Privacy policy

1. Scope and contact

This policy covers our Android app and this support website. The app is intended for a general audience aged 13 and above and is not directed to children under 13. For privacy questions or requests, contact quintin913.qpao@gmail.com.

2. Settings on your device

Your cities, language, clock font, time format, animation, weather preferences and home-screen widget settings are stored on your device. The app has no user accounts and does not request camera, microphone or contacts permissions. The optional Use current location button requests approximate foreground location once, after system permission is granted. Coordinates are matched on-device against representative points in the catalog; this is not an administrative boundary lookup and a neighbouring township may be suggested. You choose the final city. The app does not store the location coordinates, send them to weather or advertising services, or track location in the background. Only the selected city ID is saved. You can revoke location permission in system settings and continue choosing cities manually. Android automatic backup and device data transfer are disabled.

Clearing app data or uninstalling removes local preferences and weather caches. Removing an individual widget removes its configuration.

3. Optional weather

Weather is off by default. When enabled, the app sends the fixed coordinates of your primary city, saved cities or weather-enabled widget cities to MET Norway, not your GPS location. The service also receives your connection IP, app identification and public developer contact information and handles connection records under its policies.

In-app weather is requested in the foreground. Widget weather has an independent switch and is off by default. When enabled, it can request weather in the background even with the app closed, approximately every 30–60 minutes; power saving may delay updates. Responses, timestamps and cache headers are stored locally to reduce requests. Disable weather in both the app and each widget, or remove the widgets, to stop all new weather requests; an in-progress request may still complete. The displayed information is a forecast for a nearby time, not a live observation.

Weather data is provided by MET Norway under CC BY 4.0. Pixel Isles is not an official MET or Yr product. See the MET terms of service, MET privacy policy and CC BY 4.0 license.

4. Advertising and consent

The app uses Google AdMob (Google Mobile Ads SDK) for banner ads and Google's User Messaging Platform (UMP) for applicable consent and privacy choices. The ads SDK collects and shares IP addresses, device or advertising identifiers, app and ad interactions, and diagnostics for ad delivery, measurement, fraud prevention and service operation. IP addresses may be used to estimate approximate location. Actual data depends on device, region, SDK and privacy settings.

The app requests non-personalized ads. This does not mean no data is collected. The ads SDK encrypts data in transit using TLS. Where applicable, privacy options in the app settings let you review or change your choices. You can also manage your advertising identifier in Android settings.

Third-party retention, international processing and deletion are governed by the provider's policies and your settings. Uninstalling the app does not automatically delete data already held by third parties. See Google's privacy policy and Mobile Ads data disclosures.

5. Support and website

If you email us, we receive your email address, message and any attachments you choose to provide. We use them to respond to your issue and related requests. Do not send passwords, verification codes or unnecessary sensitive information. Support messages are retained for issue resolution and necessary recordkeeping. You may request deletion, subject to legal or security retention needs.

This website does not include ads, analytics tracking code or contact forms. Hosting and network providers may process connection IP addresses, browser information and access logs to deliver pages and maintain security.

6. Your choices and requests

• Disable weather to stop new weather requests.
• Clear app data or uninstall to remove local data.
• Use the app's privacy options where available to manage ad consent.
• Consult third-party policies to request access or deletion of data those services hold.

Contact us to ask about, access, correct or delete information you directly provided to the developer. We may need to verify the source of a request to prevent disclosure to the wrong person.

7. Changes

We will update this page and its date when features or data practices change, and provide in-app notice or seek consent when required.