Weekly Weather privacy policy
Last updated: 29 October 2026
Weekly Weather shows the weather for where you are and for the places you save. It has no accounts and no advertising. It counts anonymous usage to improve the app (see Usage statistics) and reports its own crashes (see Crash reports), and neither ever includes where you are or which places you look at. This page explains what the app keeps on your phone, what it sends where, and why.
Your location
With your permission, the app reads your phone’s location through Google Play services to show the weather where you are and to centre the map there. You can allow or refuse this at any time in your phone’s settings; without it, you can still search for places and save them.
What the app sends, and to whom
To show the weather, the app sends the position of the place you look at (your current location, a saved place, a place you searched for or opened from another app, or the area shown on the map) to these services. Each receives your IP address, as any web server does, and handles it under its own privacy policy.
- Open-Meteo: the forecast, air quality and pollen, and the weather, rain forecast and wind on the map. It gets the coordinates of the place, or of points across the map’s area.
- Open-Meteo’s geocoding: when you search for a place, it gets what you type and your phone’s language, to find and name the places that match. A place another app shares only by name (a named place in Google Maps) is looked up the same way, by that name.
- RainViewer: the radar images for the area the map shows.
- Google Maps: the map itself, for the area it shows.
The sun, moon and night-sky times, the light pollution levels and the names of the cities on the map are worked out on your phone, from data that ships inside the app.
Stored on your phone
Your saved places, your settings, the last forecast for each place (so the app opens quickly and works offline) and a count of recent requests (so the app stays within Open-Meteo’s free limits) are kept only on your phone. Uninstalling the app, or clearing its data in your phone’s settings, removes them.
Usage statistics
The app uses Umami, a privacy-focused analytics tool, on a server run by the
developer (umami.codeskraps.com). It records which screens and features are used: that a
forecast was loaded or refreshed, which screen was opened, that a place was saved, deleted or
picked, how many results a search found, and that an error was shown (its message, never a
place).
Each event carries:
- the event and screen names, and small details such as the number of search results;
- the app version, your phone’s operating-system version and model, and its language;
- a random identifier created when the app is first used, so repeat use can be counted. It isn’t linked to your name, an account, your advertising ID or any other app.
It never includes your location, the names of the places you look at or save, or what you search for. Umami doesn’t use cookies or fingerprinting, and the data isn’t sold or shared. The server sees your IP address for each request, as any web server does; Umami doesn’t store it, but uses it to estimate an approximate country, region and city for the statistics.
Crash reports
When the app crashes, it sends a report to GlitchTip, an error-tracking
tool, on a server run by the developer (crash.codeskraps.com). A report contains:
- what went wrong: the error and where in the app’s code it happened;
- the app version, your phone’s model and manufacturer, operating-system version, screen size, and technical state such as free memory and storage, battery level and whether it’s charging or online.
It never includes your location or the places you search for or save: coordinates, place names and request addresses are removed from error messages before a report is sent, and the app sends no record of what you did before the crash (no screens, taps or requests), no screenshots and no time zone. Reports carry no identifier for you or your device and aren’t linked to the usage statistics. The server sees your IP address as any web server does; GlitchTip keeps it with its last part removed. Crash reports are only sent by the published app (not by development builds); they are used only to fix the app, and aren’t sold or shared.
Children
The app is not directed at children and doesn’t collect personal data: the usage statistics and crash reports above are anonymous.
Changes
If the app starts sending something new, this page will say so before that version is published, with a new date at the top.
Contact
Questions about this policy: me@codeskraps.com, or open an issue on the project repository.