AbaWeather

1. Information We Collect

Information may be collected directly from your device, through permissions you grant, through your use of AbaWeather and its online services, or when you communicate with AbaWeather.

Location information. If you allow location access, AbaWeather may receive your device's current location. If you search for another location, AbaWeather receives the location you select or enter.

Weather notification information. If you enable weather notifications, AbaWeather may collect an identifier associated with your app installation, the location associated with your notification registration, and records concerning weather alerts delivered to your device.

AbaCast information. Information associated with an AbaCast request may include weather observations, forecast information, and a general location name such as a city or area. AbaWeather does not currently provide raw GPS coordinates to the artificial intelligence service used to generate AbaCast summaries.

Technical and service information. When you use online features, AbaWeather and its service providers may receive technical information ordinarily generated in connection with internet-based services, such as network and request information, timestamps, device or app information, and diagnostic or operational information.

Information you provide. If you contact AbaWeather for support or another reason, AbaWeather may receive your email address, the contents of your communication, and any information you choose to provide.

Information stored on your device. AbaWeather may store preferences, recently retrieved weather information, and other app information locally on your device.

AbaWeather does not currently sell personal information or use personal information for cross-app behavioral advertising.

2. How We Use Information

AbaWeather may use information described in this policy for purposes permitted by applicable law, including to:

• Provide, operate, maintain, and support AbaWeather and its features.
• Determine which weather conditions, forecasts, alerts, radar, maps, and other information are relevant to a location.
• Monitor for weather alerts and deliver notifications.
• Generate AbaCast weather summaries.
• Personalize or configure app functionality and remember user preferences.
• Monitor, analyze, troubleshoot, and improve the performance, reliability, functionality, and user experience of AbaWeather.
• Develop, test, evaluate, or improve features and services.
• Protect AbaWeather, its users, and its service providers from fraud, abuse, misuse, security threats, or other harmful activity.
• Respond to support requests and other communications.
• Comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or governmental requests.
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal rights and enforce applicable terms or agreements.
• Carry out other purposes disclosed when information is collected or otherwise permitted by applicable law, including with consent where consent is required.

3. Service Providers and Data Sharing

AbaWeather uses third-party services to provide and support app functionality. Information may be provided to or processed by these services as appropriate for the functions they perform.

Current providers include:

Tomorrow.io, which provides current weather information.

U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) services, which provide forecasts, weather alerts, radar information, and other weather data.

MET Norway (the Norwegian Meteorological Institute), which provides forecast information for locations outside National Weather Service coverage, such as locations outside the United States.

Mapbox, which provides mapping services.

OpenAI, which provides artificial intelligence services that may be used to generate AbaCast summaries.

Google, which provides Gemini artificial intelligence services that may be used to generate AbaCast summaries.

Anthropic, which provides artificial intelligence services that may be used to generate AbaCast summaries.

Apple, which provides platform services including delivery of push notifications.

Cloudflare and other infrastructure providers, which provide hosting, networking, security, storage, and related services used to operate AbaWeather.

These providers operate under their own terms, privacy notices, and legal obligations and may process information in accordance with those requirements.

AbaWeather shares user information with third parties only as permitted by applicable law and applicable Apple App Store requirements. Where Apple requires equivalent protection for user data shared with a third party, AbaWeather relies on applicable provider terms, privacy obligations, and legal requirements in determining that the provider affords the protections required by Apple and this policy.

AbaWeather may add, remove, or change service providers as its services evolve.

AbaWeather may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law or legal process; protect the rights, safety, or security of AbaWeather, its users, or others; investigate fraud, abuse, or security incidents; or in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, sale, reorganization, or transfer of all or part of AbaWeather or its assets, subject to applicable law.

4. Retention, Deletion, and Security

AbaWeather may retain information for as long as necessary or permitted under applicable law for the purposes described in this policy, including operating and improving the service, maintaining security and reliability, resolving disputes, enforcing agreements, meeting legal obligations, and maintaining appropriate business records.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the purpose for which it is processed.

Information associated with weather requests or previously delivered alerts may be retained temporarily or for longer periods where reasonably necessary or permitted for operational, security, diagnostic, legal, or other purposes described in this policy.

Information may also be aggregated or de-identified and retained where permitted by applicable law.

A deletion request does not necessarily require deletion of information that AbaWeather is permitted or required to retain under applicable law.

Information stored locally by the app can generally be removed by deleting the app and its associated data from your device.

AbaWeather uses reasonable safeguards appropriate to the information it processes and as required by applicable law. No internet-connected system can guarantee absolute security.

5. Your Choices and Rights

You control whether AbaWeather may access your device's location and whether it may send you notifications. These permissions can be changed through your device's settings.

If you choose not to provide device location access, you may still search for and view weather for a location you select.

Revoking a device permission does not necessarily delete information that was previously collected or that may lawfully be retained.

Depending on where you live, applicable law may provide rights concerning personal information associated with you. These may include rights to request access, correction, deletion, or other actions concerning your information.

Such rights may be subject to legal limitations or exceptions.

Because AbaWeather does not use personal accounts, some information may be associated with an app installation, device, or service request rather than with your name or email address. AbaWeather may need sufficient information to identify the relevant records before responding to a request.

To make a privacy request or ask a privacy question, contact [email protected].

6. Changes to This Policy

AbaWeather may update this Privacy Policy as its features, service providers, business practices, legal requirements, or data practices change.

The effective date at the top of this policy will be updated when the policy changes. Where applicable law requires additional notice or consent for a change in data practices, AbaWeather will provide that notice or obtain that consent as required.

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