Privacy

Placeholder. This page is a draft and will be rewritten. It describes how the site works today.

HikeDay has no accounts and doesn't ask for your name or email. Here's what happens when you use it.

Analytics

HikeDay uses Vercel Web Analytics to count page views and see which pages are used. It doesn't set cookies. The part of a link after the “?”, which can hold a shared forecast's coordinates and place name, is removed before the page view is sent.

Your location

• Approximate location: to start the map near you, the site reads the rough location our host (Vercel) derives from your IP address. It isn't stored.
• Precise location: only if you allow it in your browser. It's used in your browser to move the map and isn't sent to HikeDay unless you open a forecast for that spot.

Forecasts

When you open a point forecast, the coordinates you picked go to HikeDay's server, which requests that forecast from the National Weather Service API. Place search sends what you type to HikeDay's server.

Stored in your browser

Saved places, and whether you've seen the welcome notice, are kept in your browser's local storage. They never leave your device, and clearing your browser's site data removes them.

Service providers

The site is hosted on Vercel, and map data is served from Cloudflare. Like most web hosts, they may keep standard request logs, such as IP addresses and pages requested. Map tiles come from Esri.

Questions

See Contact.