Ride Planner

Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 2026

Ride Planner is a simple tool for estimating ride time, wind/weather exposure, and calorie/fluid needs from a route and a rider profile. This page explains what data the app touches and why.

What you give us

• Route source: either a RideWithGPS route URL/ID (used to fetch that route's public data) or an uploaded GPX file (parsed on the server, not saved to disk).
• Rider profile: weight, height, age, sex, power/FTP, fueling rate, and bottle size, entered into the form to run the ride simulation.

This data is used only to compute the ride estimate you asked for. It's held in server memory for up to 10 minutes (so the preview and the downloaded PDF match), then discarded. Ride Planner has no user accounts and does not save a history of your rides or profiles.

What's stored in your browser

Your rider profile (weight, height, FTP, etc. -- not the route) is saved in your browser's local storage so the form is pre-filled next time you visit. This stays on your device; it is not transmitted anywhere as tracking, and clearing your browser data removes it.

Third parties involved

• RideWithGPS -- fetches the route you provide (distance, elevation, points of interest).
• Open-Meteo -- provides the wind, temperature, humidity, and precipitation forecast for your route's coordinates and ride date. Only geographic points and a date are sent, no personal data.
• Google AdSense -- Ride Planner shows ads served by Google. Google may use cookies and device identifiers to serve and personalize ads. You can review and control this at Google Ads Settings, and Google's own practices are described at How Google uses information from sites that use its services.
• Render and Cloudflare -- our hosting and CDN/security providers. Like most web infrastructure, they process ordinary connection metadata (e.g. IP address) as part of serving the site and protecting it from abuse.

IP addresses

Your IP address is used briefly to rate-limit requests (to keep the free weather/route APIs usable for everyone) and appears in standard server request logs. It isn't linked to any account, since there are none, and isn't used for tracking beyond that.

Children's privacy

Ride Planner is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes to this policy

If what the app collects or how it's used changes meaningfully, this page will be updated with a new "last updated" date.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Reach out at [email protected], or see the contact page.