Privacy Policy
Effective Date & Last Updated:
Privacy in Brief (TL;DR)
- ✓No Account Needed: You never have to create an account, log in, or provide personal details to use our maps and tools.
- ✓Client-Side Processing: All clock calculations, timezone conversions, and DST countdowns run locally in your browser.
- ✓Local Preferences: Toggles such as 12h/24h time format and Dark Mode are saved only in your device's browser
localStorage. - ✓No Data Brokering: We never sell, rent, or trade your personal data with third-party data brokers.
1. Introduction & Overview
Live Timezone Map ("we," "our," or "us"), accessible via livetimezonemap.com, provides real-time interactive time zone maps, meeting schedulers, daylight saving time countdowns, and printable geographic materials. We are dedicated to respecting and protecting the privacy of our visitors.
This Privacy Policy explains what limited information is processed when you visit our website, how that data is used, and your rights concerning your personal information under applicable global privacy regulations, including the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA).
2. Information We Do NOT Collect
Unlike conventional commercial platforms, our core product is entirely usable anonymously. We do not:
- Require user registration, passwords, or authentication profiles.
- Collect sensitive personal information such as physical addresses, phone numbers, or credit card numbers.
- Engage in cross-site identity resolution or user fingerprinting.
- Access your device GPS sensor without explicit browser prompt. Local timezone auto-detection utilizes the browser's standard
Intl.DateTimeFormatAPI which runs offline on your machine.
3. Technical Data Collected Automatically
When you load our web pages, our web servers and content delivery networks (CDNs) automatically log basic, standard HTTP connection metadata. This includes:
- IP Address: Logged temporarily in server access logs for DDoS prevention, fraud mitigation, and geographic routing.
- Browser & Device Metadata: User-agent string, operating system version, screen resolution, and browser language to deliver the correct responsive layout.
- Referring URL & Timestamp: Date and time of the page request to understand traffic volume and aggregate usage trends.
This technical data is processed under the legal basis of legitimate interest to ensure network security, verify server uptime, and maintain site performance. Server logs are automatically purged on a rolling schedule.
4. How We Use Browser Local Storage
We prioritize client-side execution over server storage. To give you a smooth user experience, we use your browser's HTML5 localStorage API to preserve your visual settings between visits:
| Key Name | Purpose | Sent to Server? |
|---|---|---|
| theme | Remembers if you prefer Dark Mode or Light Mode | Never (0% server upload) |
| timeFormat24h | Saves your choice of 12-hour (AM/PM) vs. 24-hour military format | Never (0% server upload) |
| meetingPlannerCities | Temporarily caches selected cities in the meeting scheduler | Never (0% server upload) |
You can clear these values at any time through your browser settings or by clearing your site data.
5. Cookies and Third-Party Providers
We do not deploy invasive third-party tracking cookies or marketing pixels. If aggregated performance analytics or privacy-focused measurement tools are utilized, they are configured to anonymize IP addresses and disable cross-site profiling.
Third-party fonts (such as Google Fonts for Geist typography) may be loaded via external content delivery networks, which receive standard HTTP user-agent headers in accordance with their respective privacy disclosures.
6. Communications & Inquiries
If you contact us via direct email, we collect the information you choose to provide (such as your email address and message contents). This data is strictly used to address your inquiry, investigate bug reports, or discuss partnerships. We never share your email address with third-party advertisers.
7. Your Global Privacy Rights (GDPR & CCPA/CPRA)
Depending on your jurisdiction, you have specific rights regarding your personal information:
- Right to Access & Portability: You may request details about any personal data we hold about you.
- Right to Erasure ("Right to be Forgotten"): You may request the deletion of any direct communications you have sent us.
- Right to Rectification: You may ask us to correct inaccurate correspondence or details.
- Right to Non-Discrimination: We do not discriminate against any user for exercising their privacy rights.
Because we do not store customer accounts or identifiable personal databases, most requests are resolved simply by deleting past email correspondence.
8. Children's Online Privacy Protection (COPPA)
Live Timezone Map is an educational utility accessible to audiences of all ages, including students learning geography. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you believe a minor has submitted personal details through email correspondence, please notify us immediately, and we will purge the record.
9. Security Measures & Revisions
All connections to livetimezonemap.com are encrypted in transit via modern Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.3 / HTTPS). We maintain administrative safeguards to protect our infrastructure.
We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect technical enhancements or statutory updates. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date.