We are a hobby project, not a government agency, and not affiliated with the Bureau of Meteorology or the City of Yarra. We collect as little as we can, never sell it, and never ask who you are.
What we collect, and why
| What | When | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Full check-in survey: your answers, the spot as a grid reference (to about 7 m), the time, any comment you type, and the forecast for that spot and time | Only when you press Check in | To measure how good the forecast is and to improve it |
| Emoji check-ins (bubbles): up to three emojis from a fixed list, the spot rounded to about 7 m, and the time. These are public: everyone sees the bubble over that spot for three hours | Only when you post one | A quick, word-free "how is it here?" for other visitors |
| Pulse survey answers | Only when you submit it | To learn what makes a good park day |
| Suggestions | Only when you send one | To decide what to build. Shown publicly only after we approve them |
| Usage events: which features were used (e.g. "dropped a pin in square P15", "saved a story"), the date shown, and how you arrived (e.g. from Instagram) | While you use the site, unless your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track | To see which features are worth keeping |
| With each usage event, coarse visit context: browser family (e.g. Safari), operating system, phone, tablet or computer, window width to the nearest 100 px, language, the site that linked you here, whether the site is installed, and how many times this device has visited; plus the country, state and suburb that Cloudflare's network reports for the connection. Never your IP address | While you use the site, unless your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track | To know how many people use it, from where and on what, so we fix what matters |
| Page views (Cloudflare Web Analytics) | Each visit | Counting visits. Cookieless: it doesn't identify you |
Every record carries a random device code made in your browser (stored in your browser's local storage), so we can count repeat visitors without knowing who you are. Clear your site data to reset it.
Kept only on your device
Your settings and saved spots (persona, preferences, map and display choices, saved spots and their names) stay in your browser's local storage. They are never sent to us. Clear your site data, or use Reset all settings under ⚙, to remove them.
What we don't collect
No names, emails, accounts, cookies for tracking, or advertising IDs. We don't store IP addresses: to stop spam we keep a scrambled, daily-changing code for one minute. "Use my location" turns your position into a grid square in your browser; your coordinates aren't sent anywhere.
Third parties
Weather comes through our own server (which caches Open-Meteo's forecast), as do VicEmergency incidents and plane positions (OpenSky Network); fonts and code are served from this site. Your browser contacts other services directly only in these cases: public holidays are fetched from Nager.Date; if our server cannot be reached, the forecast is fetched from Open-Meteo directly; and Cloudflare Web Analytics loads its counting script from Cloudflare. Like any web request, these show the service your IP address; nothing else is sent. Otherwise your browser talks only to this domain, unless you choose to open Snap Send Solve, the council's forms, maps or a share app.
Where it's kept
On Cloudflare (Pages, D1 database and Web Analytics). Cloudflare may process data outside Australia. Check-ins and survey answers are kept for up to three years, usage events for one year. Free-text comments in check-ins are never published.
Your choices
Everything is optional. To see what your device has sent, use Export my data in the site's menu. To have it deleted, send us your device code (shown in that export) through Suggest a feature or the Instagram account, and we'll remove every record with it.
Contact
The Bureau of Edi Gardens is an independent, non-commercial project; it is not affiliated with the City of Yarra or the Bureau of Meteorology. To reach the Bureau, including to report a security problem with this site, send a message to @bureauofedigardens on Instagram, or use Report a missing tree or a map error in the site's menu. Problems in the park itself (fallen branches, broken taps) go to the City of Yarra.
Last updated 15 October 2026. Back to the forecast.