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It helps to include your device, its OS version, and the place you were looking at when it happened.
Effective: August 23, 2026
Applies to: the Clearcast app (Android and iOS)
The short version
Clearcast looks up weather and air quality for a place you choose. Here's what that means in practice:
- We don't ask you to create an account, and we don't collect your name, email, or any personal identifier.
- Your location is only used, with your permission, to fetch conditions for where you are - it isn't tracked in the background or stored on any server we run.
- The only data saved is on your own device: your last-viewed place, up to three saved locations, your six most recent searches, your unit preference (°F/°C), and, if you add a widget, its latest readings.
- There are no ads, no analytics, no trackers, and we never sell data - there's nothing to sell.
When you tap "Use my location," Clearcast requests your device's foreground location permission and uses your coordinates to look up weather and air quality for that spot. Location is never accessed in the background, and no ongoing history of your movements is kept — the app asks for your position only at the moment you tap that button. The place it resolves to (its name and coordinates) is then saved on your own device so the app can reopen to it, as described below.
You can also skip location entirely and search for a city by name instead.
Clearcast saves a small amount of state locally on your phone, using standard on-device storage (never transmitted to us):