App

Please refer to SPOTTERON's Terms of Use regarding the smartphone application "MTA - MountainApp": https://www.spotteron.net/terms-of-use

User account data 

This type of processed personal data is used for logging into the platform and your user account. This information includes your email address, user account type and user name. We also store your IP address and the date of registration in log files. We do not automatically pass on this data to the respective partners of the project, your data is safe with us.

To comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we store changes and requests of your personal data with your IP address in log files. Our privacy policy and procedure complies with the standards and requirements of the GDPR. We have the necessary internal measures in place to fulfil our responsibilities and obligations with a focus on the best possible privacy and user rights in the design of the platform.

Deleting your personal data aka “Right to be forgotten”

If you wish to have your data and/or forum/blog posts being deleted, please contact us under: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Your personal data and community interactions will then be deleted and your project contributions on the app anonymised.

Pictures, content and other media objects

You may share media such as images, photos, audio, text such as comments and descriptions and other types of media or content as part of your forum posts, comments, user profile or community interactions. All such media and content ("unique-creative works") contributed by you is licensed by you exclusively under the Creative Commons CC0 Licence. By uploading and agreeing to these Terms of Use, you confirm that you are releasing your media and original content under this licence and that you waive any claims under copyright, media rights or exploitation rights. To be able to do so, please ensure that you have all necessary rights, such as copyright, or personal rights, such as the written consent of any identifiable people in the media, to license your media or original content under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) and to share it with others.
You can find out more about the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) licence here: https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0

You may not share on the Platform any media or content that infringes the copyright, trademark or licensing rights of any third party or any applicable laws, or that is protected under copyright, exploitation rights, personal rights, media rights. You further may not share any media or content that can be seen as hate posting, which includes sexism, racism, any other form of discrimination, explicit nudity, prohibited symbols, extremism, public shaming, invasion of privacy, or any focused advertising outside of a project topic relevant documentation. We reserve the full and unlimited right to remove content at any time and without notice if there is a violation, or suspected violation, of these terms.

If you share media objects or content that include the likeness of other persons (e.g., pictures), you must ensure that you have obtained prior documented consent from all relevant persons before uploading and that you are able to provide such consent at any time in the event of a complaint.

You agree to be fully and solely legally responsible for all of your contributed media objects, content and uploads, to hold all necessary rights and consents for CC0 licensing, public display and sharing on the Platform. In addition to licensing under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) licence, you grant us a transferable, royalty-free, non-exclusive, third party licensable and worldwide right to store, use, modify, distribute, modify, publicly display, translate or create derivative works based on such content for all content and media published by you in the Contributions on the Platform.

Please note that all media, content and unique-creative works in "contributions" are and remain licensed under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) even after the deletion of your user account.

Violations

We respect the copyright and intellectual property rights, privacy of third parties, trademarks and licensing rights and expect users to do the same.

We reserve the unrestricted right to delete any content at any time due to violation of these terms of use, of licence terms or of applicable law without prior warning and without being liable to them or third parties. This also includes the unrestricted right to modify or delete any content that is not uploaded in the appropriate context of MTA - MountainApp or that does not meet our quality standards.

We may delete your user account at any time for violations of these Terms of Use or our community standards if you post profanity, insults, hate speech, advertising, discrimination or other content that is not appropriate for our community or violates these Terms of Use.

Report violations

Please report any violations of these terms of use here: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Our project aims to connect people from different places and with different backgrounds in Europe. We expect our users to refrain from any gender-, race-, class-, or nationality-specific discrimination or harrassment. If you experience any inappropriate behavior and/or abuse towards yourself or other users, please contact us via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

We care about our environment and expect our users to respect the landscapes and natural environment they explore!