We measure how the site is used with OpenPanel, an open-source analytics tool we run ourselves on our own servers. It is not a third-party service and your visit is never sent to another company.
OpenPanel does not set cookies. It does not store an identifier in your browser. It uses a single sessionStorage entry, which your browser discards the moment you close the tab. Visits are counted using a rotating value derived from your request, which cannot be used to follow you across sites or link your visits over time.
Apart from the map on our homepage, described below, that is the whole picture for the marketing site.
What we do not use:
The map on our homepage is provided by Apple Maps. When the map comes into view, your browser connects to Apple to load it. It connects again to search for any places you type. Apple receives your IP address and those searches to provide the map. We do not use it to track you.
To open the map near you, your browser asks our app at web.pindrop.it for the nearest town to your internet connection. Vercel, which hosts the app, works this out from your IP address. We do not store it. If no town is available, the map uses your device’s time zone instead. The map never asks for your precise location unless you press its location button.
Pins, names and tags you add on the homepage stay in your browser. We do not store them. If you choose to open your map in Pin Drop, they travel to web.pindrop.it inside the link, in the part of the address that browsers never send to a server. There they are kept in your browser’s local storage, which is strictly necessary to give you the map you asked for. When you sign in they are added to your account and removed from your browser. If you do not sign in within three days we stop using them. Clearing site data for web.pindrop.it removes them at once.
The Pin Drop app at web.pindrop.it is a separate matter. Signing in sets cookies that keep you logged in and keep your session secure. These are strictly necessary: the app cannot work without them, so they are not optional and no consent is required for them. They are set by us, not by anyone else.
If you choose to sign in with Google, you go to Google’s own sign-in page, which sets its own cookies under Google’s privacy policy. Google sends us your name, your email address and an identifier for your Google account. Nothing else.
Our Privacy Policy covers what we do with the account data you give us.
If you have used Pin Drop before, your browser may still hold cookies from tools we no longer use. They are inactive, nothing on our site reads them and they will expire on their own. Clearing site data for pindrop.it removes them immediately.
Every browser lets you view, block and delete cookies and site data, usually under privacy or site settings. Blocking strictly necessary cookies will stop you signing in to the app. It will not affect browsing the marketing site.
If you have any questions about this document, you can contact us:
You can also write to us at Salucia Ltd, 35 Ballards Lane, London, N3 1XW, United Kingdom.
Need a data processing agreement (DPA)? We have one ready to send. Email legal@pindrop.it and we will get it over to you. Every company that processes your data, what each one receives and where it is processed, is listed on our trust pages: pindrop.it/trust
