Privacy

In short: no ads, no advertising networks, nothing sold, and no cookie. Visits are counted once, anonymously, on this site's own server in the EU. Nothing you type is read by anything on this site.

Who is responsible

Movie Scene Map is a personal, non-commercial project published as “Flightmussy”, and the controller of the data described below. Contact: ceoflightmussy@gmail.com.

I publish under a pseudonym as a private individual. My full legal name and address are available on request to that address, and to any supervisory authority on demand.

1. Server logs: everyone

Every request a browser makes is written to the web server's log: the IP address, the date and time, the address requested, the referring page, the browser's user-agent string, and the response's status and size.

• Why: to run the server, find faults, and defend against scrapers, floods and brute-force attempts.
• Legal basis: legitimate interests, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, a website that stays up and is not trivially abused.
• Kept: 14 days, then deleted automatically. Nothing is archived beyond that.

2. Anonymous visit counting: everyone

A small script served from this domain counts what is read. It records the page's address and title, the site you arrived from, any campaign tags on the link you followed (the standard utm_source, utm_medium and utm_campaign parameters: nothing else from the address is read), whether your browser said you typed this address or followed a link from another site, an approximate location worked out from your IP address (country, region, city), and the name of your network operator, your browser, operating system and device type, your screen and window size and pixel density, your browser's main language and time zone, how long the page stayed in the foreground, and how far down it was scrolled.

It also records a few things whose only job is to tell a person from a program: how many times you interacted with the page and how soon the first of those came, whether your device has a touchscreen and what kind of pointer it reports, how many measurements were sent, and a handful of technical markers that headless browsers give themselves away with, an automation flag some of them set, an empty language list, a desktop browser reporting no plug-ins.

Those exist because a crawler that runs JavaScript otherwise looks exactly like a reader, and one week's figures contained several thousand such visits. None of it is content: not which key, not which element, not where on the page, only that an interaction happened, and how many times.

What makes it anonymous is what it does not do:

• No cookie. The counting script stores nothing on your device. What this site's own code keeps in your browser's storage is the light or dark theme you chose and your SceneGuessr scores; none of it is ever sent anywhere.
• Never recorded: anything you type. The script does not read the contents of any field at all, and the search box works entirely inside your browser.
• Your IP address is not stored by this site. It is used on this same server to look up an approximate location, from a local database, so this server sends it nowhere, and then discarded.
• To join the pages of one visit together, the server derives a key from your IP address, your browser and this site, mixed with a random value that is regenerated every day and never written to disk. So the key cannot be recreated tomorrow, and the same person visiting two of my atlases produces two unrelated keys. From the stored data there is no way to tell that two visits were the same person.
• Legal basis: legitimate interests, Art. 6(1)(f), knowing which pages are worth keeping, at a resolution that cannot identify anyone. Because nothing is written to or read from your device, this needs no consent under Art. 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive.
• Kept: 400 days.

3. What this site keeps on your device

Your choice of light or dark theme and your SceneGuessr scores and streaks, in your browser's own storage, so the site opens the way you left it. They never leave your device; clearing the site's data in your browser removes them. Until 26 September 2026 the site also kept the time you last closed the message in the corner of the page; that message is gone, and the site deletes that value the next time you open a page. Nothing else, and no identifier of any kind.

4. Other organisations your browser contacts

Some things on a page are fetched by your browser directly from someone else's servers, which means those servers see your IP address and what was requested. I have no control over what they then do with it, so their own policies apply:

• OpenFreeMap: the basemap tiles and their label fonts. openfreemap.org
• Amazon Web Services (s3.amazonaws.com): the elevation tiles that shade the map's mountains, from the Tilezen project's open dataset, fetched only once the map is zoomed in to a country or closer. Amazon's privacy notice. Amazon is based in the United States.
• Wikimedia Foundation (commons.wikimedia.org, upload.wikimedia.org, en.wikipedia.org): the photograph on every location card and page, and the articles they link to. Their privacy policy. Wikimedia is based in the United States.

That is the whole list. Fonts, scripts, stylesheets and everything else are served from this domain, the typefaces deliberately so, because loading them from Google would disclose your address to Google before the first word rendered. There are no advertising networks, no social media widgets, no Google Fonts and no third-party CDN.

Buy Me a Coffee is not on that list, because nothing on these pages loads from Buy Me a Coffee: the coffee button at the top of the pages and the link at the foot of each page are ordinary links. If you follow one, you are on Buy Me a Coffee's own site and under its privacy policy, and if you give, Buy Me a Coffee and Stripe, which handles its payments, show me what they show anyone who receives a payment, which is normally the name and the message you enter, your email address and the amount.

5. Where it is

The server is a virtual machine rented from Contabo GmbH (Munich, Germany) and located in the European Union. Contabo processes the data on my instructions and can reach the machine as any hosting provider can. I transfer nothing outside the EEA myself; the organisations in point 4 are contacted by your browser directly, and Wikimedia and Amazon are outside the EEA.

6. Your rights

You can ask me to confirm what I hold about you and give you a copy (Art. 15), correct it (16), erase it (17), restrict how it is used (18), hand it over in a portable form (20), and object to anything I do on the basis of legitimate interests (21). Where something rests on consent, you can withdraw it at any time by writing to me.

One honest limit: for the anonymous counting in point 2 and for the server logs, I cannot tell which records are yours, because there is no identifier to search on. Art. 11 GDPR covers exactly this case: where a controller genuinely cannot identify someone, the rights of access, rectification and erasure do not apply, because they cannot be carried out.

Write to ceoflightmussy@gmail.com. I answer within 30 days.

You can also complain to a supervisory authority. Mine is the Norwegian Data Protection Authority: Datatilsynet, Postboks 458 Sentrum, 0105 Oslo. You may instead complain to the authority where you live or work.

7. About the map's own data

The filming locations, titles and photographs come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, and are about places and productions, not about visitors. If you believe a page here describes you personally and should not, write to the address above.

8. Changes

This notice was first published on 26 July 2026 and last changed on 11 October 2026, when the coffee button moved from the map to the top of the pages. On 7 October Google Analytics was removed: the site no longer loads anything from Google and sets no cookie. On 1 October the donation links moved from PayPal to Buy Me a Coffee. On 26 September the message in the corner of the page was removed, and with it the time the site kept of when you last closed it. On 22 September, Amazon Web Services, which serves the elevation tiles that shade the map's relief, was added to the list of organisations. On 20 September the donation message became a message about partnerships. On 11 September, Ezoic, the advertising network this site had applied to, was removed together with its scripts, and a paragraph on donations through PayPal was added. Before that, on 8 September, the optional click and mouse movement measurement was removed, Google Analytics was added to the list of organisations, and what the site keeps in your browser was written out. If what is collected ever changes, this page changes with it, and the date above moves.