Privacy Policy — AvClock
Last updated: October 16, 2026
This policy explains what information the AvClock app (for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch, including its widgets) and the avclockapp.com website handle, and what happens to it. AvClock is run by an independent developer operating as AvClock ("we," "us").
The short version: the App has no accounts, no analytics, and no advertising, and it never sends your personal information to us. The website keeps simple, anonymous visit counts. If you email us, we receive your email. We do not sell or share personal information, and we never use it for advertising.
Information we collect
Through the App: none, on our end. The App does not transmit any personal or device information to us. It has no user accounts, analytics, crash reporting, or advertising. Location is processed only on your device (see Location, below) and is never sent to us or to anyone else, including in the Home Screen widgets.
Through the website: anonymous, aggregate visit counts, described under "This website" below.
When you contact us: whatever you choose to include in your email, described under "Email and support" below.
Location
If you allow location access, the app uses your location only on your device to find nearby airports and show your local time — this includes the Home Screen widgets, which read your location on-device the same way. It is never sent to us or to anyone else. You can deny or revoke location access at any time in iOS Settings; the rest of the app keeps working.
Weather data
When you view weather for an airport, the app requests publicly available aviation weather (METAR/TAF) from NOAA. The only information sent is the airport's public identifier code: no personal or device information, and that request is never associated with a user profile or stored by us; NOAA's own privacy practices govern the data they receive.
Local weather (WeatherKit)
The app also shows general, plain-language weather conditions using Apple's WeatherKit. This sends the airport's public coordinates (not your personal location) to Apple to retrieve conditions. WeatherKit's handling of this request is governed by Apple's own privacy policy.
Airport status data
When you view an airport's status, the app fetches the FAA's public National Airspace System status feed. This request is not airport-specific: no airport code or other information about you is sent. Airport amenity information is bundled with the app / cached on-device and involves no network request at all.
My Flights
My Flights lets you manually enter your own flight information (airline, flight number, airports, date and time, notes). This is entirely local: stored only on your device, never transmitted to us or anyone else. It is not live flight tracking. If you choose to add a flight to your calendar, the app requests calendar access and creates an event using Apple's EventKit framework; this only happens for flights you explicitly choose to add, and calendar access is governed by iOS's own permission system, which you can revoke at any time in Settings.
On-device features
Spotlight search results for airports, the departure countdown on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, widgets, and your saved airports and settings are created and stored on your device by iOS and macOS. Your saved airports and settings may be included in your own device or iCloud backups, which Apple handles under its own privacy policy. None of this is sent to us.
Currency converter
The optional currency converter requests exchange-rate data from Frankfurter, which sources rates from the European Central Bank. No personal or device information is sent: only the currency codes needed for the conversion. These rates are published for informational purposes and are not intended for use in actual currency transactions.
Third-party links
The app may link to third-party websites and apps (for example, an independent TSA wait-time estimator, or Uber and Lyft for ride requests) that open in your device's browser or in those apps directly, after you confirm where applicable. We do not control these destinations, and once you leave the app, your interaction with them is governed by their own privacy policy, not this one.
Purchases
AvClock Premium is a one-time in-app purchase processed by Apple. All payment processing is handled by Apple; the app never sees or stores your payment details.
Offer codes
If you redeem an offer code, such as a military or student discount, Apple handles the redemption and tells the App only that Premium is unlocked. We can see aggregate counts of how many times each code has been redeemed in App Store Connect, but not who redeemed it.
This website
avclockapp.com keeps simple, anonymous visit counts so we can see which pages are useful. For each event, it stores only a running total and the time it last happened, grouped by:
- the page viewed, and whether it was scrolled to the end
- the referring website's domain (for example google.com), or "direct"
- the domain of an outside link that was clicked, and, for App Store discount-code links, the app and code (for example avclock/MILITARY)
- clicks on the share button and uses of the interactive demos
The site uses no cookies, no advertising or third-party analytics, and no fingerprinting, and it does not store your IP address, browser details, or anything else that identifies you or links one visit to another. Requests from obvious automated crawlers are ignored. The site is hosted by Cloudflare, which processes connection data such as IP addresses to deliver pages and protect the site from abuse, under Cloudflare's privacy policy. Third-party sites you reach from links on this site, including referral links, have their own privacy policies.
Email and support
If you email us, we receive your email address and whatever you write, and we use it only to reply, help you, and improve the App. We don't add you to any mailing list, and we don't share your email with anyone except as the law requires. We keep messages only as long as they're useful for that purpose, and you can ask us to delete them at any time. Our email is provided by Proton, which handles it under its own privacy policy.
Your rights
Because the App sends us nothing, there is no App data on our side to access, correct, or delete; everything it stores is on your own device, and deleting the App deletes it. The website's counts are anonymous and can't be tied to you. For anything else we hold, which is only email you've sent us, you can ask us to access, correct, delete, or stop using it, or to give you a copy, by emailing avclock@protonmail.com. We won't treat you differently for asking.
Legal bases (EU and UK). Where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies, we keep website counts on the basis of our legitimate interest in understanding which pages are useful, in a way designed not to identify anyone, and we handle email on the basis of our legitimate interest in answering you. You can object at any time, and you can complain to your local data-protection authority.
U.S. state privacy laws. We do not sell personal information, share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, or use it for profiling or targeted advertising, and we do not knowingly collect sensitive personal information. Because we don't track visitors across sites, there is nothing for a Global Privacy Control signal to switch off, but we treat it as a valid opt-out request all the same.
Where information is processed
We operate from the United States. Website requests and email are handled by Cloudflare and Proton, which may process data in the United States and other countries under their own safeguards.
Security
We keep what we hold to a minimum, which is the best protection there is. We use reputable providers and reasonable safeguards, but no method of transmission or storage is completely secure.
Children
The App and website are not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children under 13. If you believe a child has emailed us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll post the updated version here with a new "Last updated" date. If a change is material, for example if the App ever began sending information to us, we'll describe it clearly here and in the App's release notes before it takes effect.
Contact
Questions or requests about privacy: avclock@protonmail.com.