Privacy Notes

1. Overview

Berlin Culture Map is a non-commercial project for discovering free and affordable cultural events in Berlin. The app is designed to be privacy-conscious: it does not require accounts, login, or user-submitted profile data.

2. Contact

Jaewon Kim
Email: jaewon.support@gmail.com

3. Location Use

If you allow browser location access, your browser provides your coordinates to the app so nearby events can be sorted by distance. Before the app requests events from the server, coordinates are rounded to four decimal places.

• Location permission is optional.
• Location is used for the event search request.
• The app does not intentionally store user-submitted coordinates in the database.
• The event API uses private no-store caching for these responses.

4. Analytics

The site uses Vercel Web Analytics for aggregate page-view statistics. This is used to understand whether the project is being used, not to build user profiles.

5. Cookies And Logs

The application code does not create user accounts or set its own tracking cookies. Hosting, analytics, map, and database providers may process technical request data such as IP address, user agent, timestamps, or requested URLs as part of operating their services.

6. Third-Party Services

The project relies on these services:

• Vercel for hosting and web analytics
• Supabase for the PostgreSQL/PostGIS database
• Leaflet with Mapbox or OpenStreetMap tiles for maps
• Google Maps and Apple Maps links for transit directions

7. Event Data Sources

Event listings are aggregated from public APIs, open-data feeds, RSS feeds, and public Berlin.de event pages. No user location data is shared back to these event sources by this application.

8. Data Boundary

Internal provider payloads are stored only for sync and normalization work. Public API responses return a reduced event shape and exclude raw provider payloads.