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Mobile Privacy Notice

INTRODUCTION: BY INSTALLING, USING OR OTHERWISE ACCESSING THE APPLICATION FROM ANY DEVICE, MOBILE OR OTHERWISE, YOU ARE AGREEING TO ABIDE BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS PRIVACY NOTICE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, DO NOT DOWNLOAD AND/OR ACCESS OUR APPLICATION.

This Privacy Notice sets forth how Your information is collected, used, transferred, and stored through this mobile application that was created at the University of Illinois (“Application”). The purpose of this Application is to provide weather forecasting. The Application is owned by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (“University”, “we”, “our”, “us”). It is subject to the University of Illinois web privacy notice here (https://www.vpaa.uillinois.edu/resources/web_privacy) including the Supplemental Notice. The Supplemental Notice applies generally to the provision of personal information by individuals in the European Economic Area. The Supplemental Notice explains how the University meets its obligations under the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), and Your rights under GDPR. The Supplemental Notice can be found here.

1. What information may the Application collect from You?

a) Personal Information. “Personal Information” for purposes of this Privacy Notice means information that can be used to identify, contact, or locate an individual, such as, Your name, address, phone number, or email address. The Application does not collect Your Personal Information.

b) Other Information: To provide weather information for your location, we need to access your location using the GPS services. You will need to turn on location services on your device.

c) Automatically Collected Non-Personal Information. The Application may collect certain non-personal information automatically that may not, on its own, permit direct association with any specific individual. The following are some examples of non-personal information that may be collected: usage, including frequency of access, duration and time of access, and other. By using the Application, You are consenting to the collection, use, and disclosure, of non-personal information by Application.

2. How is Your Information used?

The Non-Personal Information may be used to compute statistics on Application usage and other.

3. Opt Out Information

You may opt-out of information collection by uninstalling the Application.

4. Changes to this Privacy Statement

We may amend this Privacy Notice from time to time. If we change this Privacy Notice we will post the changes on https://www.uillinois.edu/about/policies/mobile/MidwestRegionalClimate. Your continued use of the Application after any such changes will constitute your acceptance of the updated Privacy Notice. If you do not wish to accept the revised Privacy Notice, you must not use or access (or continue to use or access) our Application. Please do regularly check our Application or website to determine if the Privacy Notice has been updated and to review those changes before deciding whether or not to access (or continue to access) our Application.