Privacy Policy
Last updated September 2026.
Browsing Vermont Fire Departments needs no account, and nothing you look at is tied to you personally.
The one exception is the firefighters' forum. If you request to join it, we keep your email address, the name, department and role you give us, and what you post. That is stored with Supabase, which hosts the forum's database and sends the sign-in emails. Your email address is never shown to other members; your name, department, role and posts are shown only to approved members, never to the public. Signing in sets a cookie that keeps you signed in, and nothing else. To have your account and posts deleted, ask through the Contact page.
The site does use Google Analytics to count visits and see which stations and photographs people actually look at. It records the page you are on, how you arrived, your browser and device type, an approximate location (a city or region, worked out from your IP address, which Google discards rather than stores), and events such as scrolling, following a link off the site, and downloading a file. Google Analytics sets cookies in your browser so that repeat visits can be told apart from new ones. There is no advertising here, and none of this data is sold.
If you would rather not be counted, Google publishes a browser opt-out add-on, and most content blockers stop the analytics script from loading at all.
Map tiles are loaded directly from OpenStreetMap's servers as you use the map; their own privacy policy governs how they handle those requests.
Station information, photographs, and locations are sourced from the Vermont E911 dataset (VCGI) and contributed department photos, shown here for informational purposes.
Questions about this policy can be sent via the Contact page.