Meridian Watch Face — Privacy Disclosure

Last updated: July 18, 2026

This page describes how the Meridian watch face (a Garmin Connect IQ app for Forerunner 265 / 265s) handles data on your device. Meridian is a personal, independently developed watch face and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Garmin.

Summary

Meridian does not collect, transmit, store, sell, or share any of your data with the developer or any third party. Everything it displays is read locally from your watch and shown only on your watch's screen.

What Meridian reads from your device

All of the following are read locally, on-device, each time the watch face redraws. None of it ever leaves the watch:

Time and date — from the watch's system clock.
Weather (temperature, dew point, sunrise/sunset times) — from the weather data your watch already syncs from Garmin Connect. Meridian does not perform its own network requests and does not contact any weather service directly.
Location (approximate) — Meridian reads the location tied to your watch's already-synced weather data (observationLocationPosition), purely to calculate the sunrise/sunset arc for your area. This does not turn on the watch's GPS radio — no separate location fix is triggered, and no location is recorded, logged, or sent anywhere.
Step count and step goal — from the watch's built-in activity tracking (ActivityMonitor), the same data already shown elsewhere on your device.
Battery level — from the watch's system stats, to show the battery indicator.
Your settings — the second time zone label/offset, DST rule, and accent color you configure are stored locally by the Garmin Connect IQ settings system (the same mechanism every Connect IQ app uses) and are not transmitted anywhere by Meridian.

What Meridian does not do

No account creation, login, or user identifiers of any kind.
No analytics, crash reporting, or usage tracking.
No advertising or ad networks.
No network requests initiated by the app itself.
No data is stored outside your watch, and no data is shared with the developer or any third party.

Third parties

Meridian uses only Garmin's own Connect IQ platform APIs (Weather, ActivityMonitor, System, App.Properties) to read data already present on your device. It does not integrate any third-party SDKs, libraries, or services.