Privacy policy
Last updated: 14 November 2026
This policy explains what information Live.City ("we", "us") collects when you use live.city (the "Site"), how we use it and the choices you have.
Information we collect
- Information you give us. When you submit a form (relocation plan, contact, partner application, donation pledge, contest entry, job application or newsletter), we receive the details you enter, such as your name, email, phone number and message.
- Preferences stored on your device. We store your theme, temperature unit, saved cities and cookie choice in your browser's local storage. This stays on your device and is not sent to us.
- Automatically collected information. Our hosting provider and advertising partners may receive standard technical data such as IP address, browser type, pages visited and referring site.
How we use information
- To respond to your enquiries and deliver what you asked for.
- For relocation requests: to introduce you to up to three relevant partners, only with your consent given on the form.
- To send the newsletter you subscribed to (unsubscribe at any time by replying "unsubscribe").
- To operate, secure and improve the Site.
We do not sell your personal information to data brokers.
Advertising and cookies — Google AdSense
We use Google AdSense to show ads. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this Site and/or other sites on the Internet.
You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.eu. Learn more in How Google uses information from sites that use its services.
If you choose "Essential only" in our cookie notice, we request non-personalised ads. Visitors in the EEA, UK and Switzerland may also see Google's consent message, which lets you manage choices for each vendor.
Third-party services
To show live information, your browser connects directly to: Open-Meteo (weather and air quality), Wikipedia (city summaries), U.S. Geological Survey (earthquakes), GDELT Project (news), wheretheiss.at (space station position), OpenStreetMap (map tiles), unpkg (map library), Google Fonts and YouTube (embedded videos, loaded only when you click play, using youtube-nocookie.com). Each has its own privacy policy. Form submissions are delivered by our form-processing provider, FormSubmit, which transmits the content to our team.
Data retention and security
We keep form submissions only as long as needed for the purpose you submitted them for, and for up to 24 months for record keeping, unless you ask us to delete them sooner. No method of transmission over the internet is completely secure, but we use reputable providers and HTTPS throughout.
Your rights
Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR, UK GDPR, Canada's PIPEDA, India's DPDP Act or California's CCPA/CPRA), you may have rights to access, correct, delete or object to the processing of your personal information, and to withdraw consent. To make a request, use our contact form.
Children
The Site is not directed to children under 13 (or under 16 in the EEA), and we do not knowingly collect their personal information.
Changes
We may update this policy and will change the date above when we do.