Privacy Policy
This page says which personal data Qwoogi handles, why, how long we keep it and what you can ask of us. Questions and requests go to
support@qwoogi.com.
When you open a page, your browser sends our server your IP address, the address of the page, the page you came from and the name of your browser.
We need them to send you the page, to find errors and to stop abuse. When a page fails, we log the error with the page address, the IP address,
the browser and, if you are signed in, your account; the error log stays in our database for 30 days and then moves to a private archive at
Backblaze that only we can read.
To know how many people see a firm's or a category's page and where they come from, we log each visit: the page, the time, the IP address,
the browser's name, the name of the source (for example Google or another website, never its full address) and, if you are signed in, your account.
The log is deleted after 20 days; only daily totals without IP addresses remain. A click is counted only after the first sign that a person
is there (the mouse moves, a touch, a key press), and it is kept as a number per page and per site, not per person.
From your IP address our own server works out roughly which state or region you are in, so that lists start there. It uses a database kept
on our server; the address is not sent to anyone for this. IP geolocation by DB-IP (CC BY 4.0).
We keep the words people search for, with the day and the site, but not who searched them; they help us improve search and the order of results.
Cookies: we use only the ones the site needs to work - one for your visit (it lets our server remember the place, sorting and theme you chose;
the visit ends after 5 hours without activity), one while you are signed in, and one that protects our forms from being sent by another website.
We use no advertising or analytics cookies and no tracking or analytics service.
Account: if you create one, we keep your e-mail address, a nickname (we make one up, and you can change it) and your password only as a hash,
which cannot be turned back into the password. If you sign in with Google, Facebook or Microsoft, that company tells us your name and e-mail address.
Your reviews appear under your nickname; ratings and reactions show only as totals. You can delete your own reviews; for anything else, write to us.
Firm pages: if you create or claim a firm's page, what you enter there (contacts, texts, pictures, videos) is public, together with the author
and licence you give for a picture. Pictures are stored at Backblaze and shown from img.qwoogi.com; videos and sound files stay on our own server.
We send e-mails only about your account and your firm's page, for example to confirm your address, reset a password or confirm a payment or a change.
Feedback and reports: the Feedback form needs an account; we keep your message with the page it is about and your account. A report of wrong data,
a copyright problem, a listing to remove or personal data is also e-mailed to us. Without an account, write to support@qwoogi.com.
Payments are closed at the moment. When they are open, you pay through PayPal: PayPal tells us that the payment went through and its reference,
and we never see your card or bank details.
Data about firms: most of our catalog comes from public sources - the firms' own websites, OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia, Wikidata, Foursquare and
Overture Maps open data, and Curlie - and shows a firm's name, address, phone, business e-mail, website and opening hours. Where a firm is one
person, for example a sole trader, a doctor or a lawyer, this is personal data; we show it because a directory people can search is useful to
them and to the firm. If you want your entry corrected or removed, write to support@qwoogi.com.
Other companies: our server runs at AccuWeb Hosting in the USA; pictures and files are stored at Backblaze (USA) and delivered by Cloudflare (USA),
which receive your IP address when your browser loads them. E-mails go through our e-mail provider. For a YouTube video we show its preview
picture, which your browser loads from YouTube (Google, USA), so Google receives your IP address; the video itself plays on YouTube after you click it.
On this site, fonts, styles and scripts load from Google Fonts, Google's and jQuery's libraries, BootstrapCDN, cdnjs (Cloudflare) and jsDelivr,
the small icons (favicons) of the listed websites load straight from those websites, and a Google map on a firm's page loads when you reach it;
each of them receives your IP address.
We do not sell your data and do not share it for advertising.
Our grounds: running the site safely and keeping a useful directory (a legitimate interest), the account and services you ask for (a contract
with you), and your consent where you click to load something. You can ask us what we hold about you, have it corrected or deleted, take a copy
of it, and object to how we use it: write to support@qwoogi.com. You can also complain to the data protection authority where you live.
When what we do changes, we change this page. Last change: November 2026.