Privacy Notice

Last updated 5 November 2026

SkateNav is a map and community for skateparks, spots, sessions and events. This notice explains what personal data SkateNav uses, why, who can see it and what rights you have.

1. Who is responsible for your data

The controller under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:

Luca Jones
Email: admin@skatenav.eu

There is no company behind SkateNav; “we” and “us” mean the person named above. See also the Impressum.

2. The data SkateNav uses

Your account

Your email address and the information needed to sign you in and keep your account secure. We cannot see your password. If you sign in with Google, we receive the account details Google shares for sign-in. Your email address is never shown to other users.

We send service emails only: a welcome email with an optional link to confirm your address (we record the date you confirm it), and a message when a request to join is approved.

Your profile

Your handle, which is generated for you, and anything else you choose to add: display name, avatar and cover image, nationality, stance, skill level, the year you started skating, sponsors, types of skating, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube handles, home park, preferred language and whether you are looking for lessons.

What you do in SkateNav

  • sessions and events you host or join;
  • ratings, reviews, comments and photos;
  • spots and park edits you submit;
  • parks you save and parks you check in at;
  • your notification settings and in-app notifications; and
  • the experience points (XP) and level calculated from the above, with a record of what earned them. A level is for display only and unlocks nothing.

We call the things you submit for others to see “Contributions”.

How you joined, and which days you use SkateNav

Which invite you used to join, and so who invited you (or that your application was approved). For each day you use SkateNav while signed in, we record the date and nothing else.

Location when you check in

If you check in at a park, your device location is sent to our server once to find the nearest park. Only the park and the time are saved to your account, never your coordinates, and we do not track your location in the background. Your device remembers the last position it checked, so it does not repeat the check while you have not moved.

Social and safety information

Friends, friend requests, blocks, reports you make or that concern you, and moderation records. A report can contain information about another user.

Technical information

Like any website, our infrastructure processes technical data such as your IP address, browser and device information, and request and error logs, to deliver the service and keep it secure. Our host also works out roughly where a request comes from (about the city) from the IP address. On your first visit, the map uses that to open on your city instead of Berlin. It is used for that one page load and is not stored.

3. Why we use it

  • To provide your account and the features you use — Article 6(1)(b) GDPR (performing our agreement with you).
  • To keep SkateNav secure and prevent abuse — Article 6(1)(f) GDPR (our legitimate interest in running a secure service).
  • To moderate content and handle reports, including the automated screening in section 5 — Article 6(1)(f) GDPR (our legitimate interest in a safe community), or Article 6(1)(c) where the law requires us to act.
  • To fix problems and improve the beta, using error and performance data, and usage figures (active days, invites, number of Contributions) that administrators see on a dashboard. These are not used for advertising or for decisions about your account — Article 6(1)(f) GDPR (our legitimate interest in developing SkateNav).
  • To deal with legal claims and obligations — Article 6(1)(f) and, where applicable, Article 6(1)(c) GDPR.

4. Children and lesson bookings

SkateNav accounts are for people aged 18 or over. Children cannot have an account.

A parent or guardian can add a record for their child in order to request lessons. It holds the child’s first name, birth year, skill level, stance, goals, whether they have their own board and protective gear, preferred lesson length and language, and an emergency contact name and phone number.

Only the parent can see the record, plus a coach the parent sends a lesson request to (the emergency contact only once the coach accepts) and administrators where needed. The parent can delete it at any time, and it is deleted with the parent’s account.

Legal basis: Article 6(1)(b) GDPR, and Article 6(1)(f) GDPR — our and the parent’s legitimate interest in arranging the lesson the parent asked for.

SkateNav does not collect health information. If a coach needs to know about an injury, allergy or medical condition, tell them directly rather than entering it in SkateNav.

5. Who can see your information

Your profile

You choose who can see your profile in your profile settings:

  • Anyone — including people who are not signed in. This is the default.
  • Friends only.
  • Only me — the default for parent accounts.

The setting covers your whole profile. Whatever you choose, a coach or parent you have a lesson request with and anyone with a pending friend request to or from you can see it, and so can administrators.

Your activity

A second setting, with the same options, covers the parks you have visited, your activity feed and your level. It can never be wider than your profile setting. The record of what earned your XP is visible only to you and administrators. This setting does not remove reviews or photos from the parks you posted them to.

Sessions and events

These are visible according to the option chosen when they are created. Anyone who can see one sees how many people are going; who is going is visible only to the host, the other people taking part and administrators, and only as far as each person’s profile setting allows.

Contributions

Reviews, ratings, photos, spots and comments are shown to others in the part of SkateNav where you posted them, subject to any visibility setting.

Administrators

Administrators can see who invited you, when you joined, how many days you have been active and how many Contributions you have made, but not which days or what you did on them. The person who invited you sees only how many times their link was used.

Automated content screening

Comments, discussion posts, tricks, “what to bring” items, photos, new spots and changes to your handle, display name or sponsors are checked automatically when you submit them, for things like spam, abuse, explicit content or someone’s private details. The result is one of:

  • published straight away;
  • sent to a moderator; or
  • for text only, declined in clear cases. You are told at the time and can ask a person to look at it. We keep declined text and the reasons so the screening can be checked.

Photos and spots are never declined automatically; anything flagged goes to a moderator. A flagged profile picture is visible only to you and moderators until it is reviewed. Screening never removes anything already posted.

6. Services we use

These providers process personal data on our behalf. We do not sell your data and there is no advertising in SkateNav.

  • Supabase — database and authentication. Stores the data described in this notice.
  • Vercel — hosting, plus Vercel Web Analytics (page visits) and Speed Insights (page performance), which process technical data such as IP address and browser information.
  • Mapbox — maps. Receives your IP address, browser information and the map area you are viewing. Its map software stores a random identifier to count map loads for billing (see section 8); we turn off its optional performance reporting.
  • Google — sign-in, only if you choose to sign in with Google.
  • TypeSafe — the automated screening in section 5. It receives the content being checked: your text with the name of the park or session it belongs to; a photo (a park photo together with up to three of that park’s existing photos, a spot’s photos with its name, description and obstacles); or a changed handle, display name or sponsors. Nothing else about you or your account is sent.
  • Google Gemini — if you share an event poster, the image is sent to read the text on it. Nothing else about you is sent.
  • Resend — delivers our emails. Receives your email address and the message.

7. International transfers

Some of these providers process data outside the European Economic Area. Where they do, we rely on a transfer mechanism recognised by the GDPR, such as an adequacy decision (including the EU–US Data Privacy Framework) or the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses. Contact us for details of a particular transfer.

8. Cookies and similar storage

SkateNav uses no advertising or tracking cookies and has no cookie banner, because everything it stores on your device is strictly necessary for a feature you use or remembers a choice you made, which needs no consent (§ 25(2) No. 2 TDDDG). This is the complete list:

  • Cookies (sent to our server): sign-in (sb-…-auth-token, until you sign out or at most 400 days); your chosen language (skatenav_locale, one year, set only if you choose one); and whether you have seen the map tour (skatenav_map_tour_seen, two years).
  • Local storage (stays in your browser until you clear it): your chosen language (skatenav:locale), light or dark theme (theme), where and when you last left the map (skatenav:map-view), recently viewed parks (skatenav:recent-parks), parks saved without an account (sn-saved-parks, sn-saved-parks-synced), the last position checked for check-in (skatenav:last-visit-check) and, for administrators, the admin menu state (skatenav:admin-nav-collapsed).
  • Session storage (deleted when you close the tab, or sooner): map filters (skatenav:map-filters), unsent form text (sn-draft:…) and a confirmation message shown after a reload (skatenav:flash).
  • Mapbox (local storage mapbox.eventData…), set by Mapbox’s map software: a random identifier Mapbox uses to count map loads. It does not identify you to SkateNav.

You can see and delete all of this in your browser’s site settings. Doing so signs you out and resets these preferences.

9. How long we keep data

  • Account, profile, invite record, XP and child records: while your account exists, or until you delete them.
  • Contributions: until you or a moderator delete them, or your account is deleted. Contributions that are part of the shared park database, such as ratings, reviews, park information and park photos, may be kept where the law allows, shown as by “Deleted skater”. Contact us if one still identifies you.
  • Active days: 13 months, or until your account is deleted.
  • Reports and moderation records: may be kept after an account is deleted where needed to prevent abuse, resolve disputes, meet legal obligations or deal with legal claims.
  • Technical logs: a short period, unless needed to investigate a security incident.
  • Backups: deleted data may remain in restricted backups until they are overwritten in the normal cycle.

10. Deleting and exporting your data

You can delete your account in your profile settings. Your personal data is then deleted or anonymised, except for what section 9 says may be kept.

You can also download a copy of your main account data there, as a JSON file. You can still ask us for anything it does not include.

11. Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to:

  • access the personal data we hold about you;
  • have inaccurate data corrected;
  • have your data deleted;
  • restrict how we use it;
  • receive your data in a portable format;
  • object, for reasons relating to your situation, to processing based on our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f)); and
  • complain to a data-protection supervisory authority, in particular where you live, work or where you think the infringement happened.

To exercise these rights, email admin@skatenav.eu. We may need to confirm your identity first.

12. Automated decisions

The automated screening in section 5 only decides whether a single contribution is published, sent to a moderator or declined. It cannot act on your account or remove anything already posted, and a person will look at a declined contribution if you ask. We therefore do not consider it a decision with legal or similarly significant effects under Article 22 GDPR. Suspending or removing an account is always decided by a person.

13. Security

We protect personal data with technical and organisational measures, including access rules enforced in the database. No online service is perfectly secure; if a data breach happens, we will handle it as data-protection law requires.

14. Changes to this notice

We will update this notice as SkateNav changes and tell you about significant changes where required. The date at the top shows when it was last updated.

15. Contact

Luca Jones
Email: admin@skatenav.eu

Privacy Notice – SkateNav