The Modern Map

Privacy notice

Last updated 10 November 2026

The Modern Map (themodernmap.com) lets you design map art and buy it as digital files. This notice explains what personal information we collect, why, how long we keep it, and your rights. We keep it to the minimum we need to run the site. We don't sell your information, show adverts, or use advertising trackers.

Questions or requests about your information: privacy@themodernmap.com.

If you just use the site

You can design maps without giving us any personal details: there are no accounts, and we don't record names, email addresses or IP addresses. We collect only:

• Anonymous visitor statistics, using Umami Analytics: pages visited and actions such as searching for a place, starting a checkout or completing a purchase. Umami uses no cookies, doesn't track you across sites and doesn't identify individuals; we only see totals. What you type into the search box is never recorded.
• Download statistics: when a map is downloaded, we note the map's settings, your country, browser and device type, language, time zone and screen size, to understand how the site is used. This doesn't identify you. Only the most recent 5,000 downloads are kept.
• Security checks: to stop misuse, we briefly keep a scrambled, one-way code made from your IP address (never the address itself). It's deleted automatically within an hour.

If you buy a map

We keep your email address, order number, amount paid and the map you designed, along with the files made from it, so we can deliver your files and let you download the same files again. We keep this for 13 months: downloads are available for 12 months, plus a month's grace. We need this information to provide what you bought.

Your design may itself include personal details, for example if it's centred on your home or its title includes names. It's stored only with your order, and used only to make your files.

Stored on your own device

To make the site quicker and remember your work, your browser stores your current design settings, recently downloaded map data and an estimate of how fast your device renders maps. This stays on your device: it isn't sent to us, and you can remove it at any time by clearing this site's data in your browser or using Start again (under More options) in the designer.

Payments

Payments are handled by Lemon Squeezy, which sells your map to you as our reseller (merchant of record). They process your payment, collect any tax due and send your receipt, under their own privacy policy. We never see your card details; we receive your email address and order details so we can deliver your files.

Who else handles your information

• Our hosting and database providers process information on our behalf, only to run the site. Like any website host, our hosting provider briefly keeps technical logs that include IP addresses.
• Umami Analytics provides the anonymous visitor statistics described above.
• Map services: when you move the map or search for a place, your browser requests map images and search results directly from map data providers, which see your IP address and the area or place you asked for.

Some of these providers are based outside the UK; where that's the case, they're covered by appropriate safeguards for international transfers.

Your rights

You can ask us for a copy of the personal information we hold about you, and to correct or delete it, or object to how we use it. Email privacy@themodernmap.com and we'll reply within a month. If you're unhappy with how we've handled your information, you can complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Changes

If we change how we use your information, we'll update this page and the date at the top.

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