UltimaTour Connect

UltimaTour Connect helps an operator prepare and submit onboarding information to UltimaTour Reviews from inside WordPress.

It can be used to:

• enter business, contact, location, backlink, and tour details
• verify the participation email
• prepare logo and tour images before submission
• submit the operator participation record to UltimaTour Reviews
• sync participation status back from Reviews
• surface the secure guest review link and QR code directly in the top dashboard cards after approval

It is intentionally narrow in scope. It is not a booking engine, calendar, OTA manager, inventory tool, or public review dashboard.

What the plugin does not do

• It does not create backlinks automatically.
• It does not insert hidden public links or credits.
• It does not publish public reviews automatically.
• It does not use an external QR image service.
• It does not load remote executable admin JavaScript or CSS.
• It does not track visitors silently.

External Services

UltimaTour Connect uses UltimaTour’s external service for its core Reviews connection. It also registers the installation and sends a twice-daily operational heartbeat so UltimaTour can identify the connected operator and connection health.

UltimaTour Reviews

Service provider:

• UltimaTour

Purpose:

• bootstrap and taxonomy loading when the administrator opens or refreshes the Connect screen
• email verification
• participation submission
• public profile and review-link retrieval
• participation status sync
• optional bug-report delivery
• installation registration and operational connection heartbeat

Data sent:

• site URL
• selected locale
• verified operator email
• operator-entered business, contact, location, backlink, and tour data
• prepared image metadata
• optional bug-report screenshot
• for registration/heartbeat: site URL, operator/site name, a generated installation identifier, plugin/WordPress/PHP versions, and connection health

When data is sent:

• workflow data is sent when an administrator uses the Connect workflow
• the privacy-limited registration/heartbeat begins after activation and runs twice daily
• the heartbeat does not contain visitor activity, passwords, API keys, payment data, or customer records
• CONNECT is free; registration creates a free ecosystem/license record, but no purchase or commercial entitlement is required

Service URL:

• https://www.ultimatour.com

Privacy policy:

• https://partner.ultimatour.com/privacy-terms

Terms of service:

• https://partner.ultimatour.com/privacy-terms

OpenStreetMap tiles

Purpose:

• admin map display in the Location section

Service URL:

• https://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png

OpenStreetMap Nominatim

Purpose:

• place search and reverse geocoding in the Location section

Service URLs:

• https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search
• https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/reverse

Privacy

This plugin stores:

• plugin settings
• onboarding draft data
• verified-email state
• cached bootstrap or taxonomy data from Reviews
• remote participation state returned by Reviews

This plugin does not:

• add hidden tracking
• add hidden backlinks
• insert backlinks automatically
• publish public reviews automatically
• use an external QR image service
• load remote executable admin JS or CSS

License

UltimaTour Connect is released under GPLv2 or later.

Bundled third-party components are documented in THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.txt and their bundled license files:

• Leaflet – BSD-2-Clause
• tz-lookup data – CC0 1.0
• QRCode helper – MIT