Stellarhound

Privacy

Last updated: 2026-07-17

Your location never leaves the lookup

  • Coordinates you search, click on the map, or share via browser geolocation are used only to compute your forecast. On our server they are never written to disk, logs or a database (access logging of query URLs is disabled). A copy is kept in your own browser — see local storage below.
  • Coordinates and place names are never put in page URLs and never sent to analytics.
  • The weather lookup sent upstream to Open-Meteo uses the center of a ~20 km grid cell, not your exact coordinates.

What we do count

Operational metrics are anonymous aggregate counters only: a time bucket, an outcome (for example "forecast served" or "weather upstream failed") and a count. No coordinates, IP addresses, user agents or referrers are kept.

Analytics

If web analytics (Google Analytics 4, PostHog, Microsoft Clarity) are enabled, they receive page views and a small set of product events such as forecast_viewed. Event properties pass an allowlist filter that strips anything resembling coordinates or place names. PostHog session recording and autocapture are off. Microsoft Clarity records how pages are used (clicks, scrolling and session replays) to find usability problems; the location you type lives only in the page, and Clarity's masking keeps typed input out of recordings. Advertising storage is declared denied to all three. Visiting ?internal_traffic=1 marks a browser as internal and excludes it.

Local storage on your device

A few things are kept in your own browser (on your device only, never sent to us):

  • Two display flags: the red-light mode preference and the internal-traffic marker.
  • Your most recent location and its forecast, cached for 12 hours so you don’t have to retype it when you come back, then automatically discarded. This never leaves your device; clear your browser storage to remove it sooner.

No accounts, no payments

Stellarhound is free, has no login and collects no names, emails or payment data.

Data sources and attribution