Privacy Policy

Routes and location

Bikesy receives your starting and destination coordinates and route preferences to calculate directions, distance and elevation. These locations can reveal sensitive places, including your home or workplace.

Device-location access is optional and requires browser or iOS permission. It helps show your position, select an endpoint or look up nearby places. The iOS map may update your position while in use; the app does not implement background ride recording. You can instead enter an address or choose a map point. Those selected locations still need to be processed for the features you request.

Maps, search and conditions

• Website: Google provides address suggestions and place lookups, receiving searches as you type and coordinates used for address lookups. Mapbox provides maps and layers, receiving requests for the areas you view.
• iOS app: The redesigned app uses Apple for maps, search, place details and address lookups. Older releases use Google Places and Mapbox geocoding alongside the native iOS map. These services receive the searches, places or coordinates needed for those features.
• Weather and air quality: Displaying route conditions sends a location associated with your route to Bikesy, which forwards it to OpenWeather and AirNow. These requests happen automatically with route conditions. Older app releases contact OpenWeather directly.

Providers contacted by your device also receive connection information, such as your IP address and device or browser details. Denying location permission does not prevent processing of places you enter or view.

Website analytics

Where enabled, Google Analytics helps us understand website visits and feature use. The redesigned iOS app does not include this website analytics integration; websites opened from the app are separate.

Custom events sent by Bikesy's application code describe page views, route submissions, preferences, clearing a route and the outcome of requests to use location. These custom events exclude addresses, coordinates, search text and route shapes, and remove trip details from page addresses. This filtering does not describe all data Google may collect automatically or data processed for routing, maps, search or logs.

Google Analytics can process browser and device details, approximate location and standard session events, and use cookies or similar identifiers to distinguish visits. Google receives connection information when contacted. Map and search providers may also use cookies or device storage. See the provider notices and controls below.

Logs and messages

Vercel hosts Bikesy's website and routing service. Hosting and security systems may record IP addresses, requested URLs, timestamps, browser or device information, errors and performance data to operate, troubleshoot and protect the service. Request URLs can include route or weather coordinates. These logs are separate from custom analytics events.

If you contact us, we receive your contact details, message and any attachments to respond and handle your request. Avoid including unnecessary sensitive information. Reports posted to public issue trackers may be visible to anyone.

Device data and shared links

Bikesy keeps active trip state and preferences in application memory and temporarily reuses conditions data. It does not provide an account-based trip archive. Browsers, operating systems and providers may separately retain cookies, downloaded resources, caches or backups.

Website trip links contain endpoint labels, coordinates and preferences. Browser history and copies you share can retain them. Anyone with a complete trip link can view its details and request the route. Clearing the planner does not erase history, shared copies or provider records.

Providers and disclosures

Providers receive information for the features described above and handle it under their applicable terms and privacy notices:

• Google: search and website analytics.
• Mapbox: website maps and older-app geocoding.
• Apple Maps: native maps and redesigned-app search.
• OpenWeather: weather.
• EPA/AirNow: air quality.
• Vercel: hosting, delivery and security.

External services supplying website software, styles or regional map layers also receive connection information. Independent regional operators and external sites may have separate policies for their own services. We may disclose information when required by law or necessary to protect the service or people's rights and safety.

Retention and deletion

Retention varies by the information and its purpose. Active trip data and temporary caches are separate from hosting logs, analytics and support messages. Hosting and analytics retention depends on provider and account settings. Support correspondence is kept in our mailbox to handle requests and follow-up. Operational, security and legal needs can affect retention; there is no single deletion period for all records.

To ask about particular records or request deletion, email info@blinktag.com. We may need information to verify and locate your records. Some records may no longer exist or may not be identifiable as yours. Applicable legal exceptions may limit deletion. Removing the app or clearing a route does not erase server records or copies held by people you shared with.

Your choices and rights

• Withdraw location permission in your browser's site settings or iOS Location Services settings. You can still choose endpoints manually.
• Use browser controls to delete cookies, site data and history or block unwanted requests. Blocking maps or search can affect those features.
• The website has no Bikesy-specific analytics preference switch. On supported browsers, you can use Google's Analytics opt-out add-on. Deleting or rejecting cookies alone may not stop analytics requests.

Bikesy does not currently act on Do Not Track signals. It also does not currently implement Global Privacy Control, a separate opt-out signal. These statements do not limit rights you may have under applicable law.

Depending on applicable law, you may have rights to access, correct, delete or obtain a copy of information, restrict or object to processing, withdraw consent, or complain to a privacy regulator. Contact info@blinktag.com with your request and the site or app you used. Withdrawing permission does not undo earlier processing. Provider controls apply to information they hold independently.

Security and processing locations

Bikesy's current public route and conditions connections use HTTPS, including our server's OpenWeather and AirNow requests. No service can guarantee complete security. Bikesy and its providers may process information in the United States and other countries with different privacy laws; provider notices describe their practices.

Children and policy changes

Bikesy is a general-purpose bicycle route planner. Parents and guardians can manage location permissions and help children avoid sharing sensitive trips. Contact us with concerns about a child's personal information.

We will post policy updates here and revise the date. Where applicable law requires additional notice or consent for a material change, we will provide that notice and obtain consent.