Privacy policy.

If you subscribe to the Friday letter, we store your email address in our own database and use Mailgun to deliver each issue. That’s it.

When you fill out a form (Submit an event, Suggest a story, the contact page) or email us directly, we receive what you send: usually your name, email, and the content of your message. We use it to reply.

If you claim or upgrade a business listing, we collect your business name, your name, your email, your phone, and whatever you choose to include in your profile (description, photos, hours, etc.). For paid plans, our payment processor (Stripe) handles billing — we never see or store your full card number.

Like most websites, we collect anonymous usage data: which pages you visit, roughly where you’re connecting from (city-level), what browser you use, how long you stay. We use this to improve the site. We don’t tie this data to your identity.

We use a small number of cookies — for keeping you signed in if you’re a business owner, for remembering settings, and for basic analytics. We don’t use tracking cookies for advertising.

The app asks for your location so it can show where you are on the map, route your boat, sort places by how near they are, and give you driving directions.

Your position is used on your phone. Boat routing, “near me” distances and the map all run on the device — that data never reaches us.

It’s sent to us only when you ask for something that needs it: when you request driving directions (we pass it to Google Directions to get the route), and when you report a problem with a route (we store the route and your note so we can fix the map). Opening a destination in Google Maps hands it to Google.

We don’t track your location in the background. We don’t build a history of where you’ve been. There is no location data of yours we could sell, because we don’t keep any.

Saved places, saved routes, and any photos you attach are stored on your device. If you never sign in, they never leave it.

An account does one thing: it backs your saved places up. We store your email address, and your saved places, routes and photos so a new phone or a re-install doesn’t lose them. You can delete the account — and everything in it — from Settings, in the app, without emailing anybody.

If you add a boat, we store what you type: its name, make, model, year, length, registration number, hull serial (HIN) and trailer plate. If you add insurance, we store the insurer, policy number, dates, agency, claim phone and insured name.

This is yours and only yours. It is never shown to another user, never included in any public listing, and never sold or shared. It exists for one reason: so the safety sheet can show your registration and policy number when you are on the water with a dead engine and someone is asking for them.

A copy is kept on your phone so it works with no signal — which is the whole point of it. Signing out removes that copy from the device. Deleting a boat, or your account, removes it from us.

We use PostHog to see which features get used — taps and screens, not content. It sees the region you’re connecting from (from your IP address), never your GPS position. We don’t use it for advertising and there is no advertising in the app.

The app keeps a short technical log on your device (frame rates, errors) so that if it crashes on the water we can find out why. It stays on your phone unless you send it to us.