Privacy

Gazzetta · Updated 27 October 2026

Gazzetta has no accounts, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising and no third-party trackers. It asks for one thing — where you are — because a forecast for nowhere is not a forecast.

What the app stores about you

• An install identifier. On first launch the app generates a random UUID and keeps it in the device keychain. It is sent with each request as X-Device-Id. It is not an advertising identifier, it is not derived from your device or your hardware, and it is attached to no account, because there is no account. Its only job is to keep one person's saved locations from being another person's. Because it is stored as a synchronizable keychain item, it is shared between devices signed in to the same Apple ID — so your phone and your iPad see one list rather than two.
• Locations you save. A label and its coordinates, stored against your install identifier.
• The place the app is currently pointed at. Its coordinates rounded to two decimal places — about a kilometre — along with the place name, time zone and National Weather Service forecast zone. This is what rain notifications and the home-screen widgets follow. It is overwritten each time, not accumulated: the app keeps where you are, not where you have been. If you allow location access “Always”, this is updated as you move — roughly every kilometre — using iOS’s low-power significant-change service, even when the app is closed. With “While Using” it is updated only while the app is open.
• A notification token, only if you turn notifications on. It is deleted when you turn them off, and when Apple reports it is no longer valid.
• Live Activity and widget tokens. With rain alerts on, iOS gives the app tokens that let the server start, update and end the rain countdown on your Lock Screen; with a weather widget on your home screen, a token that lets the server refresh it while rain is near. They are stored against your install identifier and go only to Apple's push service. They are dropped when the countdown ends, when you remove the widget, or when Apple reports them invalid.
• Which days the app was used. The install identifier and the date, so the cost of running the service can be divided by the number of people using it. Kept four months.

The app also records which forecast zones are being looked at, so it can prepare their summaries in advance. That is a count against a zone, not against a person.

The radar widget reports, in a line of text, whether it managed to draw its map and how long that took, with the first eight characters of the install identifier. These lines are held in the server's memory only, the latest hundred, and are gone when it restarts. They exist because a widget has no other way to say it is broken.

What is never collected

• No name, email address, phone number or password.
• No advertising identifier, and no tracking across apps or websites.
• No analytics or crash-reporting service. The one outside library in the app is MapLibre, the open-source engine that draws the radar's map; it sends nothing anywhere but the map requests below.
• No contacts, photos, calendar, health data, or files.
• No location history. Only your current place is kept, and only at kilometre precision.

Who else sees it

Forecasts come from services that must be told which point you are asking about. Your coordinates reach them; your install identifier does not.

• National Weather Service (weather.gov) — forecasts, observations, alerts and radar. A United States government service.
• MET Norway (the Norwegian Meteorological Institute) — forecasts for places outside the United States, which the National Weather Service does not cover.
• Open-Meteo — current conditions and the past day's rainfall, and city names when you search from the website.
• Apple WeatherKit — the minute-by-minute rain nowcast behind the next-hour card and rain notifications. Apple Weather attribution.
• Esri — draws the radar's map. Your phone asks it for map tiles covering the area on screen, which says roughly where you are looking but not who you are.
• Apple's place search — what you type into search in the app goes to Apple, on your phone, the way it does in Apple Maps. It does not pass through our server.
• LocationIQ — turns your coordinates into a place name, such as the neighbourhood shown at the top of the screen, from OpenStreetMap's data. Search by LocationIQ.com.
• Apple Push Notification service — receives your notification token in order to deliver a notification, if you have turned them on.
• The service that writes the plain-English summaries receives the National Weather Service's published forecast discussion and the name of the place it covers. It does not receive your coordinates or your install identifier. A summary is written once per forecast zone and read by everyone in it.

Neighbourhood boundaries in the United States are a copy kept on our server, so naming a neighbourhood from them sends your coordinates nowhere. They come from Who's On First, with boundaries from Pediacities, The Washington Post, Zolk, Azavea, and the cities of Atlanta, Baltimore, Cambridge and Denver.

Nothing is sold, and nothing is shared for advertising or marketing. There is nobody to sell it to and no advertising in this app.

How long it is kept

Saved locations stay until you delete them. Your current place is overwritten, not appended. Notification tokens are deleted as soon as they stop being valid or you turn notifications off. Deleting the app stops all of it; to have what is stored on the server removed as well, ask.

Children

This app is not directed at children and collects nothing that could identify one.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it.

Asking

To ask what is stored about your install, or to have it deleted, write to info@gazzetta.us.