Effective 17 September 2026
WeatherVault is published by Petar Petkov, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This policy explains what the app does with information. Questions: hello@petarpetkov.com.
In short
This app has no account and no server of its own. Your photos, videos and files are encrypted on this iPhone with a key your app code unwraps, and nothing here uploads them anywhere except the iCloud backup you turn on yourself, which is encrypted before it leaves the iPhone.
Buying Pro goes through the App Store. The App Store tells this app which products this Apple Account holds, when a subscription runs to and whether it is renewing — and nothing else. It is never told anything about your library: not what is in it, not how much of it there is, not that it exists.
Weather asks Apple Weather for the forecast of the places in your list, and Apple Maps for the cities you search for. They are sent a place, or what you typed — never anything about your library. Your location is used only when you tap Use My Location.
Nothing in this app is measured, tracked or reported. There is no analytics, no advertising and no third-party code that could carry either.
On your iPhone
The photos, videos and files you add are kept on your iPhone, encrypted, and so are their names, dates and albums. What a photo carries inside it, such as when and where it was taken, stays inside that encryption, and WeatherVault sends it nowhere.
The library's key is kept in your iPhone's Keychain, wrapped by your app code, and a second copy is wrapped by your recovery kit. Face ID and Touch ID are handled by iOS; WeatherVault never sees your face or fingerprint.
Your recovery kit is kept inside your library, encrypted, so that it can be shown again after you type your app code. Copying it puts it on this iPhone's clipboard only, and it clears after two minutes.
A few settings are kept the way any app keeps its settings, without encryption: how soon the library locks, whether screenshots are warned about, whether Face ID or Touch ID is on, how many wrong codes have been typed and when the wait after them ends, and Weather's cities and units.
What leaves your iPhone
- iCloud backup, only if you turn it on. Only files this library has already encrypted go to iCloud. Your Apple Account doesn't open them, and neither does anyone at Apple: this library and its recovery kit do. The backup also holds the library's key wrapped by your recovery kit, so that the kit can open the backup on a new iPhone. Apple keeps the backup in your iCloud account's private storage for WeatherVault, and can see how many files there are, how large they are and when they were sent.
- A Portable Archive, only when you make one. The archive is handed to you to keep — save it to Files, a computer, or a drive. This app does not send it anywhere and keeps no copy of it.
- What you share or save. A copy you share, or save to Photos or Files, leaves the library unencrypted and goes only where you send it.
- Weather, only when you open it. The places in your list go to Apple Weather for their forecasts, and what you type in city search goes to Apple Maps. When you tap Use My Location, your iPhone's location is used to ask for the forecast and the name of the place.
- Purchases, only through the App Store, as described above.
- Support, only if you email us. We receive your message, anything you attach and your email address, and use them only to answer you. We do not add you to a mailing list. To have a support conversation deleted, email hello@petarpetkov.com.
- Apple's reports. If you have chosen in your iPhone's settings to share analytics with app developers, Apple may pass us crash reports and usage figures, as it does for every app.
What we don't do
We run no server for WeatherVault and hold no copy of your library, your app code or your recovery kit. We don't sell personal information, share it for advertising, or track you across apps and websites.
Deleting
Your library is on your iPhone, and its backup is in your iCloud; you delete them there.
An item you delete for good stays in iCloud until a newer backup without it is checked, and is then removed from every backup this app keeps there. A Portable Archive made before still holds it, and restoring that archive can bring it back.
You can delete WeatherVault's data from iCloud in your iPhone's Settings, under your iCloud storage.
Children
WeatherVault is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version is posted at this address with a new effective date.
Contact
Questions about privacy: hello@petarpetkov.com.