Privacy

What the app sends to us

Nothing. There is no AviatorWatch server. We don't run accounts, we don't run analytics, we don't embed third-party SDKs, and the app doesn't phone home with usage data, crash reports, device identifiers, or anything else.

What the app stores on your device

Everything you interact with lives in local storage on your iPhone and Apple Watch:

• Your selected airport and favorites
• Personal minimums thresholds
• Currency log entries (night landings, IFR events, medical / BFR / FIRC dates)
• Cached METAR, TAF, and moon-phase data (to reduce network use)
• App settings (refresh interval, time format, morning briefing schedule, etc.)

The watch and iPhone sync this data to each other directly using Apple's WatchConnectivity framework — it travels over a paired Bluetooth / Wi-Fi link between your two devices. It does not pass through our servers because we don't have any.

Data we fetch from the internet

• METAR and TAF weather observations come from the NOAA Aviation Weather Center public API. The app makes a direct HTTPS request from your device. NOAA's servers log standard web-request information (IP address, timestamp, requested URL) the same way any website does — that log lives with them, not us.
• Airport and runway data comes from the bundled OurAirports open dataset. It ships with the app as a local SQLite file; no network request is made to look up airport information.

Location

The app asks for When In Use location permission only when you tap "Nearby Airports" in the airport picker. Your coordinates are used once, on-device, to rank nearby airports by distance, and are never transmitted anywhere. If you deny permission, every other feature still works — you just type the ICAO code yourself.

Notifications

If you enable currency tracking, the app schedules local notifications on your device for the 30 / 7 / 1 day and day-of expirations of each tracked item. These notifications are scheduled entirely locally — nothing travels through Apple's push servers and nothing goes through us.

Analytics and tracking

None. The App Store nutrition label reflects this — Data Not Collected.

Children

AviatorWatch is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect information from children. (We don't collect information from adults either — but it seemed worth stating both.)

Changes to this policy

If the privacy posture ever changes materially — say, the app starts collecting crash reports, or adds an optional feature that requires an account — this page will be updated and the app's release notes will call it out explicitly.

Questions

Email support@aviatorwatch.app. It's a pilot, a human, who reads it.