Privacy

If you sign up for the newsletter

We keep your email address. If you fill them in, we also keep your town and that town's map coordinates, the page you signed up on, and your trip details (only if you check the box to include your trip). Our host, Netlify, stores these for us. We use them only to send you our updates and tailor them to your town or trip. We never sell them. To unsubscribe or have your details deleted, reply to any email from us.

If you sign up for the Weekend Tee-Time Outlook

We keep your email address, the page you signed up on, and, if you fill it in, where you usually play golf. Netlify stores these for us. We use them only to send you the golf outlook. We never sell them. To unsubscribe or have your details deleted, reply to any email from us.

If you sign up for This Weekend in La Porte

We keep your email address and the page you signed up on. Netlify stores them for us. We use them only to send you the weekend email. We never sell them. To unsubscribe or have your details deleted, reply to any email from us.

If you send a prayer request

Our Faith & Ministry page moved to scoopanddude.com/faith; prayer requests sent there still come to us privately through this form. We keep what you write, and your first name and email only if you give them. Netlify receives the request and emails it to us. It's private: we never post it, share it, or sell it, and we use your email only to reply if you asked us to. To have a request deleted, email us.

If you turned on the daily verse

The daily verse notification was part of our Faith & Ministry page, which moved to Scoop's own site, scoopanddude.com/faith, on Oct. 7, 2026, and new sign-ups have ended. If you turned it on before then, block notifications for laporteweathernow.com in your browser or phone settings to stop it.

If you sign up for World Disaster Watch emails

We keep your email address, the page you signed up on, and the date. If you add your town, we keep the town and its map spot rounded to about 7 miles (looked up with Open-Meteo's free place search), only to tell whether a disaster is near you. Netlify receives the sign-up, and our alert sender (a Google Apps Script with a Google Sheet, run by us) keeps the list; Brevo sends the emails (our Gmail steps in if Brevo is ever down). We use your email and town only to send you these alerts. We never sell them. To stop, use the link at the bottom of any alert email or the form on the World Disaster Watch page; to have your details deleted, reply to any email from us.

If you use the contact form

We keep your name, email, topic, and message so we can reply. Netlify stores them for us. We never sell them.

If you report a sighting

We keep what you type into the form (the location, what you experienced, and your name if you give one). Netlify stores it for us.

If you use Hard Hat Weather

Hard Hat Weather, our job-site weather service for outdoor crews, has its own privacy policy. It covers what we collect when a business signs up and how we handle phone numbers and text message consent. In short: we never sell or share them for anyone's marketing.

If you turn on free watch & warning alerts

The notifications are delivered by OneSignal, a notification service. Its code loads only after you tap “Turn on alerts” (or on your later visits once alerts are on). When you turn them on, OneSignal stores this device's notification address, basic device details such as the browser, language and time zone, and the counties you picked. Like any website, it also sees your internet address when your device connects. Our alert sender keeps a list of which counties have followers, and nothing else: county names only, nothing about who follows them. We don't ask for your name, email, phone number or location, and we never sell anything. To stop, tap the same button and remove a county or choose “Turn off all alerts,” or block notifications for this site in your browser or phone settings. OneSignal's privacy policy.

If you pick another language

English is the site's own language. Darja (Algerian Arabic) is translated by us, right in your browser, and nothing is sent anywhere. For every other language, Google Translate's website tool loads only after you pick that language. Google then receives the text of the pages you view so it can translate them, and like any website it sees your internet address. The language you pick is remembered in your own browser (and in a small “googtrans” cookie that tells Google which language to use); pick English to go back and clear it. Machine translation can get words wrong, so official weather alerts should be checked in English with the National Weather Service. Google's privacy policy.

What stays on your device

Your chosen town and any trip you save are stored in your own browser, not sent to us. Clearing your browser's site data removes them. If you tap “Use my location” or “Near me,” your browser asks your permission first. Your browser then sends your location straight to the weather and map services listed below to look up weather, alerts, and camping near you. We don't receive or store it.

If you copy a link to a trip, the link includes the towns on that trip, and, if you started from “Use my location,” your starting point rounded to about a kilometer. Share it only with people you'd tell.

Counting visits

We count page views and a few anonymous actions, like a completed town search or a newsletter signup, using GoatCounter. What we send says which page or feature was used, plus, for page views, the website you came from (its domain only). It never includes the town you searched, your trip, or your location. Like any website, GoatCounter sees your browser type and internet address when it counts a visit. It keeps only totals (for example, how many visits came from Firefox or from a given country), doesn't store your internet address, and doesn't use cookies. These counts tell us which features actually help, so we know what to build next.

Services your browser talks to

To show live information, your browser contacts these services directly. Each one has its own privacy policy:

National Weather Service and NOAA (forecasts, alerts, radar, severe-storm outlooks, and satellite pictures of the whole Earth)
Open-Meteo (US town search, world city search and world weather)
OpenStreetMap's Nominatim (address, town, and ZIP code search on the Hard Hat Weather pages, only when you ask it to look one up)
OpenStreetMap (the map pictures)
Iowa Environmental Mesonet at Iowa State University (the storm reports on the Alerts page)
Wikimedia Commons (photos and public-domain art) and YouTube (videos on our mission page)
NASA (satellite pictures and maps on World Disaster Watch)
GDACS, the United Nations and European Commission disaster alert system (world disasters on World Disaster Watch)
GitHub (our Daily Scoop posts, the data files behind several pages, and the weather radio’s recording, when you press play)
OneSignal (watch and warning notifications, only if you turn them on)
Waze, part of Google (the live road reports map on the Alerts page, only when you tap “Show the live map”)
Google Translate (only if you pick a language other than English; with Darja, it fills in, in Arabic, whatever our Darja phrasebook doesn't cover)

Links to PayPal, Broadcastify (scanners), and social sites take you to those companies' own websites.

Questions

Use our contact page, email laporteweathernow@gmail.com, or reply to any newsletter email. For Hard Hat Weather, use the form on the Hard Hat Weather page or reply to any of our emails.