Privacy policy
Nordic Explorer is published by Voitto Virta LLC. This page explains what the site collects, who else receives data when you visit, and what you can turn off. Last updated 13 October 2026.
What we ask you for
Nothing, unless you turn on aurora alerts. There are no accounts. Aurora verdicts, road conditions, cameras and daylight tables are the same for everyone and are not personalised. If you email us, we have your message and your address because you sent them; we use them to answer you and nothing else.
Aurora alerts
If you turn on alerts for a place, your browser gives us a push address issued by its push service (Google, Mozilla, Apple or Microsoft, depending on the browser) and the keys to encrypt messages to it. We store that with the place and the Kp level you chose, and nothing else: no name, no email address, no IP address. Each alert travels through that push service to your device. We count how many alerts are sent and how many are opened.
Turn alerts off on the place's page, or with the button on any alert, and the subscription is deleted. Blocking notifications for this site in your browser stops them too, and we delete the subscription when the push service tells us it is no longer valid.
Advertising
We use Google AdSense. Google and its partners serve the ads you see and may set and read cookies in your browser to do it, including to show you ads based on your previous visits to this and other sites. That is Google's processing, not ours: we do not receive the data it collects, and we do not choose which ads you are shown. Ads never sit inside an aurora verdict, a road verdict or the readings underneath them.
You can turn personalised advertising off for your Google account at My Ad Center, and opt out of personalisation by many other vendors at Your Online Choices and optout.aboutads.info. Google explains its own handling in its partner sites policy.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics 4 to count visits and see which pages are read. With your consent it sets cookies in your browser; either way Google receives your IP address, from which it derives an approximate location. We see only aggregate reports, never a name or an address. Google's privacy policy covers what it does with that data, and its opt-out add-on stops it on every site you visit.
Hosting and security
The site is served from our own server, with Cloudflare in front of it for caching. Both keep ordinary server logs — the page requested, the time, the IP address it came from, the browser's user agent — which are used to serve the site, understand load and block abuse. Cloudflare may set a cookie of its own to tell visitors apart from bots. Logs are not used to build profiles and are not sold or shared.
Other sites your browser contacts
Road camera stills load straight from Fintraffic's Digitraffic service, so its servers see the request, as they would if you opened the camera there. Fonts come from Google Fonts. A live-stream player loads from youtube-nocookie.com only when you press play, and its preview image comes from YouTube. There is no social widget, comment system or tracking pixel anywhere on the site.
Links to official sources, venues and other sites hand you to that site, which applies its own policy. Affiliate links, where there are any, are listed on the affiliate disclosure page.
Children
This site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect anything from them.
Your choices
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, Google's consent message appears on your first visit and asks whether advertising and analytics cookies may be used. Nothing is set until you answer, and declining stops both. You can change your answer at any time with the Cookie settings link in the footer of every page.
Your browser can block or delete cookies, including the advertising and analytics cookies described above; every forecast, camera and table works without them. Under the GDPR you have the right to ask what personal data an organisation holds about you and to have it deleted. We hold no account data to return, but if you believe we hold something of yours, write to us and we will answer.
Changes
When the ad network, the analytics or the third parties above change, this page changes with them and the date at the top moves.
Contact
Questions about this policy go to [email protected]. For anything else, see Contact or About.