What Together collects, and why

When you open the live map with location sharing on, you appear as an unnamed dot at your nearest city of 100,000 people or more, or at your country. Our network provider, Cloudflare, works out that approximate location from your IP address. We snap it to the nearest large city so it can never point to a street or a small town.

We never store or show your IP address. Your dot disappears within a minute of you closing the page, and Live now keeps nothing about you after that. Location sharing is on unless you turn it off below.

If you press “Find me”, your browser asks whether to share your location. If you agree, your device turns it into the nearest city of 100,000 people or more, or your country, straight away. Your exact location is never sent to us, stored or shown, and we never ask for it unless you press the button.

Your name only appears if you choose to appear with one, and that is for adults only.

If you accept analytics, we use Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity to understand how people use Together, so we can make it better. They set cookies and receive information about your device and visit, including your IP address. Clarity can record how pages are used; we hide the names and places people type from those recordings.

We do not use analytics for advertising, we have turned off Google's advertising features, and we never use it to decide who you are introduced to. Analytics only load after you accept, and you can change your mind at any time.

Your privacy choices, and the name and place you last used on Live now, are kept in your own browser's storage so you do not have to type them again. “Leave and forget me” on Live now removes them.

You can ask what we hold about you, or ask us to delete it, by emailing [email protected]. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.