Privacy and support

PegCast is an independent app. The controller for personal information handled by PegCast is Dean Whittaker, a private individual in the United Kingdom.

Dean is also PegCast's privacy officer. Email dean@deancod.es about your information, your rights or a complaint.

Your Forecast Location, your last advice, your Load Plans, any revised advice and your Drying Outcomes stay on this iPhone.

An iPhone backup can include them. PegCast has no account, adverts, analytics or PegCast server for the iPhone app.

Dean does not receive this information unless you send it.

Apple Weather receives your Forecast Location, rounded to about 1 km, so that it can return a forecast.

Apple Weather returns the hourly rain, wind, temperature, humidity, cloud cover and daylight, and the time of sunset. PegCast works out the sun's position on this iPhone from the hour and your Forecast Location, rounded to 0.1 degree. No more data leaves this iPhone for it.

With Forecast-Change Alerts on, iOS can run background checks for your Load Plan. Each check sends the same rounded position to Apple Weather.

Apple Maps receives your place search. It receives your device location only when you tap Use device location.

Apple may handle these requests outside your country. The Apple Privacy Policy covers how Apple handles them.

Apple handles your purchase of PegCast. PegCast never sees your payment details.

Apple Privacy Policy

PegCast sends your Forecast Location to Apple Weather only to get the forecast for your advice.

The legal basis is Dean's legitimate interest in giving you the advice that you ask PegCast for.

To stop these requests, turn off Forecast-Change Alerts and stop using PegCast, or remove it.

Dean reads support emails and exports that you send, to answer you and to test the drying model.

The legal basis is Dean's legitimate interest in helping you and making the advice better. You can object to this.

PegCast makes no decision about you that has a legal or similarly significant effect.

An export holds each Drying Outcome with its original advice and forecast inputs. It also holds any revised advice, the model version and the plan times.

It keeps your Forecast Location only as coordinates rounded to 0.1 degree, an area several kilometres wide. It has no place name, address, account, device identifier or password.

Sharing sends a copy to the place that you choose. Your records stay on this iPhone if you cancel or sharing fails.

If you send the export to Dean, Dean uses it to test the drying model. It arrives with your email address or other contact details, so Dean can link it to you.

Dean deletes it 12 months after your last message about it.

Saved data stays on this iPhone until you remove the app. PegCast does not have a delete control yet.

A Bring-In Reminder stays scheduled until iOS delivers it, you turn it off, or its plan ends.

If you email dean@deancod.es, Dean keeps the emails for 12 months after the last message. Then Dean deletes them.

Apple stores support emails in iCloud Mail. Apple may process them outside the UK.

Apple Privacy Policy

You do not have to give PegCast any personal information. Without a place, PegCast cannot give drying advice.

Location permission is optional. Searching for a town or postcode is a complete path.

Reminders, Forecast-Change Alerts and Drying Outcomes are optional. PegCast asks only when you choose them, not when you first open it.

Emailing Dean and sending an export are optional too.

Dean holds only the support emails and export files that you send. Dean cannot see the information on your iPhone.

You can ask Dean for a copy of that information. You can ask Dean to correct or delete it.

You can ask Dean to restrict its use, or object to its use. You can ask for a portable copy.

To withdraw an export that you sent, email Dean. Dean then deletes it.

You can withdraw location or notification permission at any time in iPhone Settings.

Some rights have legal conditions and exceptions. Removing the app deletes the information on your iPhone.

If you are unhappy with how Dean handles your information, please email Dean first.

In the United Kingdom, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.

In Ireland, you can complain to the Data Protection Commission.

In New Zealand, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.

Australia's Privacy Act exempts most small businesses, and it probably does not cover PegCast.

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner explains that exemption.

Information Commissioner's Office: make a complaint

Data Protection Commission: raise a concern

Office of the Privacy Commissioner: make a complaint

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner: small businesses

PegCast could not get complete, fresh weather from Apple Weather. Try again later. It will not guess from stale or partial information.

Yes. Search for a town or postcode. PegCast asks for location only when you tap Use device location.

Delivery depends on your iPhone notification settings. A Bring-In Reminder uses your saved plan. With Forecast-Change Alerts on, PegCast also checks the weather in the background. iOS decides when these checks run, and they can be hours late.

Remove the app. That deletes everything PegCast keeps on this iPhone. An export file stays wherever you sent it.