Veer Privacy Policy

Last updated: 26 October 2026

Veer is a weather app published by Clearpoint Studios. It is free, has no accounts, no ads and no analytics. This policy lists what leaves your phone so Veer can show the weather, and what stays on it.

Contact: [email protected]

The short version

To fetch a forecast, Veer sends the coordinates of the place you are looking at, rounded to about 1 km. Place search sends the name you typed. Both go through a small relay we run on Cloudflare to the free weather service Open-Meteo, and for places in Indonesia the coordinates also go to BMKG, Indonesia's weather service. No account, name, device identifier or advertising identifier goes with them. Only if you write to us under More, Help and feedback, your message goes to our support server. Everything else stays on your phone.

What stays on your device

• Your saved places and their order
• Your settings: units, time format, language, which place opens first
• The last forecast and air quality reading for each place, with the time it was fetched

Uninstalling Veer or clearing its data removes all of it. Removing a place in the app removes its stored forecast too.

Location

Veer asks for location only while the app is open. From Android 12 on it asks for approximate location only. On older Android versions it asks for precise location, because there the approximate permission finds no position once only GPS is on; the position still leaves the phone rounded as described below. It never reads your position in the background. If you deny the permission, you can search for cities instead and the app works the same way. Your position is used to pick the place to show and to fetch its weather. It is rounded to about 1 km before it leaves the phone. To show the name of the town you are in, Veer asks your phone's own location service for it with that same rounded position; on most Android phones that service is run by Google.

Weather and place search

Forecasts, air quality and place search go to veer-weather, a relay Clearpoint Studios runs on Cloudflare Workers, which forwards them to Open-Meteo. The relay only passes on the fields a forecast needs, rounds coordinates to two decimal places, and keeps recent answers in Cloudflare's edge cache so the same 1 km cell is not fetched twice within a few minutes. Request logging is switched off on the relay. Open-Meteo receives the rounded coordinates or the search text from the relay, never your IP address. Its policy: open-meteo.com/en/terms.

For a place in Indonesia, the relay also asks BMKG (Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi, dan Geofisika), Indonesia's weather service, for its forecast. BMKG receives the same rounded coordinates from the relay, never your IP address, and nothing else. Places outside Indonesia are never sent to BMKG.

Home screen widgets

While at least one Veer widget is on your home screen, Veer fetches the forecast for the widget's place about once an hour, also when the app is closed, and only when the phone is online. It sends the same rounded coordinates through the same relay as the app. For the place you are at, it uses the last position the app read while it was open: Veer never reads your location in the background. When you remove the last widget, the hourly fetch stops.

Radar and maps

The radar tab loads radar images from RainViewer and map tiles from Esri. Like any map, these servers see your IP address and which map tiles your phone asks for, which reveals the area you are looking at. Nothing else is sent to them. The requests stop when you leave the radar tab.

Other apps from the studio

The More tab lists other Clearpoint Studios apps. To show which of them are already on Google Play, Veer checks their store pages with a plain request to play.google.com that carries no data about you.

Help and feedback, only if you write to us

Under More, Help and feedback you can write to us and read our replies. Until you open that page, nothing in this section happens, and nothing is sent until you tap Send.

When you open it, Veer signs in to our Supabase backend with a random anonymous identifier. There is no email, no name and no password. When you send a message, we store:

• The anonymous identifier
• Your message and our replies
• The app version, the Android version, the phone model and the app language, so we can reproduce a problem

Your location is never part of it. Messages are translated automatically on our server (Google Gemini), so we can read your message and answer in your language. The start of a new message is also sent once as a notification through Google Firebase Cloud Messaging to our own support app, so we see it in time. Nobody else can read your messages, and other people who use Veer cannot see or contact you. Once you have written to us, Veer reconnects to the support server when it starts, so a reply shows up as a number next to Help and feedback.

Where the GDPR applies, support messages are processed on the basis of your consent, given by writing to us, and to answer your request. Our Supabase project runs in the European Union (Frankfurt); the translation and the notification service run on Google infrastructure in the European Union and the United States. Where data reaches the United States, the transfer is covered by Google's standard contractual clauses.

Permissions

• Approximate location: showing the weather where you are, only while the app is open.
• Internet: forecasts, air quality, place search, radar, maps and the support chat.
• Run in the background, network state, start at boot: part of Android's job scheduler, used only to keep home screen widgets current while one is placed.

Data retention

• Saved places, settings and cached forecasts on your phone: kept until you remove them in the app, clear the app's data or uninstall Veer.
• Rounded coordinates in the relay's edge cache: a cached forecast or air quality answer for a 1 km cell is kept for at most 6 hours, then discarded. It holds no identifier and cannot be linked to a person.
• Search text in the relay's edge cache: a cached search answer is kept for at most 7 days, then discarded. It holds no identifier.
• Server logs: the relay keeps none.
• Support messages, with app version, Android version, phone model and language: kept while the conversation is open. Closed conversations are deleted no later than 12 months after the last message, or within 30 days of an email request.
• Anonymous support identifier: kept while it has conversations, and deleted together with them. On the phone it is discarded when you uninstall Veer or clear its data.
• Support notification: deleted together with the conversation.
• Emails you send us: kept while the conversation is open and deleted no later than 12 months after the last message, or earlier on request.
• Server backups: the support database has backups for disaster recovery only, overwritten within 30 days, so deleted data disappears from them within that window. The weather relay has none.

Veer has no accounts. If you never wrote to us, nothing about you is stored on a server. How to have your support messages deleted, with or without the app, is described at veer.clearpointstudios.at/delete. Uninstalling the app deletes everything it kept on your phone.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask us for access, correction, deletion, restriction and portability, and you can object to processing. Write to [email protected]. You can complain to your local data protection authority.

Children

Veer is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it.

Contact

Clearpoint Studios, Vienna, Austria
[email protected]