Privacy Policy
In short: Farm Alert has no accounts. Your fields, alerts and settings stay on your phone. To get a forecast, the app sends the coordinates of your fields to a weather service. We don't run ads, we don't track you, and we don't sell anything about you.
Farm Alert is provided by Farm Alert ("Farm Alert", "we", "us"); you can reach out to us via the App Store or Play Store.
What stays on your phone
- Your fields (names, locations, what you grow or keep), the alerts you set up, your settings and your choices about reminders.
- Alerts, forecasts and reminders are worked out on your phone. Reminders are scheduled on your phone; nothing is sent from a server.
- We don't have an account system, so we can't see any of this. Deleting the app deletes it.
What leaves your phone
- Weather and place names. To show a forecast, Farm Alert sends the coordinates of each field to Open-Meteo (open-meteo.com). When you search for a place by name, the text you type is sent to Open-Meteo's place-search service. Open-Meteo does not receive your name or an account, but, like any web service, it sees your IP address together with the request, and it keeps server logs. How long it keeps them is set by Open-Meteo; see its terms and privacy information at open-meteo.com/en/terms. Open-Meteo is an independent service provider and decides how it handles those logs.
- Location. If you choose "Use my current location" or the map pin, your phone's location service (Apple on iPhone and iPad, Android's location service on Android) gives the app your position, once, to place a field. The app only uses your location while you are using it, and doesn't keep a record of where you have been. Place names for a position come from your phone's own address lookup: Apple's on iPhone and iPad; on Android, the address service your phone uses, which on most phones is Google's. Farm Alert does not choose or control that service.
- Map (Android). On Android the map pin shows map pictures (tiles) from OpenStreetMap (openstreetmap.org). To draw the map, the app asks OpenStreetMap's servers for the tiles of the area on screen. OpenStreetMap therefore sees which area you are looking at and your IP address, like any web service, and may keep server logs under its own policy (see wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy). It does not receive your name or an account. Tiles are kept in your phone's cache for up to 7 days and deleted with the app. The map is not shown on iPhone and iPad, which use Apple Maps.
- Purchases. If you subscribe to Farm Alert Pro, Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play) handles the payment and the subscription. We don't receive your payment details, your Apple ID or your Google account. The store tells the app whether you have an active subscription.
- Notifications. If you allow notifications, Farm Alert schedules reminders on your phone from the last forecast it loaded. They are not push notifications and no notification address leaves your phone.
- Crash reports. If you allow it in your phone's settings, Apple or Google may share crash and performance reports with us. We don't add any crash-reporting or analytics tools of our own.
What we don't do
- No advertising, and no advertising or analytics tools in the app.
- No tracking across other companies' apps or websites.
- No selling or sharing of personal information.
Information we collect
We don't operate a server that stores information about you, so we don't hold personal information about you. The only information that leaves your phone because of Farm Alert goes to Open-Meteo (above), on Android also to OpenStreetMap (map tiles), and, for purchases, to Apple or Google.
Why we use this information
We send coordinates and search text only to give you the forecast and place names you asked for (providing the service you chose to use). We don't use them for anything else.
Children
Farm Alert is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone.
Your rights
Because we don't hold personal information about you, there is nothing for us to give you, correct or delete. You can remove everything the app stores by deleting the app. If you believe we hold information about you, or have a question about this policy, reach out to us via the App Store or Play Store and we will answer. Depending on where you live (for example in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or California) you may have rights over personal information that others hold about you, such as Open-Meteo; see their policy to use them.
Changes to this policy
If the way the app handles information changes, we will update this page, and the descriptions in the App Store and Google Play will show our current privacy answers.
Contact
Farm Alert · reach out to us via the App Store or Play Store.