Privacy

What Orbit collects

Orbit's sky calculations run on your device. Your location, when you give it, and your settings are saved on your device so Orbit remembers them. Orbit has no accounts and doesn't store your location on its servers.

A few features need a server. For those, the app sends your location rounded to about 1 km, never the exact point:

• Weather forecast. Sent to Open-Meteo. If Open-Meteo can't be reached, it goes to Orbit's backup weather service, which gets current conditions from OpenWeather.
• Time zone for typed coordinates. Sent to Open-Meteo.
• Comet accuracy check. About once an hour, the app asks Orbit's Accuracy Lab service to compare a few comet positions with NASA/JPL Horizons for your area. The service passes the rounded location to JPL and stores nothing from the request.

When you search for a place, the text you type is sent to Open-Meteo's place search. It isn't sent to us.

Like any website, these services see your device's IP address when the app connects to them. Orbit's Accuracy Lab service uses it only for a short time, to limit how many requests one device can make, and doesn't store it.

Accuracy Lab location checks

The Accuracy Lab page lets you check Orbit's calculations against NASA/JPL Horizons for a place you choose. If you type a place name, the text is sent to Open-Meteo's place search to find it. The location is rounded to about 1 km in your browser before it's sent, and the rounded location is passed to JPL Horizons to work out the reference positions. Here is what happens to it after that, depending on what you choose:

• Default checks. Checks that use no location you entered use nothing personal.
• Use my location. If you turn this on, your location is used only to run that one check. Your browser asks you first.
• Share this check. If you turn this on, your location (rounded to about 1 km) and the result are kept as an anonymous sample, to help build the accuracy statistics shown on the page. We don't keep your name, your visit history, or your IP address with it.
• Keep anonymous error numbers from random checks. If you turn this on, we may keep the error numbers from a random share of your checks, with no coordinates, no precise timestamp, and only a broad 10° region. These records can't be traced back to you.

Every one of these choices is off unless you turn it on, and you can change your mind at any time.

What we never do with your location

• We don't sell your location or share it with advertisers.
• We don't build a history of where you've used Orbit.
• We don't ask for more precision than a check needs.

Feedback emails

If you send feedback through the app or website, it goes to feedback@orbitskyobserver.com, a mailbox Axis Orbital reads directly. The app may add version and device information to help us understand a report; that information isn't sold or shared.

Analytics

[Kevin: this section needs to say what's actually turned on — e.g. Cloudflare Web Analytics — once it's set up. Right now this is a placeholder.]

Contact

Questions about this page: feedback@orbitskyobserver.com.