Privacy

Wee-Stop has no accounts and no ads, and its own server keeps no one’s identity or location.

It needs to know where you are to find restrooms near you, and that happens on your phone. Here is everything it keeps, and everyone it asks.

On your phone

• Your own ratings, the stops it noticed you make (to ask how they were), the destination of a drive until you clear it, and whether you chose light or dark.
• A random ID your phone makes for itself, so your ratings stay yours. It isn’t tied to you, your phone number or your phone.

They’re kept in your browser’s storage for this site. Clearing the site’s data clears them all.

On Wee-Stop’s server

• Ratings, with the place and when, under your phone’s random ID, scrambled with a secret before it’s stored, so it can’t be matched back to the phone.
• Visits: that someone was at a place, and when, with no ID at all. That’s how a card says “last visit 12 min ago”.
• How much it’s used, as totals by day: the app opened, a list shown, directions asked for, a place shared. Each is counted by an area about 150 km (90 miles) across, and directions and shares by the place. No ID.
• Reports of what’s wrong with a place, under the scrambled ID. When you report a missing restroom, or one in the wrong spot, the report holds where you were standing, because that’s where the restroom is.

To show everyone’s ratings, your phone asks for the places on its list. The server answers and doesn’t keep the question. It sees your internet address only to turn away a phone asking too often, and doesn’t store it. The server runs on Render, and its database on Supabase.

Who else your phone asks

Like any map app, Wee-Stop asks public map services directly from your phone, and each sees what it’s asked and the phone’s internet address:

• OSRM, the route planner, for road times and routes: where you are and the places, or your destination.
• Refuge Restrooms, for the restrooms it lists near you: where you are.
• Photon and Nominatim, when you search for a place: what you type, and for suggestions, where you are, to put the nearest first.
• OpenStreetMap’s Overpass servers, only where Wee-Stop’s own copy of the map doesn’t reach: the area around you.

Wee-Stop’s own copy of the map comes from this site in pieces by area, so the site’s host sees which pieces a phone loads. Directions open your maps app with the restroom as the destination, and that app’s own privacy terms apply there. A shared link holds only the place, never where you are.

What it doesn’t do

• No accounts, no ads, no tracking codes, and nothing sold or shared with advertisers.
• No following you with the app closed: a web page can’t, and Wee-Stop doesn’t try.

Questions? Wee-Stop is made by Joywright Studio: joywrightstudio.com.