Privacy Policy

What we collect directly

Nothing. Storms That Hit has no accounts, no sign-up, no newsletter and no forms. We do not ask you for your name, your address or your email, and there is nowhere on this site to give them to us.

Hosting

The site is served as static files by Cloudflare Pages. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes the technical details of each request — IP address, browser, the page asked for — to deliver the page and to protect the service from abuse. That processing is covered by Cloudflare's privacy policy.

Analytics

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count how many people read which pages. It was chosen specifically because it sets no cookies and builds no profile of you across sites or visits. It records the page, the referrer, the country and the broad device type, and nothing that identifies you.

Google Analytics

We also use Google Analytics 4 to see which pages are read and how people arrive at them. It sets first-party cookies (named _ga and _ga_*) that tell repeat visits apart, and sends Google the page, the referrer, your browser and device type and your approximate location derived from your IP address; Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses. Google processes this data on our behalf as a processor under the Google Ads Data Processing Terms. You can block it with the Google Analytics opt-out add-on or by blocking cookies for this site. How Google uses the data: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Advertising

This site carries advertising from Google AdSense, which is how it pays for itself. Google and its partners use cookies to serve ads, and may use them to show ads based on your previous visits to this and other sites.

You can turn personalised advertising off at Google My Ad Center, and read how Google uses data from sites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. Readers in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are asked for consent before personalised ads are shown, and can change that choice at any time.

Live weather from the National Weather Service

Some pages show current National Weather Service alerts or forecast lows for the place they describe. Your browser asks the NWS API at api.weather.gov for them directly, so that request carries your IP address and browser details to the NWS, as a visit to weather.gov would. The request names the page's place, not yours, and the answer is kept only in your browser's session storage; we do not receive it. How the NWS handles requests: weather.gov/privacy.

Where the data on this site comes from

Every figure published here comes from public United States federal sources — NOAA, the USDA and the NHTSA among them. It is public data about places and products, not about you, and it is republished as-is for reference. It is not advice, and we make no warranty that it is complete or current.

Links to other sites

Pages here link to official sources such as nhtsa.gov. Once you follow such a link, that site's own policy applies, not this one.

Children

This site is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect anything from them.

Your rights

Because we hold no personal data of our own, there is nothing here for us to show, correct or delete on request. Rights under the GDPR, the UK GDPR and the CCPA that relate to data processed by Cloudflare or Google are exercised through those companies, using the links above.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. There is no mailing list to notify, so the date is the only notice.

Contact

Questions about this policy: [email protected]