Waketrace Privacy Notice
This Notice applies from its stated effective date to the processing it describes.
1. Who We Are
Waketrace LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, is responsible as controller for the purposes and means of Personal Data processing it determines through waketrace.com and the hosted Waketrace Service. Our privacy contact is privacy@waketrace.com. Our correspondence address is 16192 Coastal Highway, Lewes, Delaware 19958, United States. This is not an emergency-response address.
A customer organization, self-hosted operator, or other separate service operator may independently determine purposes or means of processing and may therefore have its own legal responsibilities. Where Waketrace processes information on an organization’s documented instructions in a relationship in which Waketrace acts as processor or another legally recognised role, the applicable agreement and relevant notice govern that processing. A customer’s instructions or contractual label do not by themselves determine Waketrace’s legal role where the actual processing circumstances establish otherwise. Actual activities determine legal responsibility, and contractual labels do not remove statutory obligations.
Any required regional representative, designated contact, or other legally prescribed point of representation will be provided as required by Applicable Law.
2. Scope
This Notice covers our websites, accounts, dashboards, APIs, administrative tools, reporting and source ingestion, maps, routing, watchzones, alerts, advertising, optional peer-to-peer sharing, support, and related integrations (the Service).
“Personal Data” means information relating to an identified or identifiable person, including information that is reasonably linkable to an individual using information available to Waketrace in the relevant processing context.
This Notice describes Waketrace’s processing activities, applicable privacy information, and available choices and rights. It does not waive legal rights or authorize otherwise unlawful processing. A more specific feature notice may add safeguards, restrictions, disclosures, or choices applicable to that feature, but cannot reduce rights or protections that Applicable Law requires.
3. Information We Collect
Information depends on the features you use.
Account and administration information may include name, email, optional vessel name or hull number, authentication records, account and tenant identifiers, roles, permissions, preferences, communications, and audit records. Forms identify required fields and, where relevant, explain the consequences of not providing them.
Device and security information may include IP address, browser and operating-system information, timestamps, request and session events, errors, API activity, failed logins, rate-limit records, installation identifiers, push-subscription information, and abuse signals. IP addresses can indicate approximate location.
Map and operational information may include searches, interactions, selected layers, route origins, destinations and waypoints, vessel or vehicle inputs, draft, speed, fuel assumptions, environmental settings, watchzone geometry and thresholds, and alert preferences. Precise device location is collected only when a feature you choose requires it, subject to the information, permission, and consent requirements of Applicable Law.
Reports and source records may include descriptions, coordinates, times, links, photographs, videos, documents, reporter details, allegations, police-report status, classifications, confidence and severity assessments, moderation history, provenance, and corrections. Uploaded files may contain embedded metadata, including information that can identify a person, device, time, location, or other aspect of the file’s origin. Users should remove or avoid including metadata they do not intend to disclose where reasonably practicable. Waketrace does not guarantee that embedded metadata will be removed before receipt, processing, preservation, or publication.
Waketrace may receive, retain, restrict, analyse, preserve, or otherwise process submitted information and associated metadata to the extent reasonably necessary and lawful for the purposes described in this Notice, including providing and securing the Service, verifying or protecting provenance and integrity, preventing abuse or fraud, investigating suspected violations, enforcing applicable Terms or feature restrictions, responding to legal claims or obligations, preserving evidence or historical records, maintaining continuity, or protecting the Service and its users. Such processing remains subject to Applicable Law and does not create unlimited permission to use Personal Data for unrelated purposes.
Optional relay information may include approved event packages, service signatures, availability information, connection status, and diagnostics. Direct peer connections can reveal your IP address and connection metadata to other peers, even when the event package contains no Personal Data.
Other information may include browser storage and choices, automated extraction, embeddings and model outputs, advertiser and campaign records, impression and click information, budgets, invoices, and customer relationships. Where payment features are offered, the applicable payment notice or interface identifies the payment provider and material information exchanged before collection. Do not send payment credentials through reports or support.
4. Sources of Information
Sources may include you, your browser or device, your organization, public and licensed sources, government and open-data feeds, map and environmental providers, approved relay participants, and providers supporting security, communications, or operations.
We distinguish source statements from Waketrace’s own assessments and may record provenance where relevant to verification, integrity, accountability, or historical continuity.
Public accessibility does not remove applicable privacy protections. Waketrace determines and applies appropriate processing purposes, legal bases, necessity, safeguards, and restrictions as part of the relevant collection, ingestion, use, preservation, and publication processes. These controls may include automated assessment, rules-based controls, source and provenance analysis, and other technical or human review appropriate to the circumstances.
Where Applicable Law requires notice concerning information obtained indirectly, Waketrace will provide the required notice or rely on an applicable exception to the extent permitted by that law. Any legally required safeguards, limitations, or documentation apply according to the circumstances of the relevant processing.
5. How We Use Information
Our central purpose is to support accountability and help people understand risks at sea and on land through human reports and lawfully sourced information about crime, conflict, piracy, GPS and signal disruption, and other hazards. This purpose informs our public-interest assessments; it does not supply a legal exemption or make every identifying detail necessary.
We use information to provide requested accounts, maps, routes, watchzones, alerts, reports, search, APIs, and administrative features; verify and moderate source material; maintain suitable public event information; and operate optional relay participation.
Other purposes include authentication, support, billing, service communications, security and abuse prevention, correction handling, legal compliance, and claims. Product evaluation and improvement are conducted for the purposes and under the legal bases described in this Notice and any applicable feature-specific notice. Where User Content is publicly designated and the applicable licence permits it, Waketrace may also use photographs, video, audio, and other media in commercial, editorial, journalistic, research, educational, promotional, advertising, marketing, public-interest, publishing, and distribution activities, including monetized or advertising-supported third-party media platforms such as YouTube. Advertising and other Personal Data uses that require separate legal notices, choices, or consent remain subject to those requirements.
6. Purposes and Legal Bases
Where GDPR or a comparable law requires a legal basis, Waketrace identifies the applicable basis for the relevant processing purpose. Contract applies only to processing objectively necessary to provide an agreement with you, such as establishing your account or delivering a requested feature. Including processing in these Terms does not by itself make that processing necessary for performance of a contract.
Where Applicable Law permits reliance on legitimate interests, Waketrace may rely on that basis for purposes including security, abuse prevention, support, reliability evaluation, contextual advertising, public-event verification, legal claims, and other legitimate operational interests where the applicable conditions are satisfied. Waketrace considers whether the processing is necessary for the relevant interest and the interests, rights, expectations, sensitivity of the information, potential effects, and other circumstances relevant under Applicable Law. Legitimate interests do not by themselves authorize processing for which Applicable Law requires an additional legal basis, condition, safeguard, or other legal requirement.
Where Applicable Law requires a separate legal basis or condition for a particular processing activity, Waketrace assesses that activity separately from other processing purposes. Public publication, retained accountability records, source and provenance processing, and derived analysis may therefore have different legal bases or applicable conditions. Where Applicable Law provides expression, journalistic, public-interest, or other specific legal protections or conditions, Waketrace may rely on them where their requirements are satisfied. Processing involving special-category or criminal-conviction and offence-related information remains subject to any additional conditions required by Applicable Law. Where Applicable Law does not permit continued processing or identifying publication, Waketrace may restrict, redact, remove, or otherwise limit the relevant processing as required.
Consent is used for optional activities where consent is required or is the basis selected by Waketrace for the relevant purpose. Consent requests identify the relevant purpose and can be refused separately where appropriate. Where GDPR consent applies, withdrawal is as easy as giving consent. Withdrawal stops processing that depends on that consent from the point withdrawal becomes effective, but does not invalidate processing lawfully carried out before withdrawal. Continued processing or retention after withdrawal may occur only where another applicable legal basis, legal obligation, or other lawful exception supports it. Waketrace will not rely on a different legal basis merely to circumvent a valid withdrawal of consent.
Legal obligations apply where Applicable Law imposes a specific duty on Waketrace. Vital interests are relied upon only where the applicable legal conditions for protecting life or preventing serious harm are satisfied. Waketrace relies on a public-task basis only where Applicable Law recognises that basis and its conditions are satisfied. Additional consent, authorization, notice, or other requirements imposed by another applicable jurisdiction are assessed independently.
7. Sensitive Information
Do not submit passwords, private keys, financial credentials, authentication secrets, or other information whose disclosure would enable unauthorized access through ordinary public features. Government identifiers, intimate imagery, biometric information, or identifying information about children must not be submitted through ordinary public features where their disclosure is prohibited by Applicable Law, a specific feature restriction, or another applicable legal or security requirement. Any exceptional safeguarding need involving children follows the restricted process in Terms section 8.4. Waketrace may restrict access, distribution, or handling of prohibited or unlawfully disclosed material while the applicable requirements are assessed.
Under GDPR Article 9, special-category processing requires both an Article 6 legal basis and a specific Article 9 condition or exception where Article 9 applies. Explicit consent, information manifestly made public by the person concerned, legal claims, or other exceptions apply only when their actual legal conditions are satisfied. Another person’s publication of information does not by itself constitute the person’s consent or necessarily establish that the person made the information manifestly public.
Where GDPR Article 10 applies, criminal-conviction, offence, and related security-measure information requires the applicable Article 6 basis together with the additional conditions required by Article 10, including official control or authorization under Union or Member State law where required, and appropriate safeguards. Ordinary consent, legitimate interests, or public availability alone do not satisfy an additional requirement imposed by Article 10. Applicable national expression, journalistic, public-interest, or other statutory provisions are assessed according to their actual scope and conditions.
Waketrace does not categorically exclude person-level offence information, identifying photographs, video, audio, or other evidence of alleged criminal conduct from public or peer-to-peer distribution solely because the material identifies a person or concerns alleged criminal conduct. Where such material is otherwise eligible for the relevant feature, identification of a person does not by itself make the material prohibited or ineligible.
Waketrace may nevertheless restrict, redact, generalize, delay, limit access to, or otherwise control particular information where required by Applicable Law, a valid and applicable legal restriction, a specific security or safety necessity, or another legally applicable condition. Such measures do not create a general prohibition on receiving, preserving, publishing, or distributing identifying evidence of alleged criminal conduct.
8. Peer-to-Peer Risk Sharing
Peer-to-peer distribution is part of Waketrace’s continuity and risk-sharing architecture. Selected public event data may be transmitted directly between participating users’ devices and browsers so that availability does not depend entirely on a single Waketrace server or network path.
A report submission that will enter peer-to-peer distribution is handled through a feature-specific notice and separate affirmative acceptance where required by the applicable feature. The original report, evidence files and identifying metadata are not automatically made eligible for unrestricted relay merely because a public report exists.
Map use may cause a browser or device to hold and re-share event records that have already been shown to it. Where this behavior is part of the functioning Service, the Terms and the interface disclose the use of device connection and resources before the relevant feature is used. Users who do not accept that architecture should not use the affected feature.
Relay packages are limited to selected public event material and integrity metadata that Waketrace assesses as suitable for sharing. Waketrace does not exclude material from relay solely because it identifies a person, contains identifying evidence, or depicts, reports, or provides evidence concerning alleged criminal conduct. Waketrace may exclude or restrict credentials, private keys, non-public account or source identifiers, precise personal locations, protected-source information, linkable source fields, or other material where relay would create a specific and material privacy, safety, security, legal, or operational risk. Hashes, pseudonyms, embeddings and signatures are not treated as anonymous merely because they omit a name.
Direct connections may expose peer IP addresses and connection metadata. Waketrace does not represent peer-to-peer participation as anonymous. Cooperating clients may apply authenticated correction, withdrawal, expiry and integrity information and may pause a sharing path where authority cannot be reliably validated.
Independent copies held by unrelated third parties may persist and may not be recoverable by Waketrace. This does not prevent Waketrace from maintaining lawful continuity through other permitted infrastructure, nor does it eliminate applicable correction, privacy, security or other legal duties.
9. Cookies, Local Storage, and Similar Technologies
Enabled features may use cookies, session storage, local storage, IndexedDB and caches. Storage used for authentication, security, requested settings, optional peer-to-peer relay, analytics, personalization, advertising, or other Service functions may be used according to the relevant feature and applicable requirements. The technology’s name, short lifetime, or treatment as non-personal information does not by itself determine whether device-consent or similar requirements apply.
A first visit to the map takes part in a test of default map filter settings. That browser keeps a small record in its local storage, used for seven days and deleted at its next visit after that: its test group, the day it joined, a broad band of how many events its first map view showed, its active viewing time that day and which results it has already reported. It reports each result once (joining, ten seconds of active viewing on the first day, a visit one to seven days later, a second page, a share action) without a cookie, account, browser identifier or page address. Waketrace keeps only totals of these reports per test group, joining day and band, never the reports themselves or the address they came from. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals stop them.
Where applicable, device-privacy controls or feature notices describe nonessential storage or tracking purposes, the information involved, relevant recipients, and applicable duration or retention information before the relevant feature is enabled. Where consent is required, refusal and withdrawal are provided through the applicable controls. Browser permission does not replace any explanation, choice, or consent required by Applicable Law.
Authentication, security, preference and relay storage may remain on a device or browser for as long as reasonably necessary for the relevant feature, security function, or selected setting, subject to Applicable Law. Clearing browser data may remove local settings, cached material, or stored permissions, but does not automatically delete server records or independent third-party copies. Closing a tab or browser does not necessarily erase every record associated with use of the Service.
Where a material change to storage, tracking, or device access creates a legal requirement for updated notice, additional choice, or renewed consent, Waketrace will apply the requirement to the affected feature or processing.
10. How We Share Information
Recipients may include service providers and contractors supporting hosting, infrastructure, databases, security, communications, payments, distribution, search, analytics, AI or other Service functions; customer or organizational administrators and authorized collaborators; media, publishing, syndication, advertising and distribution partners where the applicable User Content licence permits; professional advisers, auditors and insurers; and public authorities or other persons where disclosure is legally required or otherwise permitted.
Publicly submitted material is disclosed to the audience identified before publication. Selected public event data may also be distributed through the peer-to-peer architecture described in Section 8. Where the applicable User Content licence permits commercial media use, Waketrace may disclose or provide the relevant media to authorized media, publishing, distribution, syndication, advertising, or platform partners for those purposes. Authentication secrets, private signing keys, and full push-subscription credentials are not intended to form part of public content, relay packages, or advertiser disclosures.
Waketrace may disclose information to authorities or other recipients where a specific legal obligation, legal process, or other applicable legal basis permits or requires the disclosure. Waketrace may assess the scope, necessity, and applicable restrictions of the disclosure according to the circumstances. A general description of public interest does not by itself establish a legal basis for disclosure. Transfers occurring in connection with a business transaction remain subject to Applicable Law, applicable confidentiality obligations, and any required notice or consent.
Our advertising approach is contextual. Where Applicable Law regulates a disclosure or use as a sale, cross-context behavioral advertising, targeted advertising, or another regulated advertising activity, Waketrace applies the notice, choice, opt-out, consent, or other requirements applicable to that activity. Those definitions may apply even where the recipient provides no direct monetary payment. Public availability does not by itself remove a disclosure or use from those requirements.
11. International Transfers
Waketrace may process or make Personal Data available across multiple jurisdictions through its infrastructure, service providers, contractors, organizational customers, distribution arrangements, professional advisers, and other recipients involved in operating or supporting the Service. Locations of infrastructure, personnel, providers, users, or recipients may change over time and do not by themselves determine the legal basis, jurisdiction, or legal regime applicable to particular processing.
Where Applicable Law governing a particular processing operation requires a transfer mechanism for Personal Data to a third country or international organisation, Waketrace may rely on an applicable adequacy decision, appropriate safeguards such as approved contractual mechanisms, an applicable certification or code of conduct, or a legally available derogation or other transfer mechanism. The applicable mechanism depends on the jurisdictions, parties, processing, and circumstances involved.
Where the applicable law requires information about an intended international transfer, its destination, or the safeguards relied upon, Waketrace will provide the information required for that processing. General acceptance of these Terms does not itself constitute consent to an international transfer where separate consent is legally required.
International processing may also occur where a recipient operates across multiple jurisdictions or where Personal Data is accessed remotely from another jurisdiction. Applicable transfer, security, notice, and other requirements are assessed according to the law governing the relevant processing.
Nothing in this section requires Waketrace to disclose confidential infrastructure locations, security arrangements, provider identities, routing details, replication architecture, or other operational information where disclosure is not legally required and could materially increase security or continuity risk.
12. Retention
Waketrace retains information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Notice, the operation and security of the Service, preservation of provenance and historical records, compliance with Applicable Law, resolution of disputes and claims, and other lawful purposes associated with the relevant processing. Retention periods vary according to the type of information, its purpose, its legal status, and the circumstances of the processing.
Account information may be retained while needed to provide, secure, administer, or document the account or the relationship associated with it. Closure of an account does not by itself require deletion of information that is still lawfully required or reasonably necessary for security, billing, legal obligations, claims, evidence, provenance, historical records, continuity, or other lawful purposes.
Security, audit, billing, tax, payment, compliance, and other operational records may be retained for periods appropriate to the relevant purpose and any applicable legal or contractual requirements. Report evidence, source information, moderation records, publication history, provenance information, corrections, and related records may require different retention and access treatment from public event summaries.
Relay packages, browser caches, temporary copies, backups, replicas, archives, and other distributed or recovery records may have retention periods determined by the relevant feature, technical architecture, security requirements, continuity needs, or Applicable Law. Material may therefore remain in a backup, archive, replica, or independent copy after it has been restricted or removed from the active Service, subject to the applicable legal requirements and controls governing that material. Waketrace does not represent that every copy can be immediately located, altered, or deleted.
Where an exact retention period is not stated, retention is determined according to the applicable purpose, legal requirements, operational necessity, evidence and provenance needs, security requirements, and continuity considerations. Applicable retention or deletion rights remain subject to the law governing the relevant processing.
A separately explained copyright or media licence may permit a justified public-information, accountability, journalistic, historical, research, or commercial media record to survive account closure. That licence is not by itself a privacy basis. Continued identifying publication still requires its own applicable justification, safeguards, and legal assessment; a removal or correction request is assessed under the applicable rights and procedures rather than refused merely because the publication or media licence survives.
Independent public copies, third-party archives, and other copies outside Waketrace’s control may persist beyond Waketrace’s retention period or removal of material from the Service.
13. Security
Waketrace applies technical, organizational, and administrative measures appropriate to the nature of the information, the processing, and the risks involved. These measures may include access controls, authentication and credential protection, encryption, logging, monitoring, recovery capabilities, and other security measures appropriate to the relevant Service or processing activity.
Security measures may differ between features, systems, providers, environments, and types of information, and may be changed as the Service, technology, risks, or Applicable Law change. Waketrace does not disclose security configurations or operational details where doing so could materially increase security or continuity risk.
No system or transmission method can guarantee complete security. Users are responsible for protecting their credentials, devices, and access mechanisms and should report suspected compromise through security@waketrace.com without sending passwords, private keys, or unnecessary personal evidence.
Nothing in this section limits Waketrace’s own obligations under Applicable Law. Where Applicable Law requires notification, investigation, remediation, or other action following a security incident, Waketrace will take the measures required to the extent applicable.
14. De-Identified, Aggregated, and Public Data
Public Personal Data remains subject to applicable privacy and data-protection requirements. Its reuse is subject to the purposes, legal bases, conditions, and safeguards applicable to the relevant processing.
Removing names, replacing identifiers, hashing, pseudonymising, embedding, or aggregating information does not by itself establish anonymity. Information may remain Personal Data where a person can reasonably be identified, singled out, linked, or inferred from the information itself or in combination with other information reasonably available in the relevant context. Where information does not meet the applicable standard for anonymous information, Waketrace may continue to handle it as Personal Data.
Waketrace may use genuinely anonymous information for lawful analysis, research, service improvement, reporting, and other lawful purposes. Where Applicable Law imposes specific requirements on de-identified or pseudonymised information, those requirements continue to apply to the relevant processing.
15. Automated Processing and AI
Automated tools may assist extraction, classification, deduplication, geospatial analysis, risk scoring, routing, search, moderation, anomaly detection, and other Service functions. Scores, classifications, summaries, rankings, and other automated outputs are assessments generated from available information and may be incomplete or wrong. An automated output does not by itself establish a fact about a person, event, source, location, or other subject.
Waketrace Content and Service data may not be used to train, pre-train, fine-tune, distill, test, evaluate, benchmark, enrich, augment, or otherwise develop or improve any artificial-intelligence or machine-learning model or system unless Waketrace expressly authorizes that use in writing or under a separate data licence or agreement specifically covering AI use. This restriction applies whether the processing is performed by the User, a provider, a contractor, or another third party. General access to the Service, public availability of Content, API or feed access, an ordinary Content licence, or any other permission that does not expressly authorize AI use does not authorize such use. Separate paid or authorized AI-data services may be offered under additional terms or agreements.
Private report evidence, credentials, and sensitive or offence-related Personal Data are not made available through ordinary Service use for a provider’s general-purpose model training. Any separate training or comparable use of such information requires its own lawful basis, applicable notices, permissions, contractual arrangements, and other requirements before the relevant use occurs.
Where Applicable Law regulates automated decision-making, Waketrace applies the requirements governing the relevant processing and decision. Waketrace does not deploy solely automated decisions producing legal effects or similarly significant effects on a person except where the applicable law permits the processing and the required safeguards are provided. Depending on the applicable law and circumstances, those safeguards may include information about the processing, meaningful human intervention, an opportunity to express the person’s position, or a right to contest the decision. Describing an output as decision support does not remove applicable requirements where its actual use produces a legally relevant effect.
Nothing in this section prevents Waketrace from using automated systems to assist analysis, verification, classification, moderation, routing, security, or other Service functions where the processing is otherwise lawful.
16. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on the Applicable Law governing the relevant processing, you may have rights to obtain information about processing, access and correct Personal Data, request deletion, portability or restriction, object to processing, withdraw consent where consent is the applicable legal basis, appeal a decision, or exercise other statutory rights. You may also have rights concerning recipients, sensitive information, profiling, sale or targeted advertising where provided by Applicable Law.
Waketrace does not unlawfully discriminate against people for exercising rights protected by Applicable Law.
Exceptions and limitations are assessed according to the Applicable Law governing the relevant processing, request, person, entity, Content, transaction, or jurisdiction. An asserted law, governmental position, public-safety interest, national-security interest, policy objective, publication concern, source licence, historical-record function, or distribution arrangement does not by itself establish an obligation to restrict, remove, disclose, or otherwise alter Content. Foreign measures are addressed according to their actual legal applicability, jurisdictional reach, enforceability, and any legally recognized process.
Where correction, restriction, erasure, or another remedy is legally required, Waketrace will take the measures required by Applicable Law in relation to information within its control and, where legally required, recipients to whom the relevant information has been disclosed. Waketrace cannot guarantee control over independent copies held by unrelated third parties.
Identifying reporting or an identified historical record may remain available where continued publication is independently lawful and proportionate. The assessment may consider continuing public-interest value, accuracy and status, necessity of identification, passage of time, foreseeable harm, audience, applicable exemptions, and less intrusive alternatives, as described in section 11.4 of the Terms. A complaint does not itself establish illegality, and an archive label does not itself establish a right to retain or publish.
Waketrace will provide the reasons, limitations, and review or redress information required by Applicable Law. Jurisdiction-specific rights, procedures, regulators, and submission methods may be described in this Privacy Notice and may be updated as Applicable Law changes.
17. How to Exercise Rights
Where Applicable Law gives you a privacy or data-protection right that may be exercised directly against Waketrace, you may contact privacy@waketrace.com with enough information to identify the relevant Personal Data and understand the right being asserted. A particular subject line, statutory citation, or legal form is not required unless Applicable Law requires one.
A request to remove, restrict, alter, or stop publication of Content does not itself establish a legal obligation to do so. Waketrace assesses such requests only to the extent required by Applicable Law, a legally binding order, or another legally effective basis applicable to the relevant processing or Content. Public-interest, expression, journalistic, historical, evidentiary, source-protection, and other applicable exemptions or overriding grounds may limit or defeat a claimed right where the relevant law provides for them.
Waketrace may request identity or authority evidence where necessary and proportionate to the particular statutory right or legal process. Do not send passwords, private keys, or identification documents unless a secure verification process specifically requires appropriate evidence.
Waketrace responds to rights requests and legally binding processes within the periods and to the extent required by Applicable Law. A request, complaint, governmental demand, or other notice does not itself require removal, restriction, alteration, or disclosure of Content.
18. Children’s Privacy
The Service is intended for adults aged 18 or over. Do not create an account for a person under 18 or use ordinary public features to publish identifying information about a child where that publication is prohibited by Applicable Law or the applicable feature restrictions. A narrowly defined safeguarding process, such as an authenticated official missing-person notice, may be considered where independently lawful and only after the applicable legal and safety requirements have been assessed and necessary restrictions applied. Adult-only account eligibility does not remove obligations that apply when children use the Service or when information about children appears in reports.
Where Waketrace identifies children’s information that cannot lawfully be published or distributed through the relevant feature, it may restrict exposure and assess lawful deletion, de-identification, preservation, restricted access, or other appropriate handling. Preservation of restricted material may continue where there is a specific lawful purpose for doing so. Waketrace does not make identifying children’s information eligible for peer-to-peer relay.
Contact privacy@waketrace.com where you believe a child or information concerning a child is subject to a statutory privacy right or other applicable legal restriction.
19. Third-Party Services and Public Sources
Maps, environmental feeds, communications, and other integrations may involve independent providers. Their notices govern processing they independently determine, but do not replace Waketrace’s responsibility for disclosures, processing, and integrations that Waketrace chooses or controls. Before an optional integration begins processing information or otherwise creates a material privacy consequence for you, Waketrace provides the notices and choices required by Applicable Law.
Following an external source link may disclose information to the operator of that external service. A source’s public availability does not by itself authorize every reuse, reproduction, extraction, or redistribution of the source material.
20. Changes to This Policy
We publish the effective date of this Privacy Notice and make previous material versions available. Material changes are explained through an appropriate prominent notice before they take effect, except where an immediate legal, security, or continuity change is necessary; we explain such changes promptly.
A new purpose, recipient, or device activity that requires consent under Applicable Law will not begin until the required consent has been obtained. Continued use of the Service alone does not supply consent where separate consent is required.
An update to this Privacy Notice does not retrospectively legalize earlier processing, create a legal basis that did not previously exist, or remove accrued rights.
21. Questions or Complaints
Contact privacy@waketrace.com or the correspondence address identified in Section 1. Waketrace may review questions or complaints and respond as appropriate under Applicable Law and the circumstances of the request. You may complain directly to an authority with jurisdiction, including a data-protection authority, privacy commissioner, or relevant consumer regulator. Contacting Waketrace first is optional unless a particular statutory procedure requires otherwise.
Nothing in these Terms or this Privacy Notice requires arbitration, restricts a legally available forum or regulatory route, requires a business discussion before exercising a statutory right, or imposes confidentiality on communications with regulators or the lawful exercise of privacy rights.