Weather Squirrel

Privacy policy

Effective October 24, 2026. Published by The Pump Software Company, LLC.

Who we are

Weather Squirrel is a weather app for iPhone and Android from The Pump Software Company, LLC. Support email: will@thepumpsoftwarecompany.com. Website: thepumpsoftwarecompany.com.

There is no Weather Squirrel account and no login. We do not ask for your name.

Location

If you allow it, the app uses location while it is open to show the forecast where you are standing. You can deny that and search a town instead.

Weather Squirrel does not collect location in the background. It does not ask for access while the app is closed or not in use. Visits are recorded only from location fixes that arrive while the app is open.

Place memory stays on the phone

Searches and visits are stored on the device. The app ranks them by how often you go, how recently, and which day of the week. That ranking is not uploaded to The Pump Software Company, LLC. You can forget one place, or the whole stash, in the app. Uninstalling the app removes that memory from the phone.

City and town names used for search ship inside the app. They come from GeoNames and are covered under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. See geonames.org. That catalog is separate from place memory.

Forecast, alert, map, and radar requests

Forecasts come from Apple WeatherKit (iPhone, when available) or Open-Meteo; weather alerts from the US National Weather Service; radar, nowcast, precipitation type and satellite clouds from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet; temperature and wind maps from the NWS National Digital Forecast Database.

A forecast request sends latitude and longitude rounded to 2 decimal places. It does not send your stash, a user id, or your name.

• Apple WeatherKit (iPhone, when available), for forecasts. The request runs on the iPhone and sends latitude and longitude rounded to 2 decimal places. Some forecasts are provided by Apple Weather.
• Open-Meteo, for forecasts, using latitude and longitude rounded to 2 decimal places, and for place search by the name you type.
• The U.S. National Weather Service, for severe alerts in the United States. The request sends latitude and longitude rounded to 4 decimal places.
• The Iowa Environmental Mesonet, for NEXRAD radar, HRRR nowcast frames, HRRR precipitation type, and GOES satellite clouds. Those products come from the National Weather Service, NOAA, and GOES. The request is the map area on screen.
• The U.S. National Weather Service National Digital Forecast Database, for the temperature and wind maps. The request is the map area on screen.
• OpenFreeMap and OpenStreetMap, for the radar basemap. The request is the map area on screen.
• BigDataCloud, to turn a location fix into a place name. The request sends that fix's latitude and longitude.

Ads

The free app shows banner ads from Google AdMob. Where required, Google's User Messaging Platform shows a consent form before an ad request. Ads are non-personalized unless you choose personalized ads in that form. Camp includes Ad privacy choices, which opens Google's privacy options when that form is required. AdMob may receive a device advertising identifier and technical information as described in Google’s privacy policy. The subscription removes ads. We do not use location to build an advertising profile.

Purchases

The only subscription removes ads. It is $39.99 per year or $3.69 per month, billed by Apple or Google. RevenueCat tells the app whether the ad-free entitlement is active. The Pump Software Company, LLC does not receive your card number. Restore purchases asks the store, not a Weather Squirrel account.

Sale and tracking

We do not sell personal information. We do not use your location to track you across other companies’ apps or websites.

Children

Weather Squirrel is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Retention and deletion

Place memory remains on the device until you delete it or uninstall the app. The last successful forecast for a place stays on the device until a newer forecast replaces it, or until you uninstall the app. Email will@thepumpsoftwarecompany.com with a privacy question. Because there is no account, there is no server profile to erase.

Changes

If this policy changes, the effective date above will change and the copy in the app will be updated.