Privacy

Last updated 22 August 2026. This describes what actually happens in the code, not what we intend. If you find a discrepancy, report it and we will fix the code or the page, whichever is wrong.

There are no accounts

You cannot sign up, log in, or create a profile. There is nothing to link your activity to across sessions or devices, because there is no identifier to link it with.

Your location never leaves your device

When you tap Near Me, your browser asks your permission and then gives your coordinates to the page running on your phone. Distances are calculated there, in your browser, against a list of venues that was already downloaded. Your coordinates are never put in a request, never written to storage, and never reach our server or anyone else’s.

You can verify this yourself: open your browser’s network inspector, grant location, and search the outgoing requests for your latitude. You will not find it. Declining permission costs you the distance sort and nothing else.

What is stored in your browser

These stay on your device, are readable only by this site, and are cleared whenever you clear your browsing data:

• Favourites — the ids of bars you saved.
• Chinook banner dismissal — the date you dismissed it.
• Voter key — a random string, if you have voted in a group poll, so the poll can tell one device from another. It is not derived from anything about you.

What we store on our server

• Venue data. Public business information: names, addresses, happy hour times and prices, and the source we checked them against.
• Form submissions. If you submit a bar, report a wrong listing or send an idea, we store what you typed. If you optionally give an email address for a reply, we store that too and use it only to reply.
• Group polls. The poll name, its options, and for each vote a display name you typed and the random voter key described above. No IP addresses.
• Bar crawls. An ordered list of venue ids, and nothing else.

Analytics

If analytics are enabled on this deployment, we record which features get used — that a filter was applied, that a card was clicked, that location was granted or denied. These events carry venue ids, filter names and counts. They never carry your search text, your email, your coordinates or any name. IP anonymisation is on.

What we never do

• Sell, rent or share your data with anyone.
• Run advertising or sponsored placement. Venues cannot pay to rank higher.
• Track you across other websites.
• Store your location, on the server or anywhere else.

Third parties

• OpenStreetMap serves the map tiles. Loading the map view sends a tile request from your browser to their servers, which as with any web request includes your IP address.
• Open-Meteo supplies the forecast behind chinook mode. That request is made by our server, not your browser, so nothing about you is involved.
• Google Maps is only ever a link you choose to follow. Nothing is sent until you tap it.

Your rights

Under PIPEDA and Alberta’s Personal Information Protection Act you can ask what we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected, and ask for it to be deleted. Given that there are no accounts, in practice this only applies if you have submitted a form or subscribed. Email us and we will action it.

To delete everything held in your browser, clear this site’s data in your browser settings. That removes your favourites, which cannot be recovered.