Privacy Policy

Visa365

Visa365 keeps track of the days you spend in each country so you can stay within visa and stay limits. Your travel history is the most personal thing it handles, so the app is built so that I never see it. This section applies to Visa365 only.

Your Travel History Stays Yours

The days and countries Visa365 logs, your stay limits and trips, and the passports you add are stored on your device and synced through your own private iCloud account, so they appear on your other devices, widgets and Apple Watch. Apple holds this data under its privacy policy. I have no access to it, and it is never sent to my servers, to analytics, or to advertisers. If you export your travel history, the file is created on your device and goes only where you choose to share it.

Location

With your permission, Visa365 uses your device's location, including in the background, to work out which country you are in each day. Your precise location stays on your device. To turn it into a country, the app asks Apple's map service (which handles the request under Apple's privacy policy) or checks country borders built into the app, and then keeps only the country and the date. I never receive your location. You can change or turn off location access at any time in iOS Settings and add days by hand instead.

Calendar and Reminders

If you ask, Visa365 adds reminders to your calendar. It can only add events and never reads your calendar. Limit alerts are scheduled on your device.

Optional Account

You can use Visa365 without an account. If you choose to sign in with Apple or Google, Google Firebase Authentication stores your name (if you share it), your email address (which can be an Apple private-relay address) and an account ID, so you can sign in on your other devices. Your travel history is not stored in your account; it stays in your iCloud.

Analytics and Crash Reports

Visa365 uses Google Firebase Analytics to understand how the app is used: for example, which screens are opened, whether setup was finished, which kind of limit was set up, and when a free trial or subscription starts (plan, price and currency). Events can include the country code of a limit you set up (such as "TH" or "Schengen"), but never the countries you have actually been in, your location, or your travel dates. Google also estimates a rough region from your IP address.

This data is tied only to a random ID for your installation of the app. It is never linked to your name, email or account, and I don't use Google signals or link it to Google Ads. I may use these anonymous groups to decide which notifications to send (for example, a tip for people who track a Schengen limit).

Crash reports are sent automatically through Firebase Crashlytics. They contain technical details such as the device model, iOS version and what the app was doing when it crashed, and no personal information.

Notifications

If you allow notifications, Firebase Cloud Messaging gives your device a notification token so I can send you notifications, such as reminders and news about the app. The token is not linked to your name or account.

Advertising Measurement (Meta)

I advertise Visa365 on Meta (Facebook and Instagram). To learn whether those ads work, the app includes Meta's SDK, which sends Meta only these events: that the app was installed or opened, that an account was created, and that a free trial or subscription started (with the plan's price and currency). They come with basic device details (such as model, iOS version, language and time zone) and an anonymous ID that Meta creates for this installation. Meta never receives your location, the countries you have visited, your travel history, your limits, your name or your email. Visa365 never asks for permission to track you, so Meta does not get your device's advertising identifier, and I don't build ad audiences from your data.

Purchases

Subscriptions are sold and handled by Apple, and I never see your payment details. The plan, price and currency of a trial or subscription are recorded in analytics and sent to Meta as described above.

Visa Information

The app downloads general visa rules from my Firebase database. These requests don't include your travel history, your location or your account.

How Long Data Is Kept

• Travel history (on your device and in your iCloud): until you delete it
• Account: until you delete it; Google then removes it from its systems within 180 days
• Analytics: 14 months; after that only totals remain
• Crash reports: 90 days
• Notification token: until you uninstall the app, delete your data, or the token expires
• Meta events: according to Meta's own data policy

Deleting Your Data

• Settings → Your Data → Delete All My Data removes every day, limit, trip and passport from this device and from iCloud on all your devices, and resets the app's analytics ID and notification token. This can't be undone.
• Settings → Account → Delete Account (if you signed in) deletes your account.
• Uninstalling the app does not remove the copy in your iCloud, so use Delete All My Data first if you want it gone.
• Deleting your data does not cancel your subscription. You can cancel in iOS Settings → your name → Subscriptions.
• Analytics and crash data are not linked to your name, so I can't look up one person's records; they expire on the schedule above.

Legal Bases and Overseas Handling

If you are in the EU, the UK or a place with similar laws: I use your account and purchase details to provide the app you asked for; analytics, crash reports and ad measurement because I have a legitimate interest in keeping the app working and knowing whether my ads work, without tracking you; and location, notifications and calendar access only with your permission, which you can withdraw in iOS Settings at any time.

Google, Meta and Apple may process data in the United States and other countries. They protect it with safeguards such as the European Commission's standard contractual clauses or the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. For Australian users, this cross-border disclosure is relevant to Australian Privacy Principle 8.

RainSeer

RainSeer shows rain radar and forecasts and warns you before rain arrives. To send rain alerts (and, with Premium, plan reminders) even when the app is closed, it uses a small alert server I run on Google Firebase. You don't need an account, and the app has no ads and no analytics. This section applies to RainSeer only.

Location

With your permission, RainSeer uses your device's location to show radar, forecasts and rain alerts for where you are. You can use a saved place instead. To show a place name, the app asks Apple's map service, which handles the request under Apple's privacy policy. You can change or turn off location access at any time in iOS Settings.

Rain Alerts and the Alert Server

So it can check for rain and alert you when the app is closed, RainSeer sends the location your alerts are for to my alert server on Google Firebase (Cloud Firestore, Cloud Functions and Cloud Messaging). It does this only while Rain Alerts or a Premium plan reminder are turned on (Rain Alerts are on by default). This is your device's precise location if you allow location access, or your saved place if you don't, with its place name and country. The app updates it when you open the app and when you have moved a meaningful distance. The server keeps only your latest alert location, not a history of where you have been. It uses it to check the forecast regularly and send you a notification before rain arrives.

If you turn Rain Alerts off and have no Premium plan reminders on, the app stops sending your location and removes it from the alert server. Turning either back on sends it again.

If you turn on Alerts Follow Me and allow location access "Always", iOS also wakes RainSeer in the background when you move a significant distance or arrive somewhere (significant location changes and visits), and the app sends the new location to the alert server so your alerts follow you. This is off unless you turn it on, and it works only while Rain Alerts are on.

Along with the location, the alert server stores:

• A random anonymous ID created by Firebase Authentication (anonymous sign-in). Your alert data is linked only to this ID, not to your name, email or Apple Account
• Your notification token, and while a rain Live Activity is running, its update token
• Your alert settings, such as how early to warn you, rain intensity, quiet hours, daily limit and time zone
• Whether you have RainSeer Premium and when it renews or expires
• The app version, iOS version and device model, to help me fix problems
• A note of recent rain events and alerts already sent, so you don't get the same alert twice
• With Premium, the plan reminders you turn on (see Plans and Plan Reminders below)

Firebase App Check uses Apple's App Attest and DeviceCheck to confirm that requests come from the real RainSeer app, which helps stop abuse. It doesn't send your personal information.

Plans and Plan Reminders

Plans and plan reminders are part of Premium. Plans you create in Commute & Plans (names, times and repeat settings) are stored on your device. My alert server stores the times of your upcoming plans (never their names) so it can check the forecast and send each reminder; if the server can't be reached, the reminder is scheduled on your device instead. When Premium ends, plan reminders stop and their times are removed from the server.

For each plan reminder you turn on, my alert server on Google Firebase stores the plan's upcoming start and end times, how early to remind you and the reminder condition, linked to your anonymous ID and alert location. Your device adds the plan's name to the notification. Plan reminders use your alert location, which the app sends only while Rain Alerts or a plan reminder are on.

This plan data is removed from the alert server when you turn the reminder off, when your subscription ends or when you use Delete My Alert Data, and otherwise by the 90-day cleanup described below.

Weather Data Providers

To get forecasts, the app and the alert server send the coordinates of your location (or a place you look up) to these weather providers:

• Apple Weather (WeatherKit): forecasts and official weather warnings
• Open-Meteo: forecasts, rain timing and pollen, and a backup when another provider is unavailable
• Rainbow.ai (Premium): minute-by-minute rain forecasts and radar
• RainViewer (free radar): the app only downloads radar map tiles for the area shown on the map. It doesn't send RainViewer your location. Radar data is provided by RainViewer.

These requests don't include your ID, settings or any other personal details, although, like any internet request, the provider can see your IP address.

Apple Intelligence

RainSeer's AI features, such as Ask About Today, card recommendations and widget advice, use Apple Intelligence on your device. The weather used to answer stays on your device and is never sent to me.

Questions you ask in Ask About Today, and Apple Intelligence's answers, are stored only on your device, together with the place they were about, and are deleted automatically after 30 days. You can delete them at any time from History in Ask About Today. They are never sent to me or to any server; answers are generated on your device by Apple Intelligence.

Widgets, Apple Watch and Live Activities

RainSeer's widgets and Apple Watch app get their weather from the app on your iPhone, through storage shared between the app and its widgets and Apple's connection between iPhone and Watch. This data stays on your devices. If you start a rain Live Activity, the alert server can update it through Apple's push notification service.

Purchases

Subscriptions are sold and handled by Apple, and I never see your payment details. The app only learns whether you have Premium and when it renews or expires, and shares that with the alert server so your alerts use Premium data and checks.

No Tracking

RainSeer has no ads, no analytics and no tracking, and it never asks for permission to track you. I don't sell your data or share it with advertisers or data brokers. This matches the privacy details RainSeer declares to Apple.

How Long Data Is Kept

• On your devices: until you delete the app
• Ask About Today chats: on your device only, deleted automatically after 30 days, or sooner from History
• Alert location: replaced each time it is updated; only the latest one is kept. It is removed from the alert server when you turn off Rain Alerts and any plan reminders
• Plan reminders (Premium): on the alert server until you turn the reminder off, your subscription ends or you use Delete My Alert Data
• Notification token: removed from the alert server once it stops working, for example after you delete the app
• Rest of the alert data: while you use RainSeer with Rain Alerts on, or until you delete it in the app (see below)
• Unused alert data: if RainSeer hasn't updated your alert data for 90 days (for example, because you deleted the app or turned Rain Alerts off), the alert server deletes it automatically

Your Choices and Deleting Your Data

• Turn off Rain Alerts in RainSeer's settings to stop alerts. Unless a Premium plan reminder is on, the app then stops sending your location and removes it from the alert server. Turning off RainSeer's notifications in iOS Settings also stops alerts, but doesn't remove your location.
• Turn off Alerts Follow Me, or change location access in iOS Settings, to stop background location updates.
• Turn off a plan's reminder to remove it from the alert server.
• Settings → Advanced → Delete My Alert Data deletes your alert data from the alert server at any time, including your alert location, alert settings, plan reminders and notification token. It also turns Rain Alerts off and signs the app out of its anonymous ID. Your settings on your iPhone stay, and you can turn Rain Alerts back on whenever you like.
• Delete the app to remove its data from your devices and stop all updates to the alert server. Any alert data left on the server is deleted automatically after 90 days, or you can delete it first with Delete My Alert Data.
• Deleting the app or your data doesn't cancel your subscription. You can cancel in iOS Settings → your name → Subscriptions.

Legal Bases and Overseas Handling

If you are in the EU, the UK or a place with similar laws: I use your location, alert settings, plan reminder times and subscription status to provide the forecasts, alerts and reminders you asked for, and the app and device details because I have a legitimate interest in keeping the app working. Location and notifications are used only with your permission, which you can withdraw in iOS Settings at any time.

Google, Apple and the weather providers may process data in the United States, Europe and other countries. Google and Apple protect it with safeguards such as the European Commission's standard contractual clauses or the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. For Australian users, this cross-border disclosure is relevant to Australian Privacy Principle 8.