Up There (“the app”) is developed by Neil Anderson (“we”, “us”). This policy explains what the app does with your location, how it uses weather data, and what stays on your device. The short version: Up There has no accounts, calculates the sky locally, and stores your location, preferences, and current-brief feedback on your device. When it asks Apple WeatherKit for current conditions, it sends Apple the location that request is for.
What Up There handles
Up There has no accounts, login, or sign-up. It does not use advertising or tracking SDKs, analytics, or third-party crash-reporting or diagnostics SDKs. Crash reports are handled through Apple's own reporting systems.
- The app has no user account, login, or sign-up process.
- Moon and planet positions, rise/set times, and visibility are calculated on your device.
- Preferences and current-brief feedback are stored in app-only storage on your device; there is no App Group or shared store.
- The app does not use your location or observations for advertising or personalization.
Location
If you grant location access, Up There uses your device's current location on the device to figure out what's visible from where you are. That fix is stored on this device. When live conditions are needed, Up There sends it to Apple's WeatherKit service to get the forecast for where you are. That is the only place a location coordinate leaves the device: it is not sent to us, to analytics, or to a server we run, and we never receive it.
You can instead select a saved or manual place from the catalogue bundled with the app if you'd rather not share your device location. Search and selection happen on the device, and the selected place is remembered for future launches. A live-weather request still sends that selected place's coordinate to WeatherKit.
Weather
Up There uses Apple's WeatherKit to check current conditions and show whether the sky looks clear, uncertain, or poor. For a live or manual brief, the request contains the coordinate described above and goes to Apple's WeatherKit service under Apple's privacy policy. Apple governs that service request; Up There does not receive the coordinate back through another service or send it to its own server. The example and fixture brief do not make a WeatherKit request. When weather data is stale or unavailable, the app says so rather than guessing.
Preferences
Up There uses standard app-only UserDefaults, with no App Group. It stores whether onboarding has been seen, the location mode and saved observer, daily reminder enabled state and time, the “I'm up before sunrise” preference, and the feedback for the current brief. These values stay on the device; feedback is not uploaded and is not kept as an observation history.
Notifications
You can turn on an optional daily reminder to check tonight's brief. This is a local notification scheduled entirely on your device—there are no push notifications and no server sends it. Its message is a fixed, generic prompt rather than anything about your specific location, weather, or observations.
On-device feedback
Marking “I looked up” or “I found it” on tonight's brief is stored on your device for that brief only. Up There does not keep an observation history and does not upload this feedback anywhere.
Diagnostics
Up There has no analytics SDK, event pipeline, or third-party crash-reporting SDK. Standard Apple crash reports are the app's only crash-reporting path and are handled through Apple's systems, including Xcode Organizer for the developer. No diagnostics are sent to a separate vendor by Up There.
Children's privacy
Up There does not ask for names, email addresses, or other identifying information, and it has no account system for anyone to create.
Changes to this policy
Up There is under active development. If the app changes how it handles location, WeatherKit, preferences, notifications, or diagnostics, we will update this policy first. The updated version will be posted at this page with a revised effective date.
Contact
Questions about this policy: nano@corduroying.com