Privacy policy

One feature uses your location: "Find tide pools and tides near you" on the home page. Nothing happens until you press its button. Your browser then asks whether to share your location with the page, and you can say no. No other page asks for your location.

If you allow it, the browser hands the page your position. A script in the page compares it with the 12 beaches on this site, which are already in the page, and finds the closest one (and, if that beach has no tide pool ratings, the closest one that does). It keeps only which beach that is and how far away, in memory, to show you its tides. The coordinates are not sent to us or to anyone else, and they are not saved in cookies or browser storage. When you close or reload the page, the result is gone.

The page does not ask for high-accuracy positioning. How your browser or device works out your position is up to them and their settings. You can withdraw the permission at any time in your browser's site settings. If you decline, the page shows the full list of beaches instead.

We use Google Search Console to see how the site appears in Google Search: how often our pages show up in search results, for which searches, and how often people click through. That information comes from Google Search, not from these pages. No Google script runs here.

Your searches on Google are covered by the Google Privacy Policy.

There are no accounts, sign-ups, comment boxes or forms on the site. The only way to send us anything is by email, from the contact page. If you write, we receive your email address and your message. We use emails only to answer you and to fix the errors you report. We do not share them with anyone.