Privacy
TEQLA is a public map. There are no accounts, no usernames, and no passwords. TEQLA does not set cookies, and this app does not include Google Analytics, Google Search Console, or any other analytics script.
What a post stores
A note, question, answer, or comment stores its text, the place name, the address if there is one, the latitude and longitude, the time you set for when it happened, and the time it was saved. Posts are public. A comment on an echo marked sensitive is stored and stays hidden until TEQLA approves it.
Deleting a post
The browser that creates a post saves a random token in that browser so it can delete the post later. Notes and comments share one token. Questions use another. The server stores only a hash of that token, not the token.
Network data
TEQLA does not store your IP address as text. It stores a hash of the address, mixed with a value kept on the server, for rate limits, for reports (three different networks hide a post), and for hearts on answers. A separate daily hash of the address and the browser’s description of itself counts unique visits. That hash is not the address.
Visit counts
TEQLA counts its own page loads. A visit can include the date, a count, which page it was, whether the browser looks like a phone, tablet, or desktop, the site that linked here, and a two-letter country code when the connection includes one. Server errors are a count per day. Automated visitors are counted by a short name, not by address.
On this device
This browser may remember whether Echoes are on, whether the ticker is hidden, Map or Hybrid, and whether the hint about dragging the pin has been dismissed.
Location and other servers
If you allow location, the browser uses it to center the map. TEQLA does not upload that position unless you pin a post there. Place search goes to the geocoder configured on the server. The default is Photon at photon.komoot.io, and TEQLA may cache the reply. The street map loads tiles and fonts from tiles.openfreemap.org. Hybrid loads imagery from Esri at server.arcgisonline.com. Those hosts see the tiles your browser requests.