What StayReady uses, and what it does not save
StayReady is an independent educational project. It is not an official government site and it is not an emergency alert system.
Location checks
When you enter an address, StayReady may send it to OpenStreetMap's Nominatim geocoding service to find coordinates. StayReady may then contact official public map services, including agency GIS services, to check mapped hazard information. Those services receive the location needed to answer the map query and may have their own logging and privacy practices.
Temporary result state
StayReady does not save raw addresses to an account, Supabase, or a long-term resident database. The address and coordinates are kept temporarily on the StayReady server so the summary and map pages work, then expire. Your browser cookie contains only a random result token, not the raw address or coordinates.
Household details
Household planning fields are optional and structured. StayReady does not ask for medical diagnoses or free-text disability, access, or vulnerability notes. Optional selections are kept only with the short-lived result and are not used to change hazard evidence.
Analytics and session recordings
StayReady uses PostHog analytics to understand pageviews, pageleaves, clicks and other interactions, performance and web-vitals metrics, heatmaps, browser errors, and session recordings. Session recordings mask all page text and input fields. Sensitive areas, including address input, household details and personalization, user-specific risk summaries, maps showing selected locations, search boxes, feedback, and contact forms, are intended to be blocked from both recordings and automatic interaction capture.
StayReady is configured not to send exact addresses, exact coordinates, household details, names, emails, phone numbers, emergency notes, or raw user-entered search text to PostHog. Query strings are stripped from captured URLs and session-recording network request names. Analytics are for improving this educational site only. StayReady is not an official emergency service and must not be relied on for alerts, evacuation orders, or emergency response.
Feedback, community interest, and update signups
If you choose to use a feedback or interest form, StayReady stores only the fields shown on that form in a private Supabase database. This may include your email, optional name or general ZIP/city, user type, organization and role, selected category, message, consent time, and the StayReady page where you opened the form. StayReady does not store your IP address or browser user-agent with these submissions.
General feedback is scheduled for deletion after 12 months. Organization and partnership inquiries are scheduled for deletion after 24 months. Update-list records are kept until you unsubscribe or request deletion. Access is limited to authorized reviewers. Update-list records may later be exported to an email provider that supports unsubscribe controls, but StayReady will not send campaigns until that process is configured.
Do not include a street address, emergency contact, medical diagnosis, household vulnerability details, credentials, or an emergency report. To request deletion or correction of a form submission, use the contact and feedback form.
During an emergency
Call 911 for immediate danger. Follow Alameda County emergency information, AC Alert, and instructions from fire, police, public health, and other official agencies.
Questions or problems
Use the private contact and feedback form. Do not submit a real address, medical information, credentials, or emergency report.