Privacy

Solarpunk is made by Imaginists Limited, which is responsible for your data. Please visit solarpunk.inc to contact us or email hello@solarpunk.inc.

In short: your exact position never leaves your phone, and neither do your skin type and sunscreen settings. There are no accounts, no advertising and no tracking.

What leaves your phone

• Forecasts. The app sends the centre of the 2 km square of each place you look at. Our service keeps forecasts by square, never who asked. It gets the weather for that square from Open-Meteo, which never sees your phone.
• Daily alerts. While an alert is on, the service keeps your phone's notification address with the square, the place's name and the time and days you chose, and Apple delivers the alert. It also keeps a count of the alerts it has sent you, and whether the widget is on your Home Screen and whether you have opened our survey, so that it can suggest each of them once. An alert is deleted when you switch it off, when Apple tells us the app has gone from your phone, or after six months without the app checking in.
• How you use the app. Once a day the app sends a tally of the day before: how many times it was opened, how many of those were from an alert, which "i" buttons were tapped, whether an alert is on, and how many places you keep. It is added to that day's totals for everyone, with nothing about whose phone it came from. You can switch it off in Settings ("Share how I use the app").
• Popular places. So we can tell where our users are, the service counts how many phones keep each place as Home or saved, by its 2 km square and the place's own name. It never knows whose and you can opt out in Settings.
• Search and maps. What you type to find a place, and the area a map shows, go to Apple, which runs the search and the maps. So does a square's centre when the app has no name of its own for it.
• Crash reports. If you share analytics with app developers in your iPhone's settings, Apple sends us crash reports, which we use to fix faults.
• Your internet address reaches Cloudflare with each request, as with any website. Our service uses it only to limit how often one phone can ask, for about a minute, and never keeps it.

We don't sell your data or share it with anyone else, and don't have much to share anyway! We don't carry advertising and don't plan to.

The website

Our pages set no cookies, and there are no analytics or advertising cookies. The contact form uses Cloudflare Turnstile to stop spam: it checks your browser and may set cookies that Cloudflare describes as strictly necessary.

If you write to us through the form, your name, email address and message come to us by email. Cloudflare keeps a copy for about seven days, and we keep ours only as long as we need it to answer you.

The survey. If you take our survey, your answers are kept in our database and emailed to us. With them come the age range and gender you choose to give, and, when you open it from the app, the app's version, your iPhone's model and iOS version, and your Home's 2 km square and its name, which the page shows above Send. We never ask for your name or email address. We keep answers for up to two years and use them only to improve the app.

The game. If you save a score in our Factor 50 game, the name you type and your score are kept and shown on the leaderboard to everyone who plays, in the app and on the website. Names go through an automatic filter, anyone can report a name from the board, and we remove any that should not be there. Only the top 100 scores are kept.

Who handles it

• Cloudflare runs our service and website, and sends the form's emails.
• Apple delivers the alerts, runs the search and maps, and passes on crash reports.
• Google receives our email.

Cloudflare and Google handle your data for us under contracts with us; Apple under its own privacy policy. Some of it is processed outside the UK: Cloudflare and Google are certified under the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, and Apple uses standard contractual clauses.

Why we may use it

Forecasts, counting places and how the app is used, crash reports, answering your messages and limiting requests are our legitimate interests: a forecast that works, choosing which places get their own pictures, improving the app, fixing faults and replying to you. Alerts rest on your consent, which you withdraw by switching them off. So do the survey and the game's leaderboard: you choose to send your answers or save your score, and you can ask us to delete either.

You don't have to give us any of this: you can type a place instead of sharing your location, switch the counts off, and leave alerts off.

Your rights

You can object to our using your data, and ask us to stop.

You can also ask us for a copy of your data, or to correct, delete, restrict or move it. Email us and we will reply within a month. We make no automated decisions about you.

You can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.

Changes

We will update this page if anything changes. Last updated 21 October 2026.