Privacy

sky256 shows the weather for places you choose. It has no accounts, advertising, analytics or tracking, and it does not sell or share personal data.

Location

When you tap Locate, sky256 asks your device for its location and uses it only to load the forecast and name the place. You can say no and search for a place instead. Your location is not stored on our server and is not linked to you.

To answer each request, the coordinates or the place you searched go to:

• Open-Meteo — forecasts, air quality and place search.
• sky256's own server — asks Apple WeatherKit for next-hour rain and some alerts. Coordinates are rounded to about 1 km and the answer is cached for 15 minutes.
• OpenStreetMap Nominatim — the name of the place you are in.
• National weather services — official warnings: the US National Weather Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada, MeteoAlarm (EUMETNET), and Eurostat GISCO to find your European region.
• NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center — the aurora forecast. No location is sent.

Each of these services also sees your device's IP address as part of the connection, under its own privacy policy.

On your device

Saved places and settings stay on your device, in the browser or the app's storage. Clear the site data or delete the app to remove them.

Children

sky256 is not directed at children under 13 and collects no information from them.

Contact

Questions about privacy: use the support link on sky256's App Store or Google Play page.