Privacy, in plain language
The site is designed to work without an account, a tracking pixel, or a data broker.
What we store
- Session cookie. A first-party cookie keeps form security tokens and flash messages working. It contains no advertising identifier.
- Display preferences. Small cookies remember °F/°C and your choice of a 12-hour or 24-hour clock.
- Email alerts. If you sign up, we store the address, chosen city, local delivery hour, confirmation state, and a keyed hash of the signup IP to prevent abuse. The raw signup IP is not kept. Delivery records and hashed recipient counts help prevent duplicate messages and enforce mail limits.
- Server logs. Errors may be logged with a request path and technical detail. We do not run a third-party analytics script.
What we do not do
We do not sell addresses, send unrelated marketing, or use your location for advertising. The “use my location” button runs in your browser; coordinates go to our nearest-city endpoint and are not written to a database.
Private coordinate plans and notes
A coordinate plan stores your rounded coordinates, chosen time zone and observing date for up to 24 hours. Its random reference works only with the browser session that created it. You can delete the plan from its page. Coordinates are sent to MET Norway to request weather; the provider cache is eligible for removal after two days and is cleared by the daily cleanup. Ordinary web-server and security logs may retain request metadata under the host's logging policy.
Observing notes are optional and saved only in your browser's local storage. They are not uploaded or included in email alerts. Use Delete notes to clear a plan's saved note or clear this site's storage in your browser to remove all notes. Export creates a JSON file on your device.
Email delivery
Signing up sends a confirmation message. Observing alerts begin only after you click its confirmation link. Every alert includes a signed unsubscribe link. Delivery records are retained for up to 90 days; mail-limit records are retained for up to 30 days.
Removal
Unsubscribe from any alert email, or contact us and ask for the address to be removed. Email [email protected].
Third parties
Our server requests forecasts from the US National Weather Service and MET Norway using the listed city's coordinates, or the coordinates you submit for a private plan. Your email address is not sent to these weather providers. The site does not embed social widgets, remote fonts, or third-party scripts.