ZeroBarsWeather — Privacy Policy
Clear privacy promises with short retention and no selling/sharing.
Effective date: October 02, 2025
Controller: Maulsby Group, Inc.
Contacts: privacy@zerobarsweather.com | support@zerobarsweather.com
Our promises
- Data minimization: Collect only what’s needed to run the service.- No selling / sharing: We never sell or share your data with third-party marketers.
- Short retention: We delete data as soon as possible and keep it only as long as required by law.
- Transparency: You see what we collect, why, and how long we keep it.
- LE requests: We require valid legal process, narrow scope, notify you when permitted.
- Personal weather-query: We don't store data beyond what’s needed to generate a reply — it’s purged within ≈ 2 hours.
What we collect / why / retention
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Phone #
Purpose: Send replies, manage opt-in/out
Retention: While you use service; kept indefinitely on do-not-text list after STOP to honor opt-out -
Message content (lat/lon, TIP/TIPS/HELP/STOP/START)
Purpose: Generate reply, support, opt-out handling
Retention: Weather queries purged ≈ 2 hrs; HELP/STOP logs kept as needed for carrier compliance -
Metadata (timestamps, routing IDs)
Purpose: Reliability & abuse-prevention
Retention: ≈ 30–90 days, unless needed longer for security/legal holds -
Tips info
Purpose: Amount + timestamp; payment details handled by Stripe
Retention: Kept as required for accounting/tax (often up to 7 yrs) -
Support emails
Purpose: Help you + keep records
Retention: ≈ 1 yr unless law requires longer
> SMS is not end-to-end encrypted; carriers and gateways process messages to deliver messages — avoid sending sensitive data over SMS.
We don’t do
- No sale or “sharing” for cross-context ads.- No ad tech or data-broker feeds.
- No tracking history beyond the single query you send.
- No model-training on your message content.
Processors
- Only essential service providers (e.g., SMS carrier/gateway, cloud host, Stripe) — bound by contract to use data solely to serve us and protect it.LE requests
- Need valid legal process (subpoena / court order / warrant for content).- Narrow over-broad requests, notify user when permitted.
- May publish aggregate transparency stats.
Your rights
- STOP any time to opt out; START to re-opt in.- Access/Deletion/Correction: email privacy@zerobarsweather.com or text PRIVACY for instructions — verified requests handled within legal time frames (≈ 45 days in US).
- We keep a suppression list to respect opt-outs.