Privacy

In short

• We count page views with a privacy-focused service that sets no cookies.
• The map keeps your trips in your own browser, and your location never leaves it.
• The contact form sends us an email and nothing more.
• A few third parties see your IP address when a page loads, because they serve part of it. They are listed below.

Website analytics

Page views on this site are counted by Aptabase. Each view sends the page path, your browser’s language, and a session id that exists only in your browser’s memory and resets after an hour of inactivity. Clicks on the homepage tiles and on the social links in the footer are counted the same way. No cookie is set and nothing is written to your browser’s storage. Aptabase’s servers are in the United States, and according to Aptabase they do not store IP addresses or anything that identifies a person.

The contact form

What you type into the contact form, meaning your name, your email address, the reason you chose and your message, is sent to us as an email and nothing else. It is not stored in a database and it is not used for a mailing list. The email is delivered by Resend, whose servers are in the United States; they pass the message on and do not use it for anything of their own. We keep the email in our mailbox for as long as the matter is open. The form counts one thing for analytics: that a message was sent and whether it succeeded. What you wrote is never part of that.

Map analytics

The map can count how often a business listing is opened and which of its buttons are tapped, so that a business can see what its listing did. That counting is currently switched off. When it is on, it counts business listings and nothing else: which boat ramps or campsites you look at is never recorded. It honours the Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals, and it sets no cookie and stores nothing.

Hosting

The site is served by Vercel, which keeps ordinary server logs (IP address, browser, the address requested) for a short time to run and secure the service.

What stays on your device

The map’s trip planner saves your trips in your browser’s local storage, under the name gttb-trips, and nowhere else. We never see them. A shared trip link carries the ids of the places on the trip in the address and nothing about you. Clearing the site’s data in your browser removes the saved trips.

Your location

The map asks for your location only when you tap the locate button, and only after your browser asks you. It is used to draw your position and to sort nearby places by distance, held in memory while the page is open, and never sent to us.

Third parties that see your IP address

Parts of the site are served by other people, and their servers see the request:

• OpenStreetMap Foundation, which serves the map tiles.
• Cloudflare’s cdnjs, which serves the map library files.
• YouTube, on pages with a video, through the youtube-nocookie.com player. It sets no cookie until you press play.
• Google Maps or Apple Maps, only if you tap a Directions button.

Fonts are served from this site, so there is no request to Google Fonts.

Overseas

Vercel, Aptabase and Resend are outside Australia, so the logs, counts and form messages above are held overseas.

Australian law

This page is written with the Australian Privacy Principles in mind. As a small operator we may sit under the Privacy Act 1988 threshold, but we follow the principles anyway. To ask what we hold about you, or to correct or delete it, ask through our contact page. If you are not satisfied with our answer you can contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

This is a description of what we do, not legal advice. Our terms of use cover the rest.

Changes

When this page changes, the date at the top changes with it.