Privacy policy

Last updated: November 8, 2026

AvMap is a browser-based service that can be installed as a Home Screen web app, not a native mobile app. Questions or privacy requests: info@avmap.app.

What AvMap handles

Routes, airport searches, settings, and map images are handled in your browser. AvMap has no accounts, cloud-saved maps, uploads, or AI features. Map images are created and shared from your device; AvMap does not receive or store them.

A shared-map URL contains its airport codes, routes, ranges, and settings. Anyone with the link can view them, and the URL may remain in your browser history or appear in web requests. Do not include confidential information in a shared map.

The app stores your appearance choice, whether you completed the introduction, recent searches, and your last map's selections and display settings, and your last-used export size in your browser. The last map is restored when you return to the app without an explicit map link. This device-local storage is not cloud backup or cross-device sync. Clear it in Settings using “Clear saved data on this device,” or clear AvMap's site data in your browser. Undo and redo history is kept in this tab's session storage so it survives a page refresh. It is not sent to AvMap and is also removed by “Clear saved data on this device.”

After you load the app online, a service worker caches the app files, and fonts on your device. After bot verification, the airport database and downloaded airport details are cached separately for offline search and route calculations. A new download is verified when the airport dataset changes. It does not cache your searches, map links, live weather, FAA alerts, or third-party map tiles. Remove this offline cache by clearing AvMap's site data in your browser.

Service providers and analytics

Our hosting provider, Cloudflare, may process your IP address, requested URL, browser details, and request time to deliver and protect the site. See its privacy notice.

AvMap does not load a client-side analytics script. Cloudflare provides hosting traffic and security metrics from requests it processes to deliver the site.

Cloudflare Turnstile verifies browsers before airport data, weather, and alert downloads. It may process your IP address, browser signals, and the page hostname for bot detection. Our server validates a single-use token and sets a signed, HttpOnly verification cookie lasting one hour. During that hour, data requests reuse the verified session. When verification is needed, a cover shows progress until a check requires interaction. This does not hide downloaded data from your browser. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.

Privacy choices are stored in your browser for up to 180 days so AvMap can remember your advertising selection. Essential browser storage also remembers site preferences. Use Privacy choices in the site footer or app Settings to change your advertising choice at any time. AvMap honors the Global Privacy Control browser signal by disabling advertising.

Map tiles come from OpenFreeMap and use OpenStreetMap data. Their requests reveal your IP address and the map areas requested. AvMap's fonts are hosted with the site.

When you view airport details, AvMap's server requests weather data using the airport's public code or coordinates, never your location. Weather may come from the NOAA Aviation Weather Center or Open-Meteo. Open-Meteo data is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Airport alerts, when enabled, come from a public aviation status feed. Airport data is bundled from OurAirports; searches stay in your browser. AvMap does not request your device's precise location.

Advertising

AvMap uses Google AdSense to show ads on its homepage, guides, and other informational pages. AdSense does not run in the route mapper, on embedded maps, or on error pages.

AdSense is off until you choose Allow advertising. If enabled, AvMap requests non-personalized ads. Google may use cookies or other device storage for frequency capping and aggregated ad reporting. AvMap does not currently request personalized ads. Enabling personalized ads requires a Google-certified consent management platform; until one is configured, personalized ads remain disabled. You can change or withdraw your choice at any time using Privacy choices.

Google provides controls to opt out of personalized advertising in Google's My Ad Center. Read how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

Other services

AvMap does not use session replay or generative AI services. We do not sell subscriptions, send marketing messages, or offer a native app. The app uses local storage only for the preferences listed above. Service providers may retain request data under their own policies.

Children and age limits

AvMap is not for children under 13. It does not ask for or collect users' ages. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, contact info@avmap.app.

Your rights and contact

Depending on your location, you may have rights to access, correct, or delete personal information, object to its use, or opt out of its sale or sharing where applicable. Use Your privacy choices in the footer or app Settings to change the advertising choice; AvMap also honors Global Privacy Control. Contact info@avmap.app. We use email you send to respond to you.

Providers may process data in other countries and apply their own retention and privacy terms. We will update this policy if our practices change, including if we add accounts, uploads, or payments, or change how analytics or advertising works.