Weather Forecast UK Privacy Policy

Effective date: February 27, 2021

We at Onjara Software take data protection and privacy seriously and want to ensure your data is safe. We also want you to understand what is collected and how to control this.

Information Collection And Use

Onjara Software does not directly collect or hold any data. All user supplied information, including specific location information, is held only within the app itself and exclusively under the control of the user at all times.

However, we do use some third party services to enhance your experience, help us track down problems, solve technical issues and understand how the app is used.

Types of Data

Personal Data

No personal data is collected or held at any time by Onjara Software, but some personalised data is collected by 3rd party analytics and crash reporting (Firebase) within the app. This includes:

  • General age bracket (e.g. 18-25)
  • Gender
  • Country
  • Device information, including operating system
  • Language
  • Unique device ID

For a full list of data collected by our analytics partner, please see the properties it collects.

Ad personalisation

In the free version of our app, we use ads to support development. Our ads are served by AdMob, a Google company. You will be asked if you wish to be served personalised ads (based on your general location and interests), non-personalised ads (no data is used to determine which ad to serve), or to purchase the ad-free version of the app.

Location data

This app can use location to enhance your experience and provide more relevant weather information. However, the app does not require this and you may choose not to allow the app to use your location information. If enabled, your location longitude and latitude coordinates are transmitted to our servers to be converted into a human readable real-world address. Your location coordinates are transmitted anonymously with no other data and are not stored anywhere at any time.

This app, when background location ('Allow all the time') is explicitly allowed by the user (Android version 10 or higher), or when location permission is explicitly allowed (Android versions 9 or below), will potentially use your location in the background for the following possible scenarios:

  • Weather warning notifications - Every 15 minutes your location is checked to see if there is a weather warning for you location. This feature may be disabled in the app's settings page. If the feature is enabled, but there is no background location permission granted, the last accessed location in the app will be used instead.
  • Current location widgets - Each widget update will retrieve your location in the background to show you the weather forecast details for your location in the widget

3rd Party Privacy

The collection and use of data by 3rd parties is covered by their respective privacy policies.

Use of Data

We use the collected data for various purposes:

  • To provide and maintain the app
  • To provide customer support
  • To provide analysis and valuable information so that we can improve the app
  • To monitor the usage of the app
  • To detect, prevent and address technical issues

Data Control and Opting out

We provide a number of options for controlling your data. These can be found in the Settings of the app under 'Privacy':

  • Ad consent - Change your preference on whether or not your ads are personalised. (See also Google's ad personalisation settings)
  • Analytics - You may opt out of Weather Forecast UK analytics data collection
  • Crash Reporting - You may opt out of crash reports being sent in the event of a fatal error. Note that this may inhibit our ability to help you.
  • Location - You may fine tune Weather Forecast UK's access to your location in the permissions section in the Settings on your device

Changes To This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or your data, please contact us: