Last updated 2 August 2026
Track Atlas is a map of public running tracks. This policy explains exactly what the site stores, what it sends to other companies, and what control you have. It is written to be read rather than to cover every eventuality. The terms of use cover sponsoring a country, refunds, and what you contribute.
Saved tracks, a random identifier used to recognise your own comments, the two-letter code for the country the map should open on, whether you have dismissed the trespass notice, and whether the RestIQ card has already been shown to you are stored in your browser's local storage. They are not accounts. Clearing your browser data deletes them permanently, and there is no way for us to recover them.
The site sets no advertising or tracking cookies.
Only when you choose to submit something:
Do not put personal information into a comment. Comments are visible to everyone and you should treat them as permanently public.
The track data behind the map comes from OpenStreetMap and is public. The site's own source code is not published.
Comments are never published. They stay on this site's server. They are not released as a downloadable dataset, not sold, and not handed to anyone else.
Corrections are treated differently, and deliberately so. If you report a closed track, suggest a better name, or add a missing one, that is a factual fix to a public map, and we may build it into the map data itself, which is published under an open licence. Only the correction travels, never your display name, your comment text, or anything identifying you.
If ownership of the site ever changes, or it shuts down, comments will be deleted rather than transferred or published.
If you adopt a country, the payment is processed by Stripe on their own checkout page. Card numbers are never sent to this site and we never see or store them. Stripe tells us only that a payment succeeded, and for how much.
We store the display name and short message you choose to show on the adopters list, the amount, and the date. Leave the name blank to appear as Anonymous. If you would rather not be listed at all after paying, email us and we will remove the entry.
Using the map necessarily sends requests to these services, each with its own policy:
We do not sell or share your information, and there is no third-party advertising on this site. No advertising network is involved, nothing is auctioned against you, and no advertiser learns that you were here.
There is one promotional thing on this site: a card for RestIQ, another app made by the same person. It appears on the map and at the foot of the About page. It is a plain link, with no advertising script, no tracking pixel and no third-party code behind it.
We do count how often that card is shown and how often it is clicked, so we can tell whether it is worth the space. That counting adds one to an hourly total, recorded against the country and, where our host can tell, the state or region the request came from. So a click may be stored as one click from Texas, or one click from the United Kingdom.
It records no identifier at all, not even the scrambled short code described below, so those totals cannot be linked to you, to your other visits, or to anything else in this site’s database, and nothing can show whether two of them came from the same person. We do not record the city, and we do not store your IP address for this: the country and region are read from our host at the moment of the request and only the count is kept. Following the link tells this site nothing about you beyond that a click happened. If Apple counts the visit, that happens on Apple’s side after you have left, under their privacy policy rather than ours.
No third-party analytics service is used either: nothing here reports to Google Analytics or anything like it, and no data about you leaves this site for that purpose.
We count how many people are using the site. While a page is open it sends a short signal to our server every 30 seconds, and stops while the tab is in the background. That signal carries no information about you beyond the hashed IP address described above: not the page you are on, not where you came from, not your browser or screen size, and no identifier stored in your browser.
The hashes are used to tell one visitor from another for the rest of the day, so that a hundred visits from one person are not counted as a hundred people. They are deleted every day. What remains is a single number per day, how many people came, which cannot be traced back to anyone. It follows that we cannot tell whether someone visiting today also visited last week, and we have deliberately built it so that we cannot.
None of this is shared with anyone. It exists so the person running the site knows whether it is being used.
Your country, worked out automatically. When the map loads it asks our server which country you are in, so that a visitor in a country we have not mapped yet opens on their own part of the world instead of on the United States. Cloudflare works this out from your IP address as the request arrives and tells us the two-letter country code, which is all we ask for and all we receive. We never store or log the IP address itself, and the country is not saved on our server or attached to anything you submit. It is remembered only in your own browser so the map opens in the right place next time. This happens without asking you, because a country code is not precise enough to identify anyone. Clearing your browser data removes it.
Your precise position, only if you ask. If you use the locate button, your browser asks your permission first and the result is used only to move the map. Your position is never transmitted or stored.
Comments and submissions are kept until they are no longer useful for maintaining the map. You can delete your own comments from the comment panel on any track. To have something else removed, get in touch and say which comment or submission you mean.
The hashes used to count visitors are deleted every day, once they have been turned into a single number for that day. Those daily numbers are kept indefinitely, because they are counts and contain nothing about anyone.
This site is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Material changes will be noted on the map itself.
Questions or removal requests: [email protected]