Privacy

What we do not collect

• No accounts, no names, no e-mail addresses.
• Google Analytics counts visits. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland it sets no cookies until you accept them; elsewhere you can turn it off with “Only necessary”.
• Your display settings (theme, units, clock) and your cookie choice are kept in your browser’s local storage and never sent to us.

Your location

The “Near me” page asks your browser for your position only after you press the button. Distances are computed in your browser; the position is not sent to our server.

Your location reaches our server only in two cases you start yourself:

• Felt reports. If you add your location to a “Did you feel it?” report, it is rounded to 0.1° (about 11 km) before it is stored, together with the shaking level and the time. Reports are anonymous and shown only in aggregate.
• Alerts. When you subscribe to push alerts we store the place you chose, the radius, the minimum magnitude and the push address your browser gives us, so we can notify you. Unsubscribing deletes it.

IP addresses

To limit abuse of the API, felt reports and alerts we count requests per client. The IP address is combined with a secret salt and hashed; only the hash is kept in memory for a short time. Our web server keeps standard access logs for up to 14 days for security.

Advertising

Ads help keep the site free. Pages with enough content of their own (earthquake, region and list pages) may show ads from Google AdSense and labelled banners from Adsterra. Legal, contact and help pages show no ads.

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
• You can opt out of personalised advertising in Google’s Ads Settings. You can turn off other vendors’ cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info and, in Europe, youronlinechoices.eu.
• How Google uses information from sites that use its services: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
• Adsterra delivers some of the banners and may use cookies or similar identifiers to deliver and measure them. See the Adsterra privacy policy.

Your choice. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, Google Consent Mode keeps advertising and analytics cookies off until you agree, in Google’s consent message (a Google-certified consent management platform), shown on the pages that carry ads; our own cookie bar is not shown there, so you are asked once. Elsewhere, choose “Only necessary” and no Google ad or analytics cookies are set. You can change your choice at any time on the Cookies page.

Third parties you connect to

Map tiles are loaded from OpenFreeMap and relief tiles from Amazon Web Services’ public terrain dataset. Like any web request, these reveal your IP address to those services. Earthquake data is fetched by our server, not by your browser.

Contact

SeismoAtlas is published by Novpix. For privacy questions or deletion requests write to support@seismoatlas.com.