App Privacy Policy

Information for users of the outdoor IQ iOS app under Art. 13/14 GDPR

  No tracking. No account. No ads. The app stores your settings exclusively locally on your iPhone. There is no account, no server database, no analytics and no advertising trackers.

This privacy policy applies to the outdoor IQ iOS app on the Apple App Store. For the outdooriq.de website, see the separate website privacy policy (German only).

1. Controller

Controller in the sense of the GDPR is:
Manuel Bucher
Fürnsaler Steig 23
72175 Dornhan
Germany
Phone: +49 7455 335589
Email: info@outdooriq.de
VAT ID: DE309264370

2. Local storage on your device

The app stores your settings exclusively on your device via the platform-native Capacitor Preferences (iOS: UserDefaults, Android: SharedPreferences). This includes:

Home location (if you've enabled it)
Personal temperature feel preference
Language setting (German/English)
Activity, time, duration (session values)

This data never leaves your device. There is no transfer to our servers or any third party. You can delete it at any time by uninstalling the app.

Legal basis: § 25 (2) no. 2 TDDDG (technically required for the function).

3. Location request

When you use the location button or launch the app for the first time, iOS asks you to grant permission to determine your approximate position. The app uses:

Capacitor Geolocation, which accesses the native iOS location services
Explicitly only the approximate position (enableHighAccuracy: false)
No continuous location tracking, no background updates

Location data is used exclusively for the weather lookup and address display (see sections 4 and 5). We do not store or transfer your geo-coordinates to our own server.

You can revoke this permission at any time in iOS Settings under "Privacy & Security → Location Services → outdoor IQ". You can also use the app without sharing your location by entering a place name manually.

Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (performance of the contract).

4. Weather data

Depending on your location, the app uses one of two weather services. Sunrise and sunset times are computed locally on your device (NOAA algorithm) — no data transmission for those.

Locations in Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands: Bright Sky / German Weather Service

API provider: Bright Sky (open-source project, brightsky.dev) – provides open data from the DWD (German Weather Service)
Data source: Deutscher Wetterdienst, Frankfurter Straße 135, 63067 Offenbach am Main, Germany
Data transmitted: geographic coordinates
Bright Sky: brightsky.dev
DWD terms of use: www.dwd.de

All other locations: WeatherAPI.com via outdooriq.de proxy

For all other countries (including Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein – for better accuracy in mountain regions), the app calls a proxy endpoint on our server outdooriq.de, which in turn forwards a request to WeatherAPI.com. Reason: this keeps the API key server-side instead of exposed in the app code.

Recipient: outdooriq.de (Manuel Bucher) – see Controller above
Forwarded to: Weather API, Inc., USA
Data transmitted: geographic coordinates (rounded to 3 decimal places, ~100 m accuracy)
Server cache: responses are cached on outdooriq.de per coordinate point for a maximum of 10 minutes, then discarded
Third-country transfer: WeatherAPI.com processes requests in the USA. Transfer is based on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses
WeatherAPI privacy policy: www.weatherapi.com/privacy

Legal basis for both weather services: Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (performance of the contract — without weather data the app cannot fulfill its purpose).

5. Address search – Photon (Komoot)

For address autocomplete and reverse geocoding (when using GPS), the app uses the geocoding service Photon by Komoot GmbH:

Provider: Komoot GmbH, Karlsruher Straße 9, 14542 Werder (Havel), Germany
Data transmitted: your search term or GPS coordinates
Privacy policy: www.komoot.com/privacy

Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (performance of the contract).

6. What the app does NOT do

For transparency: the app explicitly contains none of the following:

No user account, no login
No cloud sync, no server database
No analytics, no tracking (no Google Analytics, no Firebase, no Mixpanel)
No crash reporting to third parties
No ads, no in-app purchases
No affiliate links
No access to contacts, photos, calendar or other personal data
No push notifications (in the current version)

7. Your rights as a data subject

Under the GDPR, you have, among others, the right to:

Access (Art. 15 GDPR) to the data stored about you
Rectification (Art. 16 GDPR) of incorrect data
Erasure (Art. 17 GDPR) of your data
Restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
Data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)
Object (Art. 21 GDPR) to processing

Since we don't store any personal data on our servers, you can effectively delete your data at any time by uninstalling the app or resetting the settings within the app. For any inquiries, please contact us at info@outdooriq.de.

8. Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority about our processing of your personal data. The authority responsible for us is:

Der Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit Baden-Württemberg
Lautenschlagerstraße 20
70173 Stuttgart, Germany
www.baden-wuerttemberg.datenschutz.de

9. Changes to this policy

We will update this app privacy policy whenever the data processing in the app changes. The current effective date is shown below.