Privacy and your data

No account, no ads, no tracking. Weather Buddy needs to know roughly where you are to get your forecast, and that's all it sends.

What leaves your phone

What	Where it goes	Why
Your location, rounded to about 1 km (two decimal places)	The Owl Media API (api.owl-media.co.uk)	To fetch your forecast from Open-Meteo, and to look up the place name
Your Home, rounded the same way	The Owl Media API	To fetch Home's forecast and name
What you type in Search for a place	Apple Maps	To suggest places as you type

Your precise location is only used on your phone, to work out the rounded one. It's never stored or sent.

All connections are encrypted (HTTPS), and the app checks it's talking to the real server.

What stays on your phone

• Your Home.
• Your settings, vibe and card choices.
• Downloaded forecasts.
• Whether your washing is out, and your small wins.

These are shared only with Weather Buddy's own widgets on the same phone.

What Weather Buddy doesn't do

• No account or sign-in.
• No ads.
• No analytics, crash reporting or tracking.
• No pushed notifications. Alerts and the Live Activity are worked out on your phone.
• It never asks for your location "Always", only while you're using the app.

App Store privacy details

The App Store listing declares coarse location, not linked to you and not used for tracking, used only to make the app work. It's declared because the rounded location reaches the forecast server, which may keep it briefly in its request logs.

Removing your data

Deleting Weather Buddy removes everything it stored on your phone. There's no account, so there's nothing else to delete.

Forecast data

Weather data by Open-Meteo, licensed under CC BY 4.0.