Privacy Policy

What the app uses

Your location, only if you allow it. Snow Day asks for location permission “While Using the App” so it can check the forecast for where you are. It's optional: you can search for a town instead and never grant it. The app doesn't use your location in the background.

A town you type. If you search instead, the text you type is used to find the town.

Where that information goes

To get the forecast, the app sends the coordinates of the place you're checking (your GPS position, or the town you picked) to Apple. A town you search for goes to Apple's search service to find it. That's the only place your location goes. We never receive it, and we don't send your name, email, device identifiers or anything else with it.

Apple WeatherKit (Apple Weather)

Receives: the latitude/longitude of the town you're checking

Why: hourly snow forecast, weather alerts, and the town's monthly climate normals

Apple's geocoding and search (MapKit, Core Location)

Receives: the town name you type; or your GPS coordinates

Why: town search; turning your coordinates into a town name

Like any internet request, these also carry your device's IP address. Apple handles them under the Apple Privacy Policy. We have no control over Apple's practices and get nothing back except the forecast, alerts and town results. Weather alerts are issued by the National Weather Service and delivered through Apple Weather; the app doesn't contact the Weather Service itself.

In the App Store's privacy details, this is declared as Precise Location, used for App Functionality, not linked to your identity and not used for tracking.

The odds themselves are worked out on your phone. There's no Snow Day server, and nothing is sent to us.

What stays on your device

These live only on your phone, in the app's own storage:

• The town you're checking and up to five saved towns.
• Your settings: theme and units (inches or centimeters).
• Recent verdicts (about the last two weeks), used for the “41% → 87%” trend and the morning-after question.
• Your “Did it happen?” answers (closed, remote, delayed or open) and the “Called 4 of 5” record built from them.
• How many times you've shared a card.
• When the app last asked Apple to show the rating prompt.
• A short-lived copy of recent forecasts (up to 24 hours, up to ten towns), so the app still shows something when you're offline.
• A small copy of the latest verdict (town, day, odds and one-liner) in an App Group on your device, so a future home-screen widget can show it. It doesn't leave your phone.

None of it is sent to us. Delete the app and all of it goes with it.

Analytics, ads and tracking

Version 1 has no analytics and no crash-reporting service. There are no ads and no ad SDKs. We don't track you across apps or websites, and we don't sell or share any data for advertising. The app's privacy manifest declares that it does not track. If we ever add analytics, this policy will change first, with a new effective date.

Share cards

When you share, the card is drawn on your phone and goes only where you send it. It shows the odds, the day, Mel, the one-liner, the town, the date and the time you checked, a trend line if the number moved, the Snow Day name and web address, the Apple Weather credit and “Not official”. The CALLED IT card shows the odds, what happened at school, the town and the date. Nothing else about you.

Share sheet: the image goes to the app or person you pick. Instagram Stories: if Instagram is installed, the app saves the card to your Photos (see below) and opens Instagram's story camera, where you pick it. From there Instagram's own policy applies.

Photos

If you tap Save (or Instagram Stories), the app asks for add-only access to your Photos, at that moment and not before. It can add the card to your library. It can't see, read or change anything in it.

Links that leave the app

Tapping “Details” on an alert opens the full alert (the National Weather Service's text, on the details page Apple Weather links to) in an in-app browser. The Apple Weather credit opens Apple's attribution page. Those pages have their own privacy policies. Tapping Support opens your email app.

Ratings

After the app correctly calls a closure, it may ask Apple to show the standard App Store rating prompt, at most once every 60 days. Apple decides whether it appears. The only thing the app keeps is when it last asked.

Children

Snow Day is made for families: teenagers check it, parents usually buy it. It isn't in the App Store's Kids category. It doesn't collect personal information from anyone, including children under 13, and it has no accounts, no chat and no way to contact other users.

Your choices

• Turn location off any time in iOS Settings › Snow Day › Location, and search for a town instead.
• Remove saved towns in the app's Settings.
• Delete everything by deleting the app. We hold nothing, so there's nothing for us to delete or hand over, but you're welcome to ask.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new effective date.

Contact

LoRicco & Co LLC, Connecticut, USA. admin@loriccoandco.com. See also the Terms of Use.