The longer version is below, because a privacy page that's only one paragraph makes people suspicious.
What we collect
Almost nothing. We don't ask for your name, email or location, and the site doesn't set cookies or store anything in your browser.
Anonymous visit counts. We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to see things like how many people visited and which beaches are popular. It doesn't use cookies, doesn't build a profile of you, and doesn't follow you to other sites. It tells us "lots of people looked at Siesta Key today," not "you looked at Siesta Key today."
Email, if you send us one. If you write to hello@beachproblems.com, we get your email address and whatever you wrote. We use it to reply, and maybe to add the webcam you suggested. We don't add you to a mailing list, because we don't have one.
Other companies involved
A few services make the site work. They see the basic stuff any website sees when your browser asks for a page, like your IP address.
- Cloudflare hosts the site and keeps it running. Cloudflare's privacy policy
- Mapbox draws the maps. When a map loads, your browser asks Mapbox for the map tiles. Mapbox's privacy policy
- Google Workspace handles our email, so it carries any message you send us.
When you click a webcam
Every webcam lives on someone else's website: a resort, a restaurant, a city, a tourism board. When you click Watch Webcam, you leave Beach Problems and go to theirs. What happens there is up to them and their privacy policy. Some of those sites have ads or cookies. We can't control that; we just point at the beach.
Kids
Beach Problems is family friendly, but it isn't aimed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect anything from them. Since we don't collect much of anything from anyone, this one's pretty easy.
Selling your data
We don't sell it. We don't hand it to advertisers. We don't have enough of it to make a decent sandwich.
Changes
If we ever start doing something new (say, a newsletter, or letting you share your own beach problems), we'll update this page before we do. The date at the bottom tells you when it last changed.
Questions
Email hello@beachproblems.com. A human reads it, usually with sand somewhere it shouldn't be.
Beach Problems is run by Gralion, LLC. Last updated November 10, 2026.