Privacy Policy: Sweata Weatha by URLflows

Last updated: 25 October 2026

Sweata Weatha by URLflows is a Chrome extension that shows the weather for the places you choose, now and for the week ahead, with air quality, pollen and a rain radar, one click from the toolbar. This policy says exactly what it does with data. The short version: your places and settings stay on your device, and the extension cannot see the pages you visit. To show the weather it asks three weather and map services for data about the places you choose, and nothing about you. After you uninstall, Chrome opens an optional feedback form, described below.

What it handles

Only what you give it: the towns and cities you search for and save, and your settings. It does not use your device's location; you pick each place yourself. It reads your browser's language only on your device, to choose Fahrenheit or Celsius and the US or European air quality scale to start with. It has no access to websites, so it cannot see or change the pages you visit.

Where it is kept

Everything stays in Chrome's own extension storage on your device:

• Your places in chrome.storage.local: the name, region, country, latitude and longitude of each place you save, and which one is shown.
• Settings in chrome.storage.local: units, the radar's zoom and whether its loop plays, whether the toolbar icon shows the temperature, what a toolbar click opens, the panel tab you used last, the theme and any themes you have customized, and the panel animation.
• The last forecast in chrome.storage.local, so the panel opens instantly. It is a cache, left out of backups.
• Performance history in chrome.storage.local: for the About page, 30 days of the extension's own numbers on this computer (how fast its pages open, their memory, its background start-ups and the storage it uses). It is left out of backups and is cleared by Reset all.

A copy of the theme is also kept in the extension's own page storage so its pages open in the right colors. None of it is synced between devices or sent to the developer. Settings › Backup & Restore writes your places and settings to a JSON file on your computer, and imports it again, only when you ask. Settings › Resets › Reset all settings deletes it at any time, and uninstalling the extension deletes all of it.

Weather and map services it asks

To show the weather, the extension asks three free services for data, straight from your browser. There is no server of the developer's in between. It sends each only what it needs:

• Open-Meteo (api.open-meteo.com, air-quality-api.open-meteo.com), for the forecast, air quality and pollen: the latitude and longitude of the place you are showing, and your units. The forecast is fetched when you open the panel and refreshed every 15 minutes in the background while a place is set, so the temperature on the icon stays current.
• Open-Meteo place search (geocoding-api.open-meteo.com): when you search for a place, the text you type.
• RainViewer (api.rainviewer.com and its image servers), for the radar: when you open the radar, a request for the list of radar frames, and requests for the radar images that cover the area around the place on the map.
• Esri (server.arcgisonline.com), for the map under the radar: requests for the map images that cover the same area.

Like any website, these services see each request and your IP address, and their own privacy policies apply to what they do with it: Open-Meteo, RainViewer and Esri. The extension never sends them your browsing history, the pages you visit, or anything about you beyond the above. The radar's credit line links to RainViewer, Esri and OpenStreetMap; those open only when you click them.

Uninstall feedback form

When you remove Sweata Weatha from Chrome, 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: the form's link only says which extension you removed. The form is hosted by Airtable, so anything you type there goes to Airtable and to the developer, under Airtable's privacy policy.

What it does not do

• No other network requests than the weather and map requests above. There is no backend.
• No access to web pages: it asks for no host permissions and runs no scripts on websites.
• No analytics or tracking: no usage analytics, crash reporting, advertising identifiers or third-party code.
• No account to sign up for.
• No sale or sharing of data: the extension collects none to sell or share.
• Not directed at children, and it collects nothing from anyone.

Permissions it asks for, and why

It asks for no access to websites.

Changes to this policy

If a future version changes what data the extension handles, this policy will be updated, and the store listing will say so, before that version ships.

Contact

Questions about this policy or the extension: hello@urlflows.app, or via urlflows.app.

This policy covers the Sweata Weatha by URLflows extension only. For the urlflows.app website, see the site privacy policy.