Cloud Cover is built to work without knowing who you are. We have no accounts, no logins, no advertising, and no analytics that identify you. This policy explains the small amount of data the app does handle and why.
We do not collect your name, email address, phone number, contacts, photos, calendar, health data, or device identifiers for advertising. Cloud Cover has no user accounts, so there is no profile associated with you. We do not sell data, and we do not share data with advertisers or data brokers. The app contains no advertising SDKs and no third-party analytics or tracking SDKs.
If you grant location permission, Cloud Cover uses your device's location to show weather for where you are. Your precise coordinates stay on your device. To fetch a forecast, the app sends an approximate location — rounded to a grid tile of roughly one kilometre — to our forecast service. That tile is shared by everyone in the same area, and forecast requests are not linked to you or to your device. We do not store a history of the locations you look up. Rain alerts work differently, and are described below.
Cities you search for and save are stored only on your device. Location access is requested only while you are using the app; Cloud Cover does not track your location in the background.
Rain alerts are the one feature that requires us to hold data about your device. If you turn on rain-start alerts, the app registers with our alert service so we can send you a push notification when rain is imminent, even when the app is closed. That registration stores your Apple push notification token, the location being monitored, your chosen alert lead time, and a subscription identifier used to confirm that your plan includes alerts.
We use this only to deliver rain alerts. We do not sell it, and we do not share it with advertisers or data brokers. You can turn rain alerts off at any time in the app's settings. To have the registration deleted from our alert service, email us at support@cloudcoverweather.com and we will remove it.
Forecasts are provided by Tomorrow.io. Radar imagery is provided by RainViewer. Severe weather alerts come from the United States National Weather Service (NOAA). Requests for this data pass through our own service, which caches results so that many people in the same area share a single lookup. Our service does not log precise coordinates, and it does not receive any information about who you are.
These providers process the approximate area of a request in order to return a forecast. Their handling of that data is governed by their own privacy policies.
If you subscribe, the transaction is handled entirely by Apple. We never see your payment details, card number, or billing address. We use RevenueCat to determine whether a subscription is active so the app knows which features to unlock. RevenueCat receives an anonymous identifier and your subscription status. It does not receive your name or contact details from us.
Cloud Cover keeps the following on your device only: your saved locations, your settings and preferences, cached forecast data so the app works offline, and a short history of weather insights used for comparisons such as "warmer than yesterday." Deleting the app removes all of it. Apart from the rain-alert registration described above, none of this is transmitted to us.
Notification preferences are stored on your device. Most notifications, including severe weather alerts, are generated on your device from forecast data it has already fetched. Rain-start alerts are sent from our alert service, as described above. We do not send marketing or promotional notifications, ever.
Cloud Cover is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. The app has no accounts and asks for no personal details.
Because we hold no names, email addresses, or accounts, there is very little data about you for us to access, correct, or delete. The one exception is the rain-alert registration described above, which exists only while you have alerts switched on, and which we will delete on request. If you have questions about your data under the GDPR, the CCPA, or any other privacy law, contact us and we will answer honestly. You can revoke location permission at any time in the iOS Settings app, and you can delete all locally stored data by deleting the app.
If this policy changes in a way that affects how your information is handled, we will update the date at the top of this page and note the change in the app's release notes.
Questions about privacy: support@cloudcoverweather.com