By Weather Channel
#1 WeatheriOS Review
This app is owned by IBM, yet still uses invasive tracking and ads from many third-party sources. There are way too many trackers in this app for a simple weather app.
Weather's Privacy Rating is D. We found 12 different third-party trackers in the Weather app, and there were 176 attempted tracking connections detected during our test.
Blocked tracking attempts.
How was tracker testing done?
Tested using Lockdown v0.3.9
What was done during the test?
176 in a few minutes, simply by installing and opening the app and checking the different tabs and reading the privacy policy.
How many tracking attempts each time the app is opened?
29
Did user give consent to tracking before tracking started?
No.
Marketing
Mobile Ad Attribution Platform
Show Collected Data ›Privacy Policy: Unique identifiers, IP address, User agent, the URL from the referring website, downloads and installations of Applications, and other interactions, events, actions, Customer issued user ID, clicks on Customer ads, ad impressions viewed, audiences or segments to which an ad campaign is attributed, the type of ads and the webpage or Application from which such ads were displayed, the webpages on Customer’s website visited by an End User, IDFA (identifier for advertisers), Android ID; Google Advertiser ID, browser type, device type and model, CPU, system language, memory, OS version, Wi-Fi status, time stamp and zone, device motion parameters, carrier.
Marketing
Smarter Marketing, Better Results
Show Collected Data ›Privacy Policy: Owned by Google, so same as Google's Privacy Policy. Personal information, email address, apps, browsers, devices, unique identifiers, browser type and settings, device type and settings, and too much more to fit here.
Analytics
Realtime issue reporting
Show Collected Data ›Privacy Policy: Owned by Google, so same as Google's Privacy Policy. Personal information, email address, apps, browsers, devices, unique identifiers, browser type and settings, device type and settings, and too much more to fit here.
Analytics
Marketing
Measure Advertising ROI
Show Collected Data ›Privacy Policy: Owned by Google, so same as Google's Privacy Policy. Personal information, email address, apps, browsers, devices, unique identifiers, browser type and settings, device type and settings, and too much more to fit here.
Marketing
Reporting
App Monetization
Show Collected Data ›Privacy Policy: Device identifiers, including your IP address, iOS Identifier for Advertising (IDFA), Android Advertising ID, and a MoPub-specific identifier. Your precise geo-location, when location services have been enabled for an app on your device that has integrated the MoPub SDK and APIs. Note that when location services have not been enabled in any of your apps that have integrated the MoPub SDK and APIs, we will still infer data about your location based on other information, including your IP address. Information that a Publisher Partner has collected about you and/or shared with MoPub, including demographic information (e.g., your age or gender) or information about your interests, to help make the ads served to you more relevant. Information about your device, including the type and model, manufacturer, operating system (e.g., iOS or Android), carrier name, mobile browser (e.g., Chrome, Safari), and screen size. Information about your app usage, including the apps on your device that use the MoPub SDK and APIs and the version of such apps, the app on your device that is requesting an ad, the start/stop time of your app session, your current time zone, and your network connection type (e.g., WiFi, cellular). Information about ads served, viewed, or clicked on, including the type of ad, where the ad was served, whether you clicked on it, and whether you visited the advertiser’s website or downloaded the advertiser’s app.
Marketing
Global Market Research
Show Collected Data ›Privacy Policy: online web browsing activities, television viewing behavior (such as programs that you watch and record, your usage of your set-top box, your consumption of on-demand programming and over-the-top content, and your usage of interactive television applications), interests, your use of credit, and usage of applications, social media platforms, and your mobile device(s).
Analytics
User Behavioral Analytics
Show Collected Data ›IP Address, Location, Website Activity, and Browser Information, the first time the Application is opened, the mobile carrier, the device identifier, the type of device that is being used, if you have downloaded our Applications, and your usage activity while using the Application, mobile device model and OS version
Reporting
Performance Tracking
Show Collected Data ›Collection of Customer Data (a.k.a. Performance Data). Customer may use the Services to send New Relic data, such as: (i) when our software (e.g. agents, software development kits (SDKs), etc.) is deployed in our customers' applications, websites, and infrastructure, (ii) from synthetic monitors (which simulate transactions and actions carried out by users) or cloud integration, or (iii) when sent to our data collection systems (e.g. application programming interface (API), which allows the transmission of data between applications) for processing, which is made available in customer’s account (“Customer Data”). “Systems Operations Data” is data that relates to the use and operation of our Services and the systems and networks these Services run on, and includes log files, event files, and other trace and diagnostic files, as well as statistical, aggregated data, and Personal Data (such as user name, user ID, etc.).
Analytics
Marketing
Ad Intelligence
Show Collected Data ›Privacy Policy redirects to Oracle's Privacy Policy.
Marketing
Native Advertising
Show Collected Data ›Privacy Policy: User Information that we collect includes, but is not limited to, Information about a User’s device and operating system, IP address, the web pages accessed by Users within our Customers’ websites, the link that led a User to a Customer's website, the dates and times a User accesses a Customers' website, event information (e.g., system crashes), general location information (e.g., city and state), hashed email addresses (when made available by the User), and gender (when made available by the User).
Marketing
Market Research
Show Collected Data ›Privacy Policy: online identifiers (e.g., cookie identifiers, other hardware or device identifiers, and IP addresses), and Internet or other electronic network activity including information about your browsing history, operating system, browser type, website preferences, your use of website or application (e.g., time accessed, duration of visit, etc.).
Analytics
Marketing
App Marketing, Analytics
Show Collected Data ›Privacy Policy: During the normal course of business with Upland or our third-party partners, we may collect Personal Information such as your name, email address, postal address, phone number and other Personal Information you provide via the Sites when, for example, you request information about our Services, provide feedback about our Services or register for sales events or marketing activities. We may collect additional Personal Information, such as billing, banking or payment information, when you register for our Service and in order to establish an account with us. For self-service, credit card information may be collected and subsequently shared with a third-party service provider for purpose of billing and collecting payment.
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