How BiteForecast handles data

This policy applies to the public BiteForecast website and its related pages, tools, and contact routes.

BiteForecast is an information and planning site focused on Scottish midge conditions. It does not require user accounts to browse the main content.

Like most websites, BiteForecast and its hosting or infrastructure providers may process technical data such as IP address, approximate location derived from IP, browser type, device type, referring page, requested URL, timestamps, and basic diagnostic logs.

This information is typically used for security, fraud prevention, service delivery, troubleshooting, performance monitoring, and aggregate traffic understanding.

BiteForecast does not ask ordinary visitors to create a profile or submit personal account data in order to read the site.

BiteForecast and third-party services used by the site may rely on cookies, local storage, pixels, or similar technologies to deliver pages, protect the service, remember basic preferences, measure performance, and support advertising or referral attribution.

If you disable cookies in your browser, parts of the site may still work normally, but some third-party features or measurement functions may not.

BiteForecast uses or may use Google AdSense and related advertising services. Google and its partners may use cookies or similar technologies to serve ads, measure performance, prevent fraud, limit repetition, and understand general browsing context.

If personalised advertising is enabled by Google for eligible users, that processing is handled through Google's own systems and controls. BiteForecast does not operate a custom behavioural advertising platform.

You can learn more about how Google uses information in advertising products through Google's policies and ad settings resources.

BiteForecast relies on third-party services to operate parts of the site. These may include hosting and delivery providers, Open-Meteo for weather data, Formspree for contact form handling, and Google AdSense for advertising.

If aggregate analytics tools such as Google Analytics are added in future, this policy will be updated so visitors can see what changed and how that data is handled.

Each provider operates under its own terms and privacy practices for the service it supplies.

Some BiteForecast pages may include affiliate links to outdoor or midge-related products. If you follow one of those links, the retailer or affiliate network may collect information needed to attribute the referral and measure resulting purchases.

That tracking is handled by the relevant retailer or network, not by a separate BiteForecast user account system.

Product mentions are intended to support utility content, not to build a personal health, safety, or behaviour profile about you.

If you contact BiteForecast using the site form, the details you submit, such as your name, email address, topic, and message content, are processed so that your enquiry can be received and answered.

Contact submissions are handled through Formspree, which acts as a service provider for form delivery. Any information you send should be limited to what is reasonably necessary for your request.

Please do not send payment details, special category personal data, or other highly sensitive information through the public contact form.

BiteForecast links to external services such as weather-data providers, mapping or reference sources, ad systems, and retailers. Once you leave BiteForecast, those third parties operate under their own terms and privacy policies.

We do not control their practices and cannot guarantee that they match this policy.

Technical logs and service diagnostics may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary for security, abuse prevention, performance monitoring, legal compliance, or operational troubleshooting.

Contact enquiries may be retained for as long as needed to respond, maintain correspondence history, handle follow-up issues, or meet legal and administrative obligations.

You can choose not to submit the contact form, block or clear cookies in your browser, and use Google's own advertising controls where available.

You can also contact BiteForecast to raise a privacy concern, request deletion of information you submitted through the contact form where appropriate, or ask how a site-level privacy issue is being handled.

If you contact BiteForecast about a privacy issue, please provide enough detail for the request to be understood and handled.