Privacy
AIS for All · last updated 25 October 2026
The short version. The live map is open to everyone, and viewing it stores nothing about you. The tools (search, filters, layers, forecasts, tracks, fleets and alerts) need you to sign in with LinkedIn; if you do, this site keeps your LinkedIn display name and an identifier, and the fleets you save. No email, no password, no tracking, nothing sold or shared.
Without signing in
You can watch the live map and tap a vessel to see who it is. The server keeps standard access logs (IP address, time, page requested) for up to a few weeks to keep the service running and to block abuse.
The site also counts its visitors, as daily totals only: how many people opened the map, and from which countries and approximate cities. The location is looked up on this server from the IP address, using a local copy of the DB-IP database, so the address is never sent to a lookup service. The counter does not keep addresses: it recognises a repeat visit within the same day by a scrambled code that is thrown away at midnight, so visits on different days cannot be linked. City-level results from free data are approximate, often the city of your internet provider. IP geolocation by DB-IP (CC BY 4.0).
If you sign in with LinkedIn
Sign-in uses LinkedIn's OpenID Connect and asks only for the openid and
profile permissions. This site receives and keeps:
- your LinkedIn member identifier (a code that identifies your account to this site only),
- your display name,
- the keys of the fleets you save, so they appear on any device you sign in from,
- the dates you first and last signed in.
It does not receive your email address, does not store your LinkedIn password (LinkedIn handles that), and does not keep the access token LinkedIn issues — it is used once to read your name and then discarded. A sign-in cookie keeps you signed in for 30 days; only a scrambled copy of it is stored on the server.
The site owner can see the names of people who have signed in, and receives a private message with your display name each time you sign in (at most once an hour). That is the only use of it: to know who found the project useful. Your details are never sold, shared with third parties or used for advertising. Fleets you build are stored under a random key; unused fleets are deleted after 90 days.
Your choices
- Sign out from the account menu at the top right at any time.
- Delete my data in the same menu removes your account, its saved fleets and its sessions from this server immediately. Fleets kept on your own device are left alone.
- You can also remove this site's access in LinkedIn: Settings → Data privacy → Permitted services.
The vessel data
Ship positions come from the public AIS broadcasts vessels are required to transmit, received via AISStream. Weather and sea forecasts come from Open-Meteo, and cyclone data from NOAA.
Contact
This is a personal project by Soufiane Rahal. For any question about your data, or to ask what is held about you, contact him through LinkedIn.