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This page explains what Weather Tomorrow collects when you use it, and what it does not. In short: there are no accounts, and the only place the site asks for your name or email address is the contact form, which you use only if you want to write to us. We count visits with Google Analytics, some pages show ads from Adsterra, and the place you choose is kept in your own browser.

What we do not collect

  • The site has no accounts and no sign-up. It asks for your name and email address only on the contact form, and both are optional there.
  • We do not store your precise location. The sections below explain how location is used.

Analytics

On weathertommorow.com we use Google Analytics 4 to count page views and to measure how fast pages load (web vitals timings, such as how long the main content takes to appear). For each page view, your browser sends Google the page's address and title. Google Analytics uses cookies to tell visits apart, and receives your IP address and basic browser details. Google explains its use of this data in how Google uses information from sites that use its services and in its privacy policy.

“Use my location”

  • The site asks for your location only when you tap “Use my location”. Your browser then asks your permission.
  • If you allow it, your coordinates are rounded to two decimal places, about 1 km, before they leave your browser. The rounded coordinates are sent to the site to find the nearest place we have a forecast for.
  • The site does not store your coordinates. Only the place it found is kept, in your browser.

Approximate location

If you have not chosen a place, the homepage and the two rain pages (Will it rain tomorrow and What time will it rain tomorrow) ask the site for an approximate location. Our hosting provider, Vercel, works it out from your internet (IP) address. It is used only to pick which forecast those pages show, which is then labelled “approximate” where it appears. It is not stored, by the site or in your browser. Outside the United States it is not used at all.

What you type in the search box is sent to the site to find matching places. The site does not store your searches.

Contact form

  • When you send a message through the contact form, the site receives what you wrote in it: your name and email address if you gave them (both are optional), the topic you chose and your message. If you opened the form from another page of this site, the address of that page is sent too. Your browser also sends how long the form was open, which is used only to filter out automated messages.
  • Your message is saved privately with our hosting provider, Vercel, where only the people who run the site can read it. Your IP address is not saved with it.
  • If you gave an email address, a reply comes to that address. Nothing else is done with it: it is not added to any mailing list and not shared with anyone.
  • Messages are kept until we delete them.
  • To stop one sender flooding the inbox, the site counts messages from each IP address for 10 minutes, in memory only; the count is not stored.

Bot protection

When you use the contact form, Vercel BotID runs a check in your browser that reads browser and device signals to tell people from automated scripts. The check is processed by Vercel; see Vercel's privacy notice. It runs only on the contact page, and may set cookies of its own for the check.

What is kept in your browser

The site keeps two small items in your browser's local storage: the place you last chose, so the site can show it next time, and whether you closed the advertising notice. The place is saved when you pick a place in search, open a ZIP code's forecast on the homepage or use “Use my location”. The homepage and the rain pages read it to load that place's forecast. Clearing this site's data in your browser removes both.

  • Local storage, wt:loc:v1: The place you last chose (its name and the link to its forecast), how you chose it and when. Never coordinates.
  • Local storage, wt-ad-notice-dismissed: That you closed the advertising notice, so it does not show again.

Google Analytics and the ad network set their own cookies, as described in the sections on analytics and advertising, and the bot check on the contact page may set its own (see bot protection above).

Advertising

  • Some pages show display banners from Adsterra. Each banner loads in its own frame, after the rest of the page has loaded and only when you scroll near it.
  • Adsterra's ad code runs on our pages the way an ad network's standard code would, so it can read what this site stores in your browser, such as the two items above and the Google Analytics cookies. The ads it shows load in separate frames that cannot take you to another page unless you tap them, and nothing in the ad frames can ask for your location, camera or microphone.
  • Adsterra and its partners may set cookies and collect information about your device and how you use the site, such as your IP address and browser type, to show ads and count them. See Adsterra's privacy policy.
  • We do not sell personal data for money. Some US state laws treat letting an ad network collect device data through cookies as a sale or sharing of personal data. We honour a Global Privacy Control signal as an opt-out: when your browser sends one, the site shows no ads and no ad cookies are set.
  • The site also shows no ads when your device's time zone is in the European Union, the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area.
  • A short notice appears the first time ads are shown to you.

Hosting

The site is hosted by Vercel. Like any web server, it receives your IP address and the address of each page or request your browser makes. Vercel's privacy notice covers what it keeps.

Changes to this policy

When this policy changes, we update this page and the date at the top. Questions about it can be sent through our contact form.

See also our terms of use and about page.