North Texas · No Hype Weather ("the app") is published by Core-Tech (core-tech.org). This policy explains exactly what the app collects, why, and what we do not collect. It is short because the app does very little with your data.
Location. With your permission, the app reads your device's location while you are using it. It does not track you in the background. The location is used to look up the National Weather Service grid point that serves you and to test whether an active warning polygon contains you.
Push notification token and rounded location. If you enable weather alerts, your device sends our server:
The rounding is deliberate. Warning polygons are far larger than a kilometre, so this is precise enough to tell you the truth about whether a storm covers you, while not putting a precise home address in a database.
Crash and error reports. When the app crashes or hits an error, a report is sent to Sentry, an error-monitoring service, so the fault can be found and fixed. A report contains the error and where in the code it happened, your device model, operating system version, and app version, and a short trail of what the app was doing beforehand — which screens opened and which weather services it called.
It does not contain your location. The two weather requests that include your coordinates have those coordinates stripped out before the report leaves your phone. It does not contain your IP address, your push token, your name, or anything you typed. It is not used to measure how you use the app, and it is not advertising.
Subscriptions. Corey Live is an optional paid subscription. We never receive your payment details. Apple and Google take the payment, and neither hands us a card number, a billing address, or your store account.
What we do receive is whether this device currently has an active subscription. That check is handled by RevenueCat, which validates the receipt with Apple or Google on our behalf and stores the subscription record against an anonymous identifier it generates for the app. There is no login, so that identifier is not tied to your name, your email, or your location — we hold none of those.
This is the only reason we hold anything about a purchase: the app has to know whether to show you Corey’s posts. It is not used to profile you, it is not shared with advertisers, and it is not combined with your location.
Nothing else. The app has no login, collects no contact details, contains no advertising or analytics software, and does not read your contacts, photos, calendar, microphone, or camera.
Only to deliver weather information and life-safety alerts for where you actually are. We do not use your data for advertising, we do not sell it, and we do not share it with data brokers.
The app requests weather data directly from these services. When it does, the service necessarily sees your device's IP address and the coordinates or map area being requested:
api.weather.gov) — forecasts and alertsspc.noaa.gov) — severe weather outlooksmesonet.agron.iastate.edu) — free radar imageryexp.host) — delivery of push notificationssentry.io) — crash and error reports, as described aboverevenuecat.com) — validates subscription receipts with Apple or Google and tells the app whether this device has paid. It receives the receipt and an anonymous app identifier, and no location, push token or contact detail.We do not send any of these services your name, email, or push token, because we do not have the first two and do not share the third.
Crash reports are deleted automatically at the end of Sentry's standard retention period and are not copied anywhere else.
Your push token and rounded location are kept only while your device is registered for alerts, and are replaced whenever your location changes enough to matter. Records of which alerts have already been sent are kept briefly so you are not notified twice about the same warning. Location is never written to a history or a log of where you have been.
Turn off notifications for the app in your device settings and we stop sending alerts. To have your push token and stored location deleted from our server, email [email protected] from any device and we will remove the record. Deleting the app also stops all collection.
The app is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
Depending on where you live — including under the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act and the California Consumer Privacy Act — you may have the right to know what personal data we hold about you, to have it corrected, and to have it deleted. Since the app holds no account and no contact details, in practice this means the push token and rounded location described above. Email [email protected] and we will act on any such request.
The app presents official National Weather Service data and our own commentary. Forecasts, outlooks, and storm tracks are estimates and can be wrong. Always follow instructions from local emergency officials. Do not rely on this app as your only means of receiving warnings.
If we change what the app collects, we will update this page and change the date at the top. Material changes will be announced in the app.
Questions about this policy: [email protected]