Privacy
PlainClimate needs no account, form or email address to read. What it learns about visitors comes only from the tools below. Kiznis Studio, which owns PlainClimate, is the controller of that data.
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What runs on the site
| Tool | Job | Stores |
|---|---|---|
| Google AdSense | Loads Google's ad code (ads appear once Google approves the site); in Europe it also shows Google's consent banner | Advertising cookies, only where you allow them |
| Google Analytics 4 | Counts visits and the pages read | The _ga cookies once measurement is allowed; event data kept up to 14 months |
| Umami | Counts page views as totals (a counter Kiznis Studio hosts at analytics.opspixel.com) | Nothing on your device and no identifier |
| Cloudflare | Delivers the pages and stops abusive traffic | May set a short-lived security cookie (__cf_bm, 30 minutes) to tell people from bots |
| Sentry | Records server errors and request timings (page, time, browser) in its EU region so faults can be fixed | Nothing on your device |
| Your browser | Remembers the light or dark paper you chose | One localStorage entry that stays on your device |
Consent, by region
Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland see Google's consent banner first: Google Analytics stays off until measurement is allowed there, and advertising cookies stay off until advertising is allowed. If a browser set to a European time zone never gets the banner, Google Analytics never runs for it. For visitors in the United States, ads and measurement are on, the opt-outs further down apply, and a Global Privacy Control signal switches off advertising storage and personalised ads. Everywhere else, measurement starts once the page has loaded and ads appear without advertising cookies. With advertising storage off, Google's tags strip ad data and pass an ad click's identifier through the page's links rather than a cookie.
The legal basis for advertising and analytics cookies is your consent; take it back in the banner's settings or by deleting this site's cookies. The Umami counts name nobody, and PlainClimate relies on its legitimate interest in knowing its readership for them. Cloudflare and Google may handle data in the United States under their own transfer arrangements, while Sentry keeps its data in its EU region. For security, the web server's access logs (address, page, time, browser) are kept for seven days.
Searches stay private
When you search the site, analytics records the page without your words, and a site you open from the results sees only that you came from plainclimate.com.
Opting out in the United States
To pick which ads to show, Google uses a cookie ID, your IP address with the approximate location it reveals, and the pages you read on this site; several state laws treat handing that to advertisers as selling or sharing personal information. You can opt out by sending a Global Privacy Control signal, through Google's ad settings (adssettings.google.com) or optout.aboutads.info, or by emailing hello@plainclimate.com. A request to know, correct or delete gets an answer within 45 days, using Google's own tools where Google holds the data.
Your rights
Under the GDPR and similar laws you may ask what is held about you, have it corrected or erased, object to its use and complain to your data protection authority; requests are answered within one month. The personal data in PlainClimate's own systems is an email you send (kept until the matter is closed) and the seven-day server logs. PlainClimate publishes climate records about places and stations, never about people. The site is not directed at children under 13.
Who is responsible
The controller is Kiznis Studio, Lithuania, the owner of PlainClimate. Write to hello@plainclimate.com.