically indicated otherwise and the required consents are obtained.

The sites and app may contain links to third-party sites, applications, SDKs, or services for which Oolel Maps is not responsible.

This policy does not cover the privacy practices of such third parties. It is recommended to review their own policies before sharing personal data with them.

This policy may be amended to reflect changes in the services, legal obligations, or Oolel Maps' data-protection practices.

In the event of a material change, the information may be communicated by any appropriate means — for example via the site, app, a notification, or an email — where required by regulation or deemed useful.

For any question regarding this privacy policy or to exercise your rights, you can contact Oolel at:

• Email: contact@oolelmaps.com
• Postal address: 944 Gamal Abdel Nasser Avenue, Sebkha, Nouakchott Ouest, W2T JGX, Mauritania