Privacy
The short version: we don't want your data. This site helps you find a happy hour, then gets out of the way.
Your location never leaves your phone
When you tap "Near me," your browser asks you for permission and does the distance math on your device. Your location is never sent to us, stored, or shared. We literally cannot see it. If that ever changed, this page would say so in big letters.
No accounts, no cookies that track you
There's nothing to sign up for. Your saved bars (the hearts) live in your browser's own storage, on your device, where we can't read them. Close the tab and they're still yours; clear your browser data and they're gone.
The two numbers we count
We show how popular a bar is, and that needs counting — so here is exactly what's counted, and what isn't.
Hearts. When you tap a heart we add one to that bar's tally (untapping subtracts one). We store a single number per bar, like "hearts: 34." We do not store who tapped, from what device, or which bars any one person saved. Your own list is still only on your device — we just know the total moved.
Shared links. The link in the share box carries a short random tag, so when someone opens it we can count that a share was opened and for which bar. We keep the tag, the bar, and the time. No IP address, no browser fingerprint, nothing that ties two visits together as the same person. The tag belongs to the copied link, not to you — and a link you never send is a tag we never see.
Both are counters, not profiles. There is no way for us to work backwards from either one to a person, which is the point.
Keeping the heart count honest
A public counter invites stuffing, and the usual defence — "one vote per account" — would mean knowing who you are. We do it without that. When a heart is tapped we take your IP address, mix it with the bar and a secret that changes every day, and keep only the resulting fingerprint. That fingerprint lets us notice "this one has already been counted for this bar today" and nothing else: your IP is never written down, the fingerprint can't be turned back into it, and today's can't be matched to yesterday's, because the secret has rotated. They're deleted after two days.
It means one heart per bar, per day, per source, and a ceiling on how many any one source can cast. It also means the numbers are approximate by design — we'd rather show a slightly soft count than build a system that recognises people.
Analytics without surveillance
We use Simple Analytics, which counts visits without cookies, fingerprinting, or personal data. We can see "some people looked at Nordeast bars on a Tuesday," never "this specific person did."
What we do keep
If you submit a bar, report a wrong deal, or join the newsletter, we keep what you typed (and your email, for the newsletter; unsubscribing is one click). Forms are protected by Cloudflare Turnstile, which checks you're human. Plus the two counters above. That's the whole list.
Who we'd share data with
Nobody. There are no ads, no sponsors, no data sales. The site runs on Cloudflare, so requests pass through their infrastructure like any website.
Questions?
Spot something that doesn't match what's written here? Tell us. We'd genuinely want to know.