SunGaze Privacy Policy

In short

SunGaze has no accounts and no servers of its own. Your session history stays on your phone. To show cloud cover, SunGaze sends your approximate location (rounded to about 1 km) to a free weather service, Open-Meteo. The free version shows ads from Google AdMob; buying Remove Ads turns them off.

Location

If you allow it, SunGaze reads your approximate location to calculate local sunrise and sunset times and reminders. It is rounded to about 1 km, stored only on your device, and never sent to us. The same rounded coordinates are sent to Open-Meteo to get a cloud forecast (see Cloud cover). You can instead choose a city manually, and you can turn location access off at any time in your phone’s settings.

To show a place name, SunGaze may ask your phone’s built-in geocoding service (Apple or Google) to name your coordinates. That request is made by the operating system under its own privacy terms.

Cloud cover

When your phone is online, SunGaze asks Open-Meteo (open-meteo.com) for the hourly cloud forecast at your rounded coordinates, at most about once an hour. No account, name or identifier is sent; like any web request, it reveals your IP address to Open-Meteo, which handles it under its own privacy terms. The forecast is cached on your phone. Offline, cloud cover is simply not shown.

Session history and settings

Sessions, durations, notes and preferences are stored in a database on your phone. They are not uploaded or synced. Deleting the app deletes them. They may be included in your phone’s own device backup if you use one.

You can export your history to a file and import it again (for example on a new phone). The file is created on your phone and goes only where you choose to save or send it.

Reminders and widget

Reminders are scheduled as local notifications on your device. The home-screen widget reads the same on-device data. No push service is used.

Advertising

The free version shows a small banner from Google AdMob on the History and Reminders screens. SunGaze requests non-personalised ads only and does not ask for permission to track you across apps.

Even non-personalised ads involve Google processing some device data (such as IP address, device type and a cookie or device identifier used for frequency capping, fraud prevention and measurement). Where the law requires it (for example in the EEA, UK and Switzerland), SunGaze asks for your consent through Google’s consent form before any ads load, and you can change your choice later in Settings → Ad privacy choices.

Google’s use of data is described at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Purchases

Remove Ads is processed entirely by the App Store or Google Play. SunGaze never sees your payment details. The app asks the store whether your account owns the purchase so it can remove ads and restore them on a new device.

Children

SunGaze is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Contact

Questions about privacy or deleting data: touchapplive@gmail.com. Because SunGaze keeps your data only on your phone, you can delete it at any time by deleting your sessions in the app or uninstalling it.

Last updated 1 November 2026.