Galactic Weather
Privacy
Last updated 17 August 2026
Galactic Weather has no accounts, no login, and no user database. It never asks for your name or your email, and there is nowhere for it to store them if it did. This page describes the data that does move, and where it goes.
Your location
To show a forecast, the app needs somewhere to get one for. That is either the location your device reports, if you allow it, or a place you type in.
Those coordinates are used to fetch weather from OpenWeatherMap and then discarded. They are not stored on any server, not logged, and not attached to any identifier.
One difference between the two apps is worth stating plainly. On the web, the request to OpenWeatherMap is made by this site's own server, so OpenWeatherMap sees the coordinates but not your browser or IP address. On iOS, the app calls OpenWeatherMap directly from your device, so their servers see your device's IP address the way any website you visit would. Their handling of that is covered by their own privacy policy.
If you save locations on iOS, those are stored in your own iCloud account so they follow you between your devices. They go to Apple, not to us, and we cannot read them.
What stays on your device
Your Atlas assignments and your Passport — the worlds you've landed on — live on your device. On the web that means your browser's local storage; on iOS it means your device and your iCloud account. Clearing your browser's site data, or deleting the app, deletes them. There is no copy anywhere else, which also means we cannot restore them for you.
Analytics
The app records a small number of anonymous usage signals through TelemetryDeck, a privacy-focused analytics service. This exists to answer one question: whether anyone finds this thing worth coming back to.
These are all of them, and they carry nothing else:
- App launched — that the app was opened.
- Forecast landed — that a forecast loaded, and which weather category it fell into (“snow”, “clear and scorching”).
- Atlas opened — that the Atlas screen was viewed.
- World assigned — that a weather category was reassigned, and which category.
- Stamp earned — that a Passport stamp was awarded, which weather category earned it, and roughly how many stamps you have (as a range such as “6–15”, never an exact number).
- Paywall shown (iOS only) — that the premium screen was displayed, and which feature led there.
Deliberately absent from every one of those: the place you searched for, your coordinates, the temperature, and the name of the world you landed on. The weather category is sent instead of the world, because it answers the same question and describes weather rather than you.
To tell a returning visitor from a new one, each install carries a random identifier. On the web that is a random number stored in your browser alongside your Passport, so clearing your site data clears it too. On iOS it is derived from an Apple-provided per-vendor identifier and hashed before it is sent. Neither is linked to you, and neither is used to track you across other apps or websites.
On the web, analytics is switched off entirely if your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control. You do not have to ask us; the app checks before it sends anything.
Purchases
The iOS app offers a one-time premium purchase. That transaction is handled entirely by Apple. We never see your payment details, and there is no server on our side that records who has bought anything — the app asks your device whether the purchase exists. Restoring a purchase asks Apple, not us.
What is never collected
- Names, email addresses, or contact details.
- Advertising identifiers. There is no advertising, and no tracking across apps or sites.
- Your search history or the places you look up.
- Anything at all that is sold or shared with data brokers.
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. There is no advertising in Galactic Weather, no ad network, and no tracking of you across other apps or websites — so there is nothing to opt out of. Browsers that send a Global Privacy Control signal are honored anyway, and switch analytics off entirely.
Children
Galactic Weather is a weather app suitable for all ages and collects no personal information from anyone, including children.
Changes
If what the app collects changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top moves. It is written from the code rather than from intentions, and the list of signals above is checked by the app's own test suite.
Contact
Questions about any of this, including any request concerning your own data, can go to greg.robleto@creativemadness.studio.