FAQ
1. What is the cost of purchasing my own words or terms for my Mapcut?
We call this a "premium" Mapcut and for now, they are $3 per year. There can only be numbers and letters in a Mapcut with no spaces or any other character.
Some common household words are more. Email us if you are trying for something and you get a message saying it's reserved.
2. What if I move? If I've already got stationary or business cards listing my Mapcut, how do you handle that?
Free Mapcuts stay with that particular location on the map, forever. It's unchangeable. So, the next person that moves to that address will be able to use the same free Mapcut that you used, when you were there. However, if you purchase a premium Mapcut, it stays with YOU, wherever you go. If you are going to advertise a Mapcut, you'll want a premium Mapcut. That way, if you move, you just simply login to your account and change the address associated with that Mapcut and then it'll instantly switch to displaying the map location for your new address.
3. Can I get a Mapcut for any location on earth?
Yes. Premium Mapcuts can point to any location on earth. When getting a free Mapcut, you can use a physical address or it'll even let you move the location arrow around on the map, to any location. You might want to initially input an address that is close to where you want to mark your final location, so you don't have to move the map pointer clear across the US or something.
So, if you want to mark the tree where you had your first kiss, you can do that.
4. How do you handle privacy issues?
We take privacy seriously. You have complete control over what is displayed on your premium Mapcut page. You can display many pieces of info including phone numbers, email addresses, website URLs, names, social media links (Facebook, Flickr...etc) and even a tag line. The bare minimum that must always be displayed is the address or lat/long for that Mapcut. After all, that is the point of Mapcut.com.
Of course, free Mapcuts can ONLY display the address or lat/long. Nothing else is linked to free Mapcuts and a free Mapcut will always be assigned to their originally assigned locations, in perpetuity. It is unchangeable.
5. Can I have multiple premium Mapcuts?
Yes. But you can only have one physical address or lat/long per Mapcut account. For example, you purchase a premium Mapcut of /johnsmith and you use john@smith.com as your username. When you login for the first time, it'll ask you to assign an address or lat/long to your account. You currently have /johnsmith as a premium Mapcut inside your account. You can create datasets like names, phone numbers, email addresses, social media accounts...etc, inside your account. Then you can link some, all or none of those datasets to your premium Mapcut of /johnsmith. Let's say you link the name John Smith to your /johnsmith Mapcut. So, when someone goes to mapcut.com/johnsmith, they'll see the name of "John Smith" listed on your Mapcut page.
But let's say you only use John Smith for your professional life and have different contact info for another set of friends or colleagues, in your personal life, but your physical address is of course, the same. So, let's say your nickname is Bubba. You can purchase another premium Mapcut (/bubbasmith) inside the same Mapcut account as your John Smith one, so they can both be administered from the same Mapcut login. Then you just create some datasets that pertain to Bubba and link your personal datasets to this /bubbasmith premium Mapcut. Then when someone goes to mapcut.com/bubbasmith, your personal info will be displayed instead of your professional data. The only thing they must have in common is the same email address to login with and the same physical address.
You can always create a new premium Mapcut account using a different email address as your username, too. And it can share the same physical address as another premium Mapcut.
6. Can I squat on a premium name and resell it via ebay...etc?
Yes. You can buy as many names as you'd like. We even have a very easy way for you to transfer ownership to another user. Just be careful not to purchase any trademarked name or phrase. You'll never win that argument and you'll lose the money you paid to register the Mapcut, too.
