Pegs Out privacy policy
Version 1.0 | Effective: 17 June 2026
In short: Pegs Out keeps your data on your phone. There are no accounts, no tracking, no ads and no server. The only thing that leaves your phone is the location needed to fetch your weather forecast.
Who are we?
Pegs Out is made by Phil Morton, an independent developer based in the United Kingdom.
If you have any questions about this policy or your privacy, email us at philip.morton@gmail.com.
What does Pegs Out collect?
Nothing about you. There is no account and no sign-in, so we never ask for your name, your email address or any other personal details.
To be completely clear, Pegs Out does not:
- track you, anywhere, ever;
- show ads or work with advertisers;
- use analytics or any usage-tracking tools;
- run a server that holds your data;
- sell or share your data with anyone for marketing.
Where does your location go?
Pegs Out needs to know where your washing line is so it can fetch the right weather forecast. iOS handles your location on your device. To turn that into a forecast, two things happen, both over a secure (HTTPS) connection and both in real time:
- The weather forecast, from Open-Meteo. We send your coordinates to Open-Meteo, a free, non-commercial weather service run as an open-data project in Germany. We send no name, no account and no device identifier. Because the request travels over the internet, Open-Meteo can also see your device's IP address. Open-Meteo's own terms say it may keep request logs (which can include the coordinates and the IP address) for up to 90 days for technical reasons, and that these are not linked to your identity.
- Place names, from Apple. When you search for a place by name, or ask Pegs Out to use your current location, iOS sends that search text or those coordinates to Apple's location services to look up a place name. This is handled by Apple, under Apple's own privacy policy.
| Who | Why | What we send |
|---|---|---|
| Open-Meteo | Your weather forecast | Coordinates and (unavoidably) your IP address |
| Apple | Place-name lookup | Coordinates, or the place name you type |
We keep none of this off your phone. If a future version of the app refreshes your forecast in the background, the same applies.
Weather data is provided by Open-Meteo.com under the CC BY 4.0 licence.
What stays on your phone?
Everything else stays on your device and never leaves it:
- the location you choose;
- your washing-line and laundry settings (sun, shelter, fabric and so on);
- the cached 10-day forecast.
All of it lives on your phone and is deleted when you delete the app.
Your rights
Because we hold no personal data about you, there is nothing for us to look up, change or delete. If you have any question about your privacy, email us at philip.morton@gmail.com. If you live in the UK and are unhappy with how we have handled a privacy matter, you can contact the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we will update the version number and the date at the top and publish the new version here. Previous versions are kept in our source history.
Contact us
Questions about this policy or your privacy? Email us at philip.morton@gmail.com.