Privacy
Parallel° · Last updated 12 July 2026
Parallel° collects nothing about you. There is no account to create, no identifier assigned, and no telemetry of any kind.
What stays on your phone
Your saved locations, your settings and the cached forecasts are stored on your device. The app has no account system, and no server of ours receives them. Uninstalling the app removes all of it.
What leaves your phone
To fetch a forecast, the app sends the coordinates of the location you are viewing to a weather service, directly from your device:
- National Weather Service (weather.gov), for locations inside the United States. Their privacy policy.
- Open-Meteo (open-meteo.com), for locations elsewhere, and for searching place names. Their terms and privacy.
- Nominatim, run by the OpenStreetMap Foundation, to turn a GPS coordinate into a place name — used only if you switch on Current location. Their privacy policy.
Those requests go from your phone to those services. Nothing is routed through a server of ours, because there isn't one. Each of those services will see the request the way any website sees a visitor — including your IP address — and each has its own policy, linked above.
Location
The app asks for location permission only if you switch on Current location in Settings. It is off when you install the app. Leave it off and the permission is never requested.
When it is on, your coordinate is used to fetch a forecast for where you are and to name that place. The forecast that comes back is cached on your device like any other. The coordinate is never sent anywhere except to the services above.
What the app does not do
- No accounts, and no way to create one.
- No advertising, and no advertising identifiers.
- No analytics. Nothing counts how often you open the app.
- No crash reporting.
- No third-party SDKs of any kind.
Children
The app is not directed at children and collects nothing from anyone, including them.
Changes
If this policy ever changes, the new version will appear on this page with a new date. Since the app collects nothing, the most likely reason for a change is a new weather source being added — in which case it will be named here before it ships.