NOAA Buoys Marine

Privacy Policy

"NOAA Buoys Marine" application (thereafter Application) allows its users to get real-time buoys marine weather data.

Your privacy is important to us. This is the Application policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you across our app.

We only ask for personal information when we truly need it to provide a service to you. We collect it by fair and lawful means, with your knowledge and consent. We also let you know why we’re collecting it and how it will be used. We only retain collected information for as long as necessary to provide you with your requested service.

We will not use or share any personally identifying information publicly or with third parties, except as described in this Privacy Policy or when required to by law.

As the Application uses Google Places API and Google Maps API, by using this Application, you are also bound by Google Terms of Service, Google Privacy Policy, and any other applicable Google's terms and policies. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this Application.

Information Collected and Used by Us

For a better experience, while using our Application, we may require you to provide with the following personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable information:

• Location.

At map pages the Application requires your location (a non-personalized pair of geographical coordinates). The coordinates are required to be able to set the center of map at your location. Besides, to get and provide weather data of your nearest buoys we use the coordinates to be able to identify the nearest to you buoys. To get weather data around your location or data of the nearest buoy the Application can send your coordinates or coordinates of your nearest buoys to OpenWeatherMap API and National Weather Service. Except of the mentioned cases the coordinates are not sent out of the Application. Your coordinates will be destroyed after you close the Application. Bellow you can find links to the privacy policies of the services.

If your device Android version is 6 and above you can decline providing the location permission, with the understanding that the above mentioned features will not work. If your device Android version is below 6 and you do not agree to provide your location you should not use the Application.

Information Collected and Used by Third Party Services

The Application does use third party services that may collect information used to identify you. They may collect at background or require you to provide with certain personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable information, including but not limited to Android Advertising ID, Advertising Identifier for iOS , cookies and similar technologies, your device location, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, device name, operating system version, the configuration of the Application, the time and date of your use of the Application, and other statistics. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review privacy policies of these services. We have no control over how third party services collect, use and keep information. So, we assume no responsibility for any third party services.

The list of the third party services used by the Application and the links to the privacy policy of the services:

• Google Maps API - used for showing Google map
• Google Geocoding API - used for converting addresses (like a street address or city name) into geographic coordinates (like latitude and longitude)
• Google Places API - used for getting information about places
• Google AdMob - used for showing ads within the Application
• Google Firebase - used for collecting non-personally identifiable analytical data, app crash and error logs, and for sending push notifications

All the above mentioned services are provided by Google, and you can find the privacy policies of the services at Google Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the policies you should not use the Application.

To get weather data we use the following services. You can find privacy policies of the services by clicking on their names.

• OpenWeatherMap API
• National Weather Service

If you do not agree with the policy you should not use the Application.

Cookies

Cookies are files with a small amount of data that are commonly used as anonymous unique identifiers. They can be sent to your device and are stored on your device's internal memory.

We do not use cookies. However, the third party services can use cookies to collect information and improve their services. To learn more how the third party services use cookies please visit the privacy policies of the third party services.

Security

We value your trust in providing us and our third party services providers your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to Other Websites and Apps

This Application may contain links to other websites and apps. If you click on such link, you will be directed to that website or app. Note that these external websites and apps are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review terms of use and privacy policy of these websites and apps. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, terms of use, privacy policies, or practices of any third party websites, apps or services.

Acceptance of This Privacy Policy

Your continued use of the Application will be regarded as acceptance of the Privacy Policy, collection and usage of information in relation to this policy.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately after they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about this Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

Policy effective date

This policy is effective as of 14 October 2018.