Cookie Policy
The short version. Airport Ears sets no cookies. It saves a few settings in your browser so the site remembers your choices. There is nothing for advertising or tracking, so there is no cookie banner to accept.
What is saved on your device
These items are created only by your own actions (changing the theme, a switch, or your list) and are used only to make the site work as you set it. They are never sent to me or to anyone else.
| Name | Where | What it holds | How long |
|---|---|---|---|
theme | Local storage | Light or dark mode | Until you clear site data |
prefs | Local storage | Your switches (highlight, codes, planes on pick, animations, regions) | Until you clear site data |
mine | Local storage | The airports you added to "My airports" | Until you clear site data |
welcomed, hinted | Session storage | That you already saw the welcome screen and a tip | Until you close the tab |
| Site files | Browser cache (service worker) | Copies of the site's own pages and images so it can open offline. Aircraft data is never cached. | Replaced when the site updates |
Do I need your consent?
Rules such as the EU ePrivacy Directive require consent before a site stores or reads information on your device, with an exception for storage that is strictly necessary to provide something you asked for. The items above remember settings that you chose yourself, and nothing is used for analytics, advertising or profiling. For that reason I do not show a consent banner. If I ever add analytics, ads or embeds that set cookies, I will add a banner that lets you refuse them before anything is stored, and update this page first.
Third-party cookies
The services that deliver the map (Cloudflare, unpkg.com and OpenFreeMap) did not set cookies when I checked on 30 October 2026. Sites you reach through links (such as LiveATC.net, Flightradar24 or Google) have their own cookie policies.
How to remove or block these items
Clear this site's data in your browser settings, or use a private window. The site still works if storage is blocked; it just forgets your choices.
Contact
Questions: message Bobby Madhu through the place where you were given the link to this site. More on data use is in the Privacy Policy.