Privacy Policy
Effective October 10, 2026 · ME3 Social Media, Inc. DBA ATIS Alerts (“we”, “us”)
This policy covers the atisalerts.com website and the ATIS Alerts Telegram bot. Short version: the website uses standard analytics; the bot stores only what it needs to send you the alerts you asked for; we do not sell personal information.
What the website collects
We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how the site is used (pages visited, approximate location derived from IP, device and browser type). Google Analytics sets cookies for this purpose. You can opt out with Google's browser add-on or by blocking analytics cookies. We also run our own cookie-less, first-party analytics: a random session identifier kept in your browser for the current tab, the site that referred you here, and, for our embeddable widgets, the address of the page hosting the widget, retained for 180 days. We do not sell your personal information.
Advertising
Some pages show, or may show, advertising served by Google AdSense. Google and other third-party vendors use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or to other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet. You can read how Google uses information from sites that use its services on Google's partner sites page.
You can opt out of personalized advertising in Google's Ads Settings, and opt out of other third-party vendors' cookies for personalized advertising at aboutads.info. Visitors in the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland are shown a consent message, from a Google-certified consent platform, before any advertising cookies are used, and can change that choice at any time. Ads are never placed inside weather, airspace or FAA data, and advertisers have no influence over what that data says.
If you submit a score to one of our game leaderboards (the F-22 Landing Challenge Game or the F-18 Carrier Landing Challenge), we store the three initials you enter, your score and landing details, an approximate city derived from your IP address (shown publicly next to your score, e.g. “Knoxville, TN”), a random game identifier kept in your browser, and a salted one-way hash of your network address used only for abuse prevention: no account and no other personal information.
What the Telegram bot stores
When you use the bot, we store your Telegram chat ID, the airports you track, your alert settings (for example personal weather minimums and quiet hours), and your subscription status. We use this solely to deliver the alerts you configure. We do not see your Telegram password, phone contacts, or other chats. Payments for Premium are processed by Telegram (Telegram Stars): we never receive card or bank details.
Retention and deletion
Bot data is kept while your account is active. Send /stop to the bot or email us to have your chat ID and settings deleted. Website analytics are retained per Google Analytics defaults (14 months).
Third parties we rely on
The site is hosted on Vercel and uses Supabase for data storage. Weather and airspace data come from US government and public sources (NOAA, FAA, OurAirports): requests for map tiles and radar imagery are made by your browser directly to those providers (Stadia Maps/OpenStreetMap, NOAA, Iowa Environmental Mesonet), which may see your IP address as with any web resource.
Our FAA delay pages include affiliate partners during significant disruptions: a hotel map from Stay22 and rental car search and links from DiscoverCars.com. Those are loaded from the partners' own servers, can set their own cookies, and see your IP address and the page you are on. If you follow a booking link, the partner handles that booking under its own privacy policy. See our Affiliate Disclosure for where these appear and how we are paid.
Your rights
Depending on where you live (including under GDPR and CCPA/CPRA), you may have rights to access, correct, or delete your personal information. Email support@atisalerts.com and we will handle your request. We do not knowingly collect data from children under 13.
Changes
If this policy changes materially, we will update the effective date above. Questions? See Contact.
