Weather for Dads is built to need as little of your data as possible. There are no accounts, we never ask for your name or email, and we do not track you around the web. This page explains, plainly, what the app collects, why it collects it, and who it is shared with.
Weather for Dads is operated by Richard Jenkins, an individual based in the United Kingdom. It is not a registered company. If you have any question about this policy or about your data, you can contact me at weatherfordads@gmail.com.
The app collects only what it needs to give you a useful forecast:
We do not collect your name, email address, phone number, or any sign-in details, because the app has no accounts and no log-in.
To produce a forecast for your area, the app sends your approximate coordinates to several independent weather providers. To turn a postcode or place name into coordinates, and to turn coordinates back into a friendly place name, it sends that query to a geocoding service. Each one is a separate organisation with its own privacy terms, which govern what they do with the request:
These requests contain your approximate location and the fact that a forecast was asked for. They do not contain your name, email, or session ID.
When you tap to report what the weather is actually doing, that report is saved in our database, hosted by Supabase, so it can be shown to other people near you. Each report holds the report type, your optional note, an approximate location rounded to roughly a 100 metre area, the time, and the anonymous session ID.
Reports are shown to other people only in aggregate, for example "three dads within five kilometres say it is raining", never as a pin on a map and never as a precise position. Reports are kept for a limited time and then removed automatically.
Separately from anything you do, the app keeps a record of what each forecast source predicted and what the weather actually turned out to be, so we can measure how accurate each source has been over time. You can see the results on the accuracy page.
This logging is done for a fixed, small set of monitored locations around the UK. It is tied to those fixed places, not to you. We do not keep a history of any individual user's location or movements.
The app does not use tracking cookies or advertising cookies. It does use your browser's local storage, which keeps a few small pieces of information on your own device: your chosen location, the anonymous session ID, and whether you have dismissed the "add to home screen" hint. This stays on your device, and you can remove it at any time by clearing your browser's site data.
The app is hosted on Render, and its database is provided by Supabase. The crowd reports and the accuracy logs described above are stored in Supabase. These providers process and store data on our behalf, on servers they operate.
Weather for Dads is intended for adults. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. Because the app has no accounts and asks for no names or contact details, it does not collect identifying information from anyone, whatever their age.
Because the app has no accounts and collects no names or contact details, there is very little personal information to hold, and most of what does exist is anonymous, approximate, and short-lived. If you are in the UK or EU you still have rights over any personal data, including the right to ask what is held about you, to ask for it to be corrected, and to ask for it to be deleted.
To make a request, or to raise a concern, email weatherfordads@gmail.com. If you are not satisfied with how a concern is handled, you can contact the UK's data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner's Office, at ico.org.uk.
If this policy changes, the "last updated" date at the top of this page will change with it. Any significant change will be noted in the app.