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Privacy

Last updated: 16 April 2026

We've designed StrollCraft to need as little data as possible, and the little it needs stays on your device.

What StrollCraft is

StrollCraft is a web app that draws a scenic walking loop through nearby sightseeing landmarks, back to where you started. You tell it how many minutes you have; it tells you a route.

There are no accounts. There is nothing to sign up for. There is no profile.

Your location

StrollCraft asks your browser for your location using the standard geolocation API — your browser shows the permission prompt, not us. If you deny it, the app still works — you can search for a place by name instead.

When you grant permission, your coordinates are used in two places:

  • In your browser, to center the map on you and as the starting point for your walking loop. This never leaves your device.
  • As a bounding box sent to our server so we can fetch which sightseeing landmarks are nearby. The server receives a rectangle around your location (roughly a few kilometers on each side, rounded to a grid) — not your exact coordinates — and returns a list of landmarks.

The bounding box is never stored with any identifier. It is never logged with your IP address. It is never shared with any third party beyond the OpenStreetMap query service that tells us what landmarks exist there.

What this means in practice: we can tell that someone asked what's interesting in a particular neighborhood, roughly, and we cache that answer for 24 hours so we don't have to re-ask. We cannot tell that it was you, and we don't try.

What we store on your device

StrollCraft uses your browser's localStorage to remember your preferences across visits:

  • Your weight, for the calorie estimate (default 75 kg).
  • Your preferred units (metric / US / UK).
  • Your default walking pace.
  • Your language preference.

These values never leave your browser. To delete them, clear this site's data in your browser settings.

Website analytics

StrollCraft uses Glyphex for anonymous page view analytics. Glyphex does not use cookies and does not collect personal data. To count unique visitors without storing personal information, Glyphex creates a temporary ID from a combination of your IP address and browser user-agent string, hashed with a salt that changes every day. The raw IP address is never stored. The ID cannot be used to identify you across days or across sites.

What this means in practice: we can see how many people visited a page and roughly where in the world they are (country level), but we cannot identify or track individual visitors.

No consent banner is required because no personal data is processed and no cookies are set. If you want to opt out of even this anonymous analytics, you can do so at glyphex.io/docs/privacy.

No other tracking

There are no advertising trackers, no social media pixels, and no third-party scripts beyond Glyphex. No cookies are set by this site.

Third parties

Generating a walking loop reaches three services besides our own:

  • Cloudflare hosts the site and the APIs. Cloudflare sees your IP address as part of normal TCP traffic — this is unavoidable for any website.
  • OpenStreetMap's Overpass API (via mirrors at overpass-api.de, kumi.systems, and openstreetmap.ru) tells us what landmarks are in a given bounding box. They receive the rectangle and the name "StrollCraft" in our user-agent string.
  • Protomaps basemaps serve the actual map tiles drawn behind the UI. Tile data sits on our own Cloudflare R2 bucket; we are the ones serving it to your browser, not a third-party CDN.
  • Nominatim is used only if you type a place name in the search box. They receive the text you typed.

None of these services receive your name, an account identifier, or anything beyond what's in a standard HTTP request.

What StrollCraft does not do

  • No user accounts. No sign-up. No profile.
  • No route history. We don't store where you walked.
  • No GPX export. No social sharing of routes.
  • No advertising. No ad networks.
  • No email capture. No newsletters.
  • No in-app purchases. No subscriptions.

Your data, your control

Because nothing about you leaves your browser, there is no "account" to delete. To wipe every trace StrollCraft has left on your device, clear the site's data in your browser:

  • Safari: Settings › Safari › Advanced › Website Data › strollcraft.app
  • Chrome / Edge: Settings › Privacy & security › Cookies and other site data › See all site data and permissions, then remove strollcraft.app.
  • Firefox: Settings › Privacy & Security › Cookies and Site Data › Manage Data, find strollcraft.app, remove.

Contact

StrollCraft is made by Skadi Oy, a small company in Finland. Questions or requests: timo@skadi.chat.