Privacy Policy

This page says exactly what the app does with data, in the same terms we declare to the Apple App Store and Google Play.

location — only if you allow it

If you grant location permission, the app reads your device's location (precise and approximate — whichever your device provides) for a single purpose: to find the nearest of the places the app knows about, so it can show that place's weather and climate.

• Optional. Location permission is never required. You can use every feature of weatherbox by searching for a place by name, and you can revoke the permission at any time in your device settings.
• Used in the moment, not kept. Your location is used only while the app works out which place is nearest. It is not stored on any server, not linked to you (there is no account or identifier to link it to), not used for advertising or tracking, and not shared with anyone.
• Your coordinates are not sent to us. To fetch weather and climate data the app requests map tiles from our content delivery network: a forecast tile covers 1° of latitude by 1° of longitude (about 111 km north to south, and less east to west away from the equator), and a climate tile covers 0.1° by 0.1° (about 11 km north to south). The request carries the tile, not your position.
• Foreground only. The app never reads your location in the background.

the network-position fallback

If you decline location permission, or if no location fix is available, the app asks BigDataCloud (bigdatacloud.net) for an approximate position based on the network address the request comes from, so it can show a nearby place. Version 1.1.1 and later make this request only in those two cases; version 1.1.0 and earlier make it each time the app starts, whether or not location permission is granted. No coordinates or other data are sent in that request, and nothing about it is stored by the app. BigDataCloud's own privacy practices are described at bigdatacloud.com/privacy-and-cookie-policy.

what stays on your device

The following is stored on your device only. It is never uploaded to us and we cannot see it:

• your saved places and the last place the app located you at;
• your unit preference (°C / °F) and your progress through the guided tour;
• the weather and climate data the app has downloaded, kept as a cache so saved places keep working offline.
• whether this device currently has weatherbox pro, and when its free trial began.

Uninstalling the app, or clearing its storage, deletes all of it, with one exception on iPhone and iPad: from version 1.1.1 the app also keeps two dates in the iOS Keychain on the device — when this device's free trial began, and the latest time the app has seen on the device's clock. The iOS Keychain is not deleted when you uninstall the app, so a reinstalled app finds both dates again. They are kept so that the free trial is available once per device, and so that setting the clock back cannot extend it. They are stored only for this device (they are not carried to another device by a backup), they stay on the device until it is erased, and they are never sent anywhere. On Android there is no such store: the same two dates live in the app's ordinary storage and are deleted with it.

If you use the app's backup feature, it writes a text file of your saved places to a location you choose; that file is yours and never leaves your device unless you move it.

Your device's own backup service (Google backup on Android, iCloud backup on iOS) may include your saved places, your unit preference, and the date your free trial began along with the rest of your app data, under your own account and your own settings. On Android, when your Google backup is on and the app is reinstalled, the backup restores that date, so the trial does not start again. The downloaded weather and climate caches are excluded from that backup. We have no access to your device backups.

purchases

If you buy weatherbox pro, the transaction is handled entirely by Apple or by Google. They process the payment under their own privacy policies and their own terms.

We never see, receive or store your payment card, your billing address, your store account name or your email address. We are not sent a customer record and we have no way to identify you from a purchase.

The app asks the store on your device whether that device currently has an active purchase, and stores the answer — and the start date of your free trial — on the device, in the same on-device storage described above (on iPhone and iPad, the trial start date is also kept in the iOS Keychain, as described above). That is the whole of it: a yes or a no, and a date. It is never uploaded to us, because there is nowhere to upload it to. We run no account system and no purchase server.

how data reaches you

Weather and climate data are static files served from our content delivery network, which runs on Cloudflare. Like any internet service, Cloudflare receives the standard technical information that accompanies every web request — including your IP address and the tile being requested — in order to deliver the response and protect the service from abuse. We do not use this information to identify you and we do not combine it with anything else. Cloudflare's privacy practices are described at cloudflare.com/privacypolicy.

Every connection the app makes is encrypted (HTTPS). These are all of the servers the app itself contacts:

• cdn.cineviv.com — our content delivery network (Cloudflare), for weather and climate data;
• api.bigdatacloud.net — the network-position fallback described above, only in the cases described there;
• Apple's App Store or Google Play — reached through the store on your device (StoreKit on iPhone and iPad, Google Play Billing on Android) to check and make purchases, under the store's own privacy policy.

Links you tap in the app — this policy, the terms, and the store's subscription page — open in your browser or your store app. The app connects to no other servers.

permissions the app asks for

• Location (optional) — as described above.
• Add to photo library (iOS, optional, asked only when you choose "Save Image" from the share sheet) — to save an image the app has rendered. The app never reads your photos.
• Vibration (Android) — for the app's haptic feedback. Network state (Android) — to know whether the device is online.

what we do not do

• We do not collect your name, email, phone number, contacts, photos, files, device identifiers or advertising ID.
• We do not include any analytics, crash-reporting, advertising or tracking software.
• We do not sell, rent or share your data, and we do not build profiles of you.
• We do not require an account, and we have no account of yours to delete.

children

weatherbox is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect any information from children. The app collects no personal information from anyone.

your choices and your rights

• Location: grant or revoke it at any time in your device settings. The app works without it.
• Your data: everything the app stores is on your device. Clearing the app's storage or uninstalling it removes all of it permanently, except the two trial dates kept in the iOS Keychain on iPhone and iPad, described above.
• Questions or requests: write to us at the address below. Because we hold no personal data, there is nothing for us to access, correct or delete on your behalf; we will still answer.

changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date at the top. Any change that affects what the app does with data will be reflected here before it takes effect.

contact

weatherbox is published by cineviv.
email: info@cineviv.com