What fathun.mv stores, and what stays on your phone.
Saved places, recently viewed places, the A–Z category order and My brands live in this browser’s storage. They are not an account — there is no password account. Clearing site data removes them.
After you reply to our WhatsApp confirmation, the link we send stores an HttpOnly cookie named fathun_submitter on this browser for about 30 days. It lets the site show that you are signed in and how many draw entries you have. It is not a password. Clearing site data removes it.
If you suggest a place, we store what you submit (a photo, a name or a link, and any phone, category, note, or which guide you were reading) so we can review it and update the directory. Don’t send a photo you don’t want kept for that review.
Pages send a first-party count to fathun.mv: the path, whether it looks like a first visit today, the referrer host, and taps on call, WhatsApp, map and similar links. Country comes from the Cloudflare edge. That counter does not store your IP address.
We set one anonymous cookie to count returning visitors. No ads, no tracking across other sites.
That cookie is fh_vid, a random id, plus fh_fs, the date first seen. It lasts up to a year, is only for fathun.mv, and is mirrored in this browser’s storage if a cookie is blocked. A staff browser (?fathun_staff=1 or ?staff=1) does not set it.
The count also includes coarse device buckets: phone, tablet or desktop, operating system and browser family with major version only, a screen-width bucket, and the language. An Android model is included only when the browser reports it as a model name. The full user-agent string is not stored.
Automated requests are counted as well. Fetches of the public directory, the shop catalog, search, and listing pages are grouped by the kind of program that asked, such as a search crawler or an AI assistant. Only that kind, the kind of file or page, and the count are stored. The raw user-agent, the IP address, and any search text are not. If a person arrived from an assistant site and then taps call or WhatsApp, that tap is counted with the same kind of source.
Each business page also keeps a running total of its views and of those taps, by month and overall. The total is a count only. It does not store a name, a phone number, or an IP address.
Opening a page with ?fathun_staff=1 (or ?staff=1) stores a fathun_staff cookie on that browser for a year and leaves it out of these counts, promo ratings, and the help chat. ?nochats=1 only keeps the chat closed.
Cloudflare also serves the site and sees the connection the way any host does.
Some pages may show a short help chat asking what you are looking for. A phone number is saved only if you tick “OK for fathun to WhatsApp me about this”. We do not message you automatically. Closing the chat is remembered on this device until the next day. Add ?nochats=1 to a page address to keep the chat closed in that tab.