Privacy
Last updated November 11, 2026.
This site has no accounts, no ads and no advertising trackers. We don't collect personal information through the pages themselves.
Your location
The site asks for your location only when you tap Near me or Use my location (on Open now, Last Train and the maps). Your browser then asks you for permission. If you have already allowed it for this site, Open now and Last Train use it again on later visits without a new prompt; you can withdraw that permission in your browser's site settings. The position is used inside your browser to sort places by distance and to pick the closest station. It is never sent to our server. For the length of your visit (until you close the tab) your browser keeps a rounded copy of it, about a city block, so Near me stays on as you move between pages; it is not kept after that. If your browser cannot share a location, or you say no, you can pick an area or type a ZIP or neighborhood name instead: that is matched in your browser from a short list and nothing is sent. What does reach our server is the ID of the station picked, such as the one for Park Street, so we can fetch its train times. On a map, the view moves to where you are, so the map tiles it then loads (see Maps below) show roughly that area. If you say no, everything still works; you pick an area, a ZIP or a station by hand.
The 21+ question
The gate is a Yes or No question. There is no date of birth and no ID check. A Yes is remembered as a single flag on your device so you aren't asked at every visit; a No sends you away from the site.
What's stored on your device
Two small items, both in your browser's local storage and never sent to us: the 21+ yes flag, and the area you last picked on Open now or the cannabis pages so it can be pre-selected next time. Clear your browser's site data to remove them. We set no cookies.
Live data
The Last Train boxes (on Last Train, Open now, the map and the neighborhood and venue pages) ask our server for MBTA service data. Each request carries a station or route ID and nothing about you. Our server forwards that ID to the MBTA and keeps a short-lived copy of the answer so the same train times can be reused for other visitors. The Tonight events board is switched off.
Analytics and server logs
We don't run any analytics on the pages. If we add privacy-friendly, cookieless visit counting (Cloudflare Web Analytics), this page will say so before it goes live.
The host (Cloudflare) also keeps standard request logs for security and operation. We don't use them to identify you.
Maps
Map pages load map tiles from OpenFreeMap, a third party. Loading them sends your IP address and the tiles you view to that service, as with any map. Fonts and images are served from this site.
If you write to [email protected], we use your message only to reply and fix the listing. See also our terms.