Privacy
Last updated: July 2026
The short version
Village on the Road exists to help traveling families find each other through real friendships. Your information is used only to make that work. We will never sell, rent, share, or hand your data to any third party — not advertisers, not data brokers, not partners, not researchers, not anyone. There is no analytics tracker, no ad network, no fingerprinting pixel on this site.
What we collect
- Account info — your name, email, and the invite link that got you in.
- Your family profile— anything you type into your profile: display name, location, bio, kids’ ages/names (only if you allow), values, languages, places you’ve been and want to go, and what kinds of meetups you’re open to.
- Your trust graph— who you’ve marked as trusted, plus intro requests you’ve sent or received.
- A session cookie— a random ID stored in a secure, HTTP-only cookie so you stay signed in. That’s the only cookie we set.
What we don't do
- No selling or sharing. We do not sell, rent, share, license, or otherwise disclose your data to any third party for any reason.
- No advertising. No ads, no ad networks, no retargeting.
- No third-party analytics. No Google Analytics, no Mixpanel, no Segment, no Facebook Pixel — nothing.
- No public directory. Your profile is only visible to the specific people your visibility settings allow — direct trusted friends and, if you opt in, friends of trusted friends. It is not indexed by search engines.
How visibility works
You choose who can see you. By default, only people you or your inviter directly trust can find you. If you opt in to “friends of trusted friends” discovery, families two hops away in the trust graph can also see you. There is no way for strangers to find your profile. Approximate location is shown as a general area, not a precise address; exact coordinates are hidden by default.
Third-party services
The map is rendered by Mapbox. Mapbox sees the tiles your browser loads (so it can serve them) but never receives your profile, your messages, your trust graph, or who you’re looking at. See Mapbox’s privacy policy for what they log about tile requests. No other third-party service is embedded.
Where your data lives
On a single small server we run, in a SQLite database. It never leaves that server except when your own browser requests it.
Deleting your data
Send us a note from the feedback page or email danfriedman@gmail.comand we’ll wipe your account, family profile, kids, trust edges, and any intro requests you sent — no questions asked. Requests from others about you will show “(deleted)” where your name used to be.
Changes to this policy
If we ever meaningfully change how we handle data, we’ll update the date at the top of this page and post about the change on the site. The commitments in “What we don’t do” above are load-bearing — they are not going to change quietly.
Questions
Anything unclear or missing? Please tell us via the feedback form.