Privacy policy for the app Weathergod

Last updated: November 2026

This page explains what data Weathergod (called Wettergott in German) processes, why, who sees it and how you can delete it. If anything is unclear, write to us at info@crewz.io.

In short

• Weathergod needs no account, no name and no email address. We do not know who you are.
• Your place, your slider settings and your other settings stay on your device.
• For the forecast, the app only sends the place to our server. Our server asks Apple Weather; Apple does not learn who is asking.
• Weathergod only asks for your location when you tap "Use my location", once, rounded to about one kilometre.
• No ads, no usage statistics, no tracking, no selling of data.
• Crash reports are only sent if you agree.

1. Controller

The controller for the processing of data in Weathergod is Crewz GmbH, Paul-Ehrlich-Straße 7, 79106 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, represented by its managing director Marcel Bihl. You can reach us at info@crewz.io.

2. What Weathergod processes and why

2.1 The forecast

So that Weathergod can show the real forecast for your place, the app sends the coordinates and the time zone of the place to our server at wettergott.expo.app. It runs on EAS Hosting by Expo (650 Industries, Inc., USA). To handle the connection, Expo technically processes your device's IP address. Our server rounds the coordinates to two decimal places, which is about one kilometre, and then requests the forecast from Apple WeatherKit (Apple Inc., USA). Apple only receives our server's request: your IP address and other details about you or your device are not included.

Our server keeps the answer for 30 minutes per place, so that not every request goes to Apple. This copy belongs to the place, not to you. The app fetches a new forecast when you choose a place, or when you open Weathergod and the last copy is older than 30 minutes.

So that nobody overloads our server, it counts how many forecasts an IP address requests within ten minutes and refuses further requests above 30. For this it keeps the IP address in memory. After ten minutes it no longer counts; it is deleted as soon as our server fetches the next forecast from Apple, at the latest when the server restarts.

• Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (use of Weathergod under our terms of use); for limiting the requests Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, our legitimate interest in protecting the service against abuse
• Retention: We store nothing about you; the IP address for the limit only in memory, as described above. Expo technically logs requests to our server for operation and troubleshooting and keeps these logs only as long as Expo needs them to run the service.

2.2 Place search

When you search for a place, the app sends your search term to our server (2.1) while you type, from two letters on, together with the app's language (German or English). Our server looks it up with Apple Maps (Apple Inc., USA) and returns the matching cities and towns with name, region, country and coordinates; our server determines the time zone itself from the coordinates. Apple only receives the search term and the language from our server, not your IP address, and returns the names in that language. Our server keeps the answer for 24 hours per search term and language.

• Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR
• Retention: as in 2.1

2.3 Your location (only if you use it)

If you tap "Use my location", Weathergod asks whether the app may use your location while it is open. Only if you agree does it read your position once, if possible one your device has already determined within the last 15 minutes. The app immediately rounds it to two decimal places, which is about one kilometre. Weathergod never requests your location in the background.

From the rounded position, your operating system's service determines the name of your town: Apple on iPhone and iPad, and on Android devices your device's service, usually Google. The app then searches for that name as in 2.2, and from then on Weathergod uses the place found, with its own coordinates. If none is found, the app uses the rounded position as the place. Only this place is stored, on your device (2.6), not your exact position.

• Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR and Section 25(2) no. 2 TDDDG. You can revoke the permission at any time in your device's settings; you then search for your place yourself.
• Retention: The app discards the position as soon as the place is found. The privacy policies of Apple and Google apply to determining the name of your town.

2.4 Crash reports (only with your consent)

After the first start, Weathergod asks whether the app may send crash reports. Only if you agree, and Weathergod then crashes or something goes wrong, does the app send a report to Sentry (Functional Software, Inc., USA). It contains the technical description of the error, device model, operating system, the state of the device (such as free memory), app version, time, a random identifier of the installation and a list of the last steps in the app. This list also includes the addresses of the last requests to our server, and with them the coordinates of the place or your search term. In addition, Sentry counts how often the app is started and runs without crashing, and on about every fifth start measures how long loading and requests take. We do not send names or email addresses. Sentry only sees your IP address technically for the connection and does not store it. Sentry stores the data in data centres in Germany.

• Purpose: finding and fixing bugs
• Legal basis: your consent, Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25(1) TDDDG. You can withdraw it at any time under Settings → "Send crash reports"; from then on Weathergod sends no more reports.
• Retention: 90 days at most

If you are under 16, ask your parents before you agree.

2.5 The Apple Weather logo (Android)

When the forecast comes from Apple Weather, Weathergod has to show this. On Android devices, the app loads the logo directly from Apple (weatherkit.apple.com) for this. Apple technically processes your device's IP address in doing so. On iPhone and iPad, the app shows the logo as text, without loading anything.

• Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, so that we meet Apple's requirements for the attribution

2.6 Data on your device

Weathergod stores on your device whether you have completed the first start, your place with name, region, country, coordinates and time zone and whether it comes from your location, your last five places, how you have set the slider and the snow, your answer about crash reports, your settings, and the last forecast per place, so that the app shows something immediately and also offline. The app also reads from your device's settings the language, whether the clock shows 12 or 24 hours and, on the first start, the temperature unit, so that texts, times and values appear the way you are used to. These details stay on your device; only the language goes to our server with the place search (2.2). This is necessary for the app to work (Section 25(2) no. 2 TDDDG). The app deletes values for individual days once those days are over. You remove places from the list of recent places in the place search; the app then deletes their stored forecast as well. In addition, your operating system keeps our server's answers, that is forecasts and search results including the search term, in the app's cache and uses them for at most 30 minutes (forecasts) or 24 hours (search results); the operating system clears this cache itself. If you delete the app, your device deletes all of this data. It may, however, remain in backups of your device, for example in iCloud or with Google.

2.7 Buying the app

You buy Weathergod on the App Store or on Google Play. Payment happens there: we do not see your payment details or your Apple or Google account. The stores only give us aggregated sales figures that cannot be linked to you. The privacy policies of Apple and Google apply to the purchase.

2.8 Links

If you tap "Data sources", "Privacy policy", "Terms of use" or "Legal notice", Weathergod opens the page in a browser window. The privacy policy of that page then applies.

2.9 Permissions

Weathergod asks for only one permission: your location while the app is open (2.3). Besides that, the app uses the internet, on Android devices also the network status (whether there is a connection), and vibration for haptics. Weathergod does not access contacts, photos, camera or microphone, sends no notifications and does not track you across other companies' apps and websites.

3. Who receives data

• 650 Industries, Inc. (Expo), USA, as our processor for our server (2.1, 2.2). EAS Hosting runs on Cloudflare's network; your requests are usually handled by a data centre near you.
• Functional Software, Inc. (Sentry), USA, as our processor for crash reports (2.4).
• Apple receives from our server the coordinates of the place (2.1) and your search terms with the app's language (2.2), without any link to you. On Android devices, the app also loads Apple's logo (2.5).
• Apple or Google, as providers of your operating system, determine the name of your town under their own responsibility when you use your location (2.3), and run the stores where you buy Weathergod (2.7).
• Our email provider, who hosts the emails sent to info@crewz.io, as our processor.
• Authorities, where we are legally obliged to disclose data.

We have concluded agreements under Art. 28 GDPR with our processors. We do not sell data and do not share it for advertising.

4. Data in the USA

Expo and Sentry may process data in the USA. The European Commission has found that companies certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework provide an adequate level of data protection (Art. 45 GDPR); 650 Industries, Inc. and Functional Software, Inc. are certified.

5. Deleting your data

There is nothing on our servers that belongs to you: no account, no profile, no list of your places. You take care of everything else yourself:

• Remove places: in the place search, under your recent places
• Stop using your location: revoke Weathergod's permission in your device's settings
• Turn off crash reports: Settings → "Send crash reports"
• Delete everything: delete the app

Sentry deletes crash reports by itself after 90 days at most. Because we do not know who you are, we can only link them to you if you tell us when and on which device Weathergod crashed.

6. Your rights

You have the right to

• access your data (Art. 15 GDPR),
• rectification of incorrect data (Art. 16 GDPR),
• erasure (Art. 17 GDPR),
• restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR),
• data portability (Art. 20 GDPR),
• withdraw consent with effect for the future (Art. 7(3) GDPR),
• lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR). The authority responsible for us is the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Baden-Württemberg, Lautenschlagerstraße 20, 70173 Stuttgart, Germany. You can also contact the authority where you live.

To do so, write to us at info@crewz.io.

7. Your right to object

Where we process data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, you may object at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation (Art. 21 GDPR). This concerns limiting the requests (2.1) and the Apple Weather logo on Android devices (2.5). We will then stop processing this data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds that override your interests, or we need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

8. What you have to provide

You do not have to provide anything about yourself for Weathergod. To show a forecast, the app needs a place; you search for it yourself or use your location. Your location and crash reports are voluntary. We do not make automated decisions under Art. 22 GDPR.

9. Security

The app only talks to our server over encrypted connections. Only our server knows the keys for Apple WeatherKit and Apple Maps, not the app. Because we create no account and no profile, we hold no data about you that could be lost.

10. Changes

If Weathergod or the law changes, we update this privacy policy. You will find the current version in the app on the first screen and under Settings → Privacy policy, and on crewz.io.