Cookies
To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
Your cookie choices
To make this site work we only use strictly necessary cookies, which do not require your consent. All other cookies are optional and stay off until you allow them. You can change your choice – including withdrawing a consent you previously gave – at any time via the “Cookies” link in the footer, and it is as easy to withdraw consent as it was to give it. We remember your choice for up to 14 months, after which we will ask again. The optional categories are:
- Cookies for site usage & performance analysis – Help us understand how visitors use the site so we can measure and improve it. These cookies are not required for the site to work, and are kept for up to 14 months.
- Cookies for advertising relevance – Allow our advertising partners to use cookies so the ads you see are more relevant to you. These cookies are not required for the site to work, and are kept for up to 14 months.
How do we use cookies?
Google Analytics
When you allow usage-analysis cookies, our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics tool provided by Google, to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. Until you consent, these cookies are not set.
Session cookies
Sometimes we keep some temporary data (e.g. login information, or preferences) only during the single session run (while you keep your browser open).
Long-term preferences
We do also store cookies to save you some time on setting your preferences the next time you visit our site.
- consent_set - records that you have made a cookie choice (so we stop showing the consent banner)
- consent_analytics - whether you allowed usage & performance analysis cookies
- consent_ads - whether you allowed advertising cookies
- temperature_unit - your preferred temperature unit (e.g. Celsius or Fahrenheit)
- wind_speed_unit - your preferred wind speed unit
- precipitation_unit - your preferred precipitation unit
- time_format - your preferred time format (e.g. 12-hour or 24-hour)
- hourly_forecast_view - your preferred hourly forecast display mode (chart or list)
Advertisement
If you allow advertising cookies, our ad-partners (Google Adsense, Doubleclick, Google Adwords) may use cookies to make sure they deliver you the best matching ads. Until you consent, these cookies are not set.
How to control cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.