Privacy

This site has no accounts, no sign-up form and no newsletter. Here is, exhaustively, what it knows about you.

What the server records

• The web server logs: for each page requested, the IP address, the time, the page and the browser name. They are used to detect failures and abuse (legitimate interest, art. 6-1-f GDPR) and are deleted after 30 days.
• A visit counter, which is just a number: it records neither who nor from where.

When you search for a city, the name you type does not leave our server: it is compared with a list of cities we keep here, taken from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0 licence). No request is sent to anyone. We do, however, count how many times each city has been searched for, so as to know which ones to add to the menu: a name and a number, without your address, without a cookie, and without anything that would make it possible to tell two visitors apart or to link two searches to each other.

For each city on our list whose weather is viewed, we also note the last day it was viewed, so that its forecast stays ready for seven days: a city name and a date, without your address, without cookies, and with nothing that could tell two visitors apart.

If you choose “My location”, your browser first asks for your permission. The coordinates are then rounded to the nearest kilometre before leaving your device, and sent to our server, which calculates the forecast itself and queries Nominatim (the place name) without your address. They are neither recorded nor kept.

What your browser keeps

The site keeps in your browser (“local storage”, not a cookie) the display theme, the chosen language, the city chosen in the menu, the list of cities you found by searching (twelve at most, which you can remove one by one), and whether you chose to follow your location. These settings never leave your device, are not read by the server, and are erased with your browser's site data. They are strictly necessary for the service you asked for, which is why no consent is requested.

Third parties

• Open-Meteo provides the forecasting software (open-meteo.com, AGPL-3.0 licence) and publishes the weather data under the CC BY 4.0 licence. That software runs on OUR server, and the data comes from the national weather services: DWD (Germany), ECMWF (Europe) and NOAA (United States). Neither Open-Meteo nor these services see your address: it is our server that reads the public files, once for all visitors.
• Copernicus (CAMS): pollen and air quality come from the forecasts of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, implemented by ECMWF on behalf of the European Union; our server reads them and sorts them into levels — “Contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information 2026”. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use made of this information here. The service does not see your address: our server reads the files.
• MeteoAlarm (meteoalarm.org, the joint service of Europe's national weather services) provides the official warnings, issued by the country's own service. OUR server queries it, never your browser. This site is not an official source: the information may be late or incomplete, and the official source prevails.
• IGN (Admin Express, Open Licence) provides the outlines of the French départements on the warning map. They are drawn by OUR server: no image is loaded elsewhere.
• OpenStreetMap (openstreetmap.org, ODbL data, © the contributors) draws the map. Your browser loads it directly from openstreetmap.org, which then receives your IP address as for any image from a third-party site; we send it no information about you.
• Nominatim (nominatim.openstreetmap.org, a service of the OpenStreetMap Foundation) names the place you are in when you choose “My location”. Our server queries it, with coordinates rounded to about one kilometre, never your browser.
• Google AdSense (Google Ireland Limited) loads its ad script in your browser, which then passes it your IP address. See “Advertising” below.

Advertising

This site shows ads from Google AdSense. To serve them, Google and its partners may set cookies and read identifiers from your browser, in order to measure the audience and, if you accept, to personalise the ads. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, none of this is done without your consent: a consent banner, provided by Google, asks you on your first visit, and you may refuse. Clearing your browser's cookies brings the banner back.

How Google uses data from sites that use it: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. Your ad settings: adssettings.google.com.

Your rights

You have the right to access, rectify, erase and object to the processing of data about you (articles 15 to 21 GDPR). Write to the publisher contact@rapidmeteo.com. You may also lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority, the CNIL (cnil.fr).

This page is a courtesy translation. Only the French version, Confidentialité, is authoritative.