Privacy policy

Last updated November 13, 2026

InkMapp is a map of tattoo shops and artists, run by Rudder Digital in Oklahoma City (“InkMapp”, “we”, “us”). This explains what we collect when you use inkmapp.com, why, who else handles it, and what you can do about it.

If you’re looking for a tattoo

• Your location. If you tap “Use my location”, your browser asks first. Your position goes from your browser to Mapbox to find the nearest city; it isn’t sent to us or stored by us. Places you type in the search box go to Mapbox too. The place you pick is saved in your own browser so the map opens there next time.
• The coverage calculator. Your drawing, color and name stay in your browser. Nothing you draw is uploaded. A share image is made on your device, and only goes where you send it.
• Page views and taps. When you open a shop or artist page, or tap Call, Directions, Website, Instagram and the like, we add one to that page’s count for the day. We don’t store your name, IP address or anything else with the count. Shops and artists see these totals for their own page.
• Google Analytics. Google Analytics tells us which pages get used and roughly where visitors are. Google collects things like your device, browser, approximate location and the pages you view, and sets cookies to do it. You can block it with Google’s opt-out add-on or a tracker blocker; the site works the same.
• Notify-me lists. If you join a list (a city launching, for example), we keep your first name, email and which list. We use them to email you about that, and nothing else. Every email lets you leave the list, or just email us.
• Your visit. Like any website, our server sees your IP address and browser. We keep them with your browsing session so the site works and to stop abuse, and the session is cleared out after two hours without use.

If you have an account

Accounts are for tattoo shops and artists. Here’s what we keep:

• Your account. Your first and last name, email address, whether you signed up as a shop owner or an artist, and when you last signed in.
• Signing in. We don’t use passwords. Each sign-in link and code is saved with the email it went to, the IP address that asked for it and when, so we can spot misuse. Links work once and expire after 15 minutes.
• Your page. What you add to a shop or artist page is shown publicly, to anyone, and can be found by search engines. For artists that can include your name, handle, home shop, styles, about text, prices, phone number, Instagram and Facebook, profile photo, portfolio, license number, and whether your books are open or you’re taking walk-ins. For shops, it can include the name, address, phone, email, hours, styles, logo, photos, license and the artists who work there.
• Photos. We resize every photo you upload and save a new copy. That drops the hidden details your camera stores, like where the photo was taken.
• Licenses. If you give a license number, we check it against state records before your page says “State licensed”.
• Changes you make. We log what was changed on a page, by which login, and when (for example, “edited the shop page: hours”). It helps us support you and spot problems.
• Invites. When a shop invites someone to help run its page or join its artist list, we keep that person’s email and send them the invite.

Pages we made from public information

Many shop and artist pages start before anyone claims them, from public sources such as state license records and a shop’s own website and social media. If it’s your shop or your name, you can claim the page, or email us to correct it or have it taken down.

How we use it

• To run InkMapp: show the map and pages, sign you in and keep your page up to date.
• To email you: sign-in links, invites, notices about your page or account, and lists you joined.
• To show shops and artists how their page is doing.
• To keep the site safe: stop spam, fake pages and misuse.
• To learn what’s working and make InkMapp better.
• To advertise InkMapp, for example on Instagram and Facebook (see “Ads and sponsors” below).
• When the law requires it.

We don’t sell or rent your personal information, and we never will.

Ads and sponsors

InkMapp will never run ad networks. No Google ads, no Facebook ads, no ads from outside companies, ever.

Tattoo shops listed on InkMapp may one day pay to sponsor or feature their spot on the site. Those spots will always be clearly labeled, and sponsors don’t get your personal information.

Separately, we may run ads for InkMapp on social media such as Instagram and Facebook. To show those ads to the right people and see whether they work, we may:

• add an ad platform’s tools to our pages, which tell that platform you visited InkMapp so it can show you our ads later;
• give an ad platform a scrambled (hashed) copy of email addresses from accounts or notify-me lists, so it can show our ads to the people it matches, or to people like them. The platform uses it only for our ads.

Those are ads for InkMapp only. We never let other businesses use our information to advertise to you. To be left out, email neill@inkmapp.com and we’ll leave your email out of anything we give an ad platform. You can also change your ad settings on each platform, and block their tools in your browser.

Who else handles it

A few companies run parts of InkMapp for us and only get what they need to do that:

• Hostinger hosts the site and its database.
• Mailgun delivers our emails.
• Mapbox draws the maps and looks up places you search for or share.
• Google provides Google Analytics.
• Social media platforms, such as Meta (Instagram and Facebook), if we run ads with them, as described above.
• jsDelivr serves some of the code the pages load, so it sees your IP address like any website you visit.

We’d also share information if the law requires it, to protect people or InkMapp from harm, or with whoever takes over InkMapp if it’s ever sold or transferred, under this same policy.

Cookies and browser storage

• Session and security cookies keep the site working and protect forms. They end when the session does.
• A remember-me cookie, if you sign in, keeps you signed in for up to about a year, until you sign out.
• Google Analytics cookies count visits. They can last up to two years.
• Ad platform cookies, if we add an ad platform’s tools, help that platform show and measure our ads. The platform sets how long they last.
• Browser storage holds your chosen place and your coverage drawing, on your device only.

You can clear or block cookies in your browser. If you block the session cookies, signing in won’t work.

How long we keep it

• Account and page information: while your account or page exists. When you ask us to delete it, we do so within 30 days, apart from what we have to keep by law and copies in backups, which are overwritten over time.
• Notify-me lists: until you leave the list or we no longer need it.
• Page view and tap counts: kept as totals, which aren’t linked to anyone.
• Sign-in records and the change log: as long as they’re useful for security and support.

Your choices

• See and fix it. Most of what we keep about you is on your account page, where you can change it any time.
• Get a copy or delete it. Email neill@inkmapp.com to ask for a copy of your information, or to delete your account or page. We may need to confirm it’s you, and we’ll answer within 30 days.
• Stop emails. Leave a list from the email, or tell us. We still send sign-in links you ask for.
• Location, analytics and ads. Don’t share your location, block Google Analytics or ad tools, or ask us to leave you out of ads, and the site still works.

Some states give their residents more privacy rights. We honor these requests from anyone, wherever they live.

Children

InkMapp isn’t for children under 13, and accounts are for people 18 and over. We don’t knowingly collect information from children under 13. If you think a child has given us information, email us and we’ll delete it.

Keeping it safe

We use encrypted connections, don’t store passwords, and limit who can see account information. No website is perfectly secure, but if something goes wrong that affects you, we’ll tell you.

Changes

When this policy changes, we’ll update the date at the top. If a change matters to account holders, we’ll email them first.

Contact

Rudder Digital, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Email neill@inkmapp.com.

See also our Terms of use.