BlameNino Privacy Policy
Effective date: June 22, 2026
BlameNino is a weather and climate app that shows local forecasts, precipitation, drought, radar, tropical activity, and severe weather information. This policy explains what information the app uses, what is stored on our backend, and how that information is used.
Information We Use
Location
BlameNino uses your selected location to show local weather, precipitation, drought, tropical, and severe weather information. You can use your current device location or manually choose saved locations.
Location may be used in these ways:
- On device, to show local weather and map context.
- Sent to weather data providers when needed to request forecasts, alerts, radar, drought, or related weather data.
- Sent to the BlameNino push notification backend when you enable notifications for a location.
For push notifications, the backend stores the name and coordinates of each notification location you choose.
Push Notification Token
If you enable push notifications, Apple provides the app with an APNs device token. BlameNino sends that token to the BlameNino backend so weather alerts can be delivered to your device.
The backend stores:
- APNs device token
- App bundle identifier, app version, and platform
- Notification preferences
- Notification locations you choose
- Recent APNs delivery status, such as whether a token is valid
The backend does not use APNs tokens for advertising or tracking.
Weather And Alert Preferences
If you enable notifications, the backend stores your notification settings, such as severe weather alerts, tropical alerts, tropical cone changes, rain notifications, daily summary preference, and quiet hours.
App Data Stored On Your Device
BlameNino stores app settings locally on your device, including preferences, saved locations, recent locations, cached weather/map data, and onboarding state. This local data helps the app load faster and remember your choices.
Information From Third-Party Weather Sources
BlameNino uses weather and climate data from sources such as Apple WeatherKit, NOAA/NWS/NHC, NASA, drought map providers, and related public weather services.
When the app requests weather data, those services may receive technical request information such as IP address and requested location. Their handling of that information is governed by their own policies.
BlameNino does not sell weather request data.
How We Use Information
We use information to:
- Show local weather and climate information.
- Send severe weather, tropical, rain, and related weather notifications you enable.
- Maintain notification preferences and saved notification locations.
- Monitor backend reliability and APNs delivery status.
- Prevent duplicate notifications.
- Troubleshoot service issues.
Tracking And Advertising
BlameNino does not track you across other companies' apps or websites.
BlameNino does not use your location, APNs token, or notification locations for third-party advertising.
BlameNino does not currently include third-party advertising SDKs.
Data Sharing
BlameNino does not sell your personal information.
We may share or transmit limited information as needed to operate the app:
- Coordinates may be sent to weather services to fetch local weather data.
- APNs device tokens and notification payloads are sent through Apple Push Notification service.
- Backend infrastructure providers may process stored backend data as part of hosting the service.
Data Retention
Notification data is retained while notifications remain enabled or while needed to operate the service.
Backend records may include device tokens, notification locations, preferences, and sent-alert dedupe records. Database backups are retained for operational recovery and are rotated periodically.
If a device token becomes invalid, the backend may disable that token.
Your Choices
You can:
- Deny or revoke location permission in iOS Settings.
- Use manually selected locations instead of current location.
- Disable push notifications in iOS Settings.
- Remove notification locations in BlameNino settings.
- Turn off individual notification types in BlameNino settings.
- Clear local app cache from BlameNino settings.
Deleting Backend Notification Data
BlameNino does not have a user account system. If you remove all notification locations or disable all notification types in the app, the app asks the backend to remove the APNs token and notification locations associated with that device.
If you also want help confirming removal, contact support with enough information to identify the notification registration, such as the notification location names you used.
Support contact: admin@portionrx.com
Children's Privacy
BlameNino is not intended to collect information from children under 13.
Changes
We may update this policy as the app changes. The effective date above will be updated when meaningful changes are made.
Contact
For privacy questions, contact: