Privacy Policy for Sunburnt

Last updated: June 25, 2026

Sunburnt (“the app”, “we”, “us”) is a UV-index app that tells you how strong the sun is where you are. We built it to be useful and to mind its own business. This policy explains exactly what the app does and does not do with your information.

Short version: Sunburnt has no accounts, no ads, no analytics, and no tracking. It uses your location only to look up the UV forecast for that spot, and it does not store your location anywhere after it makes that request.

Information the app uses

Location. To show the UV index for where you are, the app needs a location. It gets one of two ways:

• Your device location, if you grant the “While Using the App” location permission. The app requests a single location fix when you open or refresh it.
• A place you type in. If you’d rather not share device location (or you’re checking somewhere else), you can type a city, ZIP, or address into the search field and pick from the results.

That’s the only personal information involved. The app does not collect or ask for your name, email address, phone number, contacts, photos, or any account or login. It does not use advertising identifiers (such as Apple’s IDFA).

How the app uses location

Your location (as latitude/longitude coordinates) or the place text you type is used solely to:

1. Request the current and hourly UV forecast for that location, and
2. Search for and label places when you use the location search.

It is not used for any other purpose, and it is never used to identify you.

Who your location is sent to

To return a forecast, the app sends the coordinates (or your search text) over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection to the following third-party services:

• Open-Meteo (open-meteo.com) — provides the UV forecast, air-quality data, and place search. The app sends coordinates and search terms to Open-Meteo. Open-Meteo is a free, keyless weather API; see its terms at https://open-meteo.com/en/terms.
• Apple location/geocoding services — when you use device location, or when a search needs a ZIP/address lookup, the operating system’s geocoder may process the request. This is handled by Apple and governed by Apple’s privacy policy at https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/.

We do not send your location to anyone else. We do not sell, rent, or share your information with data brokers, advertisers, or analytics companies.

What we store

Nothing on our side. Sunburnt has no servers, no database, and no user accounts. Your location is used in the moment to make the forecast request and to display the result on your device. The app does not save your location or search history between launches.

The third-party services above may keep their own standard request logs (for example, to operate and protect their APIs) under their own policies; that is outside our control and not associated with any identity by us.

Tracking

Sunburnt does not track you. It does not follow you across other apps or websites, does not use advertising or tracking identifiers, and contains no third-party advertising or analytics SDKs.

Children’s privacy

Sunburnt is not directed to children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from them. The app collects no personal information beyond the location use described above.

Your choices

• You can use the app without device location by typing a place into the search field instead.
• You can grant or revoke the location permission at any time in your device settings (Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → Sunburnt).

Security

Requests for forecast data are made over encrypted HTTPS connections. Because the app stores no personal data, there is no stored personal data to be exposed.

Changes to this policy

If we change how the app handles information, we’ll update this page and the “Last updated” date above. Material changes will be reflected here before they take effect in a released version.

Contact

Questions about this policy or the app? Email kbrinkk@gmail.com.