Privacy Policy

Last updated October 19, 2026

Haze has no accounts, no ads, and no third-party tracking or analytics. There isn’t much data to talk about, but here’s exactly how the app handles what it touches.

What Haze collects

I don’t collect anything. There are no servers of mine, no login, and no analytics. The app doesn’t build a profile of you, and nothing is ever sold, shared, or used to make money.

Location

If you allow location access, Haze uses it (when-in-use) only to show the forecast where you are. Your coordinates are sent to the weather providers below to load that forecast. They’re never stored on any server of mine and never tied to your identity.

The app remembers your most recent coordinates on the device so a periodic background check can keep your widgets and Apple Watch current while the app is closed, and send rain alerts or the morning digest if you’ve turned them on. Those checks go straight from your device to the same weather providers; nothing passes through any server of mine.

Location is optional. You can turn it off in Settings on your iPhone, iPad or Mac and still use everything: search for any city to see its forecast.

Saved locations and settings

Your saved locations and settings (like whether you use °F or °C) live on your device, and deleting the app removes them.

Apple Watch

If you use the Watch app, your iPhone sends it the same forecast your widgets show, along with the place it’s for and your units, directly over Apple’s WatchConnectivity link between your own devices. When that copy gets old, the watch may fetch a forecast for that place from the same weather providers. Nothing passes through any server of mine.

Notifications

Rain alerts, weather-advisory notices, the morning digest, and the golden-hour heads-up are all local notifications, composed on your device from the forecast it already holds. There is no push server and nothing leaves your phone to deliver them.

Weather data and third parties

To load weather, the app sends the relevant coordinates (your location, or a city you searched) to these services. No API key, account, or personal information is attached, and what each does with requests is covered by its own terms and privacy practices:

• Open-Meteo: forecasts and air quality.
• The National Weather Service: advisories and nearby station observations (US).
• The Iowa Environmental Mesonet: radar imagery (US).
• RainViewer: radar imagery outside the US.
• Apple Maps: the base map under the radar, covered by Apple’s privacy policy.

Apple’s privacy label

To match the App Store privacy label: Haze may use precise or coarse location for app functionality only. That data is not linked to your identity and is not used to track you.

Children

Haze is rated 4+ and fine for all ages. It doesn’t knowingly collect personal information from anyone, children included.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version goes up on this page with an updated date at the top.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email me@aniketh.net.