The short version: no accounts, no ads, no analytics, no tracking, and no profile of you. Everything below is the detail behind that sentence.
“Can I ride” answers one question for a US ZIP code: can I ride my bike, now? It gives one word — Ride, Maybe, or Don’t — the reason, the best hour today, when conditions get better or worse, an 18-hour outlook, a 7-day outlook, and how far off day-ahead, 3-day, and 7-day forecasts have been for that city, in degrees Fahrenheit. Everything is Fahrenheit and miles per hour. It is a weather and conditions app: not medical, not safety, not emergency, and not navigation.
No account, no sign-in, no profile. Nothing about you is stored by us.
The ZIP code you type is used to fetch a forecast for that place, and the answer is sent back to your device. We do not tie it to you: there is no account or cookie. Like most web servers, ours writes a routine request log (the address requested, which includes the ZIP code, and your IP address), and we keep a per-ZIP count and time of forecast lookups to run the service. We do not sell or share any of it.
If you tap “Use my location”, your device’s location is used once, only to turn that point into a ZIP code. It is rounded to about 100 metres before it leaves your device (on the web now, and in the iPhone app from its next release), and our server asks OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim service which ZIP code that point is in. We do not store your location; to avoid asking Nominatim twice, the server keeps the answer for a roughly 1 km square in memory for up to a day, with nothing that identifies you. If you type a ZIP code instead, your location is never used at all.
Forecast data comes from public forecast services, requested over HTTPS.
There are no ads, no analytics, no tracking, and no in-app purchase. We do not use advertising identifiers.
Because there is no account, there is no profile of you for us to delete.
Weather and conditions only. Not a medical, safety, emergency, or navigation product.
If you tap “Remind me at the best hour”, the app schedules one local notification on your own device. Nothing is sent to us or to anyone else to make that happen. You can turn it off in iOS Settings at any time.
Your last few answers, your last few ZIP codes, and your Quick/Deep choice are saved on your device (in the app, or in your browser’s storage on the web) so they can be shown when you have no connection. That copy stays on your device; older answers are replaced by newer ones. Deleting the app, or clearing this site’s data in your browser, removes it.
The app has no accounts, no ads, no user-generated content, and no way to contact other people. Nothing in it is aimed at children, and nothing in it requires knowing who is using it. As described above, the only information the app handles is the ZIP code you type or the one-time location you allow, used to fetch a forecast.
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new date at the top. Continuing to use the app after a change means the new version applies.
Questions about privacy: robert@caniridemybike.com.