Privacy

Last updated September 27, 2026

Who we are

Coast Conditions (coastconditions.com) is built and run by Rooted Coast Design in Bandon, Oregon. Questions, or a request to delete anything: hello@coastconditions.com.

Just reading the board

• No account, no ad trackers, no analytics cookies.
• We count page views, not people. When a page has been open and read for a few seconds (ten, or two once you scroll or tap), your browser tells us three things and we add one to a count for the day. First, which page it was. Second, the name of the site that linked you here — “google”, “facebook” — and never the page on it, so what you typed into a search box never reaches us. If you came by an ad we paid for, its link carries one fixed word (?src=gads) that names the ad, not you; we count that arrival as “google ads” instead of “google”, note which page the ad opened, and the page drops the word from its own address as it loads. There is no Google conversion tag on this site, and no click identifier is read or kept. Third, three yes-or-no answers your browser works out for itself, by looking at three dates it keeps in its own storage: is this the first page I have counted today? this month? ever? That is the whole record: no cookie, no identifier, no IP address, no device details, so two visits from one phone are simply two, and nothing we keep can tell one browser from another — only that a browser was here for the first time. Sponsor links pass through our own address on the way out so we can count how many times each was followed, in the same way. When you press Share and the share goes through, we add one to a count for that page and note which of four ways it went (the page link or a card, by the share sheet or by copying) — not where it was sent or to whom. The totals tell us what the site is used for, and whether people come back, and let us tell a sponsor, honestly, how often a page or a link was read.
• Your town, your theme choice, whether this browser asked not to be counted, and the dates this browser last counted a page, are saved in your own browser so the board opens where you left it. They stay on your device and are not sent to us. Clear them and this browser simply looks new the next time it opens a page.
• The Flock camera map on a phone opens on your own area. To choose where, the page asks our server roughly where your connection is, to about the nearest city, which our host works out from the network. It is used for that one answer and not kept. The map never asks for your device’s location unless you press the location button.
• Our host keeps ordinary server logs. The site runs on Vercel, which, like any web host, records requests (including IP addresses) for a limited time for security and troubleshooting. We don’t use them to identify anyone.
• The typeface comes from Google Fonts, so your browser asks Google’s servers for it, and Google sees your IP address when it does. Google’s privacy policy covers that.
• Links out. Every reading links to the agency that published it, and the scanner feeds and sponsors link to their own sites. Once you follow a link, that site’s own privacy policy applies.

Notification alerts

If you turn on notifications, your browser gives us a delivery address at its own push service (Google for Chrome, Apple for Safari, Mozilla for Firefox, Microsoft for Edge). We keep that address, the alerts you ticked and the town you picked, so an alert for your bar or your road reaches you and not somebody 100 miles away. No name, no email, nothing else.

Turning notifications off in your browser ends them. When a push service tells us an address is no longer valid, we delete it.

Email alerts

• What we keep: your email address, the alerts you ticked, the town you picked, and when you signed up and confirmed.
• Nothing is sent until you confirm. Signing up sends one email with a confirm link. If it is not used, the address is deleted after 7 days.
• Unsubscribing deletes your record. Every alert has an unsubscribe link at the bottom. It doesn’t just flag you as unsubscribed; it removes your address and choices.
• Emails are sent by Resend, an email delivery service, which receives your address and the text of each email in order to deliver it. Resend also keeps its own delivery records, and a list of addresses that bounced or complained so it doesn’t keep mailing them.
• Only alerts. No newsletters and no marketing. Sponsors never receive anything about readers.

Asking about sponsoring

• What we keep: what you type into the sponsor inquiry form: your business, your name, your email address, and if you give them your phone number, website, the line for your card, the town or territory, the term you prefer, a message and a referral code, plus when it arrived. Nothing about your browser or connection is kept with it.
• What it is for. Answering you. An inquiry is emailed to us and kept so we can reply, quote and, if you become a sponsor, set up your card. It reserves nothing and no automatic reply is sent.
• How long. Inquiries we have declined or that went nowhere are deleted after 90 days. One that is still open stays until it is answered. A sponsor’s record stays for as long as they sponsor.
• To have it deleted sooner, email hello@coastconditions.com from the same address.

Shared posts

When a serious condition changes on a board, the site can prepare a post for that coast’s Facebook page (Oregon, Washington, Northern California, Central California, Southern California, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida Panhandle, Florida Gulf Coast, Florida Atlantic Coast, Florida Keys, Georgia, South Carolina) and, when we have that switched on, post it there automatically; follow-ups go as comments under it. Each one has a permanent page at coastconditions.com/s/… that keeps what the agencies had published at that moment, the time, and a picture of it, so a shared post stays true to its moment; opening it takes you to the live board. Those pages hold public agency readings and nothing about any person, and they are kept indefinitely.

Questions on our Facebook Pages

When someone leaves a comment under one of our Facebook Pages’ posts, the site reads its words to see whether the live board can answer it (whether a highway is closed near a town, or what a river bar is doing). It keeps the comment’s words and its id for 14 days, so the answer can be checked, and never the name or the account of whoever wrote it. Any reply says it is automatic and comes from the live board.

Where it is kept and who can see it

Alert records and sponsor inquiries are kept in private storage at Vercel that only the site’s own server can read. Addresses are never shown on any page. Rooted Coast Design can view the email list to run the service, using a link that is emailed to us and expires after 30 minutes.

The companies that handle this data for us are Vercel (hosting and storage), Resend (sending email), and the browser push services above. The domain’s addresses are managed at Cloudflare.

Your choices

• Stop notifications: turn them off in your browser’s site settings.
• Stop email: use the unsubscribe link in any alert, or the one on the page you see after confirming.
• Anything else (a copy of what we hold, a correction, or deleting it): email hello@coastconditions.com and we will do it.

These choices are the same for everyone, wherever you live. If you are in California, they include your rights to know what we hold and to have it deleted. We don’t sell or share personal information, and because we don’t track anyone across websites, a browser’s Do Not Track signal has nothing to switch off here.

Children

The board is for adults planning a day on the coast. It is not directed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect anything from them.

Changes

If what we keep changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top moves.