HikeCast privacy policy
HikeCast rates the hiking weather on US mountains. It has no account, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking. We run no servers for it and receive nothing about you. This page says what stays on your iPhone, what the app sends to the public services it gets its data from, and how to remove it all.
What stays on your iPhone
- Saved mountains and settings (units, appearance), kept in the app's own storage.
- Recent forecasts, alerts and air quality, kept for a short time so the app stays fast and still works when you lose signal. Settings has a button to clear them.
- The list of US peaks on the map and in search is built into the app.
Deleting the app deletes all of it. Nothing is backed up to us.
Your location
HikeCast asks for your location only when you tap Peaks near me or the locate button on the map, and only while you use the app. It is used on your iPhone to find nearby peaks in the built-in list and to show where you are on the map. It is never sent to us or to the weather services, and the app never tracks you in the background.
What the app sends, and to whom
To show a forecast, HikeCast asks these public services for data. Like any website, each one sees your device's IP address when it answers.
- Open-Meteo (weather forecast, air quality, past weather, terrain height and place search): the coordinates and height of the mountain you open. When a mountain isn't in the built-in list, the name you typed in search and your iPhone's country setting go to Open-Meteo's place search. Open-Meteo terms and privacy.
- US National Weather Service (official alerts): the coordinates of the mountain you open. NWS privacy policy.
- Map tiles from Apple Maps, OpenTopoMap and the USGS National Map: the area of the map you are looking at, as image requests. Apple privacy policy, OpenTopoMap, USGS policies.
None of these requests carry your name, an account, an advertising identifier or your location.
Sharing
When you share a forecast, HikeCast makes the card on your iPhone and hands it to the iOS share sheet. Where it goes from there is up to you.
Children
HikeCast collects no personal information from anyone, including children under 13.
Changes
If the app ever starts collecting anything, this page will say so first, with a new effective date.