Privacy policy — Always Weather

Last updated: 17 September 2026

Always Weather is made by Empatiq Limited, 66 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NA, United Kingdom, registered in England and Wales, company number 13746700 (“we”). We are the controller of the little personal data the app handles. Contact: apps@guzh.uk or +44 7776 912598.

The short version

• No ads, no account, no analytics, no tracking. We never sell or share your data for advertising.
• The app sends your approximate location, rounded to about a kilometre, to our own server to get the forecast and the name of the place you’re in. We don’t store it against you.
• If the app crashes, it sends an anonymous crash report so we can fix the bug. You can turn this off in Settings.
• Your saved places and settings stay on your phone, and in your phone’s own backup if you use it.

What the app sends, and why

Forecasts

To show a forecast, the app sends our server the latitude and longitude of the place you’re looking at, rounded to two decimal places (roughly a 1 km square), together with the app version. This is either a place you saved or searched for, or your current location if you allowed it.

Our server runs on Cloudflare. It fetches the forecast for that rounded point from our weather data provider (MET Norway, the Norwegian Meteorological Institute) and keeps a copy of the forecast for that point for a few hours
so the next person nearby gets it quickly. That copy isn’t linked to you or your device. Our server doesn’t record coordinates or IP addresses in its logs. To stop abuse, it counts requests per IP address for one minute; nothing is kept after that. Cloudflare processes IP addresses to deliver and protect the service, as our hosting provider.

Legal basis: legitimate interests — showing you the forecast you asked for.

The name of your current location

When you use your current location, the app sends the same rounded point to our server to find the nearest town or district, so it can show “Hammersmith” instead of “Current location”. Our server looks it up in its own copy of the GeoNames place list, so the point isn’t passed to anyone else, and it isn’t stored or written to our logs. The app keeps the name on your phone for that roughly 1 km square, so it asks only once per square. It keeps the names of the last 50 squares you used and forgets older ones.

Legal basis: legitimate interests — showing where the forecast is for.

Place search

When you search for a place, the text you type is sent to our server to find matching places. It isn’t stored.

Legal basis: legitimate interests — answering your search.

Crash reports

If the app crashes, it sends a report to Sentry (Functional Software, Inc.), which stores it in its EU data region. A report contains what went wrong in the code, the app version, your phone model and its operating system version. It contains no location, no name, no email address and no identifier for you or your device, and we ask Sentry not to store IP addresses. Reports are deleted automatically after 90 days. To stop sending crash reports, turn off Settings → Crash reports; the app then sends none.

Legal basis: legitimate interests — finding and fixing faults.

Feedback emails

“Send feedback” opens your own email app with a message to apps@guzh.uk that already contains the app version, your operating system version and phone model; you can see and change all of it before sending. If you send it, we receive your email address and whatever you write. We use it only to reply and to improve the app, and delete it within 12 months or sooner if you ask.

Legal basis: legitimate interests — answering you.

What stays on your phone

Saved places, your settings (Look, units, time format, theme), the last forecasts and the names of the places where you’ve used your current location are stored only on your device. If you use your phone’s own backup (Google or iCloud), your settings and saved places are included in it, under your account, which we can’t access, so they come back on a new phone. Your current location, those names and the forecasts are never included in a backup or copied to a new phone. When you save your current location as a place, the app keeps only the point rounded to about a kilometre and its name. Uninstalling the app deletes all of this from the phone (on Android, so does clearing the app’s storage); a backup is kept by Google or Apple under their own rules.

Location permission

The app asks only for approximate location, and only while you use it. It’s optional: without it, search for a place instead. You can change this at any time in your phone’s settings.

Purchases

Google Play or the App Store handles the purchase. We don’t receive your payment details.

Where data is processed

Cloudflare runs our server in data centres around the world, usually the one nearest to you. Sentry stores crash reports in the EU. Where data leaves the UK, our providers protect it with the UK’s approved safeguards (the UK Extension to the EU–US Data Privacy Framework or standard contractual clauses).

Your rights

Under UK GDPR (and the EU GDPR where it applies) you can ask us for access to, correction or deletion of your personal data, or object to how we use it. Because we don’t keep data that identifies you, a request usually concerns feedback emails; write to apps@guzh.uk. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk) or your local data protection authority.

Children

The app isn’t directed at children under 13 and we don’t knowingly collect their data.

Changes

If this policy changes, we’ll update it here and change the date above. If a change affects what the app sends, we’ll say so in the app’s release notes.