Privacy

Last updated 29 August 2026.

The website

Your location never leaves your browser. When you choose a place on the map, the coordinates stay in the page and in the bookmarkable part of the address after the #, which browsers do not send to the server. Address search runs against Mapbox from your browser. No account, no login, no advertising and no cross-site tracking.

The app, with alerts turned off

The same. Your location is used on the phone to ask which monitors are nearby, and is not stored on the server.

The app, with alerts turned on

This is different, and it is the only part of the service that is. To tell you about smoke or a new fire near you when the app is closed, the server has to know roughly where "near you" is. When you turn alerts on, the app sends:

• an approximate location, rounded to about a kilometre before it is stored — a suburb, not an address;
• the settings you chose: the distance, the threshold, whether planned burns count, and your quiet hours;
• a notification token issued by Apple or Google for your device, and an identifier this service creates. Neither is your name, your email or your phone number, and we ask for none of those.

Coordinates are sent in the body of a request, never in a web address, so they do not appear in server logs, proxy caches or browsing history.

How long it is kept

A subscription whose app has not checked in for 180 days is deleted automatically, along with the device it belongs to. Records of notifications sent are deleted after 90 days. Turning alerts off, or deleting the app, ends the check-ins — so everything goes on its own.

Deleting it now

The app can delete everything about your device immediately, from its settings screen — no email and no waiting. See data deletion.

What is never collected

No accounts, no advertising identifiers, no analytics profiles, no background location, and no location history: only the current approximate location of the places you asked to be told about.

Questions: contact@bushfiresmoke.au.