Reports and photos
Reports may include the details you submit, optional photos, and approximate location information when device geolocation is allowed.
Direct contact
Contact, provider, and support forms only collect what you choose to send for follow-up.
Security and abuse prevention
Limited session, verification, and moderation data may be used to keep public tools safe, usable, and resistant to spam.
Ads if enabled later
If advertising is enabled, this page explains the cookie, ad-measurement, and third-party data disclosures visitors should expect.
Information that may be collected
- Report details such as ZIP code, description, optional contact email, and optional uploaded photos.
- Contact, provider, and account-interest details that you choose to submit.
- Approximate location information when device geolocation is allowed.
- Limited session, verification, and moderation data needed for protected internal access and abuse prevention.
How the information may be used
- To review, moderate, and organize reports and related submissions.
- To improve map usefulness, hotspot visibility, contributor history, and cleanup follow-through.
- To respond to contact requests, support messages, provider questions, accessibility issues, and privacy follow-up.
- To reduce spam, abuse, unsafe submissions, duplicate content, and misleading public information.
Public report boundaries
- Public reports should focus on the litter problem, not private accusations or unrelated personal information.
- Photos should avoid faces, house numbers, license plates, and other private details unless they are necessary to understand the report.
- Reports may be edited, hidden, consolidated, or removed when needed for safety, privacy, spam prevention, or map quality.
Cookies, verification tools, and ad technology
LitterMeNot uses limited cookies for protected internal sessions and may use verification tools on public forms to reduce automated abuse. If advertising is enabled later, Google and other ad partners may use cookies, local storage, web beacons, IP addresses, device information, coarse location, and page context to serve, measure, limit, and improve ads where allowed by law.
Third parties, including Google, may place and read cookies on a visitor's browser or use web beacons or IP addresses as part of ad serving and measurement. Google explains how it uses information from sites and apps that use its services on its partner-sites information page.
Ad personalization and consent choices
If personalized ads are enabled for visitors in the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland, consent must be gathered through a Google-certified consent management platform before those ads are served. Visitors can control or clear cookies in browser settings and use Google's ad settings to manage ad personalization.
Non-personalized ads may still use limited technical data, such as device type, approximate location, page context, and basic measurement information when allowed by law.
Retention, access, and follow-up
Reports and submissions may be kept long enough to support moderation, map quality, contributor history, abuse review, legal compliance, and legitimate follow-up. If you need to ask about something you submitted, use the contact page with enough detail to identify the request.