World Monitor: Real-Time Event
Privacy Policy
In short: World Monitor does not collect any data about you. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking. The places, trips, alert rules and saved items you create are stored only on your device. We, ORIENTPRO, never receive them.
1. Data we collect
None. World Monitor has no server of its own. We do not collect, store or share personal data, usage data, diagnostics, identifiers or advertising identifiers, and the app contains no third-party analytics, advertising or attribution SDK.
2. Data stored on your device
Everything you create in the app — places, trips, alert rules, saved items and saved searches — together with the public event data the app downloads, is stored locally on your device. It is not synced to us or to any third party. You can erase all of it at any time in Settings › Delete all data, or by deleting the app.
3. Location
The app asks for your location only when you tap Current Location while adding a place. The location is used once, rounded to about 1 km (0.01°), and saved on your device as that place. It is never sent to us. You can use the app fully without granting location access by searching for a place or choosing a suggested one.
4. Requests the app makes to public data sources
To show world events, the app downloads public data directly from the sources listed below. These requests are made from your device; they never include your name, an account or an identifier, and they never include the location of your places — only a coarse 5° region (about 550 km across) when a source needs one.
| Source | What it provides |
|---|---|
| U.S. Geological Survey | Earthquakes |
| GDACS (EC-JRC / UN OCHA) | Floods, cyclones, volcanoes, droughts, wildfires |
| NASA EONET | Natural events |
| NOAA / National Weather Service | Official US weather alerts |
| The GDELT Project | News article metadata (headline, publisher, link) |
| U.S. Department of State | Travel advisory levels |
| Apple Weather (WeatherKit) | Current conditions on a place's screen |
Like any website you visit, these services can see the IP address of the request. Their own privacy policies govern that.
5. Apple Weather
When you open a place, the app asks Apple Weather for that place's current conditions. Apple receives the place's coordinates rounded to about 11 km (0.1°). Apple Weather is provided by Apple under the Apple Privacy Policy; see the Apple Weather data sources and legal attribution.
6. Notifications
Alerts are local notifications created on your device when one of your rules matches an event. No push service and no notification token is used.
7. On-device AI
Summaries and answers are generated on your device by Apple's on-device model from data already stored on your device. Your questions are not sent to us or to any AI service.
8. Purchases
Premium is sold through Apple's In-App Purchase. Payment is handled entirely by Apple; we never receive your payment details or Apple Account information. The app verifies your purchase on the device.
9. Links to articles
When you open an article, it opens in Safari inside the app. The publisher's website and its own privacy policy then apply.
10. Apple Watch, widgets and Siri
Widgets, the Live Activity and the Apple Watch app show a small summary that the app passes to them on your own devices (through the app's shared container and Apple's WatchConnectivity). Nothing is sent to us.
11. Children
World Monitor is not directed to children under 13 and collects no data from anyone, including children.
12. Your rights
Because we hold no personal data about you, there is nothing for us to access, correct, export or delete on your behalf. All data the app keeps is on your device and under your control.
13. Changes
If this policy changes, we will update this page and its effective date. A change that introduces any data collection would also be reflected in the app's App Store privacy details before it ships.
14. Contact
ORIENTPRO — info@orlproducts.com