Privacy

Last updated 28 October 2026

The short version

• No accounts and no advertising trackers. We use Google Analytics, which sets cookies, and Talvess, which uses browser storage, to count visits and see which pages are used.
• Your map settings stay in your browser.
• We don't sell or share personal data. Request logs are deleted within 7 days.

What stays in your browser

airy.earth keeps two things in your browser's local storage: your map settings (basemap, globe or flat view, which layers are on, and US or European AQI) and whether you have dismissed the first-visit hint. They never leave your device; clearing this site's data removes them.

The address bar shows the map view and the selected place after the #. Browsers don't send that part of the link to servers, but it is included if you share the link.

Your location

Only when you press "My location" does your browser ask to share your position. It is used in your browser to move the map and is not sent to us. As with any online map, loading the map for that area lets the map tile providers below see which area was loaded.

What reaches our servers

When you pick a place, our server receives its coordinates to look up the forecast and the place name. It passes the coordinates, not your IP address, to Open-Meteo (forecast) and to the OpenStreetMap Foundation's Nominatim (place name), and caches the answers by location.

Hosting and logs

The site runs on Cloudflare, which processes each request (including your IP address, browser and the page or data requested) to deliver and protect the site. Our server's request logs, which can include the coordinates of places you picked, are kept in Cloudflare for up to 7 days to fix problems and are then deleted. Cloudflare may set a strictly necessary security cookie if it needs to tell people from automated traffic.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how many people visit and which pages and features they use. It sets first-party cookies (_ga and _ga_*) that give your browser a random identifier, and sends Google the pages you view, your browser and device type, approximate location derived from your IP address, and how you arrived at the site. We use these reports only in aggregate. You can block it with a content blocker or Google's opt-out add-on, or by clearing and blocking this site's cookies.

We also use Talvess to count visits and measure how fast pages load. It sets no cookies. It keeps a random visitor identifier in this site's local storage and the current visit in session storage, and sends Talvess the page path (never the query string or the part after #), those random identifiers, how you arrived at the site, how long the page was in use and page-speed measurements. Talvess also receives your IP address and browser details with each request. You can block it with a content blocker or by clearing and blocking this site's stored data.

Services your browser contacts directly

These providers receive your IP address and browser details under their own privacy policies:

• Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com): the typefaces.
• Google Analytics (www.googletagmanager.com, www.google-analytics.com): visit statistics, described above.
• Talvess (talvess.vercel.app): visit statistics and page speed, described above.
• OpenFreeMap (tiles.openfreemap.org): map tiles and labels.
• NASA GIBS (gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov): satellite and night-lights imagery.
• Amazon Web Services (openmeteo.s3.amazonaws.com): Open-Meteo's open wind data.
• Photon by komoot (photon.komoot.io): receives what you type into the search box.

Your choices and rights

Because there are no accounts or profiles, we usually hold nothing that identifies you beyond short-lived logs and the random Google Analytics and Talvess identifiers. You can block location access in your browser and clear this site's stored data at any time.

For privacy questions or requests, email contact@airy.earth.

Changes

If what the site collects changes, this page changes with it and the date above is updated.