Privacy

In your browser

TrixiePlanner has no accounts and asks for nothing about you, except an email address if you choose to give one (below). Your plans, picks and choices on the maps and planners are saved in your own browser, on your device, and are not sent to TrixiePlanner. A link you share carries the plan inside the link itself. Your browser also keeps the pages so they open without a signal.

Your email address

If you ask on the front page’s shelf to hear when a book is out, your email address is sent to Kit with the names of the books you picked, and kept there until you unsubscribe. TrixiePlanner uses them to email you when those books go on sale, and counts how many readers asked for each book; the count holds no address.

Your vote

When you vote for the next park on the vote page, TrixiePlanner adds one to that park’s count. To count one vote for each park a day, it keeps a one-way code made from the day, your connection’s internet address and the park, for 25 hours; the code cannot be turned back into the address, and the address itself is never kept. Your browser remembers which parks you voted for today. The counts hold nothing about you.

Telling Trixie about a spot

When you tell Trixie about a Hidden Mickey or a pressed penny machine, TrixiePlanner keeps what you wrote (the place, where it is, what you saw, and a name only if you give one), with the time you sent it, so it can be checked before it goes on the map. To take no more than five a day from one reader, it keeps a one-way code made from the day and your connection’s internet address for 25 hours; the address itself is never kept. Nothing is sent until you press Send.

Your marks in the Hidden Mickey Search (Found it, Couldn’t find it, It’s gone) and on the pressed pennies page (Pressed it, Out of order, Not there), and the height you set on What can my child ride, stay in your own browser and are never sent anywhere.

Your location on the park maps

If you tap Me on a park map, your browser asks whether to share your location, and nothing happens without your yes. The map then uses your phone’s position on the page itself, to show you as a blue dot and to time the walk from where you stand. TrixiePlanner never receives your position and never keeps it. The map stops asking when you tap Me again or leave the page, and it never follows you in the background.

How the pages are used

TrixiePlanner’s host, Cloudflare, counts visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics — the page, the country, the site that sent you, the kind of device — for every visit. It stores nothing on your device and doesn’t follow you around the web, and Cloudflare drops your device’s internet address at the server nearest you (how it works).

With your yes, TrixiePlanner uses Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity to see how the pages are used — which pages are read and for how long, where visits come from and from which country, how far pages are scrolled and where people click and tap, through heatmaps and session replay — so the pages can be made better.

Google Analytics counts visits and how people move between pages. Its advertising features are off. It sets cookies on this site (_ga and _ga_ followed by an ID). For how Google uses data, see Google’s privacy policy.

Clarity masks what you type, numbers and email addresses in your browser before anything is sent, and the planner’s profile and plans are masked whole. It uses first- and third-party cookies and similar technology: on this site _clck and _clsk, and Microsoft’s own, such as MUID. TrixiePlanner tells Clarity to share nothing with Microsoft’s advertising; Microsoft also uses what Clarity collects for its own products and advertising. For how Microsoft collects and uses data, see the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

Your choices

A visit from the EU, the EEA, the United Kingdom or Switzerland is asked first, on a bar at the foot of the page, and nothing loads until you say yes. Everywhere else both run unless you switch them off here. Your choice is kept in your browser for six months, and “Privacy choices” at the foot of every page changes it. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, nothing loads at all.

Other sites these pages load from

Some pages load code, map pictures, weather or pictures of videos from other sites, which see your browser’s request as any website does: cdn.jsdelivr.net and unpkg.com (code), OpenStreetMap (map pictures), Open-Meteo (weather), YouTube (pictures of the videos and channels a page names), Unsplash (photographs). The host that serves these pages keeps the ordinary logs of any web server.