The short version
snufkins stores what you put in it — your places, trips, stories, photos and comments — plus your email and a hashed password, so that you can sign in and share things with the people you choose. There are no ads, no trackers, no analytics scripts and no data sales. Ever.
What we store
- Account: name, handle, email address, a bcrypt hash of your password, an optional profile photo and bio.
- Content: check-ins, trips and their stops, homes, stories, photos, comments and likes — each with the visibility you chose (everyone, friends, only me).
- Connections: who you follow, who follows you, friend requests and friendships.
- Technical: a session cookie so you stay signed in, and standard server logs (IP address, browser, page requested) kept for 30 days for security and debugging.
Photos and location
Photos are resized on upload and their metadata — including any GPS coordinates a camera embeds — is removed before anything is shown. The only location on a check-in is the place you searched for or pinned yourself.
Who can see what
Every post is public, friends-only or private, chosen when you post it and changeable later. Your page at /u/handle can be switched off in Settings; when it's off, strangers can't find or follow you and your public posts leave the public feeds. Friends-only and private posts are never public regardless.
Third parties
The maps are drawn from tiles served by OpenFreeMap, Esri and OpenTopoMap, and place search uses Photon (komoot). Your browser requests those directly, so those services see your IP address and the map area or search text — the same as opening any map website. Fonts load from Google Fonts. We send them nothing else.
Cookies
One: the session cookie that keeps you signed in. Your basemap preference is stored in your own browser (localStorage) and never sent to us.
Your rights
You can edit or delete any post at any time, and delete your whole account from Settings — that removes everything immediately and permanently. For anything else (a copy of your data, a question), email the address below.