1. Summary
- You do not create an account, and we do not ask for your name, email, or location.
- The calculator runs entirely in your browser. Its inputs are never sent to a server.
- Airport lookups send only the airport code to this site’s server, which forwards a request to the FAA feed.
- We do not use advertising cookies, social pixels, or cross-site trackers.
- Google Analytics 4 and pvuv.ai run only if you press “Accept analytics”. Decline and neither script loads.
2. What is processed when you visit
Like any web server, ours receives technical request data: your IP address, browser user-agent, the page requested, the time, and the response status. This is used to serve the page, prevent abuse, and diagnose faults. It is not used to build a profile of you and is not sold.
The status endpoint keeps a per-IP counter in memory for one minute so that a single client cannot overload the upstream feed. That counter is discarded when the window passes.
3. Cookies, local storage and analytics
By default the site sets no cookies and writes nothing to local storage. The one exception is the analytics prompt described below, and it only appears while a measurement ID is configured.
If you press Accept analytics, the site loads two measurement scripts:
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Google Analytics 4 sets the
_gaand_ga_<container>cookies (up to two years) and collects page views, approximate location derived from your IP address, device and browser details, and the referring page. - pvuv.ai counts page views and independent visitors and scores each visit for authenticity, so automated traffic is separated from people. It stores a first-party cookie and a local-storage identifier, sends the page path and the referring origin, and keeps your IP address only as a truncated hash. It does not build cross-site profiles.
Your choice is stored in local storage under att-consent-v1 so the prompt does not reappear.
If you press Decline, only that answer is stored. Neither script is loaded, no cookie is set,
and nothing is sent to Google or pvuv.ai. To change your mind, clear site data for
airtraffictool.com in your browser; the prompt returns on the next visit.
4. Third parties
When you look up an airport, our server requests data from the FAA’s public NAS status feed. The FAA receives the request from our server, not from your browser. Fonts are served from this domain.
Google Analytics and pvuv.ai are the only third-party scripts, and both load only after you accept them. Google processes its data as our processor under Google’s privacy policy; we do not enable advertising features, Google Signals, or data sharing with Google’s advertising products. pvuv.ai is a privacy-focused measurement service whose hosted ingestion runs on Cloudflare; it stores no plaintext IP address and no raw device fingerprint.
Our hosting provider processes requests on our behalf and may keep standard access logs under its own policy.
5. Retention
Operational logs are kept only as long as needed to run and secure the service, and then deleted or aggregated. Cached FAA responses are held in memory for up to 15 minutes and contain no user data.
6. Your rights
Because we do not maintain accounts or profiles, there is usually no personal data to access, correct, or delete. If you accepted analytics and want that data deleted, write to us and we will remove the events associated with a client identifier you provide. For any request, including under the GDPR or CCPA where those laws apply, write to contact@airtraffictool.com.
7. Children
The site is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
8. Changes
The effective date at the top of this page changes when the policy changes. Material changes will be noted on the page.