Privacy policy

When you sign in, eBay gives Shipped Map read-only access to your orders. eBay’s order data includes each buyer’s name, shipping address, registered address, phone number and email, and eBay doesn’t offer a way to share less.

Each time your map updates (about once a day, when you open it after a day away, or when you press Resync), Shipped Map reads from each order only the sale date and time, item titles, prices, quantities and amount, your SKUs, whether it sold at auction, Buy It Now or by Best Offer, through a promoted listing or with one of your promotions, which eBay site the buyer used, whether it went through eBay International Shipping, the date it had to ship by, the city, state, ZIP code and country it went to, and whether that’s the buyer’s own state or country. For orders from the last 90 days it also asks eBay when they shipped. The ZIP code is used to find the city and then dropped. The buyer’s eBay username is turned into a one-way code, used only to count repeat buyers, and then dropped. Buyers’ names, streets, phone numbers and emails are never read. Your own eBay user ID, which is on every order, is used to look up your listings in eBay’s public search, and isn’t kept from it.

The orders are held in memory only while your map is built (about a minute), and are never written to our database, logs or files.

To sort items into eBay’s broad categories (like “Toys & Hobbies”), each item title is sent to eBay’s own category service. Only the title is sent, nothing about the buyer or about you.

• Your eBay user ID, used only to recognize you when you sign in again and to act on eBay account-closure notices. We don’t store your eBay email or password. We store your eBay username while your map links to your eBay listings, which it does unless you turn that off (see below).
• An encrypted eBay refresh token with read-only access to your order information (sell.fulfillment.readonly) and your basic eBay identity (commerce.identity.readonly). It can’t change listings, orders, messages or account settings.
• Your display name, profile address and privacy settings.
• Your map: how many orders went to each city, sale dates, quantities, sale amounts, the titles of your best-selling listings, and your main eBay categories. Each city is placed at its center, never at a buyer’s street or ZIP code. Signed in, you see all of it, with the stats worked out from it; visitors see only what your privacy settings allow.
• Your insights, which only you can see: the hour each order was placed, whether it sold at auction or Buy It Now, your top items and how many orders in each eBay category went to each state or country, how many orders went abroad and from which eBay sites, what items sold for (including Best Offers, promoted listings, your promotions and your SKUs), how long recent orders took to ship (from the ship dates eBay records, looked up for the last 90 days), how many buyers came back (counted from a one-way code, never their usernames), and how many orders went to another state than the buyer’s own address, and the titles, days and eBay item numbers of your newest sales, for the homepage’s list of recent sales (below). At each update we also read your active listings from eBay’s public search, under the eBay user ID on your orders, and keep only counts and totals: how many, their asking prices, how long they’ve been up, and your public feedback score. They’re never shown on your public map, and they’re deleted with the rest of your data.
• A list of eBay categories for item titles, shared by everyone’s maps, so a title is only looked up once. It keeps a one-way code made from each title, never the title itself, and nothing about who sold it.
• While your map links to your eBay listings: a copy of your newest ones as eBay’s public search shows them (item numbers, titles, prices, photo addresses and eBay categories), and of the listings of the recent sales the homepage lists for you, kept for up to six hours so pages don’t ask eBay on every visit.

Buyers’ names, eBay usernames, email addresses, phone numbers, street addresses, ZIP codes and order numbers. Orders are read from eBay, reduced to per-city totals in memory, and the full order records are discarded without being saved.

• Nothing, until you share your map’s link or make it public. Private maps are visible only to you.
• Your insights (when orders come in, what sells where, international orders, how items sold, how quickly you ship, your buyers and your inventory) are never shown on your map, even a public one. The only parts that reach a public page are on the homepage, below: category names combined with other sellers’, a replayed sale’s category when it’s one your map already shows, and the titles of some recent sales, with their listings’ photos and links while your map links to your eBay listings.
• Shared and public maps show destinations at city level (or state level, if you choose), your home base at the level you choose, the month of each sale (never the exact day), your best-selling listings and up to three main eBay categories (for the whole map, never by place), and dollar amounts only if you turn them on. A city that got only one order shows as its state (or its country, abroad), so a single sale can’t point to one buyer.
• The leaderboard and the globe on the homepage include only maps their owners made public, shown under the map’s name with that owner’s privacy settings. A map joins the globe from its second sale. The leaderboard can also be viewed month by month and by a map’s main eBay categories, worked out from the same public map (sale months, never days). Each month’s trophies and medals are worked out the same way, from the public maps now, so they move when another public map beats them; making yours private takes yours away.
• The homepage names eBay’s broad categories in two places, combined across the maps on its globe: up to three most shipped to the destination of the day, and up to three most shipped on the last full day and in the last seven days. A category is only named once at least 3 sellers and 5 orders are behind it, and no item titles, places or counts are shown, so it can’t be traced to any one seller. Until then, the homepage lists the main categories those maps already show. The globe’s replay of past sales also shows each one’s broad category, but only when it’s among the up to three your public map already shows; any other is shown as “Other”. Never the item’s title or price.
• The homepage lists the titles of up to 2 of each public map’s sales from the last 90 days, under the map’s name, but only from months in which that map shows sales to at least 4 different places. We never show the date, the price or where it went. eBay’s own listing shows when it sold, which is why titles only come from months with sales to that many places: a title can’t be narrowed to fewer of the globe’s places. While your map links to your eBay listings, each shows its listing’s photo from eBay and opens the listing on eBay, for as long as eBay still shows it (about 90 days after it ends).
• Your map links to your eBay listings unless you turn that off, when you first save your map or any time in Settings. While it’s on, your public map, leaderboard entry and the homepage’s list of sellers link to your eBay profile, and your map shows your newest listings by eBay category (titles, photos, prices and categories, from eBay’s public search). If your map is public, your newest listings also appear on the shop page and next to your name on the leaderboard. Each listing opens on eBay with our eBay Partner Network code, so eBay may pay us a commission when someone buys through it (see Visitors, below). We read your username from eBay to build the link (it’s never typed in) and check it each time your map updates in case it changes. The copy of your newest listings is read from eBay again once it’s an hour old, never shown once it’s five hours old, and deleted after six. Every page checks that your link is still on before showing it. Turning the link off deletes your username and that copy at once.

• Use Delete my data at any time to remove your map, settings and eBay access immediately.
• If you close your eBay account, eBay notifies us and we delete your data automatically.
• If you revoke this app’s access on eBay, your map stops updating and is made private after 30 days unless you reconnect.

• If you join the waitlist, we store your email address, when you signed up and confirmed, and whether you’ve been invited. Nothing else: no name and no IP address.
• It’s used only to confirm the address (sent again only if you sign up again) and, later, to send one invite. No newsletters or marketing, and it’s never shared or sold. Our emails don’t track whether you open them or click.
• Unconfirmed addresses are deleted 7 days after the confirmation email (or 30 days after signing up, if a busy day held that email back so long). Unsubscribing (a link in every email, or your mail app’s unsubscribe button) deletes yours immediately. Once you’re invited, it’s deleted when you connect eBay, or if you don’t, a day after the invite expires (invites last 30 days).
• Emails are sent through Resend, which handles your address only to deliver them and keeps delivery logs for up to 30 days. See Resend’s privacy policy.

There are no ads, and nothing on this site tracks you from site to site; links to eBay carry a partner code, described below. To count visits we use Vercel Web Analytics, which sets no cookies and stores no IP addresses: it records the page (without any codes in the link), the site you came from, your country and region, and your browser and device type, and only ever reports them as totals. The hash that tells one visit from another is discarded after 24 hours.

Signed-in sellers get one essential cookie to keep them signed in, a second that only tells the menu to show “Your map”, and a short-lived one while signing in with eBay. Opening a waitlist invite keeps it in a cookie until it’s used or expires, so it works from any page, and confirming a waitlist spot sets one that only says so, so sign-in can tell you what happens next. Neither holds your email address. Your light or dark theme and accent color choices are saved in your browser only. Signing out revokes all of that seller’s sessions. The site is hosted on Vercel, and seller data is stored with Neon (database); Vercel Blob only caches public postal-code files. These providers keep standard server logs to run the service. See Vercel’s privacy policy. Postal-code locations come from GeoNames, matched without sending any buyer information to them.

When a page shows eBay listings, or photos of sold items, the photos load straight from eBay’s servers, so eBay sees your IP address as it would on its own site. The page you’re on isn’t sent with them. Maps of sellers who don’t link their listings never contact eBay from your browser.

Links to eBay carry our eBay Partner Network code, which says where on Shipped Map the link was (the shop, a seller’s map, the homepage or the leaderboard), and tell eBay you came from this site: its address only, never the page or who you are. eBay uses them to pay us a commission if you buy something. Once you’re on eBay, eBay’s own privacy notice and cookies apply.

Questions or deletion requests: hello@shippedmap.com. See also the terms of use.