Privacy Policy

In summary, we collect what you provide us, store it to provide better service, and disclose it to no one, except where required by the government following legal processes. We do not sell or disclose email address, we do not "share" them with others, nor do we send unsolicited emails to you.

We don't (intend to) do anything in secret. Here's what and how we collect information. If you have questions, or comments, send support an email.

Cookies:

When you access AvnWx.com, we set and update a few cookies associated exclusively with this site. The cookies allow us to identify you as a returning visitor. You may disable cookies and most features should continue to work, though the site may not be able to recognize you has being logged in.

Local Storage:

We try to use standard browser Local Storage to store information about your browser preferences: what to display, whether tooltips are active, etc. instead of standard cookies. This information is available only to this website and acts like a 'super cookie' except it doesn't send the information back to the server (which is great, because the server doesn't want to know!)

Log information:

Our servers automatically record information sent by your browser, each time you access the site. These are standard server logs, which record information such as your request, Internet Protocol address, browser information and cookies associated with your browser. Logs are regularly purged and are used primarily to triage recent problems. Passwords are not stored in logs.

User communications:

When you send email, we may keep a copy of the communication (including your email) for the purpose of resolving your inquiry or improving our service. If you provide us with a photo, we store a copy of that photo for use with this website.

Online comments:

When you provide comments or feedback via our online method (rather than via the email form) we will display your comment, together with a portion of your email address -- we exclude your domain information. This allows us to work better as a community where we (each) take responsibility for our own posts and comments. If you don't like this idea, don't post a comment. You may email us, to keep your comments private. AvnWx.com reserves to right to edit comments for clarity, and delete comments which are offensive, redundant, or severely off-topic. Please use a Forum (AOPA, Pilots Of America, Purple Board, etc.) for lengthy discussions. We'll also expunge older comments to save space.

Information you provide:

Information about you, your aircraft, your flightplans, etc., which you may provide to AvnWx.com may be stored for your later retrieval. We do not make this information available to other people. In the future we may make some anonymous information available (such as "recent flight plans" between similar endpoints, but at no time will we make your information directly visible to others such as using user id or airplane number.

Links:

In order to better understand usage of this site, AvnWx.com may use simple link-navigation software which records the order in which you traverse pages on this site. This allows us improve service by understanding how people tend to access and use the site. Since 2007 we've been using Google Analytics...just like a bazillion other websites.