The short version
- Lune needs your location to tell you the weather where you are. That is the only personal information it uses.
- Lune has no accounts, no ads, no analytics and no tracking. We don't run a server for it, so we never receive your data.
- Everything you tell Lune stays on your iPhone or iPad. That includes your answers to its first questions, the cities you save, and when you leave the house.
- To fetch the forecast, name your town and find the cities you search for, Lune has to ask three outside services. Each one gets only what it needs to answer, as explained below.
Who this policy is from
Lune is made by Nordbox, based in Beirut, Lebanon. If you have any question about this policy or your information, write to [hello@nordbox.co](mailto:hello@nordbox.co).
What Lune uses, and why
Your location
Lune asks for your location so it can show the weather where you are. It only asks for it while you're using the app. Lune never follows you in the background.
When it has your position, Lune uses it in three ways:
- To fetch the forecast. Your position is sent to Apple's weather service (Apple Weather, also called WeatherKit). Apple returns the forecast for that spot.
- To name your town. Your position is sent to OpenStreetMap's place-name service (Nominatim), rounded to about 100 metres. OpenStreetMap knows small towns better than most maps, so "Zouk Mosbeh" shows up instead of "Mount Lebanon".
- As a backup, and to find your time zone. Your position is also sent to Apple's place-name service, in case OpenStreetMap doesn't answer. Apple's service also gives Lune your local time zone.
You can say no to location. Lune will still work: you pick a city by name instead.
Cities you search for
When you type a city name into Lune's search, the text you type is sent to Photon, a place-search service built on OpenStreetMap data and run by komoot. When you save a city, its position is sent to Apple's place-name service to find its time zone.
Your answers to the first questions
When you first open Lune, it asks a few questions. They cover your favourite season, whether you're usually hot or cold, how you get around, how you feel about rain, when you'd like a heads-up, and what you have at home to stay comfortable. Lune uses the answers to choose its words and its advice.
These answers never leave your device. They aren't sent to us or to anyone else.
Weather notifications
If you ask Lune for a heads-up, the notifications are written and scheduled on your device. A few times a day, iOS may let Lune wake briefly to refresh them from a newer forecast. When it does, Lune uses the last place it saw while you had the app open, not your current position.
Subscriptions
Payments are handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. We never see your name, your Apple Account, or your payment details. Apple tells Lune only whether a subscription is active, so the app knows what to show. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings.
What stays on your device
Lune keeps a few things on your iPhone or iPad so it works well. None of them are sent to us.
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Your answers to the first questions | To choose words and advice that fit you |
| The cities you saved, and which one you picked | So you don't have to search again |
| The last place Lune showed | To show the weather quickly, and to refresh notifications |
| The latest forecast, kept for about two hours | So the app opens instantly, even with a weak signal |
| Which sentences Lune said recently | So it doesn't repeat itself |
| Your temperature unit (°C or °F) | Your preference |
| A small counter of how often the weather has been shown | To manage access to the subscription |
Deleting Lune removes everything in this list except the counter. iOS keeps the counter in its secure storage, the Keychain, even after an app is deleted. It holds only a number and a date, with nothing that identifies you, and it never leaves your device.
The outside services Lune talks to
Lune sends each service only what it needs to answer. Like any service on the internet, each one also sees your device's IP address when Lune connects, which may show your approximate area. Lune doesn't send your name, email, answers, or any identifier of ours.
| Service | What it receives | What for | Its privacy policy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple (Weather) | Your position, or the city you picked | The forecast | apple.com/ |
| Apple (place names) | Your position, or a saved city's position | Time zone, and a backup place name | apple.com/ |
| OpenStreetMap (Nominatim) | Your position, rounded to about 100 metres | The name of your town | osmfoundation.org/ |
| komoot (Photon) | The text you type in city search | Finding cities | komoot.com/ |
Lune also fetches today's weather for a few well-known cities, such as Dubai, to compare an unusual day with them. That request contains nothing about you.
What we never do
- We never sell or rent your information.
- We never use your information for advertising, and Lune shows no ads.
- We never track you across other apps or websites.
- We never build a profile of you, on our side or anyone else's.
- We don't use analytics or crash-reporting services inside Lune.
- We don't send your data to any artificial intelligence service. Every sentence Lune writes is put together on your device.
Permissions Lune may ask for
- Location, while using the app. To show the weather where you are. You can change this any time in Settings ▸ Privacy & Security ▸ Location Services ▸ Lune.
- Notifications. Only if you ask for a heads-up. You can change this in Settings ▸ Notifications ▸ Lune.
Lune never asks for your contacts, photos, camera, microphone, health data or anything else.
Children
Lune is a general weather app and isn't aimed at children. It collects no information from anyone that would let us know who they are, whatever their age.
Your rights
Wherever you live, you have the right to know what information is held about you, to have it corrected or deleted, and to object to how it's used. The laws that give you these rights include the GDPR in Europe and similar laws elsewhere.
We don't keep any of your information, so there's nothing on our side to show, correct or delete. Everything Lune keeps is on your own device, and you can remove it by deleting the app. For the outside services listed above, their own privacy policies explain how to reach them.
If you have a question, or think something here isn't right, write to [hello@nordbox.co](mailto:hello@nordbox.co). We'll answer.
Changes to this policy
If Lune starts using information in a new way, we'll update this page and change the date at the top before that version of the app is released. We'll never start using information you've already given in a new way without asking you first.
Contact
Nordbox
Beirut, Lebanon
[hello@nordbox.co](mailto:hello@nordbox.co)