Furcast
Last updated: June 24, 2026
The Short Version
Furcast is a weather app. We do not sell your information, run ads, track you across apps or websites, use analytics SDKs, or build marketing profiles. The app uses the information needed to show forecasts, radar, alerts, widgets, saved locations, subscriptions, and optional Plus sync.
What We Do Not Do
We do not sell, rent, or trade your information. We do not use your location, weather searches, saved locations, alert settings, subscription status, or widget data for advertising. Furcast does not create a Furcast account for you.
Location Data
Furcast uses location to show weather for the place you are viewing. You can use your device location, search for a place, or choose a saved location. For normal Furcast weather requests, latitude and longitude are rounded on your device to 2 decimal places before they are sent to Furcast’s weather API. That is about a 1.1 km grid, so the API does not receive your precise GPS coordinate for normal weather or severe-alert registration requests.
Apple Location Services
Location search and place names are handled through Apple MapKit and related Apple location services. For example, when you search for a city or Furcast turns your device location into a readable place name, Apple may process that request under Apple’s privacy policy. If Furcast’s weather API is unavailable, the app may also fall back to requesting weather directly from Apple WeatherKit.
Weather Requests
Most forecast requests go through our API. A request can include rounded latitude and longitude, the weather datasets being requested, timezone, language, country code, and app authentication. The API asks Apple WeatherKit for weather data and returns it to the app. Plus-only historical comparisons and weather statistics use the same rounded-location approach.
Furcast API Caching
The Furcast API exists to make weather requests faster and reduce duplicate WeatherKit calls. It does not create user accounts or build advertising profiles. It keeps short-lived weather caches keyed by rounded location, requested dataset, timezone, language, and country code. Like any internet service, it may receive basic connection information such as IP address and request time. We only use that to operate and protect the service.
Radar
Radar uses Furcast’s API to fetch a shared radar index and radar map tiles. Those radar requests do not need your device location. Your device decides which map tiles to load based on the map area you view.
Saved Data on Your Device
Furcast saves app preferences, notification preferences, viewed-alert IDs, favorite locations, and a recent device location on your device so the app can work normally. Favorite locations include the name and coordinates needed to show weather there. The widget uses a shared app-group snapshot with weather details, your temperature unit, and rounded coordinates so it can refresh without waking the main app.
iCloud Sync
If you have Furcast Plus, favorite locations and selected preferences can sync through Apple’s iCloud key-value store so they are available on your devices. That sync is handled by Apple through your Apple ID. Furcast does not run its own account system for this.
Notifications
If you allow notifications and keep severe alerts enabled, Furcast may register your device for severe-weather push alerts. Registration sends the Apple Push Notification service device token, rounded device location, country, subscription tier, platform, locale, app version, and push environment to Furcast’s alert service. This is used to deliver relevant severe-weather alerts, not for ads or profiling. If you turn severe alerts off, the app asks the alert service to unregister that push token.
Local Plus Notifications
Daily briefing notifications and rain start/stop nudges are Plus features that are scheduled on your device from weather data the app already fetched. Their preferences and duplicate-prevention timestamps are stored locally. They do not send a separate daily briefing or rain-nudge profile to Furcast.
Purchases
Subscriptions are handled by Apple through the App Store. We do not receive your credit card number or other payment details. Furcast checks StoreKit subscription status so it can unlock Plus features, show subscription status, and share the Plus entitlement with the widget.
Third-Party Services
Furcast relies on Apple WeatherKit for weather data, Apple MapKit for search and place names, Apple’s App Store and StoreKit for subscriptions, Apple’s Push Notification service for alerts, and Apple’s iCloud service for optional Plus sync. Those Apple services are governed by Apple’s privacy policy. Furcast also relies on the National Weather Service API for radar imagery and alerts. Furcast itself does not use third-party analytics, advertising, or tracking services.
Your Choices
You can deny or turn off location access and notifications in system settings. You can delete saved locations in the app. You can manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple ID subscription settings. If you do not want Plus preferences and favorites in iCloud, turn off iCloud for Furcast in your Apple settings.
Changes
If this policy changes, we will update it here with a new date. Because Furcast does not have accounts or collect contact information, we may not have a way to notify you directly.
Contact
Questions? Reach out at support@furcastweather.com.