Last updated: November 4, 2026.
Cycle.tw is an independent guide to cycling in Taiwan. This policy explains what limited information the website at cycle.tw collects, the third-party services involved, and the choices you have.
The website is operated by 360 DEV LLC. In this policy, "we," "us" and "our" mean 360 DEV LLC as the operator of this website. For any question about this policy, use the contact form.
What we collect directly
The only information you actively give us is what you type into a form and send: your email, optional name, topic and message when you use the contact form, or your description, the page, any assistive technology you mention and your optional email when you send an accessibility report. If you never send a form, we don't have any of it. We don't ask for your address, phone number, identity documents, health information, payment details or details about bikes you own, and please don't send them.
We use a message or report to reply to you, to check and correct the guide, or to look into what you raised. We may also use it to run, protect and improve the site, and to comply with the law. We don't sell it or rent it.
Form entries are processed and stored by Netlify, which hosts this site, under its own privacy terms.
Saved rides and other things kept in your browser
Some things are kept in your own browser's local storage, not in cookies: the rides you save with My rides (a list of route names) and your answer to the analytics question. They stay on your device and are not sent to us. The ride-time planner and the bike-on-transit checker work entirely in your browser; what you type into them is not sent anywhere. If you share your saved rides, the list of routes travels inside the link itself. Clearing this site's data in your browser, or Clear all on My rides, removes them.
Rides near me. If you press "Rides near me", your browser asks whether to share your location. If you agree, the location is used only inside your browser to sort rides by distance. It is not sent to us, stored, or passed to analytics. The site has no feature that tracks a ride.
Maps
Route maps show map tiles loaded directly from the National Land Surveying and Mapping Center of Taiwan's Ministry of the Interior (wmts.nlsc.gov.tw). Like any website, that server receives your IP address and browser details when your browser requests a tile. Maps load only on pages that have them. Route lines come from files on this site.
Analytics and cookies
Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics, a service of Google LLC, to see which pages help so we can improve them. It runs only if you choose Allow, and never if your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track. When it runs, it sets first-party cookies named _ga and _ga_TLMJS7DYW9, which last up to two years unless you clear them or choose No thanks, and it collects the pages you view, your approximate location derived from your IP address, your device and browser type, and how you arrived. We look at this in aggregate. Saved rides and anything you type into the site's tools are not sent to analytics. We do count when the ride-time planner is used and which listed ride was picked, never the distances or times you enter. Google explains how it uses this data in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services; see also the Google Privacy Policy.
Google Tag Manager is the container that loads Google Analytics. It also loads only after you choose Allow. Until then, no analytics cookies are set and nothing is sent to Google. When you allow analytics, our settings keep Google's advertising storage and ad personalization switched off.
Our fonts, images, styles and scripts, including the map software, are served from this site itself; map tiles are the one exception, described above. We don't use advertising cookies, and we don't sell personal information or share it for targeted advertising.
Links to other sites
Route pages link to official sources, operators, map services such as Google Maps, and businesses. When you follow a link, the other site's own privacy terms apply.
Hosting and server logs
Like any website, our host, Netlify, records technical logs such as IP address and browser type to run and protect the service. Photos are free-to-use images from Pexels, stored and served from this site, so viewing them sends nothing to Pexels.
Privacy choices
- Analytics: change or withdraw your choice with the button above or the Privacy choices link at the bottom of every page. Choosing No thanks after Allow stops analytics and deletes its cookies.
- Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track: if your browser sends either signal, we treat it as No thanks.
- Your browser: block or delete cookies and site data in your browser settings. The site works without them, apart from saved rides.
Requests under privacy laws
Depending on where you live, privacy laws, such as Taiwan's Personal Data Protection Act, the EU and UK GDPR, or some US state laws, may give you rights over your personal information, such as access, correction or deletion. Where such a law applies to us and gives you a right, you can make a request through the contact form, and we will respond as that law requires. We may need to verify your identity, and we may decline or limit a request where the law allows. Where the law gives you the right to complain to a data protection authority, that right is not affected.
For visitors in the EEA, UK and Switzerland: analytics runs only with your prior consent, which you can withdraw at any time. We rely on our legitimate interests to answer messages and to run, protect and improve the site.
When we may share information
We share information with the service providers that run the site, Netlify and, if you allow analytics, Google, as described above. We may also disclose information if we believe it is required by law or legal process, or needed to protect our rights, property or safety or those of others. If the site or its assets are sold, merged or otherwise transferred, information we hold may be transferred as part of that transaction.
Retention, transfers and security
We keep information for as long as we need it for the purposes above, or as the law requires, and copies may remain in backups. We and our providers process information in the United States and other countries. No method of sending or storing data is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of information you send us.
Children
This site is written for adults planning rides and travel. It is not directed at children, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16.
Changes
We may update this policy at any time by posting a new version here; changes take effect when posted. If a translation of this policy differs from this English version, the English version controls.
Contact
Questions about this policy or the Terms of Use, or a request under privacy laws: use the contact form.