Privacy

Last updated November 12, 2026.

Grid Globe has no account, sets no cookie and keeps no record of who uses it. Everything you see is worked out in your browser.

The map's pictures come from other hosts

The globe is drawn from map tiles that your browser fetches straight from the organizations that publish them: NASA (the view from space), EOX IT Services (Sentinel-2 satellite imagery), Esri (street-level imagery), Amazon Web Services (terrain heights, from the Registry of Open Data) and OpenFreeMap (place and street names, from OpenStreetMap). Should one of them fail, your browser asks a stand-in instead: Mapterhorn for the terrain heights, and in the United States the U.S. Geological Survey for the street-level imagery. Like any web host, each receives your IP address and the address of this page in order to deliver the tiles. Their names are on the map's attribution line. None of them is told where on the globe you looked beyond the tiles you fetched.

Searching for a place

As you type a place's name, each time you pause, the words typed so far go to komoot's Photon (opens in a new tab) service, which suggests places from OpenStreetMap's data. When you press Enter, the words go to OpenStreetMap's Nominatim service, which answers with the places that match, under its usage policy (opens in a new tab). Like any web host, each receives your IP address with the words; neither is told anything else about you. Coordinates you type, and links you paste, are read in your browser and sent to neither, even half typed.

A point's height

The height shown beside a point is read from the terrain tile that holds it, about 800 meters across, which your browser fetches from Amazon Web Services' Registry of Open Data, or from Mapterhorn should Amazon fail: on the globe as it fetches the map's tiles, and on the converter only when you press Look up. So Amazon, or Mapterhorn, receives which tile was asked for, and with it where the point is to within about a kilometer; the coordinate itself is sent nowhere.

Find my location

The Find my location button asks your browser for your position, with your permission, and moves the globe there. Your position is shown to you and sent to no one.

Links you share

A link you copy carries the view, the grid you chose and any pinned point in its address. It is stored nowhere; whoever opens it sees the same view.

Feedback you send

A report you send with Feedback goes to Hub Nexus (hubnx.com), the team that makes Grid Globe. It carries what you write, whether it is a problem or an idea, your email address if you give one, the page's address (which includes the view you were looking at), your screen's size and pixel density, your browser, language and light or dark mode, and, sent from any page but the feedback page itself, a picture of the page as you saw it, with anything you blacked out painted over before it leaves your browser.

Hub Nexus keeps each report for 90 days and emails it to the people who build Grid Globe. They use reports to fix and improve it and to reply if you asked, and do not sell or share them. Ask for one to be deleted at globe@hubnx.com; Hub Nexus's privacy policy (opens in a new tab) covers how it keeps them.

Hosting

The pages are served by Amazon Web Services. Like any web host, it receives your IP address in order to deliver them. There is no analytics script and no visitor count.

Contact

Grid Globe is provided by HubNX, Inc., the company behind Hub Nexus. Write to globe@hubnx.com.