StepOutside Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 7, 2026
This policy applies to StepOut: Stargazing Weather (StepOutside), a free iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch companion that answers whether tonight is worth stepping outside to observe the sky, and that also provides a lock-screen or home-screen widget.
1. Information stored on your device
StepOutside keeps the following in its own local container: places you save (a name, coordinates, and time zone), your settings and preferences (selected place, comfort thresholds, reminder lead time, and the demo-curve switch), tonight's calculated sky analysis, the cached hourly weather used for the timeline, and your local reminder schedules. Saved places and the weather cache are not uploaded to Qiquverse.
2. Location
Location is optional. Only when you explicitly choose "Current Location" does the app request the iOS when-in-use permission, take a single foreground location fix, and send those coordinates to Apple's geocoding service to look up the place name. The coordinates of any selected place — including a place you add manually — are sent to Apple WeatherKit to request weather for that place. The app does not request "Always" location, does not run a background location mode, does not build a location history or route, and does not track you between sessions. You can skip location entirely or add a place by hand, and the astronomy features keep working.
3. Motion and heading
The heading compass reads device attitude and magnetic heading through Apple's Core Motion frameworks only while the compass screen is open, and stops when you leave it. Heading is transient: it is used to point out a direction on screen and is not written to disk.
4. Apple services and platform dependencies
Weather comes from Apple Weather (WeatherKit), and place names come from Apple's geocoding service; weather and geocoding availability depends on Apple, on your network, and on the developer's WeatherKit capability. Astronomy results (window, moon, twilight, and galactic-core position) are calculated locally on the device with a simplified model. Local reminders use Apple's UserNotifications framework, and the widget and Apple Watch snapshot use the app group container and Apple's WatchConnectivity to send a small payload to your own paired watch. The optional narration uses Apple's on-device Foundation Models when that system model is available. Apple handles these system services under Apple's own terms and privacy policy.
5. Shared widget and Apple Watch snapshot
To keep the widget and watch in step with the app, StepOutside writes a small summary into an app group container on your device and sends the same summary to your paired Apple Watch. That summary contains the verdict level and score, the suggested window start, the place name, the time zone, and timestamps. It does not contain coordinates, and it is not sent to Qiquverse or to any other party.
6. No account, cloud, analytics, advertising, or tracking
The current release has no account system, no Qiquverse server or backend, no cloud sync or CloudKit database, no analytics or crash-reporting SDK, no advertising, no third-party SDK, no tracking or advertising identifier use, and no cross-app or cross-site tracking. There are no in-app purchases, subscriptions, or paywalls in the current release. The app does not collect your data for the developer, and it does not sell data to anyone.
7. On-device narration and accuracy limits
When the app writes a short plain-language sentence about tonight, it uses Apple's on-device model on your device if that model is available and the feature is enabled. No text, place, coordinate, or weather value is sent to a third-party AI provider, and the numbers in the sentence come from the app's own calculations. If the on-device model is unavailable, the app silently falls back to its rule-written sentence.
8. Local reminders
Reminders are scheduled locally by iOS after you turn them on. The app does not send remote or push notifications from a server. If you decline notification permission, everything else keeps working.
9. Demo and synthetic data
When weather data is unavailable and you enable the demo curve, the app uses a locally generated illustrative curve for cloud cover. That state is clearly labelled as demo data in the interface, is not a real forecast for your place, and is never presented as observed weather.
10. Retention, deletion, and your controls
You control your local data from inside the app. You can delete an individual place in Places, and you can use "Reset all data" in Settings to clear places, settings, cache, and scheduled notifications together; the first-run explanation then appears again. Removing the app normally removes its local container. Because the app does not upload your records, no developer-side copy exists to delete. iOS backup and restore behavior is controlled by Apple.
11. Security limits
Keeping records local reduces unnecessary transmission but cannot guarantee absolute security, and it cannot protect data after device loss, reset, corruption, or unauthorized physical access. Keep your device passcode and backups protected.
12. Children
StepOutside is a general-audience utility, not a child-directed service. It has no account, no user-generated content, no social features, and no advertising, and it does not knowingly collect personal information from children.
13. Changes and contact
If a future version introduces accounts, cloud storage, analytics, advertising, purchases, or a remote AI provider, this policy will be updated before that version is released. For privacy, permission, or deletion questions, contact [email protected].
下楼看星隐私政策
更新日期：2026 年 10 月 7 日
本政策适用于 StepOutside（下楼看星：观星天气）。它是一款面向 iPhone、iPad 和 Apple Watch 的免费应用，用来判断今晚是否值得出门看星，并提供锁屏或主屏小组件。
一、保存在设备本地的信息
下楼看星会把以下内容保存在 App 自己的本地容器中：你保存的观测地点（名称、坐标与时区）、你的设置与偏好（选定地点、舒适度阈值、提醒提前量、演示曲线开关）、今夜的天算结果、用于时间轴的逐小时天气缓存，以及本地的提醒安排。保存的地点和天气缓存不会上传给奇趣宇宙。
二、定位
定位是可选的。只有当你主动选择“当前位置”时，App 才会申请 iOS 的“使用期间”定位权限，在前台获取一次定位，并将该坐标发送给 Apple 地理编码服务查询地点名称。任何选定地点（包括你手动添加的地点）的坐标都会发送给 Apple WeatherKit 以获取该地点的天气。App 不申请“始终允许”定位，不启用后台定位模式，不生成位置轨迹或历史记录，也不跨会话追踪你。你可以完全跳过定位或手动添加地点，天文相关功能仍然可用。
三、运动与方位
方位罗盘只在罗盘页面打开期间，通过 Apple 的 Core Motion 框架读取设备姿态与磁方位，离开页面即停止。方位数据是临时的：只用于在界面上指出方向，不会写入磁盘。
四、Apple 服务与平台依赖
天气来自 Apple Weather（WeatherKit），地名来自 Apple 地理编码服务；天气和地名查询是否可用取决于 Apple、你的网络以及开发者的 WeatherKit 能力。天文结果（窗口、月亮、天文暮光、银河核心位置）由 App 在设备本地用简化算法推算。本地提醒使用 Apple 的 UserNotifications 框架；小组件与 Apple Watch 摘要使用 App Group 容器和 Apple 的 WatchConnectivity，把一段很小的数据发送到你自己的配对手表。可选的短句叙述在你设备上的 Apple 端侧基础模型可用时使用该模型。上述系统服务由 Apple 按其自身条款和隐私政策处理。
五、小组件与 Apple Watch 共享摘要
为了让小组件和手表与应用保持一致，下楼看星会把一段很小的摘要写入你设备上的 App Group 容器，并把同一份摘要发送到你的配对 Apple Watch。这段摘要包含裁决等级与评分、建议窗口开始时间、地点名称、时区和时间戳。它不包含坐标，也不会发送给奇趣宇宙或任何其他方。
六、没有账户、云端、统计、广告或追踪
当前版本没有账户体系，没有奇趣宇宙的服务器或后端，没有云同步或 CloudKit 数据库，没有统计或崩溃上报 SDK，没有广告，没有第三方 SDK，不使用追踪或广告标识符，也不进行跨应用或跨网站追踪。当前版本没有内购、订阅或付费墙。App 不会为开发者收集你的数据，也不会把数据出售给任何人。
七、端侧叙述与准确度限制
当 App 为今夜生成一句简短说明时，如果设备上的 Apple 端侧模型可用且该功能已开启，就会在设备本地生成。任何文本、地点、坐标或天气数值都不会发送给第三方 AI 服务，句子里的数字来自 App 自身的计算。端侧模型不可用时，App 会静默回落到由规则生成的文案。
八、本地提醒
提醒在你开启后由 iOS 在本地安排，App 不会从服务器发送远程推送。如果你拒绝通知权限，其他功能仍然可用。
九、演示与合成数据
当天气数据不可用且你开启演示曲线时，App 会使用本地生成的示意曲线表示云量。该状态会在界面中清楚标注为“演示数据”，不是你所在地点的真实预报，也不会被当作实测天气呈现。
十、保留、删除与你的控制权
你可以在 App 内控制自己的本地数据。在“地点”中删除单个地点，或者在设置中使用“重置所有数据”，一次性清空地点、设置、缓存与已排期的通知；之后首次设置说明会重新出现。删除 App 通常会移除本地容器。由于 App 不会上传你的记录，因此不存在需要删除的开发者侧副本。iOS 的备份与恢复由 Apple 控制。
十一、安全边界
把记录保存在本地可以减少不必要的传输，但不能保证绝对安全，也无法在设备丢失、重置、损坏或遭到未授权物理访问后保护数据。请妥善保护你的设备密码与备份。
十二、儿童
下楼看星是面向普通用户的工具，不是面向儿童设计的服务。它没有账户、没有用户生成内容、没有社交功能、没有广告，也不会在知情情况下收集儿童的个人信息。
十三、政策变更与联系方式
如果未来版本加入账户、云存储、统计、广告、购买或远程 AI 服务，我们会在该版本发布前先更新本政策。如有隐私、权限或删除相关问题，请联系 [email protected]。