Privacy Policy
This policy explains how Turbulence Forecast: Bumpline (“Turbulence Forecast”), made by ORIENTPRO, handles information on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. It is short, and it is specific.
The short version
- We collect nothing about you. There is no account, no sign-in, no advertising, no analytics, no tracking and no third-party SDK in the app.
- We have no servers. We never receive your trips, your position or anything else.
- Two things do leave your device, because a forecast is impossible without them: the coordinates of the route you are asking about, and the airport codes on it. They go to public weather services, with no name and no identifier attached.
- Your position, your motion data and your boarding pass photos never leave your device at all.
1. What we collect
Nothing. Turbulence Forecast’s App Store privacy label reads “Data Not Collected”. We do not ask for your name, e-mail, phone number or date of birth, and there is nothing to sign in to.
We do not use advertising identifiers, we do not build a profile of you, and we do not sell or share personal information. Turbulence Forecast contains no analytics SDK, no crash-reporting SDK and no advertising SDK.
2. What leaves your device, and why
A turbulence forecast is computed from weather data, and that data has to be fetched for the place and time you are flying. So two requests go out when you open a flight:
- nomads.ncep.noaa.gov (NOAA, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) — latitude and longitude boxes around the route you asked about, and the forecast hours of the flight. This returns the GFS wind, temperature and stability fields the engine needs.
- aviationweather.gov (US National Weather Service) — the bounding box of that route, and the ICAO codes of the two airports, to fetch official SIGMETs, G-AIRMETs, pilot reports and the airport observations.
Be aware of what that means: those requests describe the flight you are looking at. They carry no name, no account, no device identifier and no advertising identifier, and we never see them — they go from your device straight to those services. But a route and a time window are still information, and your IP address is visible to them as it is to any website you open.
Those services have their own policies: NOAA and the US National Weather Service. Apple Maps supplies the map tiles under Apple’s privacy policy.
Everything after the fetch — the turbulence computation, the segments, the confidence, the altitude heatmap, the chart — happens on your own device.
3. Where your trips are kept
On your device, in the app’s own storage. Your flights, forecasts, ride recordings and settings stay there. They are shared with Turbulence Forecast’s own widgets, Live Activity and Apple Watch app through a private app group, which is on your device and on no one else’s.
If you have iCloud Backup switched on, your device’s backup may include Turbulence Forecast’s data, the same as any other app. That backup is between you and Apple.
4. Location
Turbulence Forecast asks for location only when you start Flight Deck, and only as “While Using the App”. It is used to put your position on the bump line and to tell how far along the flight you are. The system indicator stays visible while the session is live.
Your position is never sent anywhere. It is not uploaded, not logged off-device, and not attached to the weather requests above. Decline it and Flight Deck still works — it estimates your position from the schedule instead, and says on screen that it is doing so.
5. Motion and the barometer
The Ride Meter reads the accelerometer, and the barometer tells climb from cruise from descent. Both are read on device and stay on device. A ride recording is kept with the trip so you can compare what was forecast with what you felt; it is yours, and it never leaves.
6. Camera and photos
The camera is used for one thing: reading the barcode on a boarding pass. The scan happens live on device, the image is not saved and nothing is sent anywhere. Only the flight number, airports and date are taken from it.
When you import a pass from your photo library, Turbulence Forecast uses the system photo picker. The app receives only the image you pick and has no access to the rest of your library, which is why it never asks for photo permission.
7. Notifications
All notifications are scheduled locally by your device — the forecast-ready note, the gate reminder, a material change before departure, and the scorecard after landing. There is no push server, so nothing about your flights is sent to us in order to notify you. You are asked for permission only after you have saved a flight, and you can turn any of them off in Settings.
8. Purchases
Turbulence Forecast Pro is sold through Apple’s In-App Purchase. Apple handles the payment; we never see your card, your Apple Account or your billing address. The app only asks the system whether a valid entitlement exists, and the answer is a yes or a no.
“Restore purchases” asks Apple the same question again. It does not create an account and it does not identify you to us.
9. Widgets, Apple Watch, Live Activity and Siri
These read the same on-device data through the private app group. The Live Activity shows the current stretch on your Lock Screen while you are flying and ends when you land. App Intents let Siri and Shortcuts open a flight or read the next bump; the request is handled on your device.
10. Children
Turbulence Forecast is not directed at children and collects nothing from anyone, children included. It is rated for general audiences and has no social features, no user-generated content and no links out to anything but our own pages and the sources named above.
11. Your rights under GDPR, CCPA and similar laws
These laws give you the right to see, correct, export or delete the personal data a company holds about you. We hold none. There is no account to close and no record of you to produce, correct or erase, because none was ever created.
The data the app keeps is on your device and under your control: delete a trip in the app, or delete the app, and it is gone. We do not sell or share personal information, and we have never done so.
12. Deleting your data
Remove a single flight by swiping it away in the trips list. Remove everything by deleting Turbulence Forecast from your device, which takes its storage and its app group with it. If you also keep an iCloud backup, remove the backup through iOS Settings.
13. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes we will post the new version here and move the effective date at the top. If a change ever means Turbulence Forecast starts collecting something, we will say so plainly rather than bury it.
14. Contact
Questions about privacy? Write to info@orlproducts.com. We answer in English or Vietnamese.
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