Privacy

Awl, On Us has no database and no user accounts. Here’s exactly what happens with your data.

Location

When you tap to share your location, your browser’s built-in geolocation API asks you for permission and hands your coordinates to the app running in your browser. Those coordinates are sent to this app’s own server, which forwards them to the Overpass API, OpenStreetMap’s public query service, purely to fetch places near you and return them to your browser. Your coordinates pass through that request but are not written to a database or logged anywhere — this app doesn’t keep one.

What is stored, and where

This app remembers two things, both saved in your browser’s local storage, on your device only, and never sent anywhere: a display preference (whether you like distances shown in miles or kilometers), and any restaurants you mark as favorites. Favorites are a copy of the restaurant’s public OpenStreetMap listing — they say nothing about your location, and they never leave your browser. Clearing your browser’s site data removes both.

No accounts, privacy-friendly analytics

There’s no signup and no login. This site uses Vercel Web Analytics to see aggregate traffic, like which pages get visited. It doesn’t use cookies, doesn’t track you across other sites, and doesn’t collect anything that identifies you personally. Restaurant listings themselves come from OpenStreetMap — see the About page for more on that.