Privacy

Short version: no accounts, no cookies, no tracking across other sites. If you join a group plan, we keep the first name you type and your votes on that plan, and nothing else about you. Last updated 10 November 2026.

What we collect

• Which venues appear in plans, and which ones get swapped away or kept when a plan is shared or routed. These counts are tied to a venue and an area, never to you, and they help better places come up more often.
• How the app is used: daily totals per neighbourhood of visits, plans made, plans sent, routes opened, swaps, and whether a visit was someone’s first or a return. Your browser remembers the date of your first visit so a return can be counted; nothing identifying is sent.
• Visit statistics from Cloudflare Web Analytics, such as page views and which country visits come from. It doesn’t use cookies or follow you across sites.

What stays on your device

Your last area, preferred layout, the venues you’ve seen recently (so plans don’t repeat), the date of your first visit, your first name and your random ID (if you joined a group) are saved in your browser’s local storage. They never leave your device, and clearing your browser data removes them.

Other services

• Cloudflare hosts the site. Like any web host it processes your IP address to deliver pages and to stop abuse. We don’t store it.
• OpenFreeMap serves the map, so their servers see a request from your browser. The map data comes from OpenStreetMap.
• Google Maps opens only when you tap Maps or Route. From then on, Google’s privacy policy applies.
• Google Fonts provides the typefaces.

Shared and group plans

A plan you send from the app is saved with a short link (getowlabout.com/p/…). Anyone with the link can see the plan, the first names of people who joined it, and how many said they’d go back to each stop.

When you join a group or vote, we store the first name you typed, a random ID your browser made (so you can change your vote and aren’t counted twice), and your “would you go again?” votes. There’s no email, password or phone number. Votes from groups of two or more people help rank places for everyone, as totals only.

To have your name or votes removed from a plan, email us with the plan link.

Your rights and contact

We hold very little: at most a first name and votes on plans you joined. For any question or request, email hello@getowlabout.com. You can also complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk. See also our terms.