Privacy Policy
Chase the Sunset (“we”, “the site”) forecasts how good tonight’s sunset or tomorrow’s sunrise will be where you are. This page explains what data the site handles. The short version: there are no accounts, no database, no ads, and we don’t sell your data.
What we handle
| Data | Why | Where it goes |
|---|---|---|
| Your location. If you tap “Use my location”, your browser shares your device’s position after you allow it. Without that, we estimate your city from your IP address (using the location Vercel attaches to the request) or your time zone. | To fetch the forecast for where you are. | Coordinates are sent to Open-Meteo (weather and air quality), BigDataCloud and OpenStreetMap Nominatim (to turn coordinates into a place name), and a rounded area to NOAA Aviation Weather (airport reports). We don’t store your location on our servers. |
| Places you search for and pick. | To find the place and remember recent ones. | Search text goes to Open-Meteo’s geocoding service. Recent places stay in your browser only. |
| Your votes and saved settings (“Did the sky deliver?”, recent places). | To show your own sky journal and preferences. | Your browser’s local storage, on your device. We don’t receive it, except that a vote may also be recorded as an anonymous analytics event (below). |
| Usage data: pages viewed, basic actions (for example switching sunset/sunrise, opening “why”, adding to calendar), the name of the city being viewed, the forecast score, and browser, device and country information. | To see whether the site works and how accurate the forecasts are. | Vercel Web Analytics, which is cookieless: it doesn’t store an identifier on your device or build a profile of you across visits or sites. |
| Calendar reminders. When you add a reminder, the site generates a calendar file for the time and place you chose. | To give you the reminder. | The file is created on request and not stored. |
| Server logs. Our host, Vercel, keeps standard request logs (including IP address). | Security and reliability. | Vercel, for its normal retention period. |
Cookies
We don’t set advertising or tracking cookies. Because analytics runs without cookies or a stored identifier, we don’t show a cookie banner. The site uses your browser’s local storage only for your own saved places, votes and preferences, which you can clear at any time in your browser settings.
Who processes data for us
- Vercel (hosting and web analytics), United States.
- Open-Meteo (weather, air quality, place search).
- BigDataCloud and OpenStreetMap Nominatim (place names from coordinates).
- NOAA Aviation Weather (airport observations).
Some of these are outside your country, including the United States. Each has its own privacy policy. We don’t sell or share your personal data for advertising.
Your choices and rights
- You can decline location permission and search for a place by name instead. You can revoke permission any time in your browser’s site settings.
- You can clear saved places and votes by clearing this site’s data in your browser.
- Depending on where you live (for example the EU, UK or California), you may have rights to access, correct or delete personal data, and to object to processing. Because we don’t keep accounts or identifiers, we usually can’t tie any data to you, but if you think we hold something about you, email us and we’ll look into it.
How long we keep it
Analytics data is retained by Vercel under its own schedule. We don’t keep your location beyond the request that uses it.
Children
The site isn’t directed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect their data.
Changes
If this policy changes, we’ll update the date above.
Contact
Questions or requests: hello@truehousingcost.com.