About | Vanro

What Vanro is

Vanro is a hiking and cycling route planner for the Slovak mountains. It computes routes from the waymarked hiking and cycling network and adds an elevation profile and points of interest.

Operator and contact

Vanro is operated by Martin Doskocil, a private individual, Slovak Republic. It is an independent project under development.

Send questions, bugs and suggestions to admin@vanro.sk.

Privacy and data

Vanro works without an account too. Without signing in it stores no tracking cookies and sends no data to the server beyond the route computation itself. Settings and routes in progress stay only in your browser (localStorage):

vanro:theme: day/night mode.
vanro-planner:draft:*: the route in progress (points, layers, settings).
vanro:saved-routes:v1: routes you saved.
vanro-planner:route-feedback:v1: feedback history (only if the widget is on).

Anonymous analytics

We do not measure traffic. Vanro has no analytics and no tracking scripts, so it needs no consent banner either.

Error tracking

When a technical error happens in the app, a record of it is sent to us through Sentry (server in Germany, EU) so we can find and fix it. What goes out is the error message and the place in the code it came from. We send no personal data: no emails, no IP addresses, nothing you typed into the app.

If you choose to create an account, a first-party sign-in cookie is added (httpOnly, session only, not for tracking) and your saved routes, photo diary and watched trips sync to our server so you have them on several devices. Passwords are stored only as a hash (argon2id), never in readable form.

Photos are stored on our server (Hetzner, EU) and EXIF metadata including GPS is stripped on upload. A route or trip is published to the community only when you choose to. Otherwise it stays private.

You can delete local data by clearing the site data in your browser. You can delete the account and all its server-side data (routes, photo diary, photos, watched trips, community posts) yourself in Profile › Account › Delete account. It is immediate and irreversible. If it fails, get in touch at admin@vanro.sk.

You can download a copy of all your data in a machine-readable format (JSON) at any time via Profile › Account › Download my data.

How long we keep things

We keep data only as long as it makes sense:

Your account and its contents (saved routes, photo diary, photos): as long as the account exists. Deleted immediately when you close it.
Backups: 30 days, then overwritten by newer ones.
Sign-in: at most 90 days from signing in, or 30 days from your last visit.
Password reset link: one hour, and it works once.
Trail condition reports: 120 days, after which they stop being shown.
Operational logs: roughly the last 60 MB per service, older entries are overwritten automatically. Anti-abuse counters tied to an IP address are deleted as soon as their window expires.

A closed account disappears from the database at once, but stays in backups for another 30 days until they are overwritten. This is technically unavoidable and we would rather say so plainly.

Your rights and where to complain

You have the right to access, correct, delete and port your data. Access, download and deletion you can do yourself in your profile; for anything else write to admin@vanro.sk.

If you believe we handle your data improperly, you can contact the Office for Personal Data Protection of the Slovak Republic (dataprotection.gov.sk).

Data sources and licences

Map data and waymarked routes

The map and waymarked hiking/cycling routes come from OpenStreetMap contributor data, available under the ODbL licence. Vector tiles are provided by OpenFreeMap. Hiking waymarks are based on data mapped according to the Slovak Hiking Club (KST) system.

Elevation data (relief and profile)

Hillshading and elevation profiles use the AWS Terrain Tiles elevation tiles (© Mapzen, AWS, SRTM/ETOPO1) and the Natural Earth base layer.

Thanks to all the communities and projects without which Vanro could not exist.