Privacy Policy

Data controller

Marco Benedetti — MARCO2WHEELS, VAT no. 04170030136, Cortenova (LC), Italy.

For any privacy question or to exercise your rights: privacy@marco2wheels.com.

Browsing the site

When you visit the site, the provider that hosts and delivers it (Cloudflare, Inc.) receives the technical data needed to show you the pages and protect them from abuse: IP address, browser and device type, requested page, date and time.

Legal basis: legitimate interest in providing a working and secure site. This data is not used to profile you and stays in the provider’s technical logs for the period set by its policies.

The site uses no analytics, advertising or profiling tools.

Account, Route Lab and favourites

If you create an account we process: name, email address, password (managed and encrypted by Google Firebase Authentication: MARCO2WHEELS cannot see it), preferred language, the routes you save in the Route Lab (track, points, names, trip days), your favourite itineraries and the record of your newsletter choices (date and version of the accepted text).

Purposes: creating and managing the account, saving your routes and favourites, letting you download the members-only GPX files and sending you the emails needed for the service (address confirmation, password recovery).

Legal basis: performance of a contract, i.e. the Terms of service you accept when signing up.

Retention: as long as the account is active. You can delete it at any time from your personal area: account, routes, favourites and consent record are erased.

Data is stored on Google Firebase (Authentication and Cloud Firestore, with the database in Europe). Each user can access only their own data: this is enforced by security rules on Google’s servers.

Newsletter

Only if you choose to (optional box at sign-up or dedicated form), your name, email and language are shared with Brevo (Sendinblue SAS, France, EU), which sends the newsletter on behalf of the controller. Sign-up must be confirmed through the link you receive by email.

Legal basis: your consent, which you can withdraw at any time from your personal area or with the “Unsubscribe” link in every newsletter. After withdrawal you receive no further emails; only a note of the withdrawal stays in the consent record.

Contact by email

If you write to privacy@marco2wheels.com or collab@marco2wheels.com (including through the “Work with me” form, which opens your email app), we process the data you send only to reply. The site stores nothing you type into the form. Emails are kept for as long as needed to handle the request.

Maps, route calculation and place search

Maps are provided by OpenFreeMap: to show them, your browser downloads map images from its servers, which receive your IP address.

In the Route Lab, to calculate routes and elevation and to search for places, only coordinates and search text, never your account data, are sent to public services based on OpenStreetMap: Valhalla (FOSSGIS e.V., Germany), BRouter, Photon (komoot GmbH, Germany) and Nominatim (OpenStreetMap Foundation). These services also receive your IP address.

The “Find my location” button uses your device’s geolocation only after you allow it: your position is used to centre the map and is not stored or sent to MARCO2WHEELS or anyone else.

Links to partners and social networks

The site contains links to partner websites (some with tracking or affiliate parameters, disclosed on the Partners & Gear page) and to MARCO2WHEELS social profiles. Opening them takes you to third-party sites, which process your data under their own notices: the partner can know you came from MARCO2WHEELS.

Who processes data and transfers outside the EU

The providers processing data on behalf of the controller are: Google (Firebase), Brevo (newsletter) and Cloudflare (hosting). We do not sell or hand over your data to third parties for their own purposes.

Google and Cloudflare are US-based groups: any transfer of data outside the European Union relies on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or on the standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission.

Your rights

You can ask at any time for access to your data, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, portability, and object to processing based on legitimate interest; you can withdraw your newsletter consent without affecting earlier processing.

From your personal area you can already download all your data, edit your profile, withdraw from the newsletter and delete your account. For anything else write to privacy@marco2wheels.com.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Italian data protection authority, the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (www.garanteprivacy.it).

Minors

You must be at least 14 years old to create an account. If you are under 14, please do not sign up.

Changes

This notice may be updated if the site’s services change: the date at the top shows the latest version. We will notify registered users of significant changes.