Your location
- We only ask for your device’s location after you tap “Use my precise location.” Your browser asks you first, and you can say no and type an address instead.
- When you share a location, type an address or tap the map, our server sends that point or address once to the U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder to find the boundaries it falls in, returns the answer to you and discards it. We don’t save it, write it to logs, or send it to analytics or advertisers.
- Requests go in the body of a secure (HTTPS) request rather than in the web address, so they don’t end up in server or browser history logs.
- ZIP code lookups, including lists you paste into the county tool, run entirely in your browser.
- Analytics sees which page you opened, without the part of the address after “?”. A link to a radius you share carries its center point, and that point is cleared from the address bar as soon as the page opens.
- The last few ZIP codes you viewed are kept in this browser’s local storage so you can jump back to them. They never leave your device. Clear them from the “Recently viewed” list.
Approximate location from your connection
Our host, Cloudflare, estimates a city and ZIP from your IP address on each request. We show it to you as “approximate” and don’t store it. We also set a one-day cookie with your two-letter country code so the page knows whether to ask for cookie consent.
Analytics and ads
We may use Google Analytics 4 to count visits and which tools are used. Events never include coordinates, addresses or ZIP codes you look up. Visitors from the EEA, the UK and Switzerland are asked before any analytics cookies are set, and anyone can change their choice with the button below.
If we show ads in the future, they will come from Google AdSense, which may use cookies. We will update this page and the cookie choice before that happens. Your location is never shared with ad networks.
Third parties
- Cloudflare hosts the site and processes requests.
- The U.S. Census Bureau receives the points and addresses you look up, as described above.
- OpenFreeMap serves map tiles when a map is shown, which means it sees the map area you’re viewing, like any map provider.
Contact
Questions about privacy: contact@mylocationinfo.com.