Privacy

The short version: we store what the product needs to work, we do not sell it, and you can delete all of it from your account settings.

What we store

• Your email address, because it is how you sign in. There is no password to lose.
• Your display name, home base and photo, if you set them. These are shown on your public profile.
• What you favorite, rate, check in at, save as a walk, and the postcards and messages you make. Each has a privacy setting.

Location

Your location is read only when you ask for it: checking in, centring the map, or setting a walk start point. It is sent to the server only to confirm you are standing at the artwork you are checking in at, and the coordinates are not kept afterwards.

Cookies and browser storage

Art Maps sets one cookie, when you sign in, and it does nothing but keep you signed in. Your browser also remembers your walk in progress and whether you have dismissed the welcome card, the app prompt, and the cookie notice. None of it is used for advertising or analytics. Clearing this site’s data in your browser removes all of it.

Who else sees it

Map tiles and directions come from Mapbox, which sees the requests needed to draw them. Postcards sent by text message go through Twilio. Nobody buys this data from us, because we do not sell it.

Deleting it

Account settings has a delete button. It removes your profile, check-ins, favorites, walks, postcards, and messages. Artworks you submitted stay on the map, credited to a retired account, because they are part of a public record other people now rely on.