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Offgrid NYC — Privacy Policy

Last updated: 12 October 2026
Effective date: 12 October 2026

This policy explains what data the Offgrid NYC app (“App”) handles. The App is operated by Cinema SB LLC (“we,” “us”).

The short version: There are no accounts, no ads, and no cross-app tracking. We do not sell your data. Your likes, trips, and location stay on your device. Anonymous usage analytics are switched on by default and can be switched off in the App at any time.

1. What stays on your device

The App stores the following only locally, on your device:

  • the spots you like, save, or skip, and your viewing history;

  • your trips, guides, lists, and travel dates;

  • your settings (appearance, safety-notice acknowledgement, analytics choice);

  • cached catalogue data, thumbnails, and video data, so the App opens fast and copes with a weak connection. This cache is kept on disk between launches and is capped in size.

None of this is uploaded to an account; there are no accounts, and we operate no server that stores your likes, saves, or trips. “Delete all data” in the App wipes all of it, including the caches, and resets the anonymous analytics identifier (Section 3). Only your analytics choice is kept, so a switched-off setting stays off.

2. What leaves your device

The App makes the following connections, and no others:

  • Content requests. The App downloads the catalogue of spots, guides, and offers, and streams videos and thumbnails, from our content-delivery network. Like any web request this exposes your IP address and standard technical metadata to that network; it is used only to deliver the content and to block abuse.

  • Anonymous usage analytics, unless you have switched them off (Section 3).

  • Apple Maps requests for map display, place search, and walking directions (Section 4).

  • Purchases, which are handled by Apple (Section 5).

  • Booking links, only when you tap one (Section 8).

  • Email, only if you choose to write to us (Section 6).

Liking or saving a spot is stored on your device. It is not uploaded to us; if analytics are on, an anonymous event records that a spot was saved (Section 3).

3. Anonymous usage analytics

To understand which videos and features are useful, the App sends anonymous usage events to PostHog’s EU-hosted service. This is on by default. You can switch it off at any time with the “Anonymous analytics” toggle in the App’s settings; while it is off, the App sends no analytics events.

An event can contain:

  • a random identifier created on your device for this installation. It is not derived from your name, email, Apple ID, advertising identifier, or location;

  • which screens and features are used, for example opening the map, opening a guide, creating a trip, or tapping a booking button;

  • the content ID of the spot or offer involved, together with its public catalogue details (title, category, video and thumbnail address);

  • video playback information: how long a video was watched, whether it started and looped correctly, and how long it took to start;

  • general values such as the number of days or stops in a trip, or a range such as “3–5 nights”;

  • whether location or notification permission is granted (the status only).

Events never contain your name, email address, search text, exact travel dates, precise location or coordinates, or an advertising identifier. Like any internet service, PostHog sees your IP address when an event arrives; we do not use it to identify or locate you.

We do not use analytics for advertising, we do not combine it with data from other apps or websites, and the App does not track you across apps, so you will never see an App Tracking Transparency prompt.

4. Location: it stays on your device

If you grant location permission, your position is used on your device to sort spots by distance, show the blue dot on the map, and follow a walking route.

Your precise location is never transmitted to us or to our analytics provider. It is not attached to any request the App makes to our services. If you decline the permission the App still works and simply assumes a central Manhattan viewpoint.

Map tiles, place search, and walking directions are requested from Apple Maps directly by your device. Apple receives what it needs to draw the map or calculate a route, under Apple’s own privacy terms.

5. Purchases

Unlocking New York is a one-time in-app purchase processed entirely by Apple through the App Store. We never receive your name, your Apple ID, or your payment details.

The App checks on your device, through Apple’s StoreKit, whether the purchase exists. Purchase information is not sent to our servers or to our analytics provider. Restoring a purchase or redeeming a code is also handled by Apple.

6. Contacting us and suggesting a spot

The App has no contact form. When you choose to contact us or to suggest a spot, the App opens your own email app with a message addressed to us. For a suggestion, the place name, neighbourhood, and optional note you typed are placed in that draft.

Nothing is sent until you send it, and it is sent from your own mail account; the App never transmits your message or your address itself. Your email then reaches our support inbox like any other email, which means we have your message, your email address, and whatever sender name your mail account uses. We use them only to reply to you and to review your suggestion.

Both are entirely voluntary.

7. Service providers the App talks to

To function, the App connects to these providers. Like any internet service they see your IP address and what was requested:

  • Apple Inc.: map display, place search, and walking directions through Apple Maps; in-app purchases; and the “rate this app” prompt. Requested by your device under Apple’s own privacy terms.

  • BunnyWay d.o.o. (Bunny.net): the content-delivery network that delivers the catalogue of spots and guides and streams our videos and their thumbnails.

  • PostHog, Inc.: hosts the anonymous usage analytics described in Section 3, in the EU.

These providers act as infrastructure. We do not share your identity with them, because we do not have it.

We may also disclose information if required by law, to enforce our terms, or to protect the rights, safety, and security of our users or the public. If Cinema SB LLC is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, data may be transferred, and we will require the recipient to honour this policy.

8. Booking links and affiliate partners

Tapping a booking button (hotels, stays, tours, tickets, tables) opens the partner’s own website, for example Booking.com, GetYourGuide, Viator, Tiqets, Airbnb, OpenTable, or Resy. From that moment the partner’s privacy policy and terms apply, not ours.

To pre-fill the partner’s search, the link may include the travel dates you set in the App, a New York neighbourhood based on the spots you liked, and your device’s currency setting. It does not include your name, email address, location, or the analytics identifier.

Some links are affiliate links: they carry our partner ID, and we may earn a commission. This does not change what data is collected.

9. Where your data is processed

Cinema SB LLC is based in the United States. Content is delivered through Bunny.net’s global network, and analytics events are stored by PostHog in the European Union. Email you send us is processed in the United States and wherever our email provider operates. If you use the App from outside the United States, data-protection laws in these places may differ from those in your country.

10. How long we keep data

  • On your device: until you delete it, either with “Delete all data” in the App or by deleting the App.

  • Analytics events: kept for the retention period set for our analytics project and then deleted. Because events carry only a random identifier, we cannot look up the events of a particular person. “Delete all data” replaces the identifier, so later events cannot be connected to earlier ones.

  • Email correspondence: kept as long as needed to handle your request or suggestion; you can ask us to delete it.

11. Security

All connections the App makes use encryption in transit (HTTPS/TLS), and the App is built to need as little data as possible: no accounts, no stored identity, no location on our side. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure, but we work to protect your information and review our practices regularly.

12. Your privacy rights

Depending on where you live (for example California or another US state with a comprehensive privacy law, or the EU/EEA and UK), you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or port personal data, and to object to or restrict processing.

We do not sell or share personal information, we do not use it for targeted advertising, and we do not profile you in a way that produces legal or similarly significant effects. We will not treat you differently for exercising a right.

Because the App holds no account and no identity, most of these rights are best exercised on your device: you can switch analytics off, and the local data is yours to delete at any time. For anything else, contact us using Section 15. You may also complain to your local data-protection authority.

13. Children

The App is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us data, write to us and we will delete it.

14. Changes to this policy

If we change what data the App handles, we will update this policy and its “Last updated” date first, and give more prominent notice for material changes.

15. Contact

Cinema SB LLC, 54 State Street, Ste 804, Albany, New York 12207, USA. Email: contact@cinema-sb.com

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