Privacy Policy

Snowdaylab is operated by The Snowdaylab team. You can use the snow day calculator without creating an account, and we do not ask for your name, email, or a login to get an estimate.

Location lookups

When you enter a ZIP code or a city, the request is used only to resolve a general coordinate (rounded to about a kilometer) and to fetch a forecast. We do not save the raw ZIP code you typed as a stored profile, log it in share text, or put it in a public result. Share sentences include a city and state, a date, and a percentage — not a postal code, street, or exact coordinate. Forecast responses may be cached briefly, keyed by those rounded coordinates, so repeated lookups for the same area do not have to hit the weather service every time.

Anonymous usage statistics

To operate the site, we may record anonymous, aggregate counts such as how many calculations were started, how many results were returned, and how many share buttons were used on a given day. These counts are totals. They are not tied to your name, and they do not include a ZIP code. Quality-assurance visits (including a qa=1 flag) are excluded from those totals.

Analytics (GA4)

On the official website, snowdaylab.com, we may load a Google Analytics 4 script so we can understand aggregate traffic. That script is not loaded on preview hosts, on localhost, or when you addqa=1 to the address. It is also not loaded when no measurement ID is configured. You can read Google’s own documentation for how that service processes data.

Weather data

Forecast and, when needed, city lookup requests are sent to Open-Meteo using the rounded coordinate or city name. Weather data is provided by Open-Meteo under a CC BY 4.0 license. Open-Meteo’s own terms and privacy information apply to those requests.

Contact

For privacy questions, write to The Snowdaylab team at hello@snowdaylab.com.