Privacy Policy
Controller
Sascha Proschinger
Großharras 51, 2034 Großharras, Austria
Email: support@austroweather.at
Summary
AustroWeather does not collect personal data on its own servers. There is no account, no advertising, no tracking and no analytics. All settings and saved locations stay on your device.
Location
If you allow it, the app uses your device's location to show weather, warnings and air quality for your area. The app only requests approximate accuracy (about 1 km). Before a location is sent to a weather service, the coordinates are rounded to two decimal places (about 1 km).
Optionally, you can allow "Always" location access in Settings. The app then keeps the "Current Location" widget up to date in the background, only on significant location changes. You can revoke location access at any time in iOS Settings; the app keeps working with manually added locations.
Weather services (data transfer)
To load weather data, the app sends the rounded coordinates of a location directly to these services:
- GeoSphere Austria (Federal Institute for Geology, Geophysics, Climatology and Meteorology, Vienna): forecasts, observations, precipitation radar and severe weather warnings (dataset.api.hub.geosphere.at, warnungen.zamg.at).
- Open-Meteo (Open-Meteo.com, Switzerland): fallback forecast, UV index and air quality (api.open-meteo.com, air-quality-api.open-meteo.com).
For technical reasons these providers also receive your IP address. No identifiers, names or device IDs are sent. Their own privacy policies apply to their processing.
Location search and map (Apple)
Location search and naming your current location use Apple MapKit, which sends search terms or coordinates to Apple. The radar map loads map tiles from Apple. Apple's privacy policy applies.
Data on your device
Saved locations, settings, the last known location and cached weather data are stored only on your device (in an App Group container shared by the app and its widgets). This data is never sent to us and is removed when you delete the app.
No tracking
The app contains no third-party analytics, advertising or crash-reporting SDKs and does not track you across other companies' apps or websites.
Legal basis
Location processing is based on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), given through the iOS permission and revocable at any time. Sending coordinates to weather services is necessary to provide the app's function (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).
Your rights
You have the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, data portability and objection. As we do not store personal data ourselves, please contact support@austroweather.at with any questions. You may also lodge a complaint with the Austrian Data Protection Authority (www.dsb.gv.at).
Changes
This policy will be updated when the app changes. The version published here applies.