1. About this policy
Cable Weather is a weather app for iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV from Kevin Stauss, operating as Silicron Code. It has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking. This policy covers what the app sends off your device, where it goes, and how long it stays there.
2. Information on your device
Your saved markets, your settings, your crawl message, and the most recent forecast are stored on your device, in storage the app shares with its own widgets and Apple TV Top Shelf. Your crawl message never leaves the device. Device backups and other system services may keep app data according to your Apple settings.
3. Location and weather requests
You can search for a market by name or ZIP code, or, on iPhone and iPad, allow location access so the app can find the market you’re in. The app asks for approximate location only, so Precise Location is off unless you turn it on in Settings. Searching sends what you type to Apple’s location service to turn it into a place.
To show the weather, your device sends the market’s coordinates directly to the National Weather Service (api.weather.gov), which returns the forecast, station observations, and related weather information. Radar images come from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet at Iowa State University; that request carries a map area around your market, snapped to a quarter-degree grid. The widgets make the same requests for the same market when they need fresh weather.
These services also receive ordinary connection information, such as the IP address making the request. Their own privacy practices apply; see the National Weather Service privacy policy.
4. Notifications
Notifications (iPhone and iPad) are off until you turn them on. Severe weather alerts and scheduled forecasts are sent by a notification service operated for Cable Weather, so that a warning can reach you while the app is closed. When you turn either kind on, the app registers with that service, and the service stores:
- the Apple push token that lets it reach this device
- your market’s location, rounded to a 0.05-degree grid square (about three miles across), and its time zone
- which notifications you chose, how often, your quiet hours, and whether you use Fahrenheit or Celsius
- a list of alerts already sent to this device, so the same warning isn’t announced twice
- a public key from Apple’s App Attest service, used to check that requests come from a genuine copy of the app
It does not store your name, an account, your exact location, or your market’s name. The push token isn’t tied to your identity and isn’t used for anything except sending the notifications you asked for.
Turning off both kinds of notification deletes the registration, the sent-alerts list, and the key. If your device is offline at the time, the app tries again later, and the 14-day rule below applies either way. When you open the app, it checks in with the service if it hasn’t in the past week; a registration that hasn’t checked in for 14 days is deleted automatically, and notifications stop until you open the app again. Deleting the app doesn’t notify the service by itself, so in that case the 14-day rule is what removes the record.
5. Service providers
Cable Weather uses Apple for push notification delivery, location search, and App Attest; the National Weather Service for weather data; and the Iowa Environmental Mesonet for radar images. The notification service is hosted on Fly.io, which processes requests and stores the registrations described above on the app’s behalf. Like the weather services, it receives ordinary connection information such as your IP address with each request; that isn’t part of the stored registration. See Apple’s Privacy Policy for Apple’s practices.
The app contains no third-party analytics, advertising, or tracking SDKs, and nothing is sold or shared for advertising.
6. Your choices
You can use Cable Weather without location access by searching for a market instead, and without notifications at all. Location and notification permissions can be changed any time in the Settings app. For questions about the notification service, contact kevin@silicroncode.com. Because registrations aren’t tied to a name or account, turning off notifications in the app is the most reliable way to delete yours.
7. This website
The Silicron Code website uses system fonts and serves its styles, scripts, and app images without third-party font or advertising scripts. The website host receives ordinary request information needed to serve pages. External links, including App Store, social, donation, and email links, use the privacy practices of the service you open.
8. Children and changes
Cable Weather is not designed to collect personal information from children under 13, and it doesn’t ask anyone for personal information. We may revise this policy as the app changes and will update the date on this page.
9. Contact
Kevin Stauss / Silicron Code
Email: kevin@silicroncode.com