Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-11-12

1. Controller

Sebastian Vogel
Apcer Strasse 3
90610 Winkelhaid
Germany
Email: contact@backyardfigures.com

2. Calculators

All calculations run locally in your browser. The numbers you enter are not sent to or stored on our servers.

3. Hosting (Cloudflare)

This website is hosted by Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. When you visit the site, Cloudflare processes technical data such as your IP address, browser type and the time of access in order to deliver the website securely (legitimate interest, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Cloudflare participates in the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

3a. Website statistics (Cloudflare Web Analytics)

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to understand how our website is used (e.g. page views, referring websites, country). This service does not use cookies and does not track individual visitors across websites. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in improving our website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

3b. Local weather and units

Visitors from the United States, the European Union/EEA, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand see a short local weather forecast in the page header. To do this, our hosting provider Cloudflare derives an approximate location (city level) and the country from the IP address of your request. Our server rounds these coordinates and requests the forecast from the U.S. National Weather Service (api.weather.gov) for visitors in the United States, or from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET Norway, api.met.no) for all other supported countries. Your IP address is not passed on to these weather services, and we do not store your location. Forecasts are cached on our server for 30 minutes per area; nothing is stored on your device for this feature. The country is also used to pre-select US or metric units in our calculators. To show the forecast in your language, your browser sends its language setting with the request; we use it only to pick the words and do not store it. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in providing useful, location-relevant information (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Weather data outside the United States: MET Norway, licensed under CC BY 4.0; we summarize the hourly forecast into day and night periods.

4. Advertising (Google AdSense)

We use Google AdSense, a service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, to display ads. Google may use cookies and similar technologies to show ads based on your interests and to measure ad performance. For visitors from the EEA, the UK and Switzerland this only happens with your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), which you can give or withdraw at any time via the consent banner. More information: How Google uses cookies in advertising. You can manage personalized ads at adssettings.google.com.

5. Your rights (GDPR)

You have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and to object to processing. You may withdraw consent at any time with effect for the future. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

6. California residents (CCPA/CPRA)

We do not sell personal information for money. Advertising cookies set by Google may be considered “sharing” for cross-context behavioral advertising under California law. You can opt out through the consent and privacy options shown on this site or via your browser’s Global Privacy Control signal.

7. Children

This website is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their personal information.

8. Contact

For privacy questions, contact contact@backyardfigures.com.