Simcoe Weather Mobile Web is a site especially designed for advanced mobile phones (smartphones). Some of the features are experimental and are not supported
on all of the mobile phones. We use some functions that are available on the phone inside the mobile web browser using
Google Gears.
Google Gears allows you to take functions that are natively on the phone inside the mobile
web browser. Google Gears Mobile is not available on all mobile phones, but more phones will be supported in the next few months.
Yes. Whenever you first use Gears you will be prompted to "Allow" the site to access functions from your phone. Your selection is either "Allow", which
allows any activity from the mobile site to use functions from your phone, "Deny" which will not allow you to use functions from the phone on the mobile site
for that particular visit and "Never Allow", which will permantly deny any request to access functions from your phone. All in all, it is your
decision whether or not the mobile site will use features from your phone.
Simcoe Weather Mobile Web currently only uses your GPS function of your phone to plot your location on the Interactive Map or automatically determine
the forecast from where you are with the phone. More features will come within the next few months. All functions of your phone used by Simcoe Weather will always only be used when you request
it (by clicking a button or link). Nothing happens automatically without your consent!
Simcoe Weather Mobile Web uses your data (latitude & longitude) from the GPS on your phone to only plot your location on the map or
figure out what location your in for the local forecast. We do not store any information coming from your phone. Once we made the request
of your phone the data will automatically be deleted from our servers. Additionally, security build into Google Gears help to keep your
privacy safe. You can find out more about the Google Gears Privacy here.
Cookies are a small string of text stored on a user's computer by a web browser. That string usually carries information on your preferences
of the site, but also can be used for many other things. Simcoe Weather Mobile Web does use cookies to track what location you last searched for.
However, that cookie is stored on your mobile phone and will be retrieved to determine the location for your local forecast for easier access.
You can always delete all cookies in your mobile browser using your mobile web browser's settings. We do not save any information of
your cookie on our servers.