Last updated: October 26, 2026
This Privacy Policy describes how Yinzer Nights ("we," "us," or "our") handles information when you visit yinzernights.com or use the Yinzer Nights mobile app (collectively, the "Service").
We do not have user accounts, sign-ups, or login. We do not ask for or collect your name, email address, phone number, precise location, contacts, photos, or any other personally identifying information. The exceptions are the approximate, anonymous location described under "Sort by Distance" below, the location the map uses on your phone to show where you are (see "Map" below), which is never stored or sent, and the venue, busyness level, platform, time, and short-lived scrambled network key described in that same section for live busyness reports. We do not use advertising or advertising identifiers.
The site can sort venues by how close they are to you. It asks for location when the page opens; you can say no and everything else still works. When venues are sorted by distance, we record your position rounded to about half a kilometer (the nearest 0.005 degrees, roughly a few city blocks), together with the hour, roughly how accurate your phone or browser said that position was (for example, within 50 meters, or only within a few kilometers), and whether it came from a phone browser, a computer browser, or the app. Nothing else: no IP address, no device identifier, no cookie. We use these anonymous points to see which areas people use the site from and to improve the experience for those areas. They are kept for four months in a form that cannot identify you.
If you have allowed location, Yinzer Nights can tell when you are at a venue and ask how busy it is. That check happens on your phone; for this check your location is never sent. A report stores only the venue, the level you picked, whether you used the website or the app (and, in the app, iPhone or Android), and the time. To stop repeat voting we also keep a scrambled key made from your network address and your screen size (so two phones on the same Wi-Fi count as two people); neither is stored as it is, the key is deleted within the hour, and the secret used to make it is deleted every morning. We also keep a running total of how many reports came in that night, with nothing about who sent them, so the site can show it. Your device keeps its own count of how many reports you have made tonight and this month, to show you; those counts stay on your device and are never sent.
The map opens with or without location. While the map is open and location is allowed, your phone's location is used on your phone only to show a blue dot where you are on the map. It is never stored or sent anywhere, and the map stops using it when you close the map.
The map remembers where you last left it (the centre and zoom) on your device only, and this is never sent anywhere. The first time you open it, it starts at your current location if you are in the area, so the remembered spot can be near where you were until you move the map.
When you open the map, the page loads the map library from cdnjs (run by Cloudflare), which receives your IP address and standard browser request information, and map images from OpenStreetMap (run by the OpenStreetMap Foundation), which receives your IP address, standard browser request information, and the area of the map you are viewing. Nothing is loaded from them until you open the map.
If you choose to turn on notifications (for example, the weekly live-music and happy-hour alerts), Google Firebase Cloud Messaging issues a notification token for your device or browser. This token is a random identifier used solely to deliver the notifications you opted into; it is not linked to your identity and we do not use it to track you. Notification delivery is handled by Google Firebase Cloud Messaging and is subject to Google's Firebase Privacy and Security and Google's Privacy Policy. You can turn notifications off at any time from the in-app Settings page or in your device's notification settings, which removes the token from the relevant topics.
We use analytics to understand aggregate usage of the Service, such as page views and which sections are popular.
Our analytics tool is Puls, which we run ourselves on our own hosting. It sets no cookies and does not store IP addresses. To tell visits apart it uses a code made from your IP address and browser plus a random value that is deleted at the end of each day, so afterward a visit cannot be traced back to you, not even by us. It records the page, the referring site, the browser and device type, the language your browser asks for (which it also uses to guess the country), and in-app actions such as opening the map or saving a venue. Page views are kept until we delete them and in-app actions for about 13 months. Nothing in it is shared with anyone.
The app also sends Puls one short summary a week of how its Settings page is set: which notification types and days are on or off, whether notifications and location are allowed, the light theme, and the busy check-in interval. It carries nothing else about you, only those on and off values, and we use it to count how many people keep each setting on.
This site also keeps a simple server-side log of page loads. Each entry records the requesting IP address, the user agent (the short line every browser sends that names the browser and the device it runs on), the page, the referring page if your browser sends one, and the time. We run it ourselves, on our own hosting, to sanity-check the visit counts reported by Puls, which deliberately does not store full addresses. The log is not shared with anyone, is not combined with any other information, is not used to build a profile of you, and entries are deleted within four months.
So the site loads quickly, your display preferences are stored locally in your browser.
If you bookmark venues, that list is also kept on your device only. It is never sent to us, so it does not follow you to another browser or another device, and clearing your browser's site data removes it.
We do not set any cookies. Our analytics is cookieless, we run no advertising, and nothing on this site tracks you across other websites.
The Service contains links to venue websites, ticketing platforms, social media, and Google Maps. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites and encourage you to review their privacy policies.
Yinzer Nights lists bar, restaurant, and nightlife events and is intended for a general adult audience. It is not directed to children.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at nittanynights@gmail.com.
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