Ambient Time has no accounts, advertising, analytics, or tracking. Local weather and tide features use location only with your permission.
If you allow location access, Ambient Time requests reduced-accuracy device coordinates to show weather, sun, moon, and tide information for your area. You can deny this permission; clocks that do not need local conditions keep working.
To retrieve forecasts, the app sends the selected coordinates to Open-Meteo. Open-Meteo says its API logs may contain IP addresses, requested URLs, and geographic coordinates and are deleted after 90 days. For supported coastal areas, Ambient Time selects a nearby station on device and requests predictions from the NOAA Tides & Currents API. Like ordinary web services, NOAA may automatically receive the request's IP address and request metadata; see NOAA's privacy policy.
Luke Steuber does not receive or store these requests. Ambient Time does not use location or forecast data for advertising, analytics, profiling, or tracking, and does not sell it.
Your preferences, selected or resolved location, and a short-lived cache of weather and tide results are saved on your device and shared only with Ambient Time's widgets on that device, with Ambient Time on your paired Apple Watch, and, for a saved TV or display choice, with your iCloud account as described below. These values are not synced to Luke Steuber. The app sends coordinates only for the provider requests described above.
If you save a TV or display choice while signed in to iCloud, Ambient Time also stores that choice in your iCloud account so your other devices can open it. A saved display can include a city you named yourself, but never your device's own location. Apple provides this storage; Luke Steuber cannot read it.
Sunset Arc, Weather Window, and Tide Turn Live Activities start only when you turn them on. To end an activity on time, the app sends Ambient Time's delivery service at api.dr.eamer.dev the activity's Apple push token, its identifier, its fixed end time, and a random identifier created for this installation. No location, weather, or tide data is sent. The service keeps the installation identifier only in hashed form and deletes the entry once the end update has been handed to Apple's push service.
The Compliment Smart Stack card uses an offline collection bundled with the app and makes no request to choose its daily message. Activating that card opens the Data Poems clock collection in your browser, where normal website privacy practices apply.
Ambient Time is not directed to children and does not knowingly collect personal information from children. It has no accounts, advertising, or behavioral analytics.
If this policy ever changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new date above.
Questions? Email luke@lukesteuber.com.