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Privacy Policy

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This Privacy Notice for Staked Maps, a product of Phi McRee Designs LLC ("we," "us," or "our"), describes how and why we access, collect, use, and/or share ("process") your personal information when you use our services ("Services"), including when you:

  • Visit stakedmaps.com, or any website of ours that links to this Privacy Notice.
  • Use the Staked Maps interactive mapping application and its subscription features.
  • Contact us for support or other related purposes.

Questions or concerns? Contact us at info@phimcreedesigns.com. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services.

Summary of Key Points

  • What personal information do we process? When you create an account or use the Services, we process your email address and, for paid subscriptions, your subscription tier and the states you've selected.
  • Do we process any sensitive personal information? Yes — precise, real-time device geolocation. With your explicit browser permission, this is used solely to place your live position on the map. This data is processed entirely on your own device; it is never transmitted to or stored on our servers.
  • Do we collect information from third parties? No — we do not purchase or receive data about you from third-party data brokers or advertising networks.
  • How do we process your information? To create and authenticate your account, apply your subscription's access rights, and process payments.
  • With whom do we share personal information? With the infrastructure providers necessary to run the Services — Stripe (payments) and Supabase (account authentication). We do not sell your data.
  • How do we keep your information safe? Through server-side access controls — including verifying your subscription before releasing any paid-tier data — and industry-standard encryption in transit. No method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure.
  • What are your rights? Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, or delete your personal information. See Section 10 below.

1. What Information Do We Collect?

Personal information you disclose to us

When you register an account, the only personal information we collect directly is your email address (used for account authentication, via our identity provider Supabase). We do not collect your name or billing address as part of account creation.

Payment Data. If you purchase a subscription, all payment handling — including any billing name, address, or card details — is collected and processed directly by our payment processor, Stripe, on its own systems. Staked Maps never receives, transmits, or stores your raw payment card number, billing address, or bank account details. From a completed checkout, our webhook integration with Stripe reads only the subscription tier and state selections you chose, plus an opaque Stripe customer reference ID — not a card number or other payment detail — which we retain so you can later manage or cancel your subscription through Stripe's own billing portal.

Information automatically collected

Like most web services, our server automatically logs standard technical/diagnostic information (IP address, browser type, general request metadata) for performance and security purposes. These logs are automatically deleted on a rolling 14-day cycle.

Location Data. Staked Maps uses your browser's HTML5 Geolocation API, with your explicit permission, to place a live position marker on the map and to determine which state's data to show you on our Free plan. This processing happens entirely within your own browser — your precise coordinates are never sent to or stored on our servers. If you decline location access, the map still loads normally; you simply won't see a live position marker, and Free-plan users will need to select a state manually if we're unable to resolve one.

Separately, if you use "Draft A Claim," the map coordinate you click (not your device's actual location) is sent to our server to look up parcel information. This is retained only in standard request logs for 14 days, the same as any other request.

Local Device Storage. To keep the app usable with a weak or absent cellular connection, we cache map data (claim boundaries and similar geographic data) and any custom pins you place directly inside your browser's local storage (IndexedDB). This data stays on your device and is not transmitted to us as part of this caching process. Downloading map data for offline use consumes data according to your device's connection type (Wi-Fi or cellular); an estimated download size is shown before you confirm an offline save.

2. How Do We Process Your Information?

  • To create and authenticate your account.
  • To verify your subscription status and release the map data and features your plan includes.
  • To process payments and manage subscription renewals via Stripe.

3. What Legal Bases Do We Rely On?

We process your personal information only where we have a valid legal basis to do so, including: your consent (for precise geolocation); to perform our contract with you (providing the mapping features you've subscribed to); and to comply with legal obligations.

4. When and With Whom Do We Share Your Information?

We do not sell your personal information. We share information only as needed to operate the Services:

  • Stripe — to process subscription payments and renewals. Stripe collects and holds your payment and billing details directly; see Stripe's own privacy policy.
  • Supabase — our authentication provider, which holds your account email and manages sign-in security.
  • Business Transfers — we may share information in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of company assets.

5. Third-Party Websites

The Service links out to official government resources (e.g. reports.blm.gov) in new browser tabs. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these independent third-party sites.

6. Cookies and Local Storage

We do not use cookies. Your signed-in session is kept using your browser's local storage, which keeps you signed in across visits. Map data and any pins you create are also cached in local storage (IndexedDB) as described in Section 1. We do not run advertising or behavioral tracking scripts of any kind.

7. How Long Do We Keep Your Information?

We retain your account and subscription information for as long as you maintain an active account. Server request logs are automatically deleted on a rolling 14-day cycle.

8. How Do We Keep Your Information Safe?

Access to paid-tier map data (such as claim serial numbers and data quality scores) is verified on our server for every request based on your actual, current subscription status — not just hidden in the app's interface — so that data isn't sent to a device at all unless the associated account is entitled to it. That said, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

9. Do We Collect Information From Minors?

Our Services are not directed to, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from, anyone under 18 years of age. If we learn an account belongs to someone under 18, we will deactivate it and delete the associated data.

10. What Are Your Privacy Rights?

Depending on your state or country of residence, you may have the right to access, correct, or request deletion of your personal information. To make such a request, email us at info@phimcreedesigns.com.

11. Do-Not-Track Signals

Because there is no accepted industry standard for how to respond to browser Do-Not-Track signals, our systems do not currently respond to them differently.

12. US State Privacy Rights (e.g. California, Oregon)

Categories of personal information we have processed in the past 12 months:

  • Identifiers (email address, account ID, IP address) — Collected.
  • Commercial information (subscription tier, state selections) — Collected.
  • Sensitive personal information — Precise geolocation only, processed entirely on your device with your consent as described in Section 1; never transmitted to or stored on our servers. We do not process any other category of sensitive personal information (government ID numbers, financial account credentials, health, biometric, or similar data).

To exercise applicable state privacy rights (to know, access, correct, or delete your personal information), email info@phimcreedesigns.com.

13. Do We Make Updates to This Notice?

Yes — we will update this notice as needed to stay current with our practices and applicable law. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page will always reflect the most recent revision.

14. How Can You Contact Us?

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, contact us by email at info@phimcreedesigns.com or by post at:

Phi McRee Designs LLC
560 NE F Street, Ste A, PMB #322
Grants Pass, OR 97527
United States