Privacy

bharatlas runs without accounts, without third-party analytics, and without tracking cookies. This page is short because we collect little.

What we store

• Community submissions you publish: the file, the metadata you typed, and the time. On Cloudflare R2 (file) and D1 (metadata). Linked to a one-way SHA-256 hash of your IP for rate-limit purposes only.
• In your browser: localStorage holds the admin tokens for any submissions you made from this device, plus your basemap preference. No cookies, no fingerprinting. Nothing leaves your browser until you click Publish.
• Server logs: Cloudflare's edge logs HTTP requests for around 24 hours. We don't aggregate them, sell them, or look at them unless investigating abuse.

What we don't do

• No accounts. No email collection. No name collection.
• No third-party analytics (no Google Analytics, no Hotjar, no Mixpanel, no fingerprinting libraries).
• No advertising. No data sharing. No data sale.
• No social-network embed pixels.

Third parties involved

• Cloudflare (Pages, R2, D1, Turnstile) hosts everything. Their privacy policy covers their edge logs.
• Turnstile (a CAPTCHA replacement, also Cloudflare) runs on the publish form to deter automated abuse. No personal data is sent to it.
• The maps you browse stream from R2 with no usage tracking by us.

AI / LLM crawlers

We explicitly allow GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and other major LLM crawlers via robots.txt. The content is open under the licences shown on each card; we want it to be discoverable to anyone (human or model) who can use it.

Removal

• To remove a community submission you uploaded, use the Delete action on the /c/<id> page via the admin token you received at submit.
• If you've lost the token, email [email protected] from an address that proves ownership of the submission.
• For other privacy concerns, same address.

Changes

We'll keep this page short. Substantive changes get a note + date here.

Last updated: 2026-05-22.