FreezeAhead privacy policy
Effective October 31, 2026
This policy explains how the FreezeAhead app for iPhone and Android handles your information. FreezeAhead is published by Wanderhaus Media LLC (“we”, “us”, “our”). Our website has its own privacy policy.
The short version
FreezeAhead doesn’t collect any personal data for us. Your spots and settings stay on your phone. To get a forecast, the app sends each spot’s approximate location straight to the National Weather Service; it never comes to us.
What the app stores on your phone
The spots you save (names and locations), your alert settings, your checklist, the downloaded forecasts and your scheduled alerts. This information is saved only on your phone and shared with FreezeAhead’s widgets on the same phone. It is never sent to us, and we can’t see it.
If you back up your phone (for example iCloud Backup on iPhone, or Google backup on Android), that backup can include the app’s data, the same as other apps. Apple or Google handles the backup under your account and their privacy policies; we can’t access it.
Your location
- FreezeAhead asks for location access only while you’re using the app, and reads your location only when you tap Use my current location. It reads it once and saves the result as a spot.
- It never asks for background location access, never reads your location in the background, doesn’t follow you as you travel, and keeps no location history.
- You can add spots by searching or tapping the map without allowing location access at all.
Weather forecasts from the National Weather Service
To get a forecast, the app sends each saved spot’s location, rounded to two decimal places (about 1 km, or a little over half a mile), directly from your phone to the National Weather Service at api.weather.gov. The request also names the app and our support email address, which the National Weather Service asks apps to include. It doesn’t include your name, a device ID or anything else about you.
Like any website, the National Weather Service receives your internet (IP) address with each request. Its privacy policy says its web servers record details such as the date and time, the IP address and the address requested, which here includes the rounded location. Those records are covered by the National Weather Service privacy policy. We don’t receive them.
Search and maps
When you search for a place or use the map to add a spot, the app uses your phone’s built-in map service: Apple Maps on iPhone, and Google’s map services on Android. What you type and the map area you view are sent to Apple or Google to show results and maps, under Apple’s privacy policy or Google’s privacy policy. We don’t receive them.
What the app does not do
FreezeAhead has no accounts or sign-in, doesn’t access your contacts, photos or files, shows no ads, and doesn’t track you across other companies’ apps or websites. It contains no analytics or advertising code, and we don’t run any server that it talks to.
Permissions the app asks for
- Notifications (iPhone and Android), to warn you before freezing temperatures. On iPhone, Hard Freeze alerts use Time Sensitive notifications so they can come through some Focus modes.
- Location while using the app (iPhone and Android, optional), only for Use my current location.
- Internet (Android), to download forecasts from the National Weather Service and show maps.
- Run at startup (Android only), so your alerts are set again after your phone restarts. The app does nothing else at startup.
Notifications
Alerts are local notifications created and scheduled on your phone. They are not sent through our servers or any push service. You can turn them off at any time: on iPhone in Settings, then Notifications, then FreezeAhead; on Android in Settings, then Apps, then FreezeAhead, then Notifications.
Purchases
FreezeAhead is a one-time purchase made through the Apple App Store or Google Play. Apple or Google processes the payment, and we never receive your payment details. Their privacy policies cover that transaction: Apple’s privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.
Crash reports from Apple and Google
If you have chosen to share analytics or usage and diagnostics with app developers in your phone’s settings, Apple or Google may send us anonymous crash and performance reports. These don’t identify you, and we use them only to fix problems in the app. You can turn this off on iPhone in Settings, then Privacy & Security, then Analytics & Improvements, and on Android in your phone’s Google settings under usage and diagnostics.
If you contact us
If you email us or use our contact form for support, we receive your name, email address and whatever you choose to write. We use it only to answer you, we don’t sell or share it, and we delete it when it’s no longer needed to help you. You can ask us to delete it sooner.
Sharing and selling
We don’t sell, rent or share personal information with anyone, because the app doesn’t collect any for us.
Deleting your data
Delete a spot in the Spots tab, or delete the app and everything it stored is removed from your phone. On Android you can also clear it without uninstalling: Settings, then Apps, then FreezeAhead, then Storage, then Clear storage. Because we hold no app data about you, there’s nothing for us to delete on our side. To delete a support conversation, email us.
Children
FreezeAhead is not directed to children under 13, and it doesn’t collect personal information from anyone, including children.
Changes to this policy
If we change how the app handles information, we will update this page and the effective date above before the change takes effect.
Contact
Wanderhaus Media LLC
5900 Balcones Drive, STE 100
Austin, TX 78731
United States
[email protected]