Skybits

What leaves your phone

The iPhone WeatherKit builds use Apple Weather for forecasts and Apple Maps for city searches. On iPhone, these requests go directly to Apple. Android WeatherKit builds send coordinates, timezone and city-search text over HTTPS through our Cloudflare-hosted service to Apple Weather and Apple Maps. Cloudflare and Apple process these requests, including network information such as your IP address, to deliver and secure their services.

• Your location, only if you allow it. While the app is open, your coordinates are sent to the weather provider to get a forecast. The app also matches them, on your phone, to the nearest hand-drawn city so that city's scene is always free. Location is never read in the background.
• Your place name and timezone. Your phone's built-in reverse geocoder resolves these for your location.
• City searches. Search text goes to Apple Maps in WeatherKit builds.
• Selected cities. Forecast requests send the selected city's coordinates to Apple Weather.

Apple processes these requests under the Apple Privacy Policy. The Android service is hosted by Cloudflare; see its Privacy Policy.

Earlier development builds and web previews use Open-Meteo for weather and city search instead. In those builds, coordinates and search text go to Open-Meteo under its privacy terms. The app's weather credit identifies the active provider.

What stays on your phone

The city you chose, your saved cities, your °C/°F setting, up to eight recently used city forecasts with fetch timestamps, whether you own Skybits Plus, and the nearest hand-drawn city to where you last were are saved on your device so the app opens fast and can show recent saved weather. These saved copies stay on your device. Forecast and city-search requests still send the information described above to their providers. Your device's own backups may include them. Deleting the app deletes them.

Purchases

Skybits Plus is an optional one-time purchase. Apple handles App Store payments, and Google handles Google Play payments. Skybits does not receive your payment-card details.

iPhone builds using Apple StoreKit check ownership on your device. Android builds use RevenueCat to validate purchases, restore access and manage the Plus entitlement. RevenueCat receives purchase history, purchase tokens, product and transaction information, an app-specific anonymous customer identifier, and technical information needed to operate its service. Purchase records are retained to support validation and restoration. We can view purchase and entitlement information in the RevenueCat dashboard, including purchase analytics. We do not send your name, email address or location to RevenueCat as customer attributes.

What we don't do

• No sign-up, login or user profile.
• No advertising or cross-app tracking software. RevenueCat provides purchase and entitlement analytics on Android; we do not use a separate general app-usage analytics or crash-reporting service.
• We do not sell personal data. We use Apple, Cloudflare and RevenueCat as service providers for the functions described above. Store purchases are associated with your store account; RevenueCat uses an app-specific customer identifier.
• No background location. The app never reads your location while it is closed.

Your choices

• You can say no to location access and search for a city instead. Everything else still works.
• You can turn location access off at any time in your phone's Settings.
• Uninstall the app to remove its local data. This does not delete purchase records held by Apple, Google or RevenueCat. For help requesting deletion of RevenueCat data, email skybitsweather@gmail.com and include the app customer identifier if available. We may need information to locate and verify your purchase record. Store providers handle their own records and retention requirements.

Children

Skybits contains weather information and pixel artwork, with no chat, public profiles or ads. Optional location requests and Android purchase processing work as described above; these services can process personal data. A parent or guardian can contact skybitsweather@gmail.com about a child's data or purchase. Parents can also manage location permissions and purchase approvals through device and store settings.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date. If a future version adds anything that collects more data (for example crash reporting), this page will say so before that version ships.