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Windy Hill app · Last updated 11/11/2026

The Windy Hill app shows families what is happening at Windy Hill Elementary School: whether there is school, the lunch menu, the weather, the calendar, and news from the school newsletter. It is an independent app. It is not an official app of the school, its PTO, or Calvert County Public Schools.

What the app collects about you

Nothing that identifies you. The app has no accounts and no sign-in. It does not ask for your name, your child's name, your email, your phone number, your contacts, or your location. It contains no advertising and no tracking or analytics tools.

What stays on your phone

Your choices are saved on your phone only and are never sent to us: which alerts you turned on and their times, how your student gets home, the grade you picked on a schedule, and the news items you dismissed. Deleting the app deletes them.

Scheduled alerts

The alerts under "On a schedule" (the morning summary, tomorrow's lunch and breakfast, deadlines, and pickup) are created by your phone itself from the school information it has already downloaded. We do not send them and we do not know whether you have them on.

Alerts from the school

If you turn on "Closings and delays" or "New newsletter," your phone gives our server a push address so those alerts can reach it, along with which of the two you chose and whether the phone is an iPhone or Android. A push address identifies an app on a phone, not a person. We use it only to send the alerts you asked for, which are delivered through Expo's push service and Apple or Google. We do not combine it with anything else or share it for any other purpose. Turning both alerts off removes your phone's address from our server.

What our server sees

To show current information, the app downloads the same school information for everyone from our server. As with any website, the server receives your phone's internet address and basic details about the request when that happens. We use this only to deliver the information and keep the service running. We do not use it to identify you, we do not store it with any profile, and we do not sell or share it.

Where the information comes from

The lunch menu comes from the county's published menus, the forecast from Apple Weather, and the calendar and news from the school's website and emailed newsletters. None of it is information about individual students or families.

Children

The app is meant for parents and guardians. It does not collect information from anyone, including children.

Changes and questions

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date. Questions can be sent through the support page.