Privacy

Privacy policy

Effective 7 September 2026

FieldCast Weather is made by Enhanced Ag Technology LLC. There are no accounts, no advertising, no analytics and no third-party trackers in the app. We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for advertising, profiling or any commercial purpose. To produce a forecast we do have to pass the coordinates you are viewing — and, if you search for a place by name, the text you type — to the weather and map providers listed under Services we use. That is the only sharing that happens, it is what makes the app work, and none of it is joined to your identity.

What the app collects

• Location. To show weather where you are, the app sends the coordinates you are viewing to our server, to about a tenth of a kilometre. You can use your device location or type a place name instead.
• Place searches. When you search for a place by name, what you type is sent to our server and on to Open-Meteo's place-name service to find it.
• Saved field pins. The names and the list of your pins stay on your device. When you open the screen, each pin's coordinates are sent to our server to look up that field's rainfall. The rainfall itself is measured by NOAA's national radar network: our server downloads those nationwide maps and reads your field out of them, so the rain total never involves anyone else. The same lookup also asks Open-Meteo for that area's recent snowfall, which radar does not measure, so a pin's rounded coordinates do reach Open-Meteo the same way they do for a forecast.
• An installation identifier. The first time the app runs, our server issues it a random identifier. We store that identifier with the platform it is running on, the app version, and the date it was last seen. It is a random number: it is not tied to any account or name, it is not linked to your saved pins or your weather history, and it does not follow you to any other app or website. It exists so we can keep the service working and limit abuse.

What stays on your device

• The names and list of your saved field pins.
• Your recent location searches and the last place you looked at.
• App settings such as theme and units.
• A copy of recent screens, so the app still shows something without a signal.

These are stored by the app on your device. On Android the app opts out of automatic cloud backup and device-to-device transfer, so they are not copied to Google Drive or to a new phone. On iPhone and iPad they are included in your device backup, so restoring a backup to a new device carries them across — that copy stays between you, your device and Apple; it is never sent to us. Deleting the app removes them.

How long we keep it

• Coordinates used to fetch a forecast are rounded to roughly one kilometre before they are stored, so they identify an area rather than an address. Alongside them we keep up to 120 days of weather history for that area — what each model predicted and what actually happened — which is how the app learns which model to trust there. Older records are deleted automatically. A location that goes unused for 90 days is removed entirely, along with everything stored for it.
• An installation identifier is deleted 180 days after the app last contacts us. Deleting the app and not reinstalling it is enough to start that clock.

How we protect it

Everything the app sends and receives travels over an encrypted HTTPS connection. What we hold is limited on purpose: no names, no email addresses, no accounts and no advertising identifiers, so there is no profile to attach a location to. Access to the server is restricted to the people who operate it, and data is deleted on the schedule above rather than kept indefinitely.

Services we use

To produce a forecast, the coordinates you are viewing are sent to these providers:

• Open-Meteo — forecast model data and place-name search.
• National Weather Service and NOAA — watches, warnings, radar, and the measured rainfall behind your field totals.
• OpenFreeMap, using OpenStreetMap data — the map background.

The map background is loaded by your device directly from OpenFreeMap, so that service sees your device's internet address and the part of the map you are looking at. Every other service above is contacted by our server, not by your device, and receives only a coordinate.

Our server is reached through a Cloudflare tunnel, which passes requests through and sees the internet address they came from. We send these services nothing that identifies you — no name, no account, no device or advertising identifier — so what they receive is a location and nothing to attach it to.

Each of the services named above provides the same or equal protection of what it receives as this policy describes. We send each one only what answering a request requires, and none of them is permitted to use it for advertising, profiling, or any purpose beyond returning the forecast, map or delivery we asked for. NOAA and the National Weather Service are United States government services whose weather data is in the public domain. We reviewed the published privacy terms of Open-Meteo, OpenFreeMap and Cloudflare before choosing them and re-check those terms as part of regular maintenance; if a provider's handling of data stopped matching this page, we would replace it. We have no parent company, subsidiaries or other related entities with access to your data.

Website and server logs

Our server records incoming requests automatically, to limit abuse and keep the service available. Those records include the internet address the request came from and the address that was requested. For a weather lookup that address carries the coordinates being viewed to about a tenth of a kilometre — finer than the roughly one kilometre we round to before storing anything in the database — and for a place search it carries the text you typed. They are not tied to any account and are never used to build a profile.

Logs are rotated by size rather than by date: once a log reaches its limit it is compressed and the oldest is deleted. At today's traffic that works out to roughly the last two months, but it is a volume limit, not a promise about time — busier periods hold a shorter span, quieter ones longer. This website itself sets no cookies and contains no advertising, analytics or tracking scripts.

Do Not Track

We do not track you across other websites or services, and we do not allow third parties to do so through our app or this site. Because we do not track, we take no separate action on a browser “Do Not Track” signal — there is nothing for it to switch off.

Children

FieldCast Weather is not directed to children and we do not knowingly collect information from children under 13.

Your choices

• Location access can be turned off in your device settings; you can still search for a place by name.
• Deleting the app removes everything stored on your device.
• There is nothing to look up or delete on request, and that is deliberate: coordinates are stored as shared ~1 km grid cells with no owner attached, so a cell cannot be traced to you and deleting one would remove another person's data as readily as yours. Everything ages out on the schedule above without anyone asking. If you have a question about this, email support@fieldcastweather.com.

Changes

If this policy changes we will update this page and the date above.

Contact

Enhanced Ag Technology LLC, maker of FieldCast Weather — support@fieldcastweather.com