Privacy

Last updated 20 October 2026

Pinsake is a map for your own places. This page says, in plain words, what it keeps about you and what happens to it.

What Pinsake stores

• Your account: your email address, the name you give, and your password and recovery key. The password and key are stored only as one-way scrambled hashes, so nobody can read them back.
• Your map: your lists, pins, lines, areas, notes, tags, dates, links and photos.
• Sign-in sessions: a random token in a cookie that keeps you signed in on each device, plus the browser name, so you can sign out other devices.
• Limits: short-lived counters of sign-in attempts, to slow down anyone guessing passwords.

What Pinsake does not do

• No adverts, no tracking pixels and no analytics cookies.
• Your map is never sold or shared. A list becomes visible to others only if you switch on its share link, and only that list.
• Pinsake does not send you emails.

Services the map uses

To draw maps and find places, your browser asks these services for map pieces and search results. They see the area you are looking at or the words you search for, the same as any map website:

• OpenFreeMap (map tiles), Esri (satellite imagery) and AWS Terrain Tiles (hills)
• Photon by komoot (place search, addresses and places nearby)
• Overpass, run by the OpenStreetMap community (opening hours and details of places nearby)
• OSRM on the FOSSGIS servers (routes)

Your pins and notes are not sent to these services. Pinsake itself is hosted on Netlify, which stores your account and map.

On your device

Pinsake keeps a copy of your map and any unsaved changes in your browser so it works offline, plus your settings such as map style and units. Signing out removes the copy of your map from that device.

Taking your data with you

Under Import and export you can download every pin, line and area as GeoJSON, KML, GPX or CSV at any time.

Deleting things

Deleted pins, lines and areas wait in Recently deleted for 30 days, then they and their photos are removed for good. Under Account you can delete your whole account: this removes your profile, every list, pin and photo, and turns off your share links straight away.

Questions

If something here is unclear, ask the person who runs this copy of Pinsake.