Privacy
Privacy Notice
This notice explains how Mersey Mould Ltd, trading as Viewdo, handles personal information when you browse, create an account, share travel content, plan trips or connect with other travellers.
1. Who controls your information
Mersey Mould Ltd is the data controller for Viewdo. It is registered in England and Wales under company number 15630690. Its registered office is H S L Building, 437 Warrington Road, Rainhill, Prescot, England, L35 4LL.
Contact us at mark@merseymould.co.uk about privacy questions or to exercise your rights.
2. Who this notice applies to
This notice applies to visitors and registered Viewdo users. Viewdo is for people aged 18 or over. Do not create an account or provide personal information if you are under 18.
3. Information we collect
- Account information: email address, account identifier, login and account-security records.
- Profile information: username, name, biography, profile images, age range, home and preferred airports, travel styles, interests, destination preferences, group preferences and profile visibility.
- Community content: posts, photographs, videos, captions, destination tags, comments, likes, follows, shared itineraries and travel-passport entries.
- Matching and communication information: companion preferences, requests, connections, messages, read status, blocks, mutes and reports.
- Planning information: saved, borrowed and remixed trips, itinerary items, private trip notes and items you mark as booked or completed.
- Usage and technical information: interactions with Viewdo, approximate device and browser information, security logs, error information and affiliate-link clicks.
- Support and safety information: correspondence, complaints, evidence supplied with a report and actions taken to protect users or enforce our rules.
Please do not post passport numbers, payment-card details, precise home addresses, live location, health information or other highly sensitive information. Viewdo does not need that information to provide the service.
4. Where information comes from
We receive information directly from you, from your use of Viewdo, from other users when they interact with or report content, and from service providers that support authentication, hosting, storage and security. Booking partners receive information directly from you when you leave Viewdo and use their services under their own privacy notices.
5. Why we use information and our lawful bases
| Purpose | Information | Lawful basis |
|---|---|---|
| Create and operate your account | Account and profile information | Performance of our contract with you |
| Publish content and provide social, trip-planning, messaging and matching features | Profile, content, planning and communication information | Performance of our contract and our legitimate interest in operating the service |
| Personalise destination and companion suggestions | Preferences and interactions | Performance of our contract and legitimate interests |
| Protect users, prevent abuse and investigate reports | Accounts, content, messages, reports and technical information | Legal obligations and legitimate interests in safety, security and fraud prevention |
| Measure affiliate referrals and improve journeys | Booking clicks, destination, provider and account ID where logged in | Legitimate interests in measuring and funding the service |
| Respond to requests and legal claims | Correspondence and relevant account records | Contract, legal obligations and legitimate interests |
| Send optional marketing | Email and preferences | Consent, where marketing is introduced and consent is required |
You have the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests and to direct marketing. We will assess objections in accordance with data-protection law. Direct-marketing objections are honoured without requiring you to give a reason.
6. Public and private information
Public profiles, posts, comments, destination tags, public itineraries and passport achievements can be seen by other people and may be shared outside Viewdo. Profile visibility settings apply where offered. Private messages, private trip notes, reports and unpublished plans are not intended to be public, but authorised staff and processors may access them where necessary to operate, secure or moderate the service.
Do not publish information about another person unless you have permission and a lawful reason to do so. Removing content limits future display but cannot retrieve copies already shared by other people.
7. Recommendations and matching
Viewdo uses selected preferences and interactions to rank destinations, posts and potential travel companions. These suggestions are automated, but they do not make decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects. You can change your preferences, stop using matching, adjust visibility or ignore any suggestion.
9. International transfers
Some technology or booking providers may process information outside the United Kingdom. Where Viewdo is responsible for a restricted transfer, we use an applicable UK adequacy regulation or contractual safeguards such as the UK International Data Transfer Agreement or UK Addendum, together with any required risk assessment. External booking partners are responsible for explaining their own international transfers.
10. How long we keep information
We keep account and service information while your account is active and for as long afterwards as reasonably necessary to close the account, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, meet legal duties and maintain safety. Content remains until you remove it, your account is closed, or it is removed under our rules, subject to shared copies, legal holds and provider backups.
Legal-acceptance records, safety reports, fraud records and information needed for legal claims may be retained for the applicable limitation or regulatory period. Affiliate-click and operational records are kept only while reasonably useful for attribution, accounting, security and service analysis. We periodically review whether information is still required and delete or anonymise it where appropriate.
11. Security
We use access controls, Supabase authentication, row-level database security, restricted administrative access and other proportionate safeguards. No online service can guarantee absolute security. Keep your password private and contact us promptly if you believe your account has been compromised.
12. Your rights
Depending on the circumstances, you may have rights to access, correct, erase, restrict or receive your personal information, and to object to certain processing. Where processing relies on consent, you may withdraw it without affecting earlier lawful processing. You may also complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office.
Email mark@merseymould.co.uk. We may need to verify your identity. You can also edit much of your profile directly and request account deletion through Account Settings.
13. Complaints and changes
Please contact us first so we can try to resolve a concern. You can also complain to the ICO at ico.org.uk. We may update this notice as Viewdo changes. Material changes will be highlighted or presented for renewed acknowledgement where appropriate.