Privacy Policy

What the website collects

When you upload a file to convert, the file is stored in Cloudflare R2 so a background worker can process it and produce your Apple Maps Guide. It stays there afterwards for two reasons: your job link keeps working so you can return to your Guide, and a conversion paused by Apple's daily limit is replayed automatically over the following days. Files are not deleted on a timer. To have yours removed, email dautovri@outlook.com and we will delete it.

We keep aggregate counters (total guides created, total places converted) that contain no identifying information.

Standard Cloudflare server logs (IP address, user agent, request path) are kept for up to 7 days for abuse prevention, then discarded.

When a link you paste into Quick Convert (on /quick/, on the home page or in one of our guides) or into the Guide Decoder (on /reverse/ or /from/apple-maps/) cannot be converted, we store that link, the kind of failure and your page language for 14 days, then delete it automatically. We use these to add support for link formats we cannot read yet. Links that convert successfully are not stored.

If a conversion is delayed and you ask to be emailed when it finishes, we keep your email address only until that email is sent, and for at most 7 days. Our email provider reports whether each message was delivered or bounced; we keep those delivery records, with the address, so we can stop emailing addresses that bounce.

What the extension collects

The GoToAppleMaps browser extension does not send any of your browsing data to our servers. When you click the Convert button on a Google Maps page, the extension reads only the place links and names visible on that page, packages them into a CSV, and opens gotoapplemaps.com in a new tab to run the conversion. The CSV travels to our servers only as part of that conversion request.

The extension stores, locally in your browser only, a list of the 20 most recent conversions so you can reopen them from the popup. This list never leaves your computer. You can clear it from the popup at any time.

Permissions the extension requests, and why

• activeTab — read the URL of the current tab when you click the extension button, so we know which Google Maps page to convert.
• storage — save your recent-conversion list locally in your browser.
• contextMenus — add the right-click "Convert to Apple Maps Guide" menu entry.
• scripting — inject the floating Convert button on Google Maps pages.
• host permissions for google.com/maps, goo.gl, maps.app.goo.gl, and gotoapplemaps.com — to let the extension read place URLs on Google Maps and hand them off to our converter. No other sites are touched.

Third parties

To resolve Google Maps places into Apple Maps place IDs we call the Apple Maps Server API. Only the place name, and (where available) coordinates, are sent — never your IP address, account, or identifiers beyond the request itself.

The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages and Cloudflare Workers. Cloudflare acts as a processor under its standard terms.

We use Google Analytics 4 to count visits and see which pages are used; it sets a _ga cookie in your browser. We do not use Facebook Pixel or any advertising or retargeting network, and we never sell your data.

Your rights

We do not ask for your name or an account. Uploaded files and pasted links can still contain addresses, and an email address is kept if you asked to be notified. To have any of these removed, email dautovri@outlook.com with the time of your upload or conversion and a short description, and we will delete it.

Children

GoToAppleMaps is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect their data.

Changes to this policy

If the policy changes in a material way, the "Last updated" date above is bumped and the extension's Chrome Web Store listing is updated within 7 days. Historical versions are available in the site's GitHub repo.

Contact

Questions about this policy: dautovri@outlook.com