Privacy and cookie policy

1. Data collection and use

The primary function of this app is to display localised refactored weather information. To achieve this, the application relies on the following data points:

a. Geolocation data

• Source: We use your device's native geolocation services (upon your explicit permission) and/or the Geoapify Application Programming Interface (API), with Nominatim as a fallback, based on your manual input.
• Data used:
  • Latitude and longitude coordinates clipped to 100 metre precision
  • Address data clipped to street level precision
• Purpose: These coordinates are immediately passed to the OpenMeteo API to retrieve accurate local weather forecasts.

b. Location persistence (client-side cookie)

• What is stored: The latitude and longitude coordinates & address data retrieved in step 1.a. are stored in a client-side cookie (a small piece of data stored directly in your browser).
• Purpose: This cookie is set solely to remember your preferred location for subsequent visits & page loads. This improves user experience by eliminating the need to search for your location on every refresh, significantly reduces the number of unnecessary API calls to geolocation services and speeds up the display of results.
• Duration: The cookie is given a defined expiry time of 365 days and will automatically be cleared by your browser after that period, or if you clear your browser data manually.
• Security: This data is stored only on your device. It is not stored on our web server or server-side database.

2. Third-party API services

We utilise third-party services to deliver core application functionality:

3. Cookie policy

a. Cookies we set

DryTime sets two functional cookies. Each one only remembers a choice you have made, and neither is used for tracking.

location

• Purpose: Remembers your chosen location so the forecast loads without searching again.
• Data: Latitude, longitude and village level address (e.g., 51.507, 0.127, "Village, Region, Code"). Only one location is stored. The latest location data erases and replaces any previous location data.
• When it is set: Whenever you choose a location, whether by searching, placing a pin on the map or using your current location.
• Duration: 365 days from the last time your location changed.
• Removing it: Clear this site's cookies and data in your browser settings. The app will then ask for your location again on your next visit.

notice-dismissed

• Purpose: Remembers that you have closed a site notice (for example, planned maintenance) so it is not shown to you again.
• Data: Only the identifier of the last notice you closed. It contains no location or personal data.
• When it is set: When you close a notice.
• Duration: Until that notice expires, or 365 days if the notice has no expiry date. It is removed sooner if you visit while no notice is showing.
• Removing it: Clear this site's cookies and data in your browser settings. Any current notice will then be shown again.

4. Data security and storage

• No server storage: Your location coordinates and corresponding weather data are not stored in any server-side database maintained by us. The data flow is: Browser -> Client-Side Cookie.
• Anonymity: We do not link the location data stored in your client-side cookie with any personally identifiable information.
• Encryption: All data is encrypted in transit between the browser, our web server and all third-party APIs using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

5. Your rights

Since your location data is stored only on your device via a client-side cookie, you have full control over it:

1. Access: You can view the data stored in the cookie by inspecting your browser’s application storage settings.
2. Deletion: You can delete the stored location data at any time by clearing your browser's cookies and site data for this app.

6. Web analytics

To understand how our app is used and to continually improve our service, we use a privacy-focused, open-source analytics platform called Umami.

a. Data collected

Umami is designed to provide us with valuable traffic and usage insights without collecting any personally identifiable information (PII) or tracking users across other websites. The data collected is entirely anonymised and aggregated. This data includes:

• Page views: Which pages on our app are visited.
• Referrers: The website that may have led you to our app.
• Device data: Technical, non-personal details about the device and browser you are using (e.g., operating system, browser type, device type).
• Geographic data: The general geographic location of the visitor derived from the Internet Protocol (IP) address. The IP address is immediately anonymised before being stored and is not precise enough to identify an individual.
• Custom events: If we track specific interactions (e.g. button clicks, form submissions), these are recorded as anonymous events.

b. No personal data or tracking

• Do Not Track: Umami is configured to respect your browser's Do Not Track setting.
• No PII is collected: We do not collect names, email addresses, IP addresses, or any other data that can be used to identify an individual.
• No cookies used: Umami does not use cookies in its tracking code. Instead, it uses a unique, non-identifiable hash to distinguish between unique visitors for a short period (typically one day or one session), but this hash cannot be linked back to a specific individual and is not stored long-term to build a profile.
• Data hosting: Analytics data is processed on our own dedicated server in the European Union (Falkenstein, Germany).
• Retention period: Web analytics data is retained for as long as it remains useful for the purposes described below, and is reviewed periodically. There is currently no fixed deletion schedule; we anticipate this will not typically exceed approximately 5 years.

c. Purpose of processing

The anonymised data is processed solely for the legitimate interest of:

• Measuring web traffic and performance.
• Optimising the function of the app and improving the user experience.
• Understanding long-term trends, regional and seasonal patterns, and informing infrastructure and resource planning.

7. Contact

If you have any questions about this policy or how your data is handled, please contact us:

• Email: hello@drytime.app