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Privacy notice

HexJourney · last updated 16 October 2026

In short: HexJourney runs in your browser. The maps you draw, their points of interest and the exploration on top of them live on your device. Two things are exceptions and are described below, because they are the whole point of being honest about this: a shared session, which puts a copy of the map on our server for as long as the session lasts, and Google Drive, if you choose to connect it. We do not profile you, there is no account to create, and outside a live session the only thing of yours we hold is the encrypted Google Drive permission, if you connected it.

Who is responsible

The data controller is TirateIniziativa, which runs this project as non-commercial fan content. Contact: [email protected].

What stays in your browser

Your maps are saved in your browser's own database (IndexedDB), and a few small entries sit in local storage. None of these are cookies and none of them are transmitted.

entry	what it holds	why
`hexplorer` (IndexedDB)	the maps you saved: terrain, roads and rivers, regions, points of interest, the fog and the exploration, and the background image if you loaded one	so your work is still there after you close the tab — it is the very service you asked for by using the app
`hexjourney.lastVisitDay`	a date, e.g. `2026-09-27`	so the same visit is not counted twice on the same day
`hexjourney.gmToken.…`	the key that proves you are the DM of a session you opened	so that reopening the tab puts you back in charge of your own session instead of locking you out of it
`hexjourney.drive.v1`	whether you connected Google Drive, and the identifiers of the two folders there	so you are not asked again every time, and the folders are found again even if you rename them. It holds no token and opens nothing on its own

You can clear all of it whenever you like from your browser's site-data settings. It does not require telling us, because we know nothing about it.

If you export a JSON file or a PNG, your browser produces them and they go wherever you send them.

Shared sessions: the one copy we hold

When a DM opens a session to play with their table, the map has to reach the players, and for that it passes through our server. While the session is alive, the server holds a copy of the map — the world, the fog, the party's position and the background image — and rebroadcasts each change to whoever is connected. Players' names, if they give one, exist only for the duration of the session.

It is not kept. When the last person disconnects, a timer starts: an hour later, if nobody has come back, the session and everything in it are deleted. No account, no history, no backup. Until a session is opened, nothing of your map ever leaves your device.

A session code is short and is meant to be shared with your own table. Anyone who has it can watch the map, so treat it the way you would treat the link to a private call.

What else reaches us: the visit counter

On the start screen there is a public visit counter. When you open the app, your browser sends our server a request that says only "one more visit". The server keeps monthly totals only — for example 2026-09: 412 — plus the running total. No IP addresses, identifiers, cookies, device or referrer information are stored, and there is no way, not even for us, to trace those numbers back to a person. The "once a day" de-duplication happens in your browser, using the date described above, and is never sent.

Hosting

The site, the sessions and the counter run on Cloudflare infrastructure (Cloudflare, Inc., United States), acting as data processor. Like any hosting provider, Cloudflare transiently processes the technical data needed to deliver pages and protect the service from abuse, including the request's IP address. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.

Google Drive, if you connect it

Connecting Google Drive is optional and never automatic: it starts only when you press “Sign in with Google”, and until you do, the site does not contact Google at all: there is no Google script on the page, and the sign-in window opens only when you press the button. When the page opens it asks our own server whether you are signed in; only if you are does it reach Google, to read the account name and your files.

If you do connect it:

one permission is requested, the drive.file scope, which grants access solely to files this app created and to nothing else in your Drive: the rest of your files stay invisible to us;
your email address is never requested, nor is any other profile data. The only thing we read about you is the display name of the account, and only to show you which Drive you are writing into — the same sign-in serves every tool, so it may well be an account you chose somewhere else, and saving into the wrong Drive would otherwise fail silently. That name stays in this browser for the session, is never stored and never reaches us. The email address is not merely ignored: the request we send to Google asks for the name alone, which anyone can verify by looking at the traffic;
maps travel straight from your browser to Google, never through us: we keep no copy and never see them;
the permission Google issues is kept on our server — the TirateIniziativa home page’s Worker, on Cloudflare’s infrastructure — encrypted with a key that exists only there, so that one sign-in serves every TirateIniziativa tool for thirty days. When this app needs to reach your Drive, it asks that server for a short access token (one hour), which it keeps in memory only. No name, no email address and no profile are stored with it: it is a permission, not an account;
the sign-in lasts thirty days and starts again from thirty every time you come back with fewer than fifteen left; unused, it expires and is deleted. It is also deleted as soon as Google turns the permission down, and “Disconnect” deletes it at once and revokes the permission at Google — for every tool and every device. Besides the cookie described below, all that stays in the browser is the fact that you said yes, plus the folder identifiers, which open nothing on their own;
files are created in the TirateIniziativa_AppDataStorage folder of your Drive. They are yours: move, rename or delete them whenever you like, and “Disconnect” revokes the permission without touching them. Deleting a save from inside the app puts it in your Drive bin, where it stays recoverable for thirty days.

Use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Transfers, retention, minors

The monthly visit totals contain no personal data and are kept indefinitely, since their purpose is to show how often the tool has been used. A shared session is kept only while it is alive, plus the hour of grace described above. A Google Drive sign-in is kept for thirty days from your last visit, or until you disconnect. The data in your browser is kept by you, for as long as you like. The service is not specifically directed at children and does not knowingly collect data about them — it does not knowingly collect data about anyone.

Your rights

Regulation (EU) 2016/679 gives you rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and portability. In practice there is almost no personal data here to exercise them against: what you draw is on your device and you delete it yourself, a session deletes itself, and the encrypted Drive permission is deleted by “Disconnect”. If you think something is wrong you can write to the address above, or lodge a complaint with the Italian Data Protection Authority.

Cookies

One cookie, and only if you connect Google Drive. Until you do, this site sets none at all — neither technical nor profiling, neither first- nor third-party. The local-storage entries described above are not cookies and never leave your device.

cookie	what it holds	why	how long
`ti_session`	a random key that opens your Drive sign-in on our server — not the Google permission, no name, no email address, no profile. It is `HttpOnly`: not even our pages’ scripts can read it	so that one sign-in covers every TirateIniziativa tool: it belongs to `tirateiniziativa.com` and is sent only to its sign-in address (`/api/auth`), where this app asks for a fresh permission instead of asking you to sign in again	thirty days, renewed when you come back. Deleted when you press “Disconnect”, or when Google turns the permission down

It is a strictly necessary cookie: it exists only to deliver the function you asked for by pressing “Sign in with Google”, it is not used to profile you and it is never shared with anyone. That is why no consent banner is shown — connecting Drive is itself the consent, and it can be withdrawn at any time with “Disconnect”.

What it costs, said plainly. Unlike the local-storage entries above, a cookie travels: the browser sends it to our sign-in address whenever a tool asks for a permission. The server keeps only its fingerprint (a SHA-256 hash), never the key itself, so even the stored sessions open nothing on their own — but the cookie does leave your device, which those entries never do. We accepted that because it is the only way a single sign-in can serve every tool. If you would rather it did not exist, do not connect Drive, or press “Disconnect”: it is deleted immediately and the app goes on working exactly as before.