Privacy, on one screen
If a weather app is free and full of ads, you are the product. Raincast is one month free, then $0.99 a month or $7.99 a year — paid by subscribers, not advertisers — precisely so this page can stay short.
Ads: none, ever
No ads in the app, on this site or in the alerts. No ad SDKs, no data brokers, no trackers. Pricing is the whole business model. Subscriptions are billed by Google Play (the App Store later); your card details never reach us.
Signing in
Email magic-link only. No passwords to leak, no Google/Facebook sign-in, no third-party identity providers.
What we store
The complete list:
- your email address
- your saved locations — lat/lon plus the label you gave them ("home", "school")
- your alert thresholds and quiet hours
- your device's push token, so alerts can reach you
That's it. There is no "and related data" clause.
The Google Play listing's Data safety section mirrors this list (the push token is declared there). A small team dashboard shows usage counts and the alerts the system sent; it never shows your location, and your email is shown to the team only on a deliberate, logged lookup.
Address search on this site
When you type an address into the home-page search, your browser sends the text you typed (and, as with any web request, your IP address) directly to OpenStreetMap Nominatim to turn it into coordinates — see theOSMF privacy policy. The query goes straight from your browser to them, is not linked to any account, and we never see or store it.
What we never do
- No location tracking. Alerts run on the fixed points you saved. "Current location" mode resolves on your device and sends coordinates transiently — they are used for that one forecast and not stored.
- No ad SDKs, no data brokers, no trackers in the app or on this site. This website sets no cookies — which is why you didn't have to click a cookie banner to read this. Signing in on the live map keeps a session token in your browser's local storage; it grants access to your own places and nothing else.
- No selling or sharing of your data. Ever.
Where
All data lives in the EU (Azure, North Europe region — Dublin, fittingly). It does not leave the EU.
Deletion
One tap in the app deletes your account and everything above — email, locations, thresholds, push tokens — immediately. No exit interview, no 30-day "processing".
Questions or GDPR requests: the contact address ships with the app beta. Raincast is an idealab.ai studio venture, based in the EU.