About & privacy

How the forecast works

For each resort we combine three weather models (GFS with the high-resolution HRRR over the US, GEM with HRDPS over Canada, and ECMWF) at the base, middle and top of the slopes, in the resort's own time zone. The 0–10 powder score weighs overnight snow (4 pm – 9 am), how cold it falls, rain, wind gusts on exposed lifts and morning sun.

A forecast is an estimate, not a promise. For the next 1–3 days temperature and whether it will snow at all are fairly reliable; exact inches are the weakest part, because models smooth out the mountains and tend to underestimate mountain snowfall. That is why we only show the next 7 days, with a confidence line under the bars.

Snowfall is shown as the models give it. We haven't calibrated it against measured snow in North America yet, so treat big numbers with care.

Safety and liability

• ChasePow is not a safety service. Before skiing out of bounds or in the backcountry, always read the local avalanche forecast at avalanche.org (US) or avalanche.ca (Canada) and carry avalanche gear.
• In an emergency call 911. Inside a resort, ski patrol can be reached through the number on your trail map.
• ChasePow is not affiliated with any resort or operator (e.g. Vail Resorts, Alterra Mountain Company, Boyne Resorts). Resort names are used only to label forecasts; lift and terrain openings are up to the resort.
• We accept no liability for decisions made based on the forecast.

Data and credits

• Forecasts and current conditions: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0 licence), which provides models from NOAA (GFS, HRRR), Environment and Climate Change Canada (GEM, HRDPS) and ECMWF.
• Avalanche danger: the US avalanche centers via avalanche.org, and Avalanche Canada.
• Snow types after The 10 Snow Types Every Skier Needs To Know by Rise & Alpine (in our own words).

Privacy

ChasePow has no user accounts and no advertising or tracking cookies. We only process the following:

• Units. If you switch between °F and °C, we store a “units” cookie with the value imperial or metric for 1 year. It is strictly necessary to remember your choice, so it needs no consent.
• Visits. We count page views, resort clicks and alert subscriptions without cookies or tracking. To count daily visitors we create an anonymous fingerprint (hash) from your IP address, browser and a random key that changes every day and is deleted after 2 days — after that nobody can tell whose fingerprint it was. Your IP address is not stored. We also store where you came from (just the site name, e.g. google.com), your language and whether you use a phone or a computer. If your browser sends “Do Not Track” or “Global Privacy Control”, nothing is counted. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in knowing how the app is used (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)); aggregate numbers are kept for 400 days.
• Notifications (only if you turn them on). We store the subscription address your browser creates (an identifier at Apple's, Google's or Mozilla's push service plus encryption keys), your language and units, the resorts you picked, the date you subscribed, and a record of alerts sent so you never get the same one twice. We do not store your name, email, location or IP address.
• Abuse protection. When you change notification settings, we keep an unreadable fingerprint (hash) of your IP address for 10 minutes, so nobody can flood the server with fake subscriptions. The IP address itself is never stored. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in running the service safely (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)).
• Legal basis for notifications is your consent (GDPR Art. 6(1)(a)), given by turning on notifications and allowing them in your browser.
• Retention. A subscription lasts until you turn notifications off, at which point we delete it immediately. Subscriptions your browser has cancelled are deleted the next time we try to deliver to them. Records of sent alerts are deleted after 14 days.
• Who is involved in delivery. The notification itself is delivered by your browser maker's push service (Apple, Google or Mozilla). Our server fetches forecasts from Open-Meteo; we don't send them any of your data. Once public, the app will run at a hosting provider that may briefly keep technical access logs.
• Your rights. Turn notifications off via “Notifications” → “Turn off notifications”, which deletes your subscription. You have the right to access, correction, erasure and to complain to the Slovak Data Protection Office.

Operator

QA Kings s. r. o.Matus Hajdu

Registered office

Bauerova 1205/7, 040 23 Košice – mestská časť Sídlisko KVP

Company ID (IČO)

54315832

Tax ID (DIČ)

2121625781

VAT ID

SK2121625781

Contact

qakings.hello@gmail.com