What weathr stores
- Your account. Your email address, and the name you signed up with. There is no profile, no photo and no bio.
- Your moods. Each cast is one of five symbols, a level from 1 to 4, whether it was blind, the optional few words you attached, and the moment it was cast. These build a group's weather and its history.
- Your groups. Which channels and places you belong to or watch, when you joined, and requests and invitations you have sent or received.
- What you write. Posts in a channel, which are always signed, and reports you make about a post.
- Where you are, if you turn it on. One row, overwritten when you move. See below.
weathr does not store a location history, a contact list, your address book, your photos, or anything about what you do outside weathr.
Who can see it
Your mood is shown to the groups you are in, as part of their weather. A group's sky is a proportion of its members' moods, not a list.
Blind hides who, never the mood. Casting blind shows your symbol without your name. Be realistic about what that is worth: in a group of two or three, hiding the name hides very little.
In a channel, members can see the member list, and a person who casts publicly is shown with their mood and their words. A person who casts blind is not.
In a place, nobody is named at a postcode, an address or a venue, at any headcount and on any setting. That is not a preference you have to find; it is how those readings are built.
A link to a group unfurls as a picture showing the group's name, its headcount and its weather. It never names a person, including whoever cast last.
Location
Reporting your location is a switch that is off until you turn it on, on each device separately. With it off, weathr never asks your device where it is.
With it on, two things are worth knowing. The coordinates are turned into place names on your device, by a geocoder (Geoapify), and what reaches weathr's servers is the answer, that is the street, postcode, city, region and country, rather than a precise point. And weathr stores where you are, not where you have been: one row, overwritten when you arrive somewhere else. Turning the switch off stops new reports; it does not move you.
Standing somewhere puts your mood into that place's weather and every larger place around it, and there is no opting out of that while you are there. What protects you is that the fine rungs never name anybody. The full technical account is in our documentation, and the short version is: where you are never gives away who you are.
Who else is involved
| Service | What it does | What it gets |
|---|---|---|
| Firebase Authentication (Google) | Signs you in with Google, Microsoft or an email and password | Your email address and sign-in details. Passwords never reach weathr. |
| Geoapify | Turns coordinates into place names, and draws the map | Coordinates, from your device, only while location is switched on |
| Resend | Sends notification emails | Your email address and the message |
| Hetzner | Hosts weathr's servers and database, in Germany | Everything above, at rest |
| Plausible | Counts visits to the public demo only | Page views, with no cookies and no cross-site tracking |
weathr does not sell data, does not share it for advertising, and carries no advertising or third-party tracking in the app.
Cookies and what is kept on your device
weathr sets one cookie, weathr_session, which records only
that somebody is signed in on this browser, so that weathr.ai shows the
app rather than this website. Your sign-in token and your preferences,
such as the theme and the location switch, are kept in your browser or
on your phone and are not sent anywhere. The demo site counts visits
with Plausible, which uses no cookies.
The demo is a separate world
The live demo is populated by invented people, and visitors borrow one of those accounts. It runs on its own database. Real accounts and invented ones never share a group, a sky or a server.
Your choices
- Cast blind, which is the default, so your mood counts without your name.
- Leave the location switch off, which is its state until you press it.
- Leave a channel at any time. Your mood stops counting in it from that moment. What a group already recorded stays recorded, because its history is sealed and is not rewritten.
- Ask for a copy of your data, a correction, or deletion, by writing to privacy@weathr.ai. There is no button for this in the app yet, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. Weather readings that have already been sealed do not name anybody and stay as they are.
Children
weathr is not intended for children under 13, and weathr does not knowingly collect information from them. There is no age verification in the app today, and no parental controls. If you believe a child under 13 has an account, write to us and we will remove it.
Changes
If this page changes materially, the date at the top changes with it. Questions go to privacy@weathr.ai.