Your privacy

The short version: your tracks are for mapping, not for show. Nobody sees your track but you. You choose what, if anything, is public about you.

What we keep

• Your GPS track (the GPX file you upload) and the scorecard we compute from it.
• Your photos, if you add any. Trail-sign photos are the useful kind.
• Your sign-in email and the display name you choose.
• Your points: which trails you earned points on this season, and when.

Who can see your track

Your track and your scorecard: only you. No other user and no visitor can open them. The trail pages show how many people have claimed a trail this season, never who.

One exception, said plainly: the site's admin account (the person who runs the challenge) can see every track, scorecard and photo, read-only, to keep scoring honest and fix problems. Nobody else can, and the admin cannot edit or delete your uploads.

Every upload is shared for community mapping — track and photos both — that is what JuicyTrails is for, and the upload page says so before you upload. Anyone can open a public page for a shared track: its line with the first and last 200 m cut off (so it doesn't start or end at your door), the trails it touched, its stretches that aren't on the map yet, and its photos with only where and when each was taken. That page never shows your name, your handle, or anything else about you, and the track is not connected to your board entry or your posts. You can withdraw any track from your Me page at any time: untick it and the page, the line, and the photos that rode along with it all leave the mapping pages at once. A photo you upload without a track — or a photo whose track you later delete — has its own switch instead, on the Photos page: deleting a track never deletes or hides its photos, it just gives each one a sharing switch of its own from then on, set the same way the track's was. Tracks uploaded before Sept 26 2026, and photos uploaded before Sept 29 2026, keep the setting they were already given. Separately, a "Show my profile" switch on the same page decides whether the board and trail threads show your display name (and a public profile page lists your seasons, standings and milestones) or your neutral tracker-NNNN handle everywhere and no profile page at all; it is off by default, so you are a handle everywhere until you say otherwise.

What your track is used for

When you upload, you agree that your track and photos may be used to improve OpenStreetMap, the free map everyone can use. That is the whole point of the challenge. Concretely:

• Our scorer compares your track to the map to award points.
• Where your track goes somewhere the map doesn't, we flag that stretch for a trail mapper. The mapper works from the shape of the track, not from who recorded it.
• Whatever ends up on OpenStreetMap is the map data itself (the trail line, its name, a sign's text), released under OpenStreetMap's open licence. Your track file is not published there.

What is public, and only if you say so

• The season board. You appear on it only if you tick "Show me on the season board" on your Me page. The board shows your display name and your totals: points, tracks, miles. Nothing else. Untick the box and you disappear from it.
• Your name on a comment. When you post in a trail thread, your name is shown only if you tick "Show my profile" on that post. Otherwise it says your handle.
• A profile page. Turning on "Show my profile" also publishes a page at /profile/?h=<your handle>: your display name, since when, each season's points/tracks/miles, your standing in any region board you're on, and any milestones you've earned (first track on a trail, first sign photo, ten tracks in a season, closing a region). It shows nothing your board rows don't already show — never a track, a date or a place. Turn the switch off and the page says nothing about you.
• Automatic claim notes. When a track earns a trail claim, the trail's thread gets a note like "someone claimed this, 1st of 5". That note is anonymous. It never names you.

Your OpenStreetMap account

(What the counter measures, and what it cannot see: how mapping is counted.)

If you map on OpenStreetMap, you can link your account from your Me page. Linking proves the account is yours: you sign in on openstreetmap.org itself — the same "Log in with OpenStreetMap" flow every OSM editor uses — and JuicyTrails never sees your OSM password. We only ever read. We never edit OpenStreetMap, or anything on it, on your behalf.

• Linking counts, a switch shows. The moment you link, a nightly counter starts crediting the trail ways you touch and the miles you change or add. Nothing is shown anywhere until you turn on "Show my mapping" on your Me page — off by default, like every switch here.
• Off means off, at once. Turn the switch off and your name comes off the Mapping board, region pages and your profile immediately. The counted numbers stay, so turning it back on shows them again right away.
• Unlinking deletes the numbers. Disconnect your OpenStreetMap account on your Me page and every counted number for it is deleted along with the link itself. A later re-link starts counting again from that day.
• Aggregate lines name nobody. The board and a region page may say how many mappers and how many miles were edited this season — that total counts every linked mapper, whether or not their switch is on, but it never names anyone who hasn't turned "Show my mapping" on.

What is never public

• Your tracks, scorecards and photos — except the line and photos of a track you switched on for mapping, as described above, and even then not who recorded it.
• Your email address.
• Where you were on a given day. Even opted-in board totals don't say which trails or which dates.

Your display name

New accounts get a neutral handle such as tracker-4821, which stays with your account. You can set a display name on your Me page, but it is shown (there, and on your profile page) only while "Show my profile" is on; otherwise the handle is the only name anyone ever sees.

Deleting things

Delete any track from your Me page. That removes the track, its scorecard, and the points it earned. Its photos are not deleted: they move to a photos-only group in My photos and keep any sign points they've earned — delete them from there too if you want them gone. Map improvements already made on OpenStreetMap stay, because the map is open data that belongs to everyone. Map-wide counts update on the next nightly run.

Where the data lives

On a database and file store run for JuicyTrails by Supabase, in the United States. Sign-in is handled there too. We don't sell or share your data with anyone, and we don't run ads.

Not from Strava or Garmin

In this first season you upload files yourself. We don't connect to Strava, Garmin or any other service, and nothing is pulled from your accounts.

Questions or concerns: ask in any trail thread, or contact Derrick Nehrenberg at JuicyTrails. This page describes the app as it works today and will be updated whenever that changes.