Privacy & permissions

What stays on your computer

Your places (each one's name, region, country, latitude and longitude), your settings and the last forecast fetched live in Chrome's extension storage on this computer. None of it is synced between devices or sent to us. Uninstalling the extension deletes all of it, and Settings → Resets → Reset all settings deletes it any time.

What the weather and map services see

Your browser asks these services directly; there's no server of ours in between:

• Open-Meteo, for the forecast, air quality and pollen: the latitude and longitude of the place you're showing, and your units.
• Open-Meteo place search: the text you type when you search for a place.
• RainViewer and Esri, for the radar and the map under it: requests for the images that cover the area around the place, only when you open the radar.

Like any website, they see each request and your IP address. Sweata Weatha never uses your device's location; you choose each place yourself.

Permissions

• storage: to keep your places, settings and the last forecast.
• alarms: to refresh the forecast, and the temperature on the icon, in the background.

It asks for no access to websites and runs nothing on the pages you visit, so Chrome shows no warning about reading your data when you add it.

If you remove the extension

From version 0.2.1, when you remove Sweata Weatha, Chrome opens a short feedback form in a new tab. Answering is optional, and you can just close the tab. The extension sends nothing to the form; its link only says which extension you removed. The form is hosted by Airtable, so anything you type there reaches Airtable and us.

The full policy

Read the Sweata Weatha privacy policy for every detail.

Related guides

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