Privacy Policy
The short version: Sea Temp does not track you, sets no advertising cookies, and stores only the UI preferences you choose yourself.
What we store on your device
Your language preference, your °C/°F unit choice, your theme (light/dark/system) and your list of favourite destinations are kept in your browser's localStorage and a single seatemp:locale cookie. None of this data leaves your device.
Geolocation
If you use the "Find nearest beach" button, your browser asks for your location and we use it once to pick the closest destination. Your coordinates are never sent to our servers and never persisted.
Analytics
Sea Temp does not run any analytics, pageview tracking, behavioural telemetry or third-party tracking pixels. No advertising or marketing cookies are set.
Abuse protection
To protect our upstream API quota from automated scraping, we briefly hold visitor IP addresses in memory to enforce per-IP rate limits on /api/probe and /api/beach-search. IP addresses are never written to disk, never logged, and are dropped from memory within roughly a minute.
Third-party data sources
Map tiles are served by CartoCDN. Live data is requested from Apple Weather, Copernicus Marine, NOAA and NASA. Destination photography is licensed from Adobe Stock and served from our own domain. Beach search queries are processed by the Google Places API — only the search text you type is sent to Google. Hotel suggestions on destination pages link out to Booking.com via affiliate links — when you click through, Booking sets its own cookies on booking.com and we may earn a small commission if you book, at no extra cost to you. These providers have their own privacy policies.
Contact
Questions or data-deletion requests? Email hello@seatempmap.com.