routeplay has no accounts and no adverts, and counts your visit with Google Analytics only if you say yes. This page says what happens to the little it handles.
routeplay is run by I Ward. Get in touch at routeplay@proton.me.
Google Maps
The From and To boxes, the map and the route search are Google Maps, running in your browser. What you type into them, the routes you ask for and the map you look at go straight from your browser to Google, and Google's use of them is covered by the Google Privacy Policy. Using Google Maps also means accepting the Google Maps/Google Earth Additional Terms of Service.
Your routes
The From and To boxes offer only towns and villages, never addresses, so a route runs from one centre to another, not from anyone's door. To plan a playlist, your browser sends us the routes Google found: each one's line on the map and how long it takes to drive, with the genres and decades you picked. We use them only to find the places along the way and plan the songs. They aren't saved, or written to any log.
Saved playlists
Every playlist is saved, so that it has a link of its own. It keeps the songs, the places they're from and when they play, how long the drive takes, the genres and decades you picked, and the names of the towns at each end. It never keeps the route itself.
The link is hard to guess, but anyone who has it can open the playlist, so share it only with people you'd show it to. Playlists are deleted 30 days after they're made. To have one deleted sooner, send us its link.
Soundiiz
If you press “Add to Spotify, Apple Music…”, we send Soundiiz the playlist's name, which names the places at each end, and its songs: each one's title, artist and, where there is one, its recording code (ISRC). Nothing about you is sent. Soundiiz answers with a link to its own page, where you sign in to your music service, and from there Soundiiz's privacy policy applies.
Links to other sites
Each song has links to look for it on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube, and to read about who plays it on Wikipedia and MusicBrainz. Nothing goes to those sites unless you follow a link, and from there their own privacy policies apply.
Limits and logs
As with any website, our server sees your device's internet (IP) address with each request. So that no one can search for or plan too many trips in a day, it counts them against a scrambled form of the address, kept in memory only and forgotten at midnight. It doesn't keep the address anywhere else.
To keep routeplay running and stop misuse, our hosting records which pages were asked for, when, and whether they worked, and keeps those records for up to 30 days.
Google Analytics
The site asks whether it may count your visit with Google Analytics. If you say yes,
your browser loads it, and we can see how many people visit, which pages they open,
and roughly where from and on what kind of device. It sets cookies (_ga
and _ga_…) that tell your browser from others, kept for up to 13 months.
Google sees your device's internet (IP) address when your browser connects to it, and
may handle the information outside the UK, including in the US. We keep the detail
for 2 months. Google's use of it is covered by the
Google Privacy Policy.
Google Analytics isn't told your routes, your playlists or their links, and we've turned off its use for advertising. If you say no, or don't answer, it isn't loaded at all. To change your mind at any time, use “Cookie choices” at the foot of any page.
Cookies
routeplay sets no cookies of its own. It keeps one thing in your browser, your answer about Google Analytics, so as not to ask again. Google Analytics' cookies only come if you say yes. Anything Google Maps keeps there is covered by Google's privacy policy.
Why we use it, and your rights
We use your routes and choices to make the playlist you asked for, and the counts and records to keep the site working and safe. In UK data protection law, that's our legitimate interest in running routeplay; Google Analytics rests on your consent. We don't sell any of it, or share it beyond what this page says.
You can ask what we hold about you, and ask us to correct it, delete it or stop using it. With no accounts, we can only find a playlist by its link, so send that with your request. If you're unhappy with how we've handled your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.
Changes
If this page changes, the date at the top will say when.