Privacy Policy
Cloudspotter
The short version: Cloudspotter runs entirely on your phone. There's no account, no ads and no internet use, and your spotted log, notes, quiz scores and settings never leave the device.
Who publishes the app
Cloudspotter comes from AMANDA KATE SINGER PTY LTD, trading as PixelMeadow Digital, 44 Warranqite Cres, Hastings VIC 3915, Australia. The director is Helen Hodges. We follow the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles when handling personal information. Email us at skywards@amandakatesinger.shop.
Information held on your phone
- The clouds you've marked as spotted, with the date and anything you type in the note or place field.
- How far through the guide you are, and your best score in the identify quiz.
- Preferences such as the accent colour and how much drift the animations have.
All of it lives in the app's own storage on the device. There is no account to attach it to and no server to send it to, so we never see it. Should you have Android's backup feature enabled, Google may copy this app data into your device backup under your own Google account, which is governed by Google's terms rather than ours.
Things the app never does
Cloudspotter contains no analytics library, no advertising library and no tracking of any kind. It asks for no runtime permissions: no location, no camera, no microphone, no contacts, no file access. Any place you record in your log is a place you typed yourself, not one the phone worked out. The app makes no network requests.
Google Play's part
The app reaches you through Google Play, which operates under Google's own privacy policy. Where you have opted into sharing usage and diagnostics with Google, we may receive aggregated, non-identifying crash and performance reports in the Play Console, which we read only to repair faults.
Younger users
Cloud spotting suits all ages and the app is safe for children to use, since it gathers no personal information from any user. Nothing in it invites a child to type identifying details, and we'd suggest keeping log notes to place names rather than addresses.
The sky is a hint, not a forecast
The "what this sky means" notes are friendly general guidance, written to help you read a sky, and they are not a weather forecast or a safety service. Never plan a hike, a flight, a paddle or a day on the water on the strength of them: in Australia, use the Bureau of Meteorology at bom.gov.au and its official warnings. Treat thunderstorms, dust and smoke haze with respect, and move indoors when a storm approaches rather than staying out to watch the cloud. While you're looking up, keep the sun itself blocked by a roof, a tree or your hand: never stare at it, and never look near it through binoculars, a telescope or a camera viewfinder, because eye damage is quick and painless. In an emergency in Australia, call 000.
Email you send us
An email brings us your address, your message, and any sky or location details you decide to mention. We read it, reply, and use what's useful to correct the guide. Correspondence is deleted within 12 months of our final reply, unless a law obliges us to hold it longer.
Access and complaints
You may ask what personal information we hold about you and ask us to correct it, though in practice that can only be an email you have sent us. Raise any concern with us first and we'll answer within 30 days. If our answer doesn't satisfy you, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner takes complaints at oaic.gov.au or on 1300 363 992.
Clearing what's stored
Android Settings, then Apps, then Cloudspotter, then Storage, then Clear data wipes the log, the scores and the preferences in one step. Uninstalling has the same effect.
Updates to this policy
Any release that changes how the app handles information will be accompanied by a revised version of this page, with a new effective date, published before that release goes live.
Contact
AMANDA KATE SINGER PTY LTD (PixelMeadow Digital)
44 Warranqite Cres, Hastings VIC 3915, Australia
skywards@amandakatesinger.shop