Last updated 23 September 2026
Privacy and data
Plain terms: your walks are yours. We store what the app needs to work, and the full policy below says exactly what that is.
What we store
Your account name and email, the places and treks you save, the walks you record (distance, time, ascent and the track itself) and the reviews you write.
What we never do
Sell your information, or keep your position when you are not recording a trek. Browsing the catalogue needs no account at all.
Who can see a walk
Only you. Reviews, ratings and photos you submit are public, with your name; your recorded walks are not.
Your controls
- Export everything recorded
- Profile → Data & privacy → Export my data
- Delete a single walk
- Profile → Trek history → the walk → Delete
- Delete the account and everything in it
- Profile → Delete account
- Anonymous usage data, off unless you turn it on
- Profile → Data & privacy
Deleting the account permanently erases your saved places, recorded walks and reviews, except where limited retention is required by law. Deleting is done in the app or by email — how to delete your account explains both.
The full policy
This policy explains what information Kashmir Explorer (“we”) collects, how we use it, and the choices you have. It applies to this website and the Kashmir Explorer mobile app.
Information we collect
- Account information. You can sign in with a code sent to your email address, or with Google or Apple. We store your name, your email address and a provider identifier, and with Google or Apple we receive that basic profile from them to create your account. Browsing the catalogue does not require an account, in the app or on this website.
- Your saved places and treks. Items you save are stored on your device and, when signed in, synced to your account.
- Trek activity. When you record a trek in the app, GPS location and derived statistics (distance, ascent, duration) are stored on your device and, when signed in, mirrored to your account so you can see your completed treks.
- Reviews and content. Ratings, text and photos you submit are associated with your account and shown publicly.
- Diagnostic data. We collect error reports (crash and exception diagnostics) to keep the product reliable.
- Website analytics. Opening a page on this website sends one “visit” event per browser session to our own servers, recording the page path and a random identifier that is created in your browser and kept in its local storage so that repeat visits count as one visitor. Your IP address arrives with that request and is stored only as a one-way hash, for de-duplication; the address itself is not kept. None of this is linked to your account. Clearing this site’s data in your browser removes the identifier.
- Vercel Web Analytics and Speed Insights. This website is hosted by Vercel, and two of its measurement scripts run on every page: one counts page views, the other times how quickly pages paint in your browser. They are cookieless and set no identifier that follows you between sites — what they report is the page, the referrer, and coarse device, browser and country information, processed by Vercel on our behalf. Neither is linked to your account, and neither runs in the app.
- Sign-in cookies on this website. Signing in here sets three cookies on your browser: two holding your session, which page scripts cannot read, and one holding only the value “1” so a cached page knows to show “Account” rather than “Sign in”. They are used for nothing else — no advertising and no tracking between sites — and signing out, or clearing this site’s data, removes them.
- iPhone waitlist. The iPhone app has launched, so the waitlist form is no longer shown. An address left on it earlier was stored only to send the one launch email, was never used for anything else or shared, and is deleted once that mail has gone out.
How we use information
To provide and improve the service: authenticate you, sync your saved places and trek history, display community reviews, render maps, and keep the product reliable and secure. We do not sell your personal information.
Service providers
We share limited data with providers that operate the service on our behalf, including authentication (Google, Apple), database and file storage, error monitoring, and website hosting and its built-in analytics (Vercel). Each processes data only to provide its service.
The interactive maps load directly from OpenFreeMap (map tiles and fonts), Amazon Web Services (terrain data) and Esri (satellite imagery), so opening a map sends your IP address and the tiles you look at to those hosts. Pages without a map contact none of them.
Data retention
We keep account and activity data while your account is active. You can delete your account at any time in the app (Profile → Delete account); this permanently erases your account and associated personal data (saved places, completed treks and reviews), except where limited retention is required by law (e.g. security audit logs, which are unlinked from you).
An iPhone waitlist email is deleted after the launch email is sent, or sooner if you ask us to remove it.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, export or delete your personal data, and to object to certain processing. To exercise them, contact us at kashmirexplorerhq@gmail.com.
Children
The service is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data.
Changes
We may update this policy; material changes will be reflected by the “last updated” date above.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Email kashmirexplorerhq@gmail.com.