Privacy Policy
Effective [EFFECTIVE DATE] · Lay of the Land is run by Thomas Jeanne Enterprises LLC.
The short version. We don't have accounts, we don't sell or share your information for advertising, and we don't track you across other sites or apps. To build a report we send the place you searched to the public data sources listed below. We never store your IP address.
What you give us
- The place you search: an address, ZIP code, city, or the name of a hotel, campground or park.
- Your current location, only if you tap "Where am I?" and allow it. We use it for that one report. We ask for location only while you're using the app, never in the background.
- Trip details you choose: dates, who's coming (kids and their age ranges, pets, couple, friends), and your trip settings (how long, work hours, car or walking, what you're looking for).
We don't ask for your name, email, phone number or payment details. [When saved trips, sharing or purchases are added, update this section: App Store purchases are handled by Apple.]
How a report is built
To answer your search, our servers send the place (as an address or map coordinates) and, where needed, your dates to public and commercial data services: weather, maps, hazards, parks, air quality, gas prices, events and others. Each one is listed on the data credits page. Those services receive the request from our servers, not from your device, and handle it under their own privacy policies.
If you enter a job site for a business trip, we look it up the same way as the place you're staying (a map service turns it into coordinates) and ask a routing service for the drive between the two. Your other trip settings and who's coming change how the report is put together on our side. We don't send them to those services.
What we keep, and for how long
| What | Why | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Lookups in a shared cache: the request we sent to a data service (which includes the place searched, or a job site you entered) and its answer. For registered-offender data we keep only the computed counts, never the records themselves. | So the next person asking about the same area gets a fast answer and we stay within free limits. Not linked to you, your device or your IP address. | 30 minutes to 30 days, depending on the source |
| A daily count of reports per visitor, stored under a one-way scrambled code (a hash of the date and your IP address). The IP address itself is never stored. | To stop abuse: about 40 reports a day per visitor | Up to 30 days. If our database is briefly unavailable, the count is kept in our server's memory instead and lasts at most until the end of the day. |
| A copy of your report in your own browser (not on our servers or any shared cache) | So reopening the page doesn't rebuild it | 5 minutes; upgraded reports aren't kept |
| Totals of which report sections worked or failed each day | To spot broken data sources | 30 days; counts only, no places or visitors |
| Error logs from our servers, which can include the place being looked up | To fix problems | A short time, kept by our hosting provider |
The one-page summary you save or print stays on your device.
Service providers
- Cloudflare hosts our servers and database. Cloudflare Turnstile may run a quick bot check on the website, which can use cookies or similar technology. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.
- Data sources receive the place you searched, as described above. See the data credits page.
- Apple handles app downloads and any future purchases, under Apple's own policies.
We don't use advertising networks or third-party analytics, and we don't sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Sensitive information in reports
Reports can include public records such as registered-offender counts (traveler upgrade) and reported crime totals. We show counts and totals only; names, photos and addresses of individuals are never stored or shown.
Children
Lay of the Land is for adults planning trips and isn't directed to children under 13. We don't knowingly collect information from children. "Kids" in a report means you told us children are traveling with you; it's used only to pick things to do.
Your choices and rights
- You can use the app without sharing your location: type a place instead.
- You can turn off location access at any time in your device's settings.
- Because we don't have accounts and don't link stored data to you, there's usually nothing we can find to give you or delete. If you have a question or a request under your state's privacy law, contact us and we'll help.
Changes
If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top. Big changes, like adding accounts, will be called out in the app.
Contact
support@thomasjeanne.com · [MAILING ADDRESS, if required]