Privacy Policy
How mylocationis.com handles your location: lookups run in your browser, nothing is stored on our servers, and what our host can see.
This page says what the site does with your location and with other data. It is plain on purpose. It has not had legal review.
Your location
Every lookup on this site runs in your browser. When you press a button, your browser asks your permission, and only then does the page receive your position. The page compares it with boundary data held in your browser's memory. Your position is not sent to our servers and is not stored by us.
What our host can see
The boundary data is downloaded as small files, one per one-degree square of latitude and longitude, and ZIP data is downloaded by ZIP prefix or two-degree cell. Like any web host, ours receives your IP address and the addresses of the pages and files you ask for. A file address contains the grid square, so the host can see roughly which square you looked up, to within one degree, though not your exact position. We do not link these requests to a name or an account, because the site has none.
Other services
- Map link. The "Map" link on the home page opens OpenStreetMap with your coordinates in the address. Nothing is sent to OpenStreetMap unless you click it, and what it does with the request is covered by its own policy.
- Elevation. The elevation page reads your device's altitude in your browser and converts units there. It does not call another service.
- Fonts, analytics and ads. The site uses your system fonts, loads no third-party scripts and shows no ads at launch. Empty ad slots exist in the page layout. If ads or analytics are added, this page will be updated first and will describe them.
What is stored in your browser
If you use the theme button, your choice of light or dark is saved in your browser's local storage under the name "theme". The site's own code sets no cookies.
Your choices
You can decline the location permission and type coordinates or a ZIP code instead. You can revoke the permission at any time in your browser's site settings. Clearing the site's data in your browser removes the saved theme.
Questions
For a privacy question, see Contact. For what the tools do, see About.