Cloudbreak Weather — Privacy policy

Last updated June 20, 2026

Stone Mesa Studio, LLC does not collect, sell, or track your data, and Cloudbreak Weather has no ads, no analytics, and no account. Because it is a weather app, it does send the location you are viewing to public weather and fire-data providers to fetch a forecast1 — never your name or any identifier. Two of those requests pass through a small relay we run2 so an access key doesn't ship inside the app, and your settings and any personal-station keys stay on your device3. Each is detailed below, with how to limit or switch it off.

The promise, in plain terms No data collection, no advertising, no analytics, no third-party tracking, no account, and no selling or sharing of your information — ever. The only thing that leaves your device is the location you ask about, sent to the providers below to answer your request. We store none of it.

Location

Cloudbreak uses your location to show weather for where you are. To return a forecast, your coordinates are sent to the weather and fire-data providers listed below. This happens in real time to fulfill your request — your location is not stored by us, is not tied to your name or any account, and is never used to build a profile of you. Turn it off: deny location permission and enter locations manually instead; the app works either way.

Weather, map & fire-data providers

To produce forecasts, maps, conditions, and fire-weather information, Cloudbreak requests data from third-party sources, sending only the location or map area you are viewing:

Open-Meteo — forecast, cloud-cover, air-quality, and historical climate data
National Weather Service / NOAA — forecasts, current conditions, and alerts
Iowa State University (Iowa Environmental Mesonet) — NEXRAD radar imagery
NASA GIBS / Earthdata — satellite imagery
NASA FIRMS — active-fire detections
NOAA Hazard Mapping System — smoke-plume data
NIFC (National Interagency Fire Center) — wildfire-incident information
AirNow / EPA — air-quality data
Apple Maps — place search and place names, when you search for or open a location

The smoke and wildfire-incident layers are delivered through Esri ArcGIS hosting on behalf of NOAA and NIFC. Each provider handles requests under its own privacy policy. We share nothing with any of them beyond the location coordinates or map area needed to answer your request — never your name, an account, or a device identifier. Turn it off: the fire, smoke, satellite, and radar layers are optional map layers you can leave off.

How requests are routed

Most of the sources above are contacted directly from your device. Two of them — AirNow (air quality) and NASA FIRMS (active fire) — require an access key, so those requests pass through a small relay we run on Cloudflare (api.stonemesastudio.com).2 The relay adds the key, so it never ships inside the app, and forwards only your coordinates or the map area. It does not log your location, does not tie requests to you, and stores none of your data.

Personal weather stations

If you connect your own weather station, the API key or credentials you enter are stored on your device and are used only to contact the provider you chose — Ambient Weather, Tempest, Davis, Netatmo, or PWSWeather. They are kept on your device (shared only with the Cloudbreak widgets and Apple Watch app so those can show your readings) and are never sent to us. Turn it off: this is optional — don't add a station, or remove one at any time.

Notifications

If you opt in to weather or fire-weather alerts, Cloudbreak schedules them as local notifications on your device, computed on-device from forecast data. There is no push server, and we receive nothing. Turn it off: disable alerts in the app, or Cloudbreak's notifications in iOS Settings.

Preferences

Your saved locations and settings are stored on your device. Cloudbreak has no accounts, no advertising, no analytics, and no third-party tracking.

No third parties

Beyond the public data providers above (which receive only a location), Cloudbreak contains no advertising, no analytics, no crash-reporting, and no third-party tracking software, and no third-party code libraries that send your data anywhere.

Notes

Location sent to providers. A weather app has to send somewhere to get a forecast. Cloudbreak sends only the coordinates or map area you are viewing to the public providers listed above, in real time, to answer your request — it is not stored and not tied to you. You can avoid GPS entirely by entering locations by name, and leave optional map layers off. ↩
The relay we run. AirNow and NASA FIRMS require an access key, so those two requests go through a small Cloudflare relay at api.stonemesastudio.com. It adds the key (so it isn't embedded in the public app), forwards only your coordinates or map area, logs nothing, ties nothing to you, and stores no data. ↩
Apple frameworks & your own keys. Location is Apple's CoreLocation and place search is Apple Maps — both run under iOS permissions you control. Any personal weather-station key you add is stored on your device, shared only with the Cloudbreak widgets and Apple Watch app, and sent only to that provider — never to us. ↩

Children's privacy

Cloudbreak is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect any personal information from anyone.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we will update the date at the top of this page and post the revised version here.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email us.