Privacy Policy
Last updated: August 1, 2026
AIO Weather is built to need as little of your data as possible. This policy covers both the iPhone app and this website, aioweatherapp.com. We have never sold personal information and we don't intend to.
The short version. The website needs no account and stores nothing about you on our servers — your last searched city lives in your own browser. The app asks for your location to show you local weather. The one place your location goes to other people is Family Circles, which is off until you turn it on and only ever shows you to people you invited. Ads on the free app and on this site are served by Google.
This website
What we collect
Nothing that identifies you, on our side. There are no accounts, no sign-in, and no database behind this site — it is a set of static files that fetch weather directly from public services.
Location on the website
If you press My location, your browser asks your permission and gives the page your coordinates. They are used to fetch your forecast and are sent only to the weather providers listed below. We do not receive them, log them, or keep them. If you'd rather not, search for a city by name instead — everything works the same way.
Stored in your browser
The site saves your most recent location in your browser's local storage so it can load your weather again next time. It never leaves your device, and clearing your browser data removes it.
Advertising and cookies on this website
This site displays ads served by Google AdSense. To do that:
- Google and its partners may use cookies or similar technologies to serve ads and measure performance, based on your visits to this and other websites.
- Google's use of advertising cookies lets it and its partners serve ads to you based on your visits to our site and/or other sites on the internet.
- You can opt out of personalized advertising at Google Ads Settings, or opt out of third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising at aboutads.info/choices.
- Visitors in the EEA, UK and Switzerland are shown a consent choice before any personalized ads are requested, and can change that choice at any time.
More detail is in Google's advertising policy.
Hosting
The site is served by Cloudflare, which — like every web host — processes standard server request logs including IP addresses in order to deliver pages and protect against abuse. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.
The iPhone app — location
With your permission, the app uses your device's location to show local weather, radar, alerts, local news and nearby places. Your coordinates are sent to the weather, news and mapping services listed below solely to answer each request — for example, "what is the forecast at these coordinates." Outside of Family Circles, described next, we do not store your location on any server of ours and we keep no history of where you have been.
You can deny location access entirely and search for cities manually — the app works either way.
Family Circles (optional, off by default)
Family Circles is the one feature that shares your information with other people. It does nothing until you create or join a circle and turn on location sharing.
What is shared, and with whom
Only with the members of circles you have joined — never publicly, never with anyone else:
- Your precise location and the nearest city name, so members see you on the map with the weather where you are.
- Your travel speed, derived from your device's location, which is what shows the car, race car or airplane badge beside you.
- Your display name and avatar. If you choose a photo instead of an emoji, that photo is stored with your circle membership so other members can see it. Both are your choice and can be changed at any time.
- Arrival and departure notices for Places you set up (such as Home, Work or School), and any preset quick-reply messages you send.
Places and background location
If you create Places, the app asks iOS to notify it when you cross their boundaries so it can tell your circle you arrived or left. This requires "Always" location permission. The boundaries you create are stored with your circle. You can delete any Place, turn sharing off, or leave a circle at any time, and sharing stops immediately.
Who can see a circle
Circles are invite-only, joined with a code you choose to share. The circle owner can remove any member. Leaving a circle removes your location from it.
Advertising in the free app
The free version of the app shows ads served by Google AdMob. To serve and measure them, Google may collect device information such as your advertising identifier, IP address and coarse location, subject to Google's Privacy Policy.
- Tracking is your choice. iOS asks whether to allow tracking (App Tracking Transparency). Decline and you still see ads, just not personalized ones.
- Users in the EU and UK are shown a consent form before any ad request is made, and can change that choice at any time.
- Pro subscribers see no ads, and the app makes no ad or tracking requests for them at all.
Analytics
The app includes Google Firebase Analytics for one purpose: counting app installs so we can tell whether our App Store advertising is working. It reports app-level events and a device identifier to Google. It is not used to build a profile of you and it collects nothing about your location history or your circle.
Purchases and subscriptions
Subscriptions are processed by Apple through your App Store account — we never see your payment details. To know whether your subscription is active, the app uses RevenueCat, which processes your purchase history for this app and a random app-scoped identifier (not your name or email), subject to RevenueCat's privacy policy.
Accounts (optional)
You can create an AIO Weather account with email and password, Sign in with Apple, or Google. If you do, your email address and sign-in identifier are stored with our authentication provider, Supabase, to operate your account. An account is required only for Family Circles. Everything else in the app works without one.
You can delete your account and its data from inside the app — Settings → Delete Account. That removes your circles data, shared location, places and messages. Your Apple subscription is separate and stays with your Apple ID; cancel it in your App Store settings.
Push notifications
If you allow notifications, the app registers a device token with Apple's Push Notification service so we can alert you about severe weather near you or near your circle. The token identifies the device, not you.
Feedback you send
If you use the in-app feedback form, the text you type (a category, title and description) is delivered to our inbox via the FormSubmit relay so we can read it. The form does not ask for or send your name, email address, location, or any device identifier. Please avoid putting personal information in the message itself.
Services we talk to
Each receives only what it needs to answer a request, subject to its own privacy policy:
- Apple Weather — forecast data (app)
- Open-Meteo — forecast model data (app and website)
- U.S. National Weather Service — alerts and warnings (app and website)
- RainViewer — live radar imagery (app and website)
- Iowa State Mesonet / NOAA HRRR — forecast radar imagery (app and website)
- OpenStreetMap and Nominatim — map tiles and place lookup
- Apple Maps — nearby places and imagery (app)
- Google News RSS — headlines and local stations (app)
- Google AdMob — advertising in the free app
- Google AdSense — advertising on this website
- Google Firebase Analytics — install measurement (app)
- RevenueCat — subscription status (app)
- Supabase — optional accounts and Family Circles (app)
- Cloudflare — website hosting
Data stored on your device
Your settings, recent searches and saved preferences are stored only on your device — and in your personal iCloud device backup if you have one enabled. We cannot access them.
Your choices and rights
- Turn tracking on or off anytime: iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
- Change ad consent (EU/UK): through the consent form in the app, or the banner on this site.
- Turn off location sharing, delete Places, or leave a circle at any time in the Family tab.
- Remove ads entirely by subscribing to Pro.
- Delete your account in the app: Settings → Delete Account.
- Depending on where you live (EU/GDPR, UK, California/CCPA and others), you may have rights to access, correct, port or delete personal data. Email us and we'll help.
Children
AIO Weather is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has provided us information, contact us and we will delete it.
Changes
If this policy changes, the updated version is posted at this address with a new date.
Contact
Questions about any of this? Email aio.weatherapp@gmail.com — or use the contact page.