LumenScout

The short version

LumenScout has no accounts, no ads and no tracking cookies. It does not keep any profile of you. Your places and settings stay in your browser, on your device. The one thing counted is visits: see "Visit counts" below.

Visit counts

To see how many people use the site and how fast it loads, LumenScout uses Cloudflare Web Analytics. It sets no cookies and does not follow you from site to site. It counts page views and records general details such as country, browser, device type and page speed. It does not receive the places you search for or save.

Your location

LumenScout asks for your location only when you choose "Use my location". You can search for a place by name and never share it. To get a forecast, your browser sends the coordinates of the place you picked straight to the services listed below. LumenScout itself never receives them.

What is kept on your device

• The place you last looked at and the places you saved.
• Your units and theme.
• The last forecast, so the page still works without a connection.
• Terrain details for the places you looked at, so sunrise and sunset times load faster.

All of it lives in your browser's storage for this site. Clearing the site's data in your browser settings removes it.

Services your browser contacts

• Open-Meteo: the coordinates of the place, for the weather, smoke and haze, and terrain; and the text you type in the place search.
• BigDataCloud: the coordinates of the place, to turn them into a place name.
• Google Fonts: the typefaces on the page.
• Cloudflare: hosts the pages and provides the visit counts above.
• Tally: only if you choose "Send feedback". It receives what you type in the form, and your email address if you give one.

Like any website request, each of these shows the service your IP address. Each service handles it under its own privacy policy.

Feedback

The "Send feedback" form is hosted by Tally. What you write, and your email address if you add one, is used only to improve LumenScout and to reply to you. The email is optional.

Links you share

A link you share from LumenScout contains the place it shows, so anyone who opens it sees that place.

Last updated October 4, 2026.