Ferry · Toronto Islands

Privacy

Ferry does not require an account. The timetable and countdowns are calculated in your browser from the published summer schedule, and precise location is never sold or included in analytics.

Analytics and advertising

We use privacy-conscious page-view analytics to understand how the site is used, and may use advertising cookies (such as Meta and Google) so that people who visit Ferry can later see ads for it elsewhere. These cookies only load after you accept them in the cookie banner, and they never receive your precise location or in-app coordinates — only ordinary page-view and browser information. You can decline at any time; every timetable feature keeps working either way.

When you share location

Location is optional and requested only after you choose Use my location and approve the browser prompt. Your position is kept in the open page, is not saved by Ferry, is never sent to analytics or advertising providers, and is removed when you close or reload the page.

To give you a real walking or cycling time instead of a straight-line guess, Ferry sends your latitude and longitude, rounded to four decimal places (about 10 metres), to the public Valhalla OpenStreetMap.de routing service as soon as location is shared, and again after you move a meaningful distance. The provider also receives ordinary request information such as your IP address. Coordinates are sent in the request body rather than the URL. If that service is unavailable, Ferry shows a clearly labelled Approx. straight-line estimate calculated on your device instead.

Maps and external links

The map is not loaded until you open Map view. It uses Leaflet from unpkg and map tiles from OpenStreetMap; those providers receive ordinary request information, including your IP address. Links to City of Toronto or other sites are governed by those sites' privacy practices.

Your control

• Decline analytics and advertising cookies in the banner, or change your choice later from the link in the footer.
• Decline location and continue using every timetable feature.
• Revoke location permission in your browser settings at any time.
• Reload or close the page to clear its in-memory location.

Last updated July 12, 2026.