JamJumperPrivacy on JamJumper
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JamJumper shows road cameras, pass conditions and traffic trouble. There are no accounts and nothing to sign up for. We don't ask for your name or email, and we don't sell or share anything about you.
What stays in your browser
My Cams (the cams and routes you star) is saved in your own browser's local storage, not on our server. So are a few display choices: grid or list, how many columns, the timelapse mode, the route you picked on a drive page, the last state you opened in Trouble Now. Prev/next order between cams and which menu strips are open live in session storage, which ends when you close the tab. We never see any of it. Clearing this site's data in your browser removes it.
Your location
Only if you tap a button for it (Near me first on Trouble Now, Follow me on a drive page) does your browser ask to share your location. On those pages it's used in the page to sort trouble by distance or move the dot, and isn't sent to us. The nearby-cams page puts it in the page address to find cams near you, so it shows in the server log like any address.
Ads: Google AdSense
The ads come from Google AdSense. Google and its partners use cookies to show ads based on your visits to this site and other sites, and to count and limit ads and catch fraud. How Google uses that information: How Google uses information from sites that use its services and Google's advertising page.
You can turn off personalized ads in Google's ad settings, and opt out of other companies' personalized ads at aboutads.info (and youronlinechoices.eu in Europe).
Visit counts: Google Analytics
Google Analytics 4 counts visits: which pages, how you got here, about where (city level), the kind of device, and which links get tapped. It uses its own cookies. We read it as totals to see which pages help people. To leave it out entirely, Google offers a browser add-on.
The one cookie of our own, jj_me, is only set when someone opens the site with ?me=1: it marks the owner's own visits so they don't count.
Cameras, maps and fonts
Camera pictures and live video load straight from the state DOTs and other camera owners (CDOT, WSDOT, the FAA and others); replays come from SnowGrabber, JamJumper's sister site. Maps come from OpenStreetMap and OpenTopoMap, fonts from Google Fonts. Your browser asks those servers directly, so they see your IP address and browser, as any website would.
Server logs
Like every website, our host keeps ordinary server logs: IP address, page, time, browser and the page you came from. They're used to keep the site running and to spot abuse.
JamJumper also counts its own page views and the words typed into its search box, to see which pages help people. Each count keeps the page, the time, the kind of device and the kind of site you came from (a search engine, an AI assistant, another site). It keeps no IP address and sets no cookie; a scrambled stand-in for the network is kept for 8 days to tell crowds from robots and can't be turned back into an address. Searches are kept as words only, with the page they were typed on.
Questions
Write to bkperry@jamjumper.com.