What this site stores about your visit

The site keeps daily page-view and country totals and, when available, daily totals for a state, province, or comparable first-level region. A request address is checked against a local DB-IP City Lite database and then discarded. Location is approximate and can be wrong, particularly for VPNs, mobile networks, and proxies. The site does not store a city, postal code, coordinates, or a location for an individual visit.

The browser’s user-agent header is reduced immediately to one of three broad device classes: phone, tablet, and computer. Raw addresses, raw user-agent strings, and device identifiers are not stored in the usage tables.

The site also keeps daily totals for referral sources. An incoming referral URL is reduced to the referring site’s hostname, “Internal,” or “Direct / unknown” before storage. The full referral URL—including its path, query, and fragment—is discarded. These totals are not tied to an individual visit or reader account.

Display choices such as units, color theme, and climate baseline are kept in a signed cookie and in browser storage. They can be cleared with your browser controls.

An account stores an encrypted email address, passkey public credentials, active sessions, display preferences, followed regions, and bounded security records. Weather & Vines does not store a password or the private half of a passkey.

Sessions expire after seven days of inactivity and after 30 days in all cases. Expired challenges and email links are removed after 24 hours, revoked sessions after 30 days, and deidentified security events after 180 days.

Deleting an account revokes its passkeys and sessions, removes preferences and followed regions, and clears its encrypted email and lookup material. Encrypted database backups retain two weekly backup chains, so removed records age out as those chains expire.

SMTP2GO receives the address and message needed to deliver account verification, recovery, and security email. Reader feedback contains no contact field. Its category, message, and page path are stored here and copied to a private GitHub issue for review.

Request addresses are used only for short-lived abuse limits on account and feedback forms. They are reduced to keyed digests rather than stored as readable addresses.

You can use the atlas without signing in, change display settings at any time, revoke passkeys or sessions from the account page, and delete the account there.