The short version: you can use this site without telling us who you are. There is no account, no sign-up and no newsletter. This page explains exactly what is stored, by whom, and how to get rid of it.
What we do not collect
We do not ask for your name, e-mail or phone number, because there is nowhere to enter them. We do not sell data, we do not run advertising, and we do not build a profile of you across sites. Nobody at TripsQuick can look up what you personally read.
What your browser stores
Three small items, all of them kept in your own browser and none of them sent to us:
- tripsquick-theme — whether you chose the light or dark look.
- tqs-cookie-consent — whether you accepted analytics, so we stop asking.
- tripsquick-favorites — the waters you saved with the heart icon. They live on this device only: clear the browser and they are gone, and they do not follow you to your phone.
You can delete all three at any time through your browser's settings for this site. Nothing breaks — you simply get the default look and an empty list.
Analytics, and only after you agree
We use Google Analytics 4 to count visits and see which pages are useful. It runs in Consent Mode: until you press accept in the banner, analytics storage is denied and no analytics cookie is written. If you accept, Google receives the usual page-view data — page address, referrer, approximate location derived from the IP address, device and browser type — under Google's privacy policy.
If you decline, or simply ignore the banner, the site works exactly the same. You can change your mind by clearing site data, which brings the banner back.
Server logs
Our servers and Cloudflare, which sits in front of them, keep ordinary request logs: IP address, time, page requested, browser string. They exist to keep the site up and to stop abuse, they are not linked to anything else about you, and they are discarded on a rolling basis.
Other services, and when they are contacted
- Our own map tiles — the water outlines, depth bands and the base map are served from tripsquick.com. Opening a map does not tell any third party where you are looking.
- MapTiler — only if you switch a map to satellite view. That request goes to MapTiler and is subject to their privacy policy. Stay on the ordinary map and they never hear from you.
- Cloudflare — delivers the site and filters attacks; it sees the same request data as our servers.
- Embedded video — where a page carries a video, it is embedded from YouTube in no-cookie mode or from Vimeo, and only starts talking to them when the page loads that player.
Where the content comes from
The facts on the site are drawn from public registries — USGS, NOAA, state wildlife agencies, the Water Quality Portal, Recreation.gov, OpenStreetMap — and photographs from Wikimedia Commons and similar archives, each with its author and licence shown. None of that involves your data; we list it here because “where does this come from” is a fair question to ask of any site.
Your rights
Under the GDPR and similar laws you may ask what personal data we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected or erased, and object to processing. In practice we hold almost nothing: no account, no contact details, and analytics data that reaches Google only with your consent. If you write to us, we will hold your message and our reply for as long as it takes to deal with it.
Requests go to [email protected]. You also have the right to complain to your national data-protection authority.
Children
The site is not aimed at children and asks for no personal data from anyone, of any age.
Changes to this policy
If what we collect changes, this page changes with it, and the consent banner will ask again where the law requires it.
Contact
[email protected] — for anything on this page, or to have something removed.
