Your privacy.
In plain English.
This page covers the website, the early-access list and the app.
No analytics, no cookies, no trackers
This site sets no cookies and runs no analytics or advertising scripts. Fonts, scripts and images are served from this site’s own domain.
Two things load from elsewhere on the coverage page. Your browser fetches map tiles from CARTO, drawn from OpenStreetMap data, and beach conditions from this site’s own server, which asks Open-Meteo on your behalf. If that server is unavailable your browser asks Open-Meteo directly. Once the early-access list opens, the early-access page will also contact Supabase, the service that stores the list, and it will receive the address you enter. In each case the other service receives the technical details any web request carries, such as your IP address. This site gives none of them anything else about you.
One email address, one purpose
The early-access list is not open yet, and until it is, the early-access page collects nothing. When it opens, it will ask for an email address and nothing else. That address is used to send RipCo updates: the launch, and detection reaching new beaches.
I do not share or sell it. Every email will carry a way to leave the list, and leaving removes your address.
Location is optional, and the cameras are public
Location access is optional. If you allow it, the app shows the beaches near you and the weather where you are; without it, you can pick beaches from the map.
The camera feeds RipCo reads are public streams that already exist. The model reads the surface of the water for the signature of a rip. It is not built to identify people.
Hazard sightings you report through Shark Watch are shared with other people using the app at that beach. Reports are unverified.
The app has a profile. This page will describe what the profile stores and how to delete it before the app is released.
This page was last updated in September 2026.