No Wet Dogs · Last updated August 8, 2026
No Wet Dogs has no account, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking, and no server of its own. Almost everything the app knows about you stays on your iPhone. This page explains the one exception.
All of the following is stored only on your iPhone, in the app's own storage and a shared container used by its widget. None of it is transmitted anywhere, and the developer has no way to see it:
To tell you whether a walk will be rained on, the app has to ask a weather service about your area. It sends a single coordinate, rounded to two decimal places, to Apple's WeatherKit service.
Two decimal places is about seven tenths of a mile across. It identifies a neighborhood, not a home, and it is deliberately rounded before it is sent. Nothing else accompanies it — no name, no device identifier, no advertising ID, no dog, no schedule.
The same rounded coordinate goes to Apple's geocoder once, to turn it into the place name shown at the top of the app. That is the second and last thing that leaves the device.
Location access is optional. You can type a ZIP code instead and never grant it. If you do grant it, the app uses it once to work out which forecast area you're in, rounds it, and does not track you, does not record where you go, and does not use location in the background.
Off by default. If you switch on "Don't suggest times I'm busy", the app reads your device calendar — which includes any Google or Outlook account you have added to iOS — to avoid recommending a walk during something you're already committed to.
It reads only the times events start and end. Never their names, locations, notes or invitees. Nothing from your calendar is stored, and nothing from your calendar is transmitted — there is no network path out of the app for it.
To be straight about the mechanism: iOS has no "free/busy only" permission, so the app is granted broader access than it uses. Not reading the rest is a promise the app keeps, not one the system enforces. You can revoke it at any time in Settings, and every other part of the app carries on working.
Alerts are local notifications, scheduled on your iPhone by the app itself. Nothing is sent through a push server, so no notification you receive has passed through anyone else's computer.
| Data | Purpose | Linked to you | Used to track you |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coarse location | App functionality — fetching your forecast | No | No |
Nothing else is collected. There is no contact info, no identifiers, no usage data, no diagnostics.
The app contains no third-party SDKs, no analytics libraries, and no advertising networks. The only external services it contacts are Apple's: WeatherKit for the forecast, and the geocoder for the place name and for turning a ZIP code into a coordinate.
The app collects no personal information from anyone, including children under 13.
If this policy changes, the date at the top of this page changes with it.
Questions about privacy: open an issue on GitHub