Privacy Policy

Last Updated: April 2026

Welcome to FloodSight. Your privacy is critically important to us. This policy explains how we handle data when you use the FloodSight application.

Location Data

FloodSight uses your device's location to provide accurate, localized flood information, radar, and river gauge data. Your location data is processed locally on your device and is never stored, logged, or transmitted to our servers. We request location access solely to center the map and display relevant local hazards in real time.

Advertising and Cookies

To help keep FloodSight free for everyone, we use third-party advertising vendors, including Google, to serve ads.

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to FloodSight or other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve personalized ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
• You may opt out of personalized advertising at any time by visiting Google Ads Settings.

Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

Third-Party APIs

FloodSight requests environmental data directly from official government sources, including the National Weather Service (NWS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the United States Geological Survey (USGS). When your app requests data from these services, standard network information (such as your IP address) is temporarily visible to these agencies as part of standard internet protocol routing. We do not control the privacy policies of these government agencies.