Felt Weather Privacy Policy

1. Summary

Felt Weather is made by TAKE INTEREST Inc. This policy covers the Felt Weather iPhone app and its companion surfaces. The short version: signing in with Apple or Google is required to use Felt, so the app holds your email, name, and an account identifier through that sign-in. Everything else, your weather, calendar, saved routes, and the suggestions Felt makes, stays on your device. Widgets, Live Activity, and Apple Watch receive only the redacted day summary needed to display the feature. We do not track you, we run no advertising, and we do not sell your data. To make features work, your coordinates and place or route searches go to Apple, user-initiated Google Maps or Waze handoffs open only when you tap them, and sky data comes from public NOAA and NASA sources.

2. Apple App Privacy at a glance

This maps Felt Weather to Apple's App Privacy categories so you know what to expect.

Contact info (collected): the email address and name that Apple or Google share when you sign in.

Identifiers (collected): an account identifier that ties your sign-in to your session.

Not used to track you: Felt has no advertising identifier and no third-party analytics, and it does no cross-app or cross-site tracking. The app's privacy manifest declares tracking off.

Used on your device only: your location, your calendar, your routes, and the suggestions Felt builds from them. Widgets, Live Activity, and Apple Watch receive a redacted day summary for display.

Shared to provide features: sign-in goes to Google's Firebase Authentication, your coordinates go to Apple's WeatherKit, and your place and route searches go to Apple Maps. If you tap a Google Maps or Waze handoff, the route opens in the app or site you chose. Each provider handles that data under its own privacy terms.

Third-party data sources: aurora forecasts come from NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center and close-approach data from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. These are read-only feeds, and no personal data is sent to either.

3. Your account (sign in with Apple or Google)

Felt requires you to sign in with Apple or Google before you use the app. Sign-in runs through Firebase Authentication, a Google service we use as our authentication provider. When you sign in, Felt receives your email address, your name, and an account identifier, and these are used only to sign you in and keep you signed in. Felt does not build a profile of you and does not store your weather, calendar, or routes on our side. You can sign out at any time from the profile chip in the app, and you can ask us to delete your account and the email, name, and identifier tied to it (see "Your rights and controls" below).

4. Location

Location powers the live forecast and the city label at the top of the app. It is opt-in and stays off until you enable it. When it is on, your device uses your location to look up local weather and to name the place you are in. We never store your location, and it is not sent to any server we operate. You can turn location off at any time in iOS Settings, and the app keeps working with places you search for by hand.

5. Calendar

Calendar access lets Felt line your day up with the forecast, so you can see the weather around the events you already have. Reads happen locally on your device. Any change Felt makes to your calendar is approval-driven, meaning it happens only when you confirm it. Calendar access is off until you tap Connect Calendar. Your calendar is never uploaded to us or anyone else, and you can revoke access at any time in iOS Settings.

6. Weather data (WeatherKit)

To show you the forecast, Felt sends your coordinates to Apple's WeatherKit, which returns the weather for that location. Apple processes it under Apple's privacy policy. We do not receive a copy and we do not keep a log of your requests.

7. Maps and routes

When you search for a place or ask for a route, Felt sends that query to Apple Maps through MapKit, and Apple returns the result. Apple handles these queries under Apple's privacy policy. We do not store your searches or routes, and they do not pass through any server we run. If you choose the Google Maps or Waze handoff, Felt opens the app or site you chose with the route details you asked to send; that handoff is user-initiated.

8. Analytics and tracking

Felt does not use third-party analytics SDKs or advertising trackers today, and the app's privacy manifest declares tracking off. If a future version adds usage analytics to help us improve the app, we will update this policy and the App Store privacy label before that version ships, and we will give you a clear control over it. We will never use it to track you across other apps or to sell your data.

9. Who processes your data

A small set of providers handle specific data so features work. Google (Firebase Authentication) handles Apple and Google sign-in, and Google Maps handles a route only if you choose that handoff. Waze handles a route only if you choose that handoff. Apple (WeatherKit and MapKit) handles forecasts, places, and routes. The public NOAA and NASA feeds supply sky data and receive no personal data. We do not sell data to anyone, and we share it only as described here.

10. Data retention

Your account details (email, name, and identifier) are kept through Firebase Authentication for as long as your account exists. When you delete your account, those details are removed. On-device data such as your location, calendar reads, routes, and suggestions lives only on your iPhone and is cleared when you remove the app or revoke the matching permission.

11. Your rights and controls

You are in charge. You can sign out from the profile chip at any time. You can ask us to access or delete the account data tied to your sign-in by emailing the address below, and we will action it. Location and calendar are off by default and only turn on when you choose them. You can grant or revoke each at any time in iOS Settings under Felt Weather. Removing the app clears the on-device data.

12. Children

Felt Weather is not directed to children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact us and we will look into it and remove it.

13. Changes to this policy

If a future version of Felt changes these practices, including adding analytics, new data use, or new sharing, we will update this policy and the app's App Store privacy label before that version ships. The date at the top reflects the most recent update.

14. Contact

TAKE INTEREST Inc.
privacy@takeinterest.ai

For how the company handles data across all of its products, see the company privacy policy.