Privacy
What we collect, and what we don't
The short answerWhat we collect
A count of which buttons get pressed, and nothing else. There is no account and no sign-up, and we never ask for your name or email. Type an address to find your town faster and we keep only the town. The address is never saved and never leaves your phone.
What the app sends is a running count: that somebody tapped the thumb on a card, opened Deals, or asked for directions to a place. A count carries the card and the button and nothing else. There is no name, no email, no address, no position, and nothing you typed.
It also counts that the app was opened on a given day (once a day, however often you open it), whether it was opened from a home screen, when it is installed, and when the beach, water and sky page is opened. Those are numbers too, with nothing about who.
Beside the counts the app sends one random number that changes every week. That is what lets us say about how many people used the guide instead of how many taps happened. It is kept in a separate place from the counts and cannot be matched to any of them.
No advertising network. No cookie that follows you from here to anywhere else. Nobody holds a profile of you because of this app, and that includes us.
On your phone, and nowhere elseWhat the app remembers
The app saves a few things so you do not have to set them twice: who is in your party and how old they are, the needs you ticked, your area of the coast, the plans you pinned, the nights you saved, and how you like the app to look.
All of it is written to your own device and none of it is sent anywhere. The only thing that leaves your phone about how you use the app is the button count described above.
Six, and none of them is about youThe requests the app makes
- The button count. The counts and the weekly random number described at the top go to our own small server. Like any web request it arrives from your network address; the server uses a scrambled form of that address for a few minutes to stop spam, keeps it only in memory, and never stores it. The weekly number is deleted after 60 days.
- The forecast. When you open the app it asks the National Weather Service for
the forecast for your area: the nearest of the coast's towns if you have set your location, and one
fixed point on this coast if you have not. It is a public government feed at
api.weather.gov. The request carries no payload, no account and nothing that identifies you or your phone. If you have no signal, the app keeps the forecast it was built with and tells you which day that reading came from. - Its own version number. The app asks this site for a short text file holding the number of the current build, so it knows when to update itself. That file holds the number and nothing else.
- Card photos. Some cards carry a photo of the place. The small one loads from this site when the card reaches your screen, and the full size when you tap it. Every photo is hosted here, on our own site, so no other company's server sees the request, and the request asks for the picture and nothing else. Each photo is free to use under the licence named beside it.
- Deals and Date Night. Just after the app opens it loads the deals and the Date Night spots from this site as one file. The request asks for the file and nothing else.
- The light on the beach picture. The moving light on the picture at the top of the app (the moon on the water, the pier lamps, the surf) is drawn by one more file from this site, asked for once the app has opened. Your phone keeps it, so it is downloaded once, and the request carries nothing about you. The copy of the app you download to keep offline never asks for it.
That is the whole list. Today's beach flag is baked in when the app is built, so it costs no request and works with the network off. This website asks only for the page you opened and the files that draw it, like its stylesheet and the beach picture at the top, which every page shares and your phone keeps after the first visit. All of them come from this site and carry nothing about you.
Only when you tap Use my locationLocation
The app never checks where you are on its own. There is a button that offers to use your location. Tap it and your phone asks your permission first, the way it does for any site.
If you allow it, the browser hands over a latitude and longitude and the app works out the nearest area of the coast and the distances to places. The coordinates are saved on your phone so it does not have to ask again, and they are never sent anywhere. The only thing that leaves the phone is the name of the nearest town, in the forecast request above. Clearing the location in the app, or clearing its data, removes them.
You never have to use it. Picking your area off the list does the same job with the permission switched off, and the app works with no area set at all.
Somebody else's front doorLinks that leave the app
Cards link out to the venue's own page and the directions button opens Google Maps. Tap one and you are on somebody else's site under their privacy policy. We hand them nothing: every outbound link is sent without a referrer.
Nothing, from anybodyChildren
This guide is built for families to plan with together. It is not made for children to use on their own, and it collects nothing that identifies anybody, children included.
One tapDeleting what is there
Clear this app's data in your settings and everything it remembered is gone. Uninstalling does the same. The button counts on our server carry nothing that points back to you, so there is nothing of yours there to delete, no form to fill in and nobody to ask.
Ask us anythingContact
Email hello@coastaleventures.com and a person reads it. If something on this page is not what the app actually does, tell us and we will fix the app or fix the page.
Last updated 23 September 2026.
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