SUNRISE SUNSET - PRIVACY POLICY Last updated: 25 August 2026 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- IN SHORT Sunrise Sunset does its work on your device. It has no account to sign in to, no server of mine to talk to, and it does not collect or log anything about you. It asks for your location so it can tell you when the sun and moon rise and set where you are, and it keeps that place on your device so the app and its widgets can use it. The app shows a banner ad: on iPhone and iPad always non-personalized; on Android, where the law requires consent, a form asks first and your answer decides. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT THIS COVERS The Sunrise Sunset app, published by Alok Mandavgane: - on the App Store as "Solpedia: Sunrise Sunset" (com.alokmandavgane.sunrisesunset) - on Google Play as "Sunrise Sunset" (com.alokmandavgane.sunrisesunset) They are the same app, built from the same code, and this policy applies to both. There is no web version. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT THE APP KEEPS ON YOUR DEVICE - The place you are looking at: its coordinates, its name, and its time zone. - Your settings: the theme, and which rise/set alerts you turned on and how far ahead of the event you want them. That is the whole of it, and it stays on the device. On iPhone and iPad it lives in a shared container so the home-screen widgets can read the same place the app is showing; on Android it lives in the app's own preferences, which the widgets read directly. Nothing is uploaded, and there is nowhere for it to go. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LOCATION Sharing your location is optional, and the app is fully usable without it — you can search for a place by name, or tap a spot on the world map, and everything works from there. On Android the app asks only for approximate (coarse) location, which is as precise as sunrise and sunset need. Your coordinates are used for three things: 1. Computing sun and moon times, positions and twilight windows. This is arithmetic and it happens entirely on your device — the app carries its own astronomy, works offline, and does not consult anything to answer "when does the sun rise here". 2. Drawing the sky views, the horizon and the AR overlay for where you are. 3. Turning a fix into a readable place name, which is the one case where coordinates leave the device — see PLACE NAMES below. The fix itself comes from the operating system: Core Location on iPhone and iPad, and Google Play Services' location provider on Android, each under its own privacy policy. The app receives a coordinate from them and nothing else. Your location is not sent to me, is not attached to the ads, and is not stored anywhere but on your device. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLACE NAMES To show "Bhopal, India" instead of a pair of numbers, the app asks the operating system to look the coordinates up: Apple's geocoder on iPhone and iPad, Google's on Android. That request goes to Apple or Google, under their own privacy policies, and I never see it or its result. Apple: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/ Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy The world map you pick a location from is drawn from data inside the app. No map tiles are fetched, so panning it sends nothing anywhere. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CAMERA AND MOTION The AR sky view draws the sun's and moon's paths over the live camera picture, so it asks for the camera, and for motion and compass data to know where the device is pointing. The camera picture is shown on screen and nothing else: it is never recorded, never saved, never sent anywhere. The same is true of the compass and gyroscope readings. Decline the camera and the rest of the app works exactly as before, minus that one view. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ADVERTISING The app shows a banner ad through Google AdMob. What kind of ad depends on the platform, and the difference is deliberate. On iPhone and iPad, every request asks AdMob for NON-PERSONALIZED ads. The ads are chosen from the context — roughly where in the world the request came from, and what kind of app it is — and not from a profile of you. The app does not ask for your device's advertising identifier, and it does not show the "allow tracking" prompt, because it has nothing to ask for. On Android, in the regions whose law requires consent — the EEA, the United Kingdom and Switzerland — the app shows Google's consent form before any ad is requested, and the answer you give there decides whether the ads are personalized. You can change that answer at any time: "Privacy options" in the app's menu reopens the form. Everywhere else, ads are served the way Google ordinarily serves them, which may be personalized and may use the device's advertising identifier — Google's doing, under Google's policies, and the identifier can be reset or deleted in your device's settings. If consent cannot be resolved at all, the app falls back to requesting non-personalized ads rather than assuming a yes. Google receives and processes the ad request itself, under its own policies: https://policies.google.com/privacy https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads If you would rather have no ads at all, the app offers a one-time purchase that removes them. That purchase is handled entirely by the App Store or Google Play; the app never sees your payment details, and I only learn that an anonymous purchase happened. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTIFICATIONS The rise, set, golden hour and blue hour alerts are optional, and they are scheduled by the app on your device from times it worked out itself. They are not push notifications: no server sends them, and nothing about your schedule or your location leaves the device to make them happen. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT THE APP DOES NOT DO - No accounts, no sign-in, no profile. - No analytics, no usage tracking, no crash-reporting service. - No advertising identifier on iPhone and iPad, and no cross-app or cross-site tracking by the app itself, anywhere. On Android, Google's ads SDK may use the advertising identifier to personalize ads, exactly as ADVERTISING above describes and never without the consent it requires. - No selling or sharing of personal data by me, because none is collected. - No reading of your photos, contacts, calendar, files or other apps' data. One exception worth naming: if you have opted in at the operating-system level to share usage and crash data with developers, Apple and Google may show me anonymous, aggregated statistics — how often the app crashed, roughly what devices it runs on. I cannot tell who anyone is from that, and you can turn it off in your device's own privacy settings. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHILDREN The app is not directed at children and collects nothing from anyone, so there is nothing it could collect from a child. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOUR DATA, AND REMOVING IT There is no data of yours for me to show you, correct or delete, because I hold none — there is no account and no server. Everything the app remembers is on your device, so deleting the app removes all of it. You can also clear the app's data (Android) or revoke the location or camera permission at any time from your device's settings, and the app will carry on with whatever is left. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES TO THIS POLICY If the app starts doing something this policy does not describe, the policy gets updated first, and the date at the top changes with it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT Alok Mandavgane alok@alokm.com