Foreca Privacy Policy for Consumers

Foreca takes the privacy of its consumers very seriously. We comply fully with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Any personal information we obtain regarding Foreca consumer services will be dealt with in accordance with this policy.

Does this privacy policy concern you?

This privacy policy concerns you if you use any of the Foreca service provided for consumers, like the foreca.com weather site and Foreca Weather Free mobile app, or you otherwise deal with us as a private person within the EU. If you use Foreca services for business, you can find the privacy policy meant for you here.

What is personal data?

The GDPR applies to personal data. This is any information that can directly or indirectly identify a natural person, like you.

What data is processed and why is it processed

Foreca collects information about your use of the service for three main reasons:

to be able to develop best weather services for you,
to be able to provide relevant advertisement for you (please note, the service and its development is funded by advertisement)
to be able to contact you when you give us feedback, send us your job application, or in other similar circumstances we need to contact you.

Foreca may process the following information when you use the service:

Cookie data
- Cookies are used to store your personal settings in the service such as favourite locations
- Cookies are used to track which features of the service are used and how much. We use the information for technical developing of the services. The following analytics services are utilized for this purpose:
  - Google Analytics - edit your preferences
- Social media sharing functionalities use cookies. The cookies are processes by:
  - AddThis - edit your preferences
  - Facebook - data policy
- Cookies are used to provide relevant advertisement according to your interests as provided by the advertisement agencies. Foreca uses the following advertisement providers:
  - Google Adsense
    - how Google uses your information
    - Google Ads Settings
  - Depending on the ads that Google serve, data may be shared with additional ad tehcnology provides listed below.{*To see full list of the providers, click here*}.
    - Google
    - Aarki
    - Adacado
    - Adara Media
    - AdClear
    - ADEX
    - Adform
    - Adikteev
    - AdLedge
    - Adloox
    - Adludio
    - AdMaxim
    - Admedo
    - Admetrics
    - Adobe Advertising Cloud
    - AdRoll, Inc.
    - AdTriba
    - advanced STORE GmbH
    - Adventori
    - advolution.control
    - affilinet
    - Akamai
    - Amazon
    - Amobee
    - Analights
    - AppLovin Corp.
    - AppNexus
    - Arrivalist
    - AudienceProject
    - Aunica
    - Avocet
    - Batch Media
    - BDSK Handels GmbH & Co. KG
    - Beeswax
    - Betgenius
    - Bidswitch
    - Blismedia
    - Bombora
    - Booking.com
    - C3 Metrics
    - Cablato
    - Celtra
    - Centro
    - Cint
    - Clinch
    - Cloud Technologies
    - Cloudflare
    - Commanders Act
    - comScore
    - Conversant/CJ Affiliate
    - Google
    - Aarki
    - Adacado
    - Adara Media
    - AdClear
    - ADEX
    - Adform
    - Adikteev
    - AdLedge
    - Adloox
    - Adludio
    - AdMaxim
    - Admedo
    - Admetrics
    - Adobe Advertising Cloud
    - AdRoll, Inc.
    - AdTriba
    - advanced STORE GmbH
    - Adventori
    - advolution.control
    - affilinet
    - Akamai
    - Amazon
    - Amobee
    - Analights
    - AppLovin Corp.
    - AppNexus
    - Arrivalist
    - AudienceProject
    - Aunica
    - Avocet
    - Batch Media
    - BDSK Handels GmbH & Co. KG
    - Beeswax
    - Betgenius
    - Bidswitch
    - Blismedia
    - Bombora
    - Booking.com
    - C3 Metrics
    - Cablato
    - Celtra
    - Centro
    - Cint
    - Clinch
    - Cloud Technologies
    - Cloudflare
    - Commanders Act
    - comScore
    - Conversant/CJ Affiliate
    - Crimtan
    - Criteo
    - CUBED
    - DataXu
    - Delta Projects
    - Demandbase
    - DENTSU
    - Dentsu Aegis Network
    - Digiseg
    - DMA Institute
    - DoubleVerify
    - Dstillery
    - DTS
    - EASYmedia
    - eBay
    - ebuilders
    - Effinity
    - emetriq
    - Ensighten
    - Essens
    - ESV
    - Evidon
    - Exactag
    - Exponential
    - Facebook
    - Flashtalking
    - Fractional Media
    - FUSIO BY S4M
    - Gemius
    - GfK
    - GP One
    - gskinner
    - Haensel AMS
    - Havas Media France - DBi
    - hurra.com
    - IBM
    - Ignition One
    - Impact
    - Index Exchange
    - Infectious Media
    - Innovid
    - Integral Ad Science
    - intelliAd
    - Interpublic Group
    - Jivox
    - Kantar
    - Kochava
    - LifeStreet
    - Liftoff
    - LiveRamp
    - Localsensor
    - LoopMe
    - Lotame
    - Macromill group
    - MainADV
    - Manage.com
    - Marketing Science Consulting Group, Inc.
    - MBR Targeting Gmbh
    - MediaMath
    - Meetrics
    - MindTake Research
    - Mobitrans
    - Mobpro
    - Moloco Ads
    - MSI-ACI
    - Nano Interactive
    - Navegg
    - Neodata Group
    - NEORY GmbH
    - Netflix
    - Netquest
    - Neuralone
    - Neustar
    - Nielsen
    - Nordic Factory Solutions AB
    - numberly
    - Oath
    - Objective Partners
    - Omnicom Media Group
    - On Device Research
    - OneTag
    - OpenX Technologies
    - Optomaton
    - Oracle Data Cloud
    - OTTO
    - PERMODO
    - Pixalate
    - Platform161
    - PMG
    - Protected Media
    - Publicis Groupe
    - PubMatic
    - PulsePoint
    - Quantcast
    - Rackspace
    - Rakuten Marketing
    - Refined Labs
    - Relay42
    - Remerge
    - Resonate
    - RevJet
    - RhythmOne LLC
    - RN SSI Group
    - Roq.ad
    - RTB House
    - Rubicon Project
    - Salesforce DMP
    - Scenestealer
    - Scoota
    - Seenthis
    - Semasio GmbH
    - SFR
    - Sift Media
    - Simpli.fi
    - Sizmek
    - Smaato
    - Smadex
    - Smart
    - Smartology
    - Sociomantic
    - Sojern
    - Sovrn
    - Spotad
    - SpotX
    - TabMo
    - Taboola
    - TACTIC™ Real-Time Marketing
    - Teads.TV
    - TEEMO
    - The Trade Desk
    - Tradedoubler
    - travel audience – An Amadeus Company
    - TreSensa
    - TripleLift
    - True Ultimate Standards Everywhere Inc.
    - TruEffect
    - Turbobytes
    - UDG
    - usemax (Emego GmbH)
    - Videology
    - Vimeo
    - Virtual Minds
    - Vodafone GmbH
    - Waystack
    - Weborama
    - White Ops
    - Widespace
    - WPP
    - Yieldr
    - ZMS
- IP address of your device. IP address is used to
  - track and fix problems you experienced in the service if you have given us feedback.
  - track the possible misuse of service.
- Your location:
  - If you use the locate feature in the service Foreca receives your location coordinates (in the accuracy your device has it). Location data is only used to provide weather data for your location, and it will not be saved.
- Personal data provided by you
  - We may collect your personal data you provide us, for instance, in the following ways:
    - you fill out our web forms, like contact forms, feedback forms, user surveys, competitions, or other general web forms
    - you send us an email
    - you send us your job application
  - This data is only used to the purpose that is clarified in each context.

Foreca Weather app and Cell Rebel AB (CellRebel)

Foreca Weather app may ask you to give permission to share your personal data to CellRebel and its partners. By giving the permission, you understand and agree that CellRebel may sample data from your device, including location data, for the purposes of analyzing the following areas: network performance, network user experience and user equipment performance. This information can be shared with third parties in an aggregated format without personal identifiable information with the purpose to improve the network performance or to be used in designing marketing campaigns. This can help to improve your mobile network and your network connectivity. Further information can be obtained in the Privacy Policy found at: www.cellrebel.com/privacy_policy

How do we obtain your personal information?

Foreca obtains your personal information confidentially ensuring appropriate security. We only store the information that is lawful and has a purpose. We store the information only as long as it is necessary.

Foreca won't share your personal information to 3rd parties, or mainly won't manage your personal information outside the EU, except anonymized IP-addresses and cookies that cannot identify a unique user. If we process personal data in systems outside the EU, we ensure an adequate level of protection of personal data by ensuring that the system vendor complies with EU requirements in accordance with the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) as a lawful transfer mechanism for personal data transferred outside of the EU, Switzerland or the UK.

Your consent to Foreca to obtain your personal information

By consenting to this privacy policy you are giving Foreca a permission to obtain your personal data as described in this page.

Your rights to view change or remove your personal data

You may withdraw consent at any time by deleting cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can also adjust your personalized ad preferences via Google Ads Settings.

In case you have provided us any personal information, you have the right to know what information we obtain and change/remove it by sending us your request at any time.

Privacy of children

As children's privacy is very important, we do not obtain any personal information on purpose from people under 16 years of age without the permission of his/her guardian. A guardian has the right to view the information obtained from a child and ask for removal.

Possible changes to this privacy policy in the future

Foreca reserves the right to change this privacy policy at any time by posting changes online. You are responsible for reviewing the possible changes regularly in this privacy policy.

This privacy policy has been updated: 2021-08-18