No account. No tracking. Here's exactly what happens.

Your location (Near Me)

The Near Me feature uses your browser's geolocation API to sort recommended places by walking distance from you. Your coordinates are sent to our server only for the duration of that single request, used to calculate distances, and never stored, logged, or shared. Close the Near Me panel and nothing remains. You can also use every guide without ever sharing your location.

Feedback

When you tap "Helpful" or "Needs work" on a guide, we store the rating, the section it refers to, and your optional comment — with no name, email, or account attached. A random anonymous ID may be attached to help us understand whether the same person found multiple issues. Feedback is used solely to improve the guides.

Anonymous usage counts

We keep simple, anonymous counts of how the app is used — for example, how often the app is opened, how often guides are opened, how many people tap a Maps link, or use Near Me. No city, no guide, no location, no IP address, and no device identifiers are attached to these counts. Each visit gets a random ID that never leaves your device in readable form (we only store a salted, one-way hash of it, purely to avoid double counting), and counts older than 90 days are deleted automatically. This data is never sold or shared.

What we never collect

• No accounts, names, or emails (sign-in exists only for guide editors)
• No advertising or cross-site trackers of any kind
• No purchase or payment data
• No location history — location lives for one request and is gone
• No selling or sharing of any data with third parties

Offline & caching

Local Way is a progressive web app: once you've opened a city guide, it is cached on your device so it works offline (on a plane, with roaming off). This cache lives on your device only and you can clear it any time from your browser settings.

Standard server logs

Like any website, our server keeps short-lived technical logs (request time, path, status) to keep the service healthy. These logs are not used to profile anyone.

Questions

If anything here is unclear or you want something removed, contact us through the feedback button in any guide — that reaches a human.