Privacy Policy

Last updated: December 19, 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to WayVentura. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP/LPD). This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights.

2. Data We Collect

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:

  • Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
  • Contact Data includes email address.
  • Trip Data includes the travel information you choose to save and publish.
  • User Content includes photos, comments, reviews, and trip descriptions you upload/post to the Service.

3. How We Use Your Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
  • Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.

4. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Unverified Accounts: Accounts that have not verified their email address within 48 hours of creation will be automatically deleted along with all associated data.

5. Image Rights & Hosting

By uploading images or other content to WayVentura, you certify that you have the legal right to do so and that it does not violate any third-party rights (copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity).

You retain ownership of your content. However, by uploading, you grant WayVentura a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, display, reproduce, and distribute your content on our platform for the purpose of operating, improving, and promoting the Service.

6. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, to object to processing, to portability of data and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent.