Privacy

Last updated 26 August 2026

RiverReady tells you when a river is high enough to matter at the road crossings you drive. This page says exactly what it stores and what it doesn't. It is written to be read, not to be survived.

What is stored in your account

• Your email address and name, from when you signed up.
• The roads you have saved, and the last status RiverReady told you about each one.
• Your alert preferences.
• If you turn on alerts, a push subscription for each device, which is an address your browser gives us so notifications can reach it.
• Any road conditions you report, marked as community reports.

What stays on your device and is never sent

• Your location. Distances are worked out on your own phone or computer. The coordinates never reach our servers.
• Your saved places: home, school, work or anywhere else you add. These are stored only in your browser.
• Your choice of feet or meters, and day or night.

What RiverReady does not do

• No advertising, and no advertising identifiers.
• No third-party analytics or tracking scripts.
• No selling or sharing of your data with anyone.
• No building of a profile about you.

Services RiverReady talks to

River levels come from the U.S. Geological Survey. Flood levels and rain forecasts come from the National Weather Service. Maps use OpenStreetMap data through OpenFreeMap. Address search uses Photon, and driving routes use OSRM. Accounts and saved roads are stored with Supabase.

When you search for a place or check a route, the text you type is sent to those services so they can answer. They are not told who you are.

Deleting your data

The You tab has two buttons. One deletes your saved places and location from this device immediately. The other deletes your account and everything stored with it — saved roads, alert settings, and any road conditions you reported. Both work without contacting anyone, and deletion is immediate and permanent.

Children

RiverReady is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect information from them.

What RiverReady is not

RiverReady watches river height at road crossings. It knows nothing about ice, debris, roadworks, accidents, or official closures, and it is not an emergency service. Conditions change fast. Always look before you drive, and never drive into water.

Contact

Questions about any of this, or to delete your account: riverready.appplication@gmail.com