Privacy policy

Last updated: 12 November 2026

Desktop Rain draws weather on your Windows desktop, or as a live wallpaper on Android. It runs on your own device. Short version: it collects nothing about you. It has no account, no ads and no analytics.

What stays on your device

• Your settings (weather, sliders, sound, city), and the trial's start date and licence key if you have the paid edition.
• On Android, pictures and videos you choose to show behind the weather are copied into the app's own private storage, so they keep working if you delete them from your gallery. They are never sent anywhere. Tilt readings, used only to steer the wind, are kept in memory only.

What goes over the internet

• Live weather (only if you turn it on and type a city): the city name is sent to the free Open-Meteo service to find its location, and that location's coordinates are then sent to Open-Meteo for the current weather, every 15 minutes or so while the weather is showing. Nothing else is sent: not your device's identity or your real location. Open-Meteo's own policy covers those requests.
• Withdrawn licence keys (paid edition): the app downloads the public list of withdrawn keys from our small update server (hosted by Cloudflare) at start-up, when you open its settings, and at most hourly. That request sends nothing about you.
• Updates (licensed copies): about once a day the app asks the same server for a newer version. So that only buyers get updates, that request shows your licence key, which holds the name you gave when you bought it and your device's code, not your device's identity. The server doesn't store it. You choose whether to install an update; on Android, Android's own installer asks you first.

Like any website, the server's host may keep short-lived technical logs such as your internet address. A trial copy with Live weather off makes no connections at all.

Buying a licence

The paid edition shows a short device code (for example 1N6N-0EQ9), made from a one-way scramble of your device's ID, so the ID itself can't be worked out from it. A licence key is checked on your device and needs no internet. We keep the details below only to make your licence key, to help you with it later (for example with a new phone), and to withdraw a key that was shared or refunded. They're used for nothing else, and never shared or sold. To have them removed, email us.

• On the payment page: payments are handled by Razorpay. Your card, UPI or bank details go to Razorpay, under Razorpay's own privacy policy; we never see them. The page asks for your name, email, phone number, device code and whether it's for a Windows PC or an Android phone. Razorpay passes those, with the amount, how you paid and the payment's reference, to our small order server (run on Cloudflare), so we can make your key.
• By WhatsApp or email: you send us your device code with your name and contact.

Android permissions

Internet (for the above) and installing apps (only so a licensed copy can install its own updates, after you confirm each one). It doesn't ask for your location, contacts, camera, microphone or notifications; pictures and videos come through Android's own file picker, which gives the app only the file you choose. If your phone's Google backup is on, Android may include the app's settings and saved pictures in your own Google account backup; that's a phone feature, not something the app does.

Children

Desktop Rain isn't aimed at children under 13 and doesn't knowingly collect anything from them.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version is published on this page with a new date. Questions, or a request to remove your purchase details: kogantiaditya1990@gmail.com.