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Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 7, 2026. What Open Map Lab does with your location, which outside services your browser talks to, and how we measure site traffic.

1. Your location stays in your browser

  • Browser-side calculations: when you press a “Find my” button, your browser asks you for permission and then hands the latitude, longitude and accuracy radius to the page's JavaScript. State, county and country checks, distances and time zone lookups run on your device.
  • No location database: Open Map Lab has no server-side store of user coordinates or searches. When you close the tab, the page forgets them.
  • No accounts: there is no sign-up, email, password or profile.
  • Saved preferences: your light or dark theme choice is kept in your browser's local storage.

2. Outside services some tools call

Some tools need data that is not bundled with the site. In those cases your browser sends a request straight to the provider below, which sees your IP address and the request itself (for example the coordinates or the address you typed), as with any website you visit. We do not add identifiers to these requests.

  • OpenFreeMap: map tiles for the interactive maps.
  • Photon (komoot) and Nominatim (OpenStreetMap): turning addresses into coordinates and coordinates into place names.
  • U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb: city and ZIP code boundaries.
  • Open-Meteo and AWS-hosted terrain tiles: elevation.

Each provider handles these requests under its own privacy policy.

3. Analytics and cookies

We use two analytics services to see which pages people use and where the site needs work:

  • Google Analytics 4 (Google): page views, referrers, approximate location from your IP address, device and browser type. It sets first-party cookies (such as _ga) to tell visits apart. See how Google uses data from sites that use its services.
  • Yandex Metrica (Yandex): page views, clicks and link clicks, scroll and session recording (“Session Replay”/Webvisor), which can capture what is shown on the page during your visit, including results such as coordinates or place names. It sets cookies (such as _ym_uid). See the Yandex Metrica terms.

These services receive data about your visit, not a stored history from us. We do not sell personal data and we do not run advertising on the site.

Opting out: you can block or delete these cookies in your browser settings, use a content blocker, or install the Google Analytics opt-out add-on. The tools keep working without analytics.

4. Embeds

When a tool is embedded on another website, the same rules apply inside the frame. The website hosting the embed has its own privacy policy.

5. Changes

If we add or remove a service listed here, we update this page and the date at the top.