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The “MyObservatory” is a highly famous weather apk providing personalized weather services. The apk provides current weather including temperature, relative humidity, rainfall, wind direction and speed, as well as weather photograph collected from nearby weather stations at user's place, specified place, or chosen weather stations. Weather images and rainfall data will be updated at 5-minute and 15-minute intervals respectively. Another data will be updated in 10-minute interval and the modernize time will be displayed at the bottom of the front page. Points to note: 1. In the "My Place Settings", players can opt for using the automatic place service provided by the phone, or designating "My Place" on the map themselves. This place will be displayed on the main page and in "My Weather Report". If your place cannot be found, "My Place" will present the latest place which was successfully found or "Hong Kong Observatory". The meteorological data displayed on "My Place" or the station you added is provided by meteorological stations nearby, and is not necessarily from a station in the same region. In case meteorological data is not accessible from nearby stations, data from another meteorological stations at headquarter of the Observatory, King's Park, and Star Ferry will be used instead. If this is the case, the symbol ▲ will appear to the left of the updated time. 2. The place displayed in the function of "My Weather Report" is provided by third party provider. 3. Depending on factors such as network usage and quality of user's mobile smartphone connection, it generally takes 5 to 15 minuntes for the apk to keep the weather warning and Unique Weather Advices after they are issued by the Hong Kong Observatory. 4. Although the “MyObservatory” is a gratis apk, player will be charged by their mobile network service provider on the use of data service. These charges can become very expensive on roaming. Please ensure that the option of “Data Roaming” have been disabled in the settings of your mobile devices. Meanwhile, the apk requires user’s authorization on: “full network access”, “view network connections”, “view Wi-Fi connections” to download weather data over the Internet. 5. Owing to the difference in topography and altitude between the weather station and user's place, and also the error in the estimated position given by the mobile device, players could note that weather info displayed on the apk may be various from actual conditions in using the "MyObservatory". 6. The clock on the main page of the apk is synchronized automatically to the Observatory's Internet Time Server, and may not be the same as the time displayed on the smartphone. 7. Use of location-based rain forecast notification will increase the battery usage and data download. 8. To let player to receive keep to necessary weather info such as weather warning, Unique Weather Advices, location-based rain forecast, etc., the “MyObservatory” would automatically notify players the above info according to user’s settings. This feature requires user’s authorization on “run at startup”. 9. The apk provides link for players to browse the Observatory's Fb Page. Players may select to log in his/her own Fb acc. More features of Fb can be used after logging in. Please be reminded to pay attention to the notes of the Fb Page, and the privacy policies of the Fb platform. 10. When isolated thunderstorms affect the place and the Observatory problems a thunderstorm warning that mentions the affected regions, the thunderstorm warning icon on the main page of the apk will be marked with a red dot. Upon clicking the icon, a map will be displayed to enable simple viewing of the regions affected by the thunderstorm warning.