Effective July 18, 2026 · fog-bank.org
Fog-Bank has no user accounts and no login. When you visit, we record a timestamp, the coarse location our CDN reports (country, region, city), and a salted hash of your IP address. The raw IP address is not stored. These records power the public visitor counters on the site and are kept in our own database; no third-party analytics service runs here, and no advertising exists anywhere on the site.
Your browser stores your own display preferences (theme, autoplay, loop) in localStorage on your device. They never leave your browser.
Frame and day adoptions are paid through PayPal, which processes the payment under its own privacy policy. We store the adoption record itself: the frame or day adopted, the date, and the public display name you asked us to show.
If you send us recovered FogCam frames, we store the images and the provenance you provide (source, dates, and the credit name you choose). That is the point of sending them: they join the permanent public archive.
Our uploader publishes timelapse videos to our own YouTube channel through YouTube API Services. It authenticates only our channel and reads no data about any other YouTube account or viewer; it stores no YouTube user data at all, so there is no stored API data to delete, and our own channel's OAuth grant can be revoked at any time at Google security settings. Watching our videos on YouTube is governed by Google's privacy policy. Fog-Bank pages do not embed YouTube players; links open on youtube.com.
Visit records and adoption records are kept for the life of the archive, which is built to run for decades. To ask about or remove a record tied to you, use the contact form on the contribute page.