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Privacy

This site has no accounts, no sign-up form and no newsletter. Here is, exhaustively, what it knows about you.

What the server records

When you search for a city, the name you type is not sent to any outside service: it is compared with a list of cities we keep here, taken from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0 licence). No request is sent to anyone. We do, however, count how many times each city has been searched for, so as to know which ones to add to the menu: a name and a number, without your address, without a cookie, and without anything that would make it possible to tell two visitors apart or to link two searches to each other. This count is also copied every night, encrypted, into a backup kept in France by the publisher.

For each city on our list whose weather is viewed, we also note the last day it was viewed, so that its forecast stays ready for seven days: a city name and a date, without your address, without cookies, and with nothing that could tell two visitors apart.

If you choose “My location”, your browser first asks for your permission. The coordinates are then rounded to the nearest kilometre before leaving your device, and sent to our server, which asks Open-Meteo for the forecast and Nominatim for the place name, without your address. They are neither recorded nor kept.

Its own address. RapidWeather has its own address, rapidweather.rapidall.eu; the old one, rapidall.eu/rapidweather/, redirects here. For one year, to keep the settings chosen at the old address, the page reads a small fixed page of rapidall.eu in an invisible frame; nothing is sent to the server or deleted there, and the page notes the date of this reading in your browser. If it cannot take them over, the tool starts from its default settings.

What your browser keeps

The site keeps in your browser (“local storage”, not a cookie) the display theme, the chosen language, the city chosen in the menu, the list of cities you found by searching (twelve at most, which you can remove one by one), and whether you chose to follow your location. These settings never leave your device, are not read by the server, and are erased with your browser's site data. They are strictly necessary for the service you asked for, which is why no consent is requested.

You can install this tool as an app (“Install”, or “Add to Home Screen” on iPhone): it then opens in its own window, with its icon. Nothing more is kept on your device and nothing personal is sent; it still needs the Internet.

Third parties

Advertising

This site shows no advertising at the moment, and therefore sets no advertising cookie. If it ever does, this page will say so, and a banner will ask for your consent before anything is set.

Your rights

You have the right to access, rectify, erase and object to the processing of data about you (articles 15 to 21 GDPR). Write to the publisher contact@rapidall.eu. You may also lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority, the CNIL (cnil.fr).

This page is a courtesy translation. Only the French version, Confidentialité, is authoritative.