Homer Pulse is built by Homer locals for Homer locals and visitors. We collect as little as we can get away with. Everything below is what v2 actually does — when the site changes, this page changes.
What we collect
Things you choose to send us
When you submit a business, an event, a correction, or feedback via the Submit page, we store what you type. You can include your name and contact info, but they're optional — leave them blank and the submission is anonymous. We use contact info only to follow up about your specific submission, never for marketing or outreach.
Submissions live in a Supabase database we control. They aren't readable by other site visitors — only by site administrators reviewing the queue.
Things your browser saves locally
We use your browser's localStorage for a few
preferences that should survive a refresh:
- Whether you've chosen light or dark mode
- Which NWS weather alerts you've dismissed
- Whether you're signed in as an admin (Supabase session token)
Local storage stays on your device. We can't read it; only your browser can. Clearing your browser's site data removes it.
Things our hosting provider sees
Cloudflare Pages serves the site and sees standard request metadata — IP address, user agent, referring URL, the page you loaded. This is normal web hosting; we don't have access to these logs ourselves beyond aggregate analytics.
We may use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is cookie-free and privacy-respecting. It doesn't track you across sites, doesn't fingerprint your device, and doesn't require a consent banner. See Cloudflare's own description for the technical details.
Things we fetch on your behalf
To show live conditions on the homepage, your browser calls public APIs for tide data (NOAA), weather (Open-Meteo), and active weather alerts (NWS, via a proxy we run). None of these receive any personally identifying information from us.
The map page loads Google Maps. Google sees that you visited the map page; their privacy policy covers what they do with that. If you're privacy-conscious, you can skip the map and still use the rest of the site.
What we don't do
- We don't sell data. Ever. There's nothing to sell.
- We don't use ad networks or trackers.
- We don't fingerprint your device.
- We don't email you unless you specifically asked us to follow up about a submission.
- We don't share your contact info with the businesses you submit reports about.
Your control
Email charlie.benson@gmail.com if you want to:
- See what we've stored about you
- Delete a submission you made
- Remove your contact info from a submission
- Ask anything else about your data
Changes
If we change what we collect, we update this page and the date at the top. Material changes get a note on the homepage for a week.