PRIVACY POLICY

Effective date: July 24, 2026

Retro Weather Rewind ("we," "us," or "the channel") operates the website retroweatherrewind.com and a 24/7 retro weather livestream distributed on third-party platforms such as YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, X, Instagram, and Facebook. This policy explains what information is involved when you use our website and content, and — just as importantly — what we do not collect.

The short version

• We have no user accounts, no login, and no newsletter.
• We set no advertising or tracking cookies and run no third-party analytics on our website.
• We do not sell, rent, or share personal information with anyone for marketing.
• Our social media publishing uploads our own content to our own accounts. We do not use platform APIs to collect other users' personal data.

Location for your local forecast

The website can show a forecast for your area. To do this, it asks your browser for permission to access your approximate location. If you allow it, your approximate coordinates are used in your browser to request weather data from the third-party services listed below. If you decline, the site falls back to a default U.S. location and works normally. We do not store your location on our servers, and it is never tied to your identity.

To fetch that forecast, your coordinates are sent directly from your browser to:

• National Weather Service (weather.gov) — active alerts for your area
• Open-Meteo — current conditions and forecast
• RainViewer — radar imagery
• BigDataCloud — turning coordinates into a place name

Each of these services has its own privacy policy governing how it handles the request. We do not control and are not responsible for their practices.

Hosting and server logs

The website is hosted on Amazon Web Services (Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront). Like nearly all web infrastructure, these services may automatically record standard technical request data — such as your IP address, browser type, referring page, and the time of the request — for security, abuse prevention, and reliability. We do not use this data to identify or profile individual visitors.

Social media and the TikTok integration

We publish our weather clips and shows to social platforms, including TikTok through its Content Posting API, as well as YouTube and X through their APIs. In every case:

• We authorize access to our own channel accounts using each platform's official OAuth process, and use that access only to upload our own weather videos and captions.
• The access we request is limited to publishing our content (for example, TikTok's video.upload / video.publish and basic account-info scopes).
• We do not use these APIs to access, collect, or store personal data about other users of those platforms.
• Authorization tokens for our own accounts are stored securely on our own systems and are used only to publish our content.

When you view or interact with our content on TikTok, YouTube, or any other platform, that platform's own privacy policy and terms apply to your activity there. Any audience information we see is the aggregate, non-identifying analytics those platforms provide to us about our own posts.

Children's privacy

Our content is general-audience weather programming and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. Access to our content on third-party platforms is also subject to those platforms' age requirements.

Your choices

• You can deny or revoke the browser location permission at any time in your browser settings; the site still works.
• Because we do not maintain accounts or a marketing database, there is no personal profile for us to export or delete. If you have a question about privacy, contact us below.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as our website or publishing setup changes. The effective date at the top will reflect the latest version.

Contact

Questions about this Privacy Policy? Email contact@retroweatherrewind.com.

Retro Weather Rewind is a fan-made tribute to the aesthetic of 1990s weather broadcasting. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to The Weather Channel or any broadcaster.
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