The short version
Strata has no Strata user accounts, advertising, or advertising tracking. Your saved places, preferences, recent forecasts, widget readings, and rendered sky images are stored on your device. RevenueCat and your platform store process purchase information to provide Pro access and purchase analytics. Strata does not sell personal information.
Location and place search
You can search for a city without granting location access. When you choose Use my location, Strata asks the operating system for foreground location permission and uses the resulting coordinates to retrieve weather and terrain. The platform may reverse-geocode those coordinates to show a readable place name.
Strata does not request background device location and does not continuously track you. A widget refresh may reuse the place you previously selected, but it does not obtain a new location fix.
Information sent to services
| Service | Information | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare gateway | Coordinates or search text and connection IP | Proxy, cache, rate-limit, and protect weather and place requests |
| Apple WeatherKit, through Cloudflare or native iOS WeatherKit | Selected latitude, longitude, timezone, language, and forecast products | Retrieve weather for the selected place |
| GeoNames, through Cloudflare | Search text and language, or rounded coordinates | Find populated places and resolve timezones |
| AWS-hosted Terrain Tiles | Tile coordinates for the viewed region | Render local terrain |
| Apple or Google platform services | Coordinates, when reverse geocoding is used | Resolve a readable place name |
| RevenueCat and Apple App Store or Google Play | Anonymous app-user identifier, app and store metadata, offering requests, purchase receipts, subscription status, and transaction data | Show localized Pro plans, validate purchases, restore access, prevent fraud, and provide purchase analytics |
Requests use HTTPS. Like other internet services, providers receive connection information such as an IP address and may retain operational logs under their own policies. Opening an external source link in Strata is governed by that website's privacy practices.
Cloudflare weather gateway
Strata's gateway rounds coordinates before sending them to Apple Weather or GeoNames. It does not forward cookies, authentication headers, or your IP address to either provider. Weather responses may be cached for up to 15 minutes, search results for one day, and timezone results for 30 days.
The supplied gateway writes no application logs and has invocation logging disabled. Its provider-budget services store only UTC period keys and aggregate attempt counts. Optional operational metrics are disabled by default; if enabled, they contain fixed route, event, and outcome categories plus counts—never coordinates, place names, search text, IP addresses, user identifiers, or free-form errors. Cloudflare may process service and security information under its own account policies.
Purchases and subscriptions
On supported native platforms, Strata uses RevenueCat to retrieve available Pro plans and customer entitlement information, including before you make a purchase. Strata supplies no custom user ID, email address, location, saved places, or subscriber attributes to RevenueCat. The SDK creates an anonymous app-user identifier. Strata does not use purchase history for advertising tracking.
Payments are handled by Apple App Store or Google Play; Strata does not receive your payment-card details. RevenueCat processes receipts and transaction records to validate and restore access and provide purchase analytics. These records may persist independently of local app data. Their retention and processing are governed by the providers' applicable policies, including RevenueCat's Privacy Policy.
Manage or cancel recurring subscriptions in your platform store's subscription settings. Deleting Strata does not cancel a subscription or delete store or RevenueCat transaction records. For a privacy request relating to purchase data, contact Strata support; store account and payment records are controlled by the respective store.
Information stored on your device
Strata stores selected and saved places, unit and display preferences, recent forecasts, widget readings, and rendered sky images locally. iOS widgets share an app-group container with the main app; Android widgets use the app's storage. Strata does not take photographs or record the screen outside its own renderer.
Forecasts older than 24 hours are not treated as valid cached weather. The forecast cache and saved-place list are bounded, and older rendered images are pruned. Your operating system may include app data in device backups according to your backup settings.
Your choices
- Use city search instead of device location.
- Remove saved places in Strata.
- Revoke location access or disable background refresh in system settings.
- Delete Strata, or clear its app data where supported, to remove local data.
There is no Strata server account to delete in this version. Provider logs and purchase records are controlled by their respective operators. Use the store's subscription settings to cancel recurring purchases.
Children, international processing, and changes
Strata is not designed to collect information from children and does not provide accounts, advertising, or social features. Service providers may process requests in countries other than your own. We will update this policy when Strata's data practices or providers change and will revise the date shown above.
Contact
For privacy questions or requests, use the Strata support page and identify the subject as a privacy request.