This policy covers Lysvaka (store titles "Aurora Alert – Lysvaka Northern Lights Forecast" for Garmin watches and "Aurora Alert – Lysvaka" on Google Play, for Android phones and Wear OS watches, and on the App Store, for iPhone and Apple Watch).
Lysvaka collects no personal data. It has no accounts, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking, and we run no server for it. Your approximate position stays on your own devices. The only internet requests the app makes are plain downloads of public space-weather files from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and those requests carry no position and no identifier.
To show the aurora forecast, Lysvaka downloads these public files from services.swpc.noaa.gov (NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, US government data in the public domain):
These are ordinary HTTPS GET requests for whole files. They contain no position, no account and no device identifier. Like any web request they reach NOAA's servers from your network address, under NOAA's own policies. On Garmin watches the requests go through the Garmin Connect app on your phone, as for every Connect IQ app.
Uninstalling the app deletes all of it.
On Android, the phone app and the Wear OS app share the settings above and the rounded position over the Wearable Data Layer (Bluetooth or Wi-Fi between your own paired devices, handled by Google Play services). Nothing is sent to us.
If you turn on aurora alerts, the app shows a notification (Android, Wear OS) or a vibration and prompt (Garmin) when the chance at your place passes your level after dark. Alerts are produced on the device.
On iPhone and Apple Watch (App Store, com.coffeepot.lysvaka) the same rules apply. The apps ask for location "While Using the App" (approximate location is enough); the position is rounded to about 10 km and stored only on the device, or you choose a place on the map instead. The iPhone app and the Apple Watch app each download the same public NOAA files described above, directly (the watch over its own connection or the paired iPhone's), with no position and no identifier. Settings and the rounded position are exchanged only between your own iPhone and Apple Watch through Apple's WatchConnectivity. In the background the apps use Apple's Background App Refresh to check the NOAA data; the aurora alert is a local notification created on the device, with no push server. The Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets and the watch complication read the data the app stored on the same device. The App Store privacy label is "Data Not Collected".
Lysvaka forecasts aurora activity, not cloud cover. A forecast is not a guarantee: always check the sky. Data: NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center. Lysvaka is not affiliated with or endorsed by NOAA.
The app is not directed at children under 13 and we do not collect personal information from anyone.
Apple (App Store, iOS and watchOS services), Google (Google Play, Google Play services) and Garmin (Connect IQ Store, Garmin Connect) handle purchases, downloads and their platforms under their own privacy policies.
If this policy changes, the updated version will be published at this address with a new date before the app update ships.
Questions about this policy: dragusinb@gmail.com
Dragusin Bogdan (The CoffeePot), Bucharest, Romania