What we collect and what we do with it.

What we store about you

• Account: your email address and a scrambled (hashed) version of your password (or, if you sign in with Google, Google's reference for your account). We never store the password itself.
• Profile: a display name, home state and the species you hunt, if you add them.
• Hunt journal: the entries you write, including place, weather, what you saw or took, and a state confirmation number if you add one.
• Map marks: the exact locations and notes of stands, cameras and sign that you drop on the map.
• Saved places and reminders you create.
• My Hunt: land you outline and what you note about it (whether you own, lease or have permission, and any owner contact you type in), public land you add, trips you plan, and trail-camera photos you add. Photos are shrunk in your browser before upload, which removes the location and other hidden details stored inside the file.
• Stand Alerts settings: the winds you choose for a stand and whether to email you. To write an alert, our server asks the National Weather Service for the forecast at that stand, rounded to about half a mile.
• Activity pulse reports: the county and type of each report you tap, and when.
• Problem reports you send us.
• Subscription status: your plan, its renewal date and a Stripe customer reference.

What we do not store

• Card details. Payments are handled entirely by Stripe; your card number never reaches our server.
• Your live location. If you allow location in your browser, it is used on your device to centre the map and forecasts and is kept in that browser only. Our server stores only the home state you choose.

Who can see your hunting information

Only you. Your journal, marks and saved places are private to your account and are never shown on the map or to other users. If you switch on "Count my hunts toward county totals" in the journal (it is off unless you turn it on), the number of hunts and animals you log is added to that county's total for the season. A county's total is shown only once at least five members have logged there, and never with names, notes or locations. Activity pulse reports are shown to others only as county-wide counts, with no names, notes or exact locations. The site owner can access stored data when needed to run or fix the service.

Other services the site talks to

To do its job, the site or your browser contacts these services, and they see your internet address and the request:

• Stripe for payments (your email and payment details, when you subscribe).
• National Weather Service for forecasts (the map position, rounded to about half a mile or coarser).
• U.S. Geological Survey and its ArcGIS service for topo maps, aerial imagery and public-land outlines (the area of the map you are viewing).
• OpenStreetMap for the county-seat street map.
• Google Fonts, cdnjs and jsDelivr for fonts and code libraries.
• Google, only if you choose "Continue with Google": you sign in on Google's own page and Google tells us your email address and an account reference. We never see your Google password.
• Our email provider (Resend) for password-reset and Stand Alert emails (your email address), once email is switched on.
• Render, which hosts the site and its database in the United States.

If you tap a directions link, Google Maps opens with that location.

Cookies and browser storage

We use one cookie to keep you signed in. We do not use advertising or tracking cookies, or any outside analytics service. We keep simple daily totals of page views and visitors on our own server; to count a visitor once a day we scramble their internet address with a secret that changes daily and is never saved, so the totals cannot be traced back to anyone. Your browser also stores a few preferences for you, such as your map settings and score weights. Tracks you record of where you walk are kept on your device only and are never uploaded. If you save an area for offline use, the map, public land and a copy of your marks are kept on that device until you delete the area or sign out.

How we use your information

To provide the features you use, take payment, keep the site secure, answer you, and improve the scores using totals that do not identify anyone. We do not sell your personal information or share it for advertising.

Keeping and deleting it

We keep your data while your account is open. You can delete individual journal entries, marks, saved places and reminders yourself at any time. To delete your whole account and everything in it, or to get a copy of your data, write to from your account's email address and we will do it within 30 days. Payment records are kept by Stripe as the law requires.

Security

Passwords are hashed, the site is served over an encrypted connection, and access to the database is limited. No system is perfectly secure, so use a password you do not use elsewhere.

Children

The site is not meant for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their information.

Changes

If we change how we handle your information we will update this page and its date, and post a notice for significant changes.