Privacy Policy for: The Weather Pal

Privacy Policy for The Weather Pal

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This Privacy Policy explains how The Weather Pal ("the app," "we," "our") handles information when you use the app. The Weather Pal is developed by Love Kumar Garg. We have no backend server of our own — the app talks directly from your device to the third-party weather and map providers described below.

Information We Collect

Location Data. With your permission, the app accesses your device's precise or approximate location (via ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION / ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION) to show weather, air quality, and radar data for your current location, and to let you save additional locations as favorites. Location is also used in the background on a periodic schedule to refresh weather data and generate alert notifications for your current location and saved favorites, even when the app is not open — you can disable this in the app's Settings or by revoking location/notification permissions in your device settings at any time.

Locations and Preferences You Provide. Cities you search for or save as favorites, recent searches, and app preferences (temperature unit, wind speed unit, theme, notification settings) are stored locally on your device only. We do not operate a server that stores this information, and it is not tied to any account — the app does not require or support sign-in.

Cached Weather Data. To let the app work offline and load quickly, recent weather and air-quality results are cached locally on your device.

Advertising Data. The app displays banner ads served by Google AdMob. Google (and its advertising partners) may collect device identifiers (such as the advertising ID), approximate location, and other data to serve and measure ads, in accordance with Google's own privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy. You can review or limit ad personalization through your device's Settings > Google > Ads (or Privacy & security > Ads, depending on Android version).

Information We Do Not Collect

The app does not access your microphone, camera, contacts, photos, or files. It does not require or support account creation, and we do not collect your name, email address, or payment information.

Third-Party Services Used by This App

- Open-Meteo — provides weather forecasts, air quality, and city search/geocoding. Your location coordinates (or search text) are sent directly to Open-Meteo's API to retrieve this data. See https://open-meteo.com/en/terms

- OpenWeatherMap — an alternate weather data source that may be enabled in some builds of the app; if active, the same location data is sent to OpenWeatherMap instead of or alongside Open-Meteo. See https://openweather.co.uk/privacy-policy

- RainViewer — provides radar map tile imagery for the Radar screen.

- OpenStreetMap / map tile providers — provide the base map imagery shown behind radar data.

- Google AdMob and Google Play Services — used to serve ads and to access device location via the Google Play Services Location APIs. See https://policies.google.com/privacy

None of these third parties are provided with your name, email, or any other directly-identifying information by us — only the data described above (chiefly, location coordinates and search queries) needed to return weather results.

Data Sharing

We do not sell your data. We do not share your data with anyone except the third-party services listed above, and only as needed for those services to function (e.g., sending your coordinates to a weather API to get a forecast, or to Google for ad serving).

Data Storage and Retention

Your favorites, search history, cached weather, and preferences are stored only on your device, using local app storage. This data is removed when you clear the app's storage/cache or uninstall the app. We do not retain copies of this data on any server we control, because no such server exists.

Notifications

If you grant notification permission, the app may send you local notifications about weather alerts (e.g., heavy rain, thunderstorms, extreme temperatures, poor air quality) for your current location and saved favorites. You can disable notifications at any time in the app's Settings or your device's notification settings.

Children's Privacy

The Weather Pal is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us information through the app, please contact us at the address below so we can address it.

Your Choices

You can: revoke location or notification permissions at any time in your device's app settings; clear the app's locally stored data via Android Settings > Apps > The Weather Pal > Storage; and limit ad personalization via your device's ad settings. Revoking location permission will limit the app to manual city search instead of current-location weather.

Security

We take reasonable measures to protect data within the app, but no method of electronic storage or transmission is 100% secure. Because your data is stored locally on your device rather than on a server we control, your device's own security (lock screen, OS updates, etc.) is the primary safeguard.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated "Last updated" date.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us at: lovegargmobile@gmail.com