Privacy
What we collect, and what we promise to do with it.
NTMS Propagation Prediction is an amateur-radio research project run by and for the North Texas Microwave Society. Any information we collect or that you submit is used exclusively to study microwave propagation and improve the prediction model on this site.
We will never
- Sell your information.
- Trade or barter it to third parties.
- Disclose it to anyone outside the project, except where required by law.
What we collect
- Account information — when you register, we store your callsign, email address, and a hashed password. Email is only used for account confirmation and password resets.
- Submitted data — beacon listings, QSOs, and beacon monitor reports you voluntarily submit. These are published back to other amateurs as part of the project.
- Approximate location — our CDN (Cloudflare) provides a rough latitude/longitude derived from your IP so the map can open centered near you. It is not stored with your account or any submission.
- Basic request logs — standard web server logs (timestamp, path, status, user agent) retained for a short period for debugging and abuse prevention.
How it's used
Everything feeds one goal: calibrating and improving propagation predictions for the amateur microwave bands. Aggregate or anonymized results may appear in publications, talks, or on this site, but individual personal details (email, password, IP) will never be published.