Privacy Policy

What this site stores on your device

Your favorite spots, your unit preference (knots/mph/km-h), and your cookie choice are saved in your browser's local storage. This data stays on your device and is never sent to us.

Accounts, and the iPhone, Android & watch apps

If you sign in (Apple, Google, or email), we store your name, email address, and whatever profile fields you choose to add — country, weight, gender, a profile photo, and your kite/wing quiver. None of this is required to use the site's forecasts, and any of it can be left blank.

On the watch itself, no account or sign-in is needed — recording a session works standalone, using your watch's own GPS to track position, speed, and timing for the length of the session. Once your watch is linked to your account (by signing in to the WGG phone app, or with a code at windygalaxy.com/link), your Garmin or Apple Watch uploads each session to your account by itself after you stop it. A watch that is not linked keeps the session on the watch and your phone until you upload it.

Your Garmin, Apple Watch, Amazfit or Galaxy (Wear OS) watch can upload sessions to your account. A session holds the GPS track, speed and distance, and — when your watch measures them — heart rate, calories, and each jump's height, airtime and rotation. Around each jump the watch also sends a few seconds of motion readings, so we can measure the jump again on our server; we never record or keep motion data for the whole session.

Your weight (typed in your profile, or read from your watch if you allow it) is used to work out calories and jump measurements. Heart rate and weight are shown only to you, unless you choose to share them on a session.

An uploaded session is stored under your account. For accounts created from October 2026, sessions are shared by default — visible to other people on your public profile; accounts created earlier keep the setting they had. A GPS track can reveal exactly where you launch from, so you can make any session private, or set your default to "Private" in your profile at any time. You can delete an uploaded session at any time, or delete your account entirely, which removes your profile and session data.

The Android app shows this website and adds what a web page cannot do: it receives sessions from your Garmin or Galaxy watch and keeps them on your phone until you review and upload them, or delete them, and it can show a notification when a session arrives. The Android app shows no ads.

Recording with your phone (iPhone and Android): when you start a recording, the app uses your phone's GPS and motion sensors until you stop it, including while the screen is off or you use other apps, so the session keeps recording in a waterproof pouch. Nothing is recorded when you have not started a recording. The session stays on your phone until you review and upload it. On Android, the first time you record, the app checks which sensors your phone has; the phone model and that result (for example “Android 15 · GPS · gyroscope”) are sent with your sessions so we know which phones work. Otherwise the apps use your location only when you tap a “near me” or Go Live button.

Apple Health and Health Connect: if you allow it, the iPhone app reads your weight from Apple Health and the Android app reads it from Health Connect, and each can save your phone sessions there as a workout with its calories. You choose this in Health & permissions and can turn it off at any time there or in Apple Health or Health Connect. We read nothing else from them. Data from Apple Health or Health Connect is used only for your own numbers in WGG (calories, pump power, the kite size guide); it is never sold, never used for advertising, and never shared with anyone else.

When you're signed in, we record which app or browser you last used Windy Guide from, for example “Android app · samsung SM-S918B · Android 15” or “iPhone · Safari”, and which one each session was uploaded from. It's a short description worked out from the information every app and browser sends with a request, not a device identifier. We use it only to know which phones and browsers we need to test and support. Only site administrators can see it, it is never shown publicly, and it is deleted with your account.

Feedback, videos and photos: when you send feedback or report a problem, we keep your message, and your email if you give it, to answer you. If you add a video or photo (for example a screen recording), we keep it for 90 days to fix the problem, then delete it. If you leave “Also send my app and phone details” ticked, the description of your app and phone described above (and, in the Android app, what its sensor check measured) is sent with it. Only site administrators see your feedback and its files; they are never shown publicly.

Notifications

If you allow notifications, we keep the token your phone or browser gives us to deliver them (through Apple, or Google's Firebase on Android). It is deleted when you turn notifications off or delete your account.

How long we keep your data

For as long as you have an account. A session you delete, or your whole account, is removed from our database straight away; it can remain in our hosting provider's automatic backups for up to 30 days, then it's gone.

Deleting your account

In the app or on the website: Profile → Settings → Delete my account. The steps are also at windygalaxy.com/delete-account, which works even if you no longer have the app.

Cookies & analytics

If you accept cookies, we use Google Analytics to understand overall site usage (pages viewed, general location, device type). WGG shows no ads. You can decline these in the cookie banner, and change your mind later by clearing your browser's site data.

Third-party services

Wind forecasts are requested from Open-Meteo (open-meteo.com) using only the coordinates of the spot you select — no personal data is sent. Map tiles are served by CARTO and OpenStreetMap. Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts. Each of these services may log standard technical data such as your IP address, as any web request does.

Children's privacy

This site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to spots@windygalaxy.com.