Privacy
Discover Land · En español
Who is responsible
Discover Land, trading as Discover Land (discoverland.org), decides how the personal data described here is used: the controller under the GDPR. Contact: hello@discoverland.org. More in the legal notice.
The map, and how many findings a plot's report has, are open to anyone, with no account. With a free account you also see which checks are flagged, on a few plots a month; the full report opens with a plot's Dossier or a plan. We count visits anonymously, as described below. You only give us anything personal if you choose to sign in.
What we collect, and only if you sign in
- Your email address and the account identifier Google gives us.
- When you first signed in, when you were last here, and on how many days.
- The plots you choose to save: the point, the name you give it and the note you write.
- What you have access to: a Search Pass or Pro, and the plots opened for you with a Dossier.
- The plots (their cadastral reference, or the point) whose checks you opened in the last 30 days, to count the free account's monthly plots. Older ones are deleted.
- If sign-in is limited to a list and your address is not on it: your address, when you tried and how many times, so the admin can let you in. Deleted once you are let in, or when you ask.
- Nothing else: no name, no profile picture, no contacts, and no access to any of your Google services. Signing in asks Google for your address and nothing more.
Why
Signing in lets you save plots and notes and find them again on any device, see which checks are flagged, and keep the plots and plans you have. It also guards properties for sale, which only some accounts can see. The dates you were here let the site's admin see who uses it and grant plans by hand. None of this is used for anything else, or ever sold, shared or passed to anyone. Your notes are seen only by you.
Lawful basis
Keeping your saved plots, notes, plans and opened plots, and counting your monthly plots, is the service you ask for (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR). Recording when you sign in and visit, and controlling who sees properties for sale, are our legitimate interest in running and protecting the site (Article 6(1)(f)). If you would rather not, do not sign in: the map and the count of each plot's findings work without an account.
How long
A session lasts 30 days of inactivity; signing out ends it immediately. Saved plots and notes stay until you remove them. To have your address and everything you saved deleted, write to hello@discoverland.org.
Tips by email
If you tick the box in your account for tips by email, we keep your email address, the language, the time you ticked and the exact words you saw, and how many of the four emails we have sent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR: your consent). We send four short emails over about six weeks, each with a link that stops them at once, and nothing else to that address from this list. After you stop, we keep the record that you agreed and that you stopped, so that we never write to you again by mistake; to have it deleted too, write to hello@discoverland.org. It is never sold or shared.
Free plot check
If you send a plot for a free check, we keep your email address, the plot as you typed it, your question if you wrote one, the language of the page and the date (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR: to answer the request you made). We use them to reply to you by email about that plot, and for nothing else; they are never sold or shared. We keep them until you ask us to delete them at hello@discoverland.org.
Early access
If you ask for early access, on the pricing page or on a plot, we keep your email address, the plan you chose, the language of the page and the date, and, when you ask from a plot on the map, which plot, with your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR). We use them to email you when sales open, and for nothing else; they are never sold or shared. We delete them once sales open and that email is sent, or sooner if you ask at hello@discoverland.org.
How you found us, at checkout
Stripe's checkout page asks, optionally, how you found Discover Land and whether you have a referral code. If you answer, we keep your answer with the purchase (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR: you choose to give it). We use it to learn which channels bring buyers and, for a referral code, to pay the person who sent you. That person is told how many sales their code brought, never who bought. It is not sold or shared.
Payments
Payments are handled by Stripe (Stripe Payments Europe, Limited, Ireland). Your card details go to Stripe and never reach us. We keep your email address, what you bought (and, for a Dossier, which plot), the amount, the date and Stripe's references for the payment, so that what you bought stays open for you, refunds and cancellations work, and our accounts are complete. Lawful basis: the contract you enter when you buy (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR) and the legal duty to keep accounting and tax records (Article 6(1)(c)), for as long as Spanish law requires. Stripe's own notice: stripe.com/privacy.
Visit statistics
We count visits with Umami, an analytics service built to work without cookies. It records which pages are viewed, the site you arrived from, your country, the kind of device and a few actions on the page, such as using the plot check or opening the map. It does not store your IP address, sets no cookies and cannot follow you across other sites. The data is kept in the EU. Our own server also counts a number per day of a few steps, such as plots previewed, sign-ins and clicks on the Dossier offer, with nothing about who. Lawful basis: legitimate interest in knowing whether the site is useful, under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.
Saved reports, photos and files
When you press “Save with a date”, the server keeps that report so its link keeps working: the point, what the report shows, and the way of living you chose. It notes which account made it, to count the daily allowance and to open it in full for you; for reports made without an account before 12 October 2026 it noted the IP address instead. Whoever you give the link to sees it at their own level: in full if they have that plot open, or if a Pro account made it.
Photos and files you open on the map (to find a plot from a photo’s GPS position, or from a KML, KMZ or GeoJSON) are read in your browser and never sent to us or anyone else. So is your position when you press “Show where I am”: your browser asks your permission, the map moves there, and the position itself is neither sent to us nor kept. The map then loads that area, as it does wherever you look.
Cookies
One cookie, discover_session, which keeps you signed in. There are no
advertising, analytics or third-party cookies.
Services your browser contacts directly
Some of the map is drawn live from public services. When you use those parts, your browser talks to them and they see your IP address, as with any website you visit:
- Catastro — parcel boundaries and details at the point you click
- PVGIS (European Commission, JRC) — solar yield for that point
- CartoCiudad (IGN) — place and address search
- IGN PNOA — aerial photographs, present day and 1956
Map labels, fonts and icons are served from this site, so no request goes to a font or tile CDN.
Your rights
You can ask for a copy of what we hold, to have it corrected or deleted, to limit or object to its use, and to receive it in a format you can take elsewhere (Articles 15 to 21 GDPR). Write to hello@discoverland.org; it will be done. Deleting your data removes your address and everything kept with it, except payment records that tax law requires us to keep; while sign-in is limited to a list of addresses, you will then no longer be able to sign in.
If you think your data is mishandled, you can complain to Spain's data protection authority, the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, at aepd.es (Article 77 GDPR).