THE SMALL PRINT

Privacy

Last updated: October 2026

This explains what the Curly Q website does with information, in plain language. The short version: it collects very little, and nothing it collects is sold or shared for marketing.

When you add your city to the map

The check-in form asks for a city and a state. That is all it stores about the place. The city name and state are looked up to get a map position, and the pin on the journey map shows the city, not a street or an address. Pins and counts are shown publicly on this site.

To keep the map honest, the site also stores a scrambled, one-way code made from your internet address and the day's date. It is used only to limit how many check-ins come from one connection in a day, cannot be turned back into your address, and is not linked to your name because the form never asks for one.

Check-ins are stored in a database hosted by Cloudflare, the company that also serves this website.

Getting a pack of postcards

Payment happens on PayPal, not on this site. The name and mailing address you add to the PayPal note go to Coleen Greco so she can mail your pack. They are used for that and nothing else. PayPal's own privacy policy covers what PayPal does with your payment details.

Visit statistics and cookies

This site does not set tracking or advertising cookies and does not run an analytics service. Cloudflare keeps standard server logs for security and performance.

Maps and other services

The journey map is drawn with OpenStreetMap tiles, so your browser requests those map images from OpenStreetMap's servers, which see your internet address the way any website you visit does. City positions come from the Open-Meteo geocoding service using only the city and state you typed. Links to Instagram and PayPal lead to those companies' sites and their policies.

Removing a check-in

If you added your city and want it taken off the map, send a message to @curlyqcomestoyou on Instagram with the city, state and roughly when you checked in, and it will be removed.