Privacy

Escape Map is designed to work without an account and to retain as little personal information as practical.

Information saved on your device

Your shortlist and finder preferences remain until you clear them. Search-result caches expire after 24 hours and generated place reports after 15 minutes. These values stay in this browser and are not uploaded to an Escape Map account.

Location searches

When you search, click the map or choose to use your current location, the necessary search text or coordinates are sent to Escape Map’s server. It queries the listed public-data providers and caches place reports for up to 24 hours and place searches for up to seven days. Current providers include Photon and OpenStreetMap services, OSRM, official ONS/Home Office, Scottish Government, PSNI and CSO crime publications, official census publishers, WorldPop and climate or hazard services. Shared profile URLs contain coordinates rounded to four decimal places. Do not search for an address if you do not want those coordinates processed by the site, its providers or retained in browser history.

Your device location

The browser asks for permission before sharing device location. Escape Map only uses the returned coordinates to open a place profile; the site does not continuously track you.

Hosting and security records

Cloudflare and the site’s data providers may process IP addresses, request details and other standard technical records for delivery, security, reliability and abuse prevention. Cloudflare may set a strictly necessary security cookie such as __cf_bm. Escape Map does not currently run advertising trackers or sell a user profile.

Future commercial features

If accounts, newsletters, analytics, payments or advertising are introduced, this notice and any required consent controls must be updated before those features go live.

Your choices

You can deny location permission, avoid precise-address searches, use the clear-data control above, clear browser history, use private browsing and follow the linked provider policies in each report’s source section.