Privacy

Last updated November 12, 2026.

This covers natecordero.com and Tower Lookup at tower.natecordero.com. Both run on a server I operate.

This site

There are no accounts, cookies, analytics or trackers. The web server does not keep an access log.

Tower Lookup

What you search for. Addresses and coordinates are sent in the body of the request, not in the web address, so they don’t end up in browser history, bookmarks or server logs. They are used to answer your search and are not stored.

Server logs. The application records each request’s time, IP address and page (for example, “a path analysis was requested”), but not the location searched. These logs are used only to keep the service running and are deleted after 14 days.

Your browser. The tool remembers whether you last chose the map or the satellite view, in your browser’s local storage. That setting never leaves your browser. There are no cookies.

Services the server uses on your behalf. To answer a search, my server may contact:

• Geoapify or Photon with the text you type in the address box, to suggest addresses;
• the US Census Bureau geocoder with the address you pick, to find its coordinates;
• the USGS lidar archive on Amazon Web Services, for the area along one path, if you ask for a lidar refinement.

These requests come from my server, so those services see my server’s address, not yours.

What your browser loads directly. The map is drawn with Leaflet, loaded from unpkg.com, using map tiles from OpenStreetMap and satellite images from the USGS. Your browser requests these itself, so those services see your IP address and which map tiles you view, under their own privacy policies.

Changes

If anything here changes, for example if advertising is added to Tower Lookup, this page will be updated before it happens.

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