Privacy policy

Who we are

PokeNow is a free, fan-made website (source code published on GitHub) that shows the local time at popular raid hotspots and suggests where raids are likely to be busy. It has no user accounts and no server of its own; the site is static files hosted on GitHub Pages.

What stays on your device

PokeNow saves a few settings in your browser so the page remembers them between visits:

• Your cooldown settings (the place and time of your last in-game action), stored in localStorage.
• Your pinned spots and your language choice, stored in localStorage.
• A copy of the public event schedule, so it shows instantly next time, stored in localStorage.
• Whether you closed the bottom ad during this visit, stored in sessionStorage.
• When you closed the note that asks to allow ads (shown only if an ad blocker is on), so it stays hidden for a week, and whether a blocker was seen before, so a later visit without one can say thanks. Both are stored in localStorage. Checking for an ad blocker happens in your browser; the result is not sent anywhere.

These values never leave your browser and are not sent to us. You can delete them at any time by clearing this site’s data in your browser settings.

Advertising

PokeNow may show ads from Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this and other sites on the internet.

You can opt out of personalized advertising in Google Ads Settings. Learn more in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are asked for consent through a Google-certified consent message before personalized ads are shown.

Visitor statistics

PokeNow may count page views with a cookie-free analytics service (Cloudflare Web Analytics or GoatCounter). These tools record which page was viewed, the referring site, browser type and country, without cookies and without building a profile of you. The numbers help us see which hotspots people use.

Community links

The community directory links to groups on other services (Discord, KakaoTalk, LINE and others). Those services have their own privacy policies; PokeNow does not share anything with them.

Hosting

GitHub, which hosts this site, may collect technical information such as IP addresses when pages are requested. See the GitHub General Privacy Statement. Fonts are served from this site, not from a third-party font service.

The event schedule is a public file that your browser downloads from GitHub (raw.githubusercontent.com, the ScrapedDuck project, which mirrors the Leek Duck community calendar). Like any web request, GitHub sees your IP address; no other information is sent.

Reports and suggestions

If you report a translation problem or suggest a hotspot with the form on this site, what you type is published as a public issue in the PokeNow GitHub repository, together with your language and the page address. Please don’t include personal information. To block spam, the form uses Cloudflare Turnstile, which runs a check in your browser and receives technical data such as your IP address; see the Turnstile privacy addendum. The form is sent through a small Cloudflare Worker that only passes it on to GitHub and doesn’t store it.

Clipboard

When you press Copy coords, the coordinates are written to your clipboard. PokeNow never reads your clipboard.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the date at the top will be updated. Questions or requests can be opened as an issue on the PokeNow GitHub repository.

Not affiliated

PokeNow is not affiliated with Scopely, Nintendo or The Pokémon Company. Pokémon and related names are trademarks of their respective owners.