Privacy
Your geometry stays in your browser
Cell & Shape has no geometry backend. Pasted coordinates, geometry, selected cells, clicked locations and locally placed wayspot pins are processed on your device and are not sent to Cell & Shape or included in analytics events.
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What remains local
- Anything pasted into an inspector, decoder, converter or geofence tool.
- Geometry validation results, conversions and map overlay data.
- Map clicks, selected spatial cells and wayspot-counter pins.
- Shareable tool state, which is encoded in the URL hash fragment after
#.
URL fragments are handled by the browser and are not included in HTTP page requests. Be aware that anyone you intentionally send a complete share link to can decode the state in that link.
Browser storage
The Pokémon GO S2 map stores wayspot-counter pins in your browser's
localStorage so they can survive a refresh. Cell & Shape does not receive
that storage. Remove the pins in the tool or clear this site's browser data to delete them.
The site does not require an account and does not use advertising cookies.
External requests on map pages
Basemap tiles
Interactive maps load their style and map tiles from OpenFreeMap. Like any tile service, it receives the requested tile coordinates and ordinary connection metadata such as your IP address and browser headers. Tile requests do not contain pasted geometry, clicked points, selected cell IDs or wayspot pins.
Place-name search
If you explicitly submit the place-search box on a cell-map page, exactly the place name you typed is sent to OpenStreetMap Nominatim. Search is never sent on each keystroke, and the request does not include geometry, clicked locations or viewport coordinates. This exception is disclosed next to every place-search input.
Site measurement
Cell & Shape uses Vercel Web Analytics for anonymous page counts and Vercel Speed Insights for real-user Core Web Vitals. Vercel Web Analytics is cookieless; its page data may include the page path, referrer, coarse location, device type, operating system and browser. Speed Insights records performance metrics such as LCP, CLS and INP.
Both integrations receive a sanitized pathname only. A code-level privacy hook removes query strings and URL hash fragments before either service can send an event, and browser tests verify that behavior with geometry-like fragment data. Cell & Shape sends no custom analytics events containing coordinates, pasted input, cell IDs, place searches or wayspot pins.
External links and changes
Following an external reference link takes you to that site's own privacy policy. Material changes to this page will update the date above. The implementation is open for inspection in the public source repository.