Worlds Apart

Effective July 31, 2026

Privacy Policy

Worlds Apart is designed to help you understand time zones for the people and places you care about, without requiring an account or collecting a profile about you.

What the app stores

Worlds Apart stores the people, groups, places, time zones, contact hours, ordering, and preferences you add inside the app on your device. This local storage is also used to support app widgets.

No account required

Worlds Apart does not require you to create an account. We do not operate a user account system for the app.

Weather and location context

Worlds Apart uses Apple Weather (WeatherKit) to show forecasts. When the app requests weather, the coordinates of the city or place being displayed are sent to Apple so Apple can return the forecast. Apple processes that request under its privacy policy. Worlds Apart does not operate a server that receives or stores these requests.

Location access is optional. If you choose Auto-Detect, Apple’s iOS location services are used to identify your current city and time zone. Worlds Apart does not continuously track you or store your raw live location. You can instead choose a city manually.

Retention and deletion

App information and any temporary weather cache are kept locally on your device for as long as needed to provide the app and its widgets. Delete a saved person or place inside Worlds Apart to remove that entry. Deleting the app removes its locally stored app and widget data. Worlds Apart has no user account or remote profile to delete.

Your location choices

You can stop location access at any time in iOS Settings under Privacy & Security, Location Services, Worlds Apart. The app can continue to work with a city you select manually.

Contact signals

Good Time, Maybe, and Quiet Hours are generated from local time, day of week, relationship type, and optional contact hours. They do not indicate live availability, calendar status, or whether someone can actually be reached.

Analytics and tracking

Worlds Apart does not contain advertising, third-party analytics, or cross-app tracking, and we do not sell personal information. If this changes in the future, this policy and the App Store privacy details will be updated before the change is introduced.

Website hosting

This website is hosted by Vercel. Like most hosting providers, Vercel may process basic technical information such as IP address, browser type, pages requested, and timestamps to serve and protect the site.

Support email

If you email us for support, we will receive the information you choose to include in that email, such as your email address, message, and any screenshots or details you send. We retain support messages only as long as reasonably necessary to answer the request, maintain support records, and meet legal obligations. You may ask us to delete a support message by contacting us at the address below, subject to any records we are legally required to keep.