Privacy

The short version

You do not need an account, and you are never asked for your name or your email. What you put on the map is public. Everything else either stays on your own device or is counted anonymously, so that it is possible to tell whether the app is working.

What you add to the map

A spot you add is published: the coordinates you place it at, the fruit type, and any name or note you write on it. So are the photos you attach and the ripeness reports you leave. Treat all of it as public writing: a note on a spot is as visible as the pin it is attached to.

Contributions are pooled into the map’s dataset under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, the same license the imported data carries. There is more about that on the about page.

Your location

The blue dot uses your browser’s location, and your browser asks you before it turns on. What comes back stays on your device: it moves the map, it places the pin where you are standing when you add a spot, and it decides whether you are close enough to a spot to be offered the one-tap ripeness button. None of that is transmitted. The only coordinates that ever leave your device are the ones attached to a spot you deliberately add.

Photos

A photo is resized and re-encoded in your browser before it is uploaded, which drops every piece of EXIF metadata it arrived with, including the GPS tag that would otherwise publish the exact spot it was taken from. What reaches the server is the image and nothing else.

Uploaded photos are public. They are served from a public address, so anyone holding the link can open one.

The anonymous ID

The app signs you in anonymously the first time you open it, so that a spot you add can belong to you without an account having to exist. That is a random identifier held in your browser, attached to no email, no name and no profile. It is what ties your own contributions together, and what makes “your spots” work.

Clearing this site’s storage in your browser ends it. A new random identifier takes its place, and anything added under the old one stays on the map with nothing left to connect it back to you.

What gets measured

Page views and loading speed are measured with Vercel’s analytics, which are served from this domain, set no cookies, and build no profile of you across other sites. Alongside those, five things are counted: which fruit was filtered for, that a spot was opened and broadly how it was reached, that a spot was created and whether a photo came with it, a ripeness report’s stage and whether the phone could tell you were standing at the spot, and that the map failed to load and why.

None of those carry coordinates, text you wrote, or an identifier for you. Whether you were standing at the spot is recorded as a yes or a no, never as a position.

Google Maps

The map itself is Google Maps. Loading it means your browser talks to Google directly, and Google receives your IP address and what you pan to, under Google’s privacy policy. That exchange is between you and Google; this app can neither see it nor change it.

Cookies

This app sets no advertising or tracking cookies, which is why there is no consent banner in your way. The anonymous session is kept in your browser’s local storage rather than in a cookie, and is sent only to Supabase, to authorise your own writes.

Keeping and removing things

Email nataliyasayenko@gmail.com to have a spot, a photo, a note, or everything behind one anonymous ID taken down. Describing the spot and roughly when you added it is usually enough to find it; a link to the pin is quicker still. The same address is the one to use if a pin sits on your property.

Questions

Anything at all about this page: nataliyasayenko@gmail.com.