Privacy
No accounts
511now does not have user accounts. You do not sign in. We do not ask for your name or email.
Search, pins, and recents live in your browser only
When you search for a pass or pin a camera, that information is saved in your browser's local storage. It stays on this device. We do not send your search terms or pins to a server.
Recent searches and pinned cameras are stored using the browser localStorage API. If you clear your browser data, your pins and recents are deleted.
No cloud LLM
Search runs on your device. We use token overlap, aliases, and edit distance to match your query to camera names and places. Your search terms are not sent to a cloud AI or language model.
Camera stills are hotlinked from official hosts
When you view a camera still, your browser loads the image directly from the official source: WSDOT, ODOT TripCheck, Idaho 511, NPS, or OHAZ. Those agencies have their own web server logs and privacy policies.
511now does not re-host or cache camera images on our servers. We show you the same URL the agency publishes.
Anonymous usage measurement
511now uses Google Analytics to count page views and to see which parts of the site people actually use — which state, which pass, which camera, and whether a search found the road. This tells us what to fix. It is the only measurement on the site.
What we do not send: your search text, your location, your name, or anything that identifies you. When you tap "Cameras near me," your coordinates stay on the device — the measurement records only that the lookup worked. Searches are recorded by shape, not by content: whether the query matched a road, which page it opened, and how many words it was. The words themselves are never sent.
Google Analytics sets its own cookies (_ga) to tell a repeat visit from a new one. We have turned off Google Signals and ad personalization, so this data is not used to build an advertising profile of you. Browser "Do Not Track" and content blockers that block googletagmanager.com will stop it entirely, and the site works exactly the same without it.
No advertising cookies or third-party ads
511now does not use advertising cookies. We do not show third-party ads. We do not sell your data to advertisers, and we do not share the analytics data described above with anyone.
Fonts and map tiles from third parties
511now loads fonts from Google Fonts and map tiles from Leaflet and OpenStreetMap providers. Those services may log your IP address and browser information according to their own privacy policies.
No mailing list
We do not have a mailing list or newsletter. We do not collect email addresses.
Questions
511now is a service of Henricks Media. For privacy questions, contact Henricks Media through their website.