Privacy & your data
Publisher: gympilotsystems. Contact: team@gympilotsystem.com. Updated October 20, 2026.
Accounts and submissions
Accounts store your username, display name, chosen town, private recovery email, password hash, sessions, hidden authors and posts, and community interactions. Your public username, display name, town, approved posts, photos, likes counts and replies can be viewed by visitors. Your password and recovery email are not public.
Listing submissions store the content, source links, and contact name, email and optional phone number for owner review. Private review contact details stay private. The separate public contact field on an approved job or rental is shown to visitors when you choose to provide it. Jobs and rentals expire on their end date. Saved searches and in-app match notices are stored on your device. The owner can review pending posts, photos, reports and submissions.
Pet reports include the approximate area and the public contact details you explicitly choose to share. Reports and photos appear after owner review. Marking a pet reunited hides its contact details; the details remain in your private report so you can reopen it. Deleting the pet post clears those contact details, and deleting your account removes its posts and uploaded photos.
Location and browser storage
Near Me requests your permission and keeps coordinates in the current browser tab to estimate distance. Coordinates are not sent to our server. Maps display trail pins; external map providers and directions services receive normal connection information when you use them.
A session cookie keeps you signed in for up to seven days. Saved deals, followed businesses, saved events and app display preferences use local browser storage separately for each edition. Following and saving do not turn on notifications. The app shell and directory can be cached for offline use. Private API responses and community photos are not stored in the service worker cache. Owner access is stored only for the current browser session.
Optional visit counts
The Wrightwood edition counts visits and page views separately from Big Bear. Your browser creates a random identifier that changes each Pacific day. Our server keeps a protected daily digest and app-section counts for up to 35 days. A separate daily counter measures returning browsers and clicks on original deal links. These counters do not store account identities, names, email addresses, IP addresses, precise locations, search text or full URL queries. Counts estimate browsers, not individual people. Signed-in owner browsing is excluded.
Visit counting respects Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control. The choice below applies to both Mountain Locals editions in this browser. Turning it off clears both daily identifiers. Active statistics are kept for 35 days; private backups follow the retention below. Earlier dates before tracking began are unavailable.
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Service providers
When deployed, Render hosts the app and stores its private data. Resend delivers verification and password reset emails and receives your recovery email and the message. Official weather, map tiles and linked business, newspaper and event websites operate under their own policies. Server and hosting logs may contain IP addresses, request paths and connection metadata. Reset tokens use URL fragments to avoid sending them in request paths.
Your choices and retention
You can browse without an account, decline location access, hide posts or authors, report content, download account data or delete your account. Account deletion removes your posts, uploaded photos, replies, likes and active sessions. Approved business and event listings may remain after personal contact details are removed.
Local data backups retain seven snapshots and expire as new backups replace them. Hosting disk snapshots have their own retention. Offline copies on other devices may remain until they reconnect or clear site data. Contact support for a data request or a photo removal request.
We do not add advertising tracking or sell your account data. Paid advertising, when active, is labeled. Changes to these practices will be reflected here.
Support · Privacy · Community rules
Optional notifications and newsletter
You choose whether to enable notifications and which towns and saved searches to follow. Browser push endpoints, encryption keys, consent settings and delivery markers are stored privately on the server and use your browser's push provider. Disable notifications in Alert preferences at any time. Saved searches also remain on this device.
The monthly newsletter requires an explicit signup and email confirmation. Subscriber email addresses and consent records stay private; the email provider processes messages. Every issue includes an unsubscribe link. Unsubscribe removes the active email record immediately. Private backups may retain earlier data for up to seven daily backups; older opt-out requests must be preserved before a mailing list is restored. Support: team@gympilotsystem.com.
Homes, services and business accounts
Homes and services are reviewed before publication. Business representatives use a community account and request authority verification; no claim alone grants listing control or access to reports. Proposed changes remain private until owner approval. If a verified business enables in-app inquiries, a signed-in resident can explicitly share their account name, email and question with that business. These inquiries appear only in its private dashboard for about 35 days; account deletion removes inquiries you sent and those held by a deleted business account. No message is emailed automatically. Business reports contain approximate listing views and contact-link taps, not visitor identities, actual conversations or confirmed sales. Repeat signals are limited per browser, listing and day. Counts are kept for about 35 days and respect the app’s analytics opt-out, Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control. Your business request and proposals are included in account export and removed when you delete your account; aggregate measurement has no account identity. Saved directory favorites stay in your browser.
Listing corrections and optional reminders
Listing-correction reports privately store the selected listing and your correction text without requiring an account or collecting contact details. Reviewed reports expire after 90 days. Optional business updates and event reminders store selected business names, saved event identifiers and sent-reminder markers in this edition’s private notification record only after you enable them.