Privacy Policy
Last updated: August 4, 2026
RetroForecast has no accounts, no advertising, no analytics, and no tracking of any kind. We do not collect, store, or sell personal information, and there is no server of ours holding your data — your settings live on your own device.
This policy covers the RetroForecast iOS app and the RetroForecast website at retroforecast.com, both published by Logical Appeals, LLC ("we", "us").
What we collect
Nothing. We operate no accounts, no login, no user database, and no analytics or advertising SDKs. We have no way to identify you and we do not attempt to. We never sell or share personal information, because we do not have any.
Your location
RetroForecast needs a place to show weather for. You can either search for a city by name or ask the app to use your current location.
- The iOS app requests "While Using the App" location access only when you tap the option to use your current location. If you decline, the app works normally — you just pick a city by name instead. Your coordinates are used to request a forecast and are stored only on your device.
- The website uses your browser's standard location prompt, and only when you press USE MY LOCATION. Your browser controls that permission, not us.
Your chosen location is saved on your device (in iOS preferences, or in your browser's local storage on the web) so the app remembers it next time. It is not transmitted to us.
Weather data and third-party services
To draw a forecast, the app must ask a weather service what the weather is at a set of coordinates. Those requests contain the coordinates being forecast — nothing about you, your device, or your identity. Each provider's own privacy policy governs what it does with the requests it receives:
iOS app
- Apple WeatherKit — forecasts, conditions, and government weather alerts.
- Apple MapKit — city search when you look up a place by name.
Website
- Open-Meteo — forecasts, current conditions, and city search.
- NOAA / National Weather Service — official weather alerts for US locations.
- RainViewer — precipitation radar imagery.
- BigDataCloud — turning coordinates into a city name, only if you use the USE MY LOCATION button.
Storage on your device
Both versions keep a small amount of data locally so the app is usable and so we are not re-requesting the same forecast every few seconds:
- Your chosen location, units, rotation speed, which screens are enabled, and your music and scanline preferences.
- A short-lived cache of the most recent weather response (typically 10–15 minutes).
On iOS this lives in the app's own storage and a shared app group so the home-screen widget can display the same forecast. On the web it lives in your browser's local storage. In both cases it stays on your device, and deleting the app — or clearing your browser's site data — removes it completely. The website sets no cookies.
Hosting logs
The website is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Like any web host, Cloudflare's servers process standard request information (such as IP address and browser user agent) in order to deliver the page and protect against abuse. We do not use this for analytics or build profiles from it. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.
Children
RetroForecast is not directed at children and collects no personal information from anyone, including children under 13.
Your rights
Privacy laws such as the GDPR and CCPA give you rights to access, correct, or delete personal information a company holds about you. We hold none, so there is nothing for us to retrieve or erase. Everything RetroForecast stores is already under your control on your own device, and you can remove it at any time by deleting the app or clearing your browser's site data.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes we will update the date at the top of this page and post the revised version here.
Contact
Questions about privacy, or anything else:
Logical Appeals, LLC • logicalappeals.com