Privacy Policy

Effective October 12, 2026

This policy explains what information ScanSeats (scanseats.com), operated by Mentis Vision LLC ("we", "us"), handles and the choices you have.

The short version

• You do not need an account to use ScanSeats, and we never ask for payment details.
• A free account is optional. It holds your email address, the places and trips you save, and the routes you watch, and you can download or delete it at any time.
• Without an account, your favorites and display preferences stay in your own browser.
• Our hosting provider keeps standard technical logs, and we use privacy-focused visitor statistics.
• The map loads from OpenFreeMap, which sees your IP address and the map area shown, and sets no cookies.
• Google shows ads on ScanSeats and may use cookies to do so. You can control ad personalization.

Information stored in your browser

ScanSeats saves your favorite places, which panels you have open, and whether you have dismissed the welcome suggestions in your browser's local storage. This information stays on your device, is not sent to us, and can be removed by clearing your browser's site data. The choices you make in a search are kept in the page address so you can bookmark or share them.

Free accounts

If you create a free account, we keep your email address and, if you sign in with Google, the name and account identifier Google shares with us (we ask Google only for your name and email). We also keep what you choose to save: favorite places, your shortlist, recently viewed destinations, watched routes, and trip plans with their notes. We use this only to show it back to you on every device and to email you when new data arrives for routes you watch. Home airports saved earlier have been deleted.

Sign-in uses a one-time link sent by email or Google sign-in; we never store a password. A small cookie named __Host-ss_session keeps you signed in for up to 30 days after you last use ScanSeats; it is not used for advertising. Sign-in links expire after 15 minutes. We keep a short record of sign-ins, sign-outs, and account deletions for security.

Emails are sent through Cloudflare Email Service. Alert emails come at most once a month, only for routes you watch, and every one has a link to stop them without signing in. You can also turn alerts off in your account.

A trip plan is private unless you turn on its share link. Anyone with a shared link sees the plan's name, dates, and paths, never its notes or your email. Turning sharing off ends the link.

From your account you can download everything it holds as a file, or delete the account. Deleting removes your email address, saved places, watched routes, trip plans, and share links at once. Our database keeps a 30-day point-in-time history for recovery, so deleted data can remain there for up to 30 days before it is gone for good.

Hosting, security, and statistics

ScanSeats runs on Cloudflare. Cloudflare processes technical information such as IP addresses, browser type, and request times to deliver the site and protect it from abuse. We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits and page performance; it does not use cookies to track you across sites. Cloudflare's privacy policy is at cloudflare.com/privacypolicy.

The flat map's tiles, labels, and fonts load from OpenFreeMap (tiles.openfreemap.org), which, like any web server, receives your IP address and the map area requested. It sets no cookies and keeps no user accounts.

Advertising

ScanSeats uses Google AdSense to show ads. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and other sites on the Internet.

You can opt out of personalized advertising in Google Ads Settings, and you can opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising at aboutads.info. Learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland are asked for consent before personalized ads are used, through Google's consent message. You can change your choice at any time from that message's link on the page.

Your searches, favorites, account details, and trip plans are never sent to advertisers, and ads never affect route rankings. Signed-in visitors see fewer ads.

If you email us

If you write to hello@scanseats.com, we use your email address and message only to reply and to improve ScanSeats, and we keep them only as long as needed for that.

Sharing

We do not sell your personal information. We share information only with the service providers named above (Cloudflare, which hosts ScanSeats and its database and sends our emails; OpenFreeMap, which serves the map tiles; Google, for sign-in and ads) as needed to run the site, or when required by law.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask what personal information we hold about you, to correct or delete it, or to object to certain uses. If you have an account, you can download or delete its information yourself from the account menu. Without an account, we usually hold nothing that identifies you. For any other request, email hello@scanseats.com.

Children

ScanSeats is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Changes

If we change this policy, we will update the effective date above. Significant changes will be noted on this page.

Contact

Mentis Vision LLC, Hawaii, United States. Email: hello@scanseats.com.