Privacy Policy

The short version

OHV Trail Finder collects no personal information, requires no account, and sets no cookies of its own. The finder runs entirely in your browser. To keep the site free it shows ads through Google AdSense — the one third party involved, and the only thing that may set a cookie in your browser. The Advertising section explains exactly what that means and how to opt out.

The finder and “trails near me”

The state and vehicle you pick are used only to filter the list in your browser — they are never sent to a server. If you tap “Trails near me,” your browser asks your permission to share your location; if you allow it, your coordinates are used only in your browser to sort districts by distance and are never transmitted or stored. Deny the request and the finder still works by state.

Maps

Each district page has an interactive map you can choose to open. When you open it, the routes are drawn over U.S. Geological Survey The National Map basemap tiles, which load from the USGS — and only after you open a map (apart from the ads described below, it is the only external request this site makes). The map runs in your browser; no tracking or analytics is attached to it, and nothing about your use of the map is sent to us.

Analytics

Traffic may be measured with aggregate, privacy-preserving analytics that use no cookies and identify no individual. These record coarse, anonymous signals (such as page views and referrers) to understand what is useful — never who you are.

Advertising

OHV Trail Finder shows third-party ads through Google AdSense to help cover hosting and data costs. This section explains what that means for your privacy and how to control it.

OHV Trail Finder displays third-party advertisements through Google AdSense and Google's advertising partners. When ads are served, those ad networks may set and read cookies or use device identifiers to serve, cap, and measure ads — and, where permitted, to show ads relevant to your interests. This activity is controlled by the ad networks under their own privacy policies, not by this site.

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies (including its advertising cookies) to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this and other websites. You can learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services, and control the data used to personalize ads, at these Google resources:

• How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
• Google advertising and cookies: policies.google.com/technologies/ads
• Manage or opt out of personalized Google ads (My Ad Center): myadcenter.google.com
• Opt out of personalized advertising from many vendors at once: optout.aboutads.info (Digital Advertising Alliance) and youradchoices.com

The advertising partner in use is Google AdSense. If additional ad partners are ever added, this policy and the "last updated" date at the top of this page will be revised. Advertising never alters a published route, a vehicle-access designation, a season, or any district's data on this site — and it never affects which trails appear or how they are ordered.

Downloads and external links

GPX files download directly from this site. Links to the official U.S. Forest Service pages take you to a government site with its own privacy policy, which governs your visit there.

Contact

Questions about privacy can go to contact@ohvtrailfinder.com.