WorldTimePortal1. Who is responsible
The data controller for WorldTimePortal.com is Pivot Studio, Norwegian organisation number 920 942 482, Gaustadveien 17A, 0372 Oslo, Norway. Questions about privacy can be sent to contact@worldtimeportal.com or through the contact page.
We process personal data in line with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as applied in Norway through the Norwegian Personal Data Act (personopplysningsloven), and the Norwegian Electronic Communications Act for cookies.
2. Using the site without an account
You can use the calendars, week numbers, holiday lists, world clock, time zone tools, meeting planner, sunrise and sunset times, eclipse overview, date calculator and countdowns without creating an account or telling us who you are.
3. What we process and why
Contact form and email
When you use the contact form, we process the name, email address, topic and message you enter. The form is delivered to us as an email so that we can read and answer your enquiry, and the reply goes to the email address you gave. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in answering enquiries (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)), or steps before or under an agreement where your message concerns one (Article 6(1)(b)). The form contains a hidden anti-spam field that does not collect anything about you. The same applies if you email us directly.
We keep messages for as long as needed to handle the enquiry and any follow-up, and normally delete them no later than 24 months after the conversation ends, unless we must keep them longer, for example to document an agreement or a legal claim. Please do not send sensitive information through the form.
Settings stored in your browser
Choices such as your selected country, saved world clock cities or meeting planner cities are stored locally in your browser (localStorage). They stay on your device, are not sent to us, and you can delete them at any time by clearing your browser's site data. Countdown links you create contain the event details in the link itself; anyone you share the link with can see them.
Approximate country
To show a relevant country calendar first, we read the country associated with your IP address as provided by our hosting network. Only the country code is used, it is not stored, and your choice in the country selector always takes priority. If no country is available, the language setting of your browser is used instead.
Hosting and server logs
When you visit the site, your browser sends technical information such as IP address, browser type, requested page and time. Our hosting and network providers process this to deliver the site, protect it against abuse and keep it running. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in operating a secure website (Article 6(1)(f)). Such logs are kept for a limited period by the providers.
4. Google services
We use, or plan to use, the following Google services. This section describes how they work once they are enabled.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics helps us understand which pages are used, how visitors find the site and how we can improve it. It uses cookies and similar technologies to collect data such as pages viewed, time on page, device and browser type, approximate location (derived from IP address) and how you arrived at the site. Google Analytics 4 does not log or store full IP addresses. We do not use Analytics to identify you personally. Where consent is required, Analytics is only activated after you accept it in our consent banner (Article 6(1)(a)), and you can withdraw consent at any time.
Google Search Console
Google Search Console shows us how the site performs in Google Search, for example which search queries lead to our pages and whether pages are indexed correctly. The data we receive is aggregated and does not identify individual visitors. Search Console does not set cookies on our site.
Google AdSense and advertising
The site is funded by advertising, and we plan to show ads through Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, personalised ads are only shown if you consent through our consent banner, which uses a Google-certified consent management platform. If you do not consent, Google may show non-personalised ads, which still use cookies or similar technologies for frequency capping, fraud prevention and aggregated reporting. You can opt out of personalised advertising at Google Ads Settings, or opt out of some third-party vendors' cookies at aboutads.info and youronlinechoices.eu. Read more in How Google uses information from sites that use its services.
Transfers outside the EEA
Google and some of our technical providers may process data in the United States or other countries outside the EEA. Such transfers rely on the EU–US Data Privacy Framework where the provider is certified, or on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.
5. Cookies
- Necessary: storage required for the site to work, such as remembering your consent choice and your settings. These do not require consent.
- Analytics: Google Analytics cookies, only with your consent where required.
- Advertising: Google AdSense and partner cookies, personalised only with your consent where required.
You can change or withdraw your consent at any time through the consent settings on the site, and you can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. Blocking cookies may affect how ads and some features work.
6. Affiliate links
Some pages may contain affiliate links, clearly marked. If you click one, the partner may set its own cookies to register that you came from us, under the partner's own privacy policy. We do not receive personal data about you from the partner, only aggregated information about sales.
7. Who we share data with
We do not sell your personal data. We only share it with:
- hosting, network and email providers that run the site and deliver contact form messages on our behalf, as data processors;
- Google, for analytics and advertising as described above;
- public authorities where we are required to by law.
8. Your rights
Under the GDPR you have the right to:
- access the personal data we hold about you;
- have incorrect data corrected;
- have data deleted;
- restrict or object to processing based on legitimate interest;
- data portability for data you have given us;
- withdraw consent at any time, without affecting processing that happened before.
Contact us at contact@worldtimeportal.com to use your rights. We answer within one month. If you believe we process your data unlawfully, you can complain to the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet) or the data protection authority where you live.
If you live in California or another US state with privacy laws, you can opt out of personalised advertising through the consent settings and the opt-out links above. We do not sell personal information for money.
9. Security
The site is served over encrypted HTTPS, and access to messages and accounts with our providers is restricted. No method of transmission over the internet is completely secure, but we work to protect your data.
10. Children
The site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their personal data.
11. Changes to this policy
We will update this policy when we add or change services, for example when analytics or advertising is enabled. The date at the top shows the latest version. See also our Terms of Service and Disclaimer.