Updated October 5, 2026
Privacy policy
LAUNCHDETECT LLC, Hawaii, USA operates LaunchDetect. Contact ops@launchdetect.com for privacy questions or requests.
Browsing the public launch record
You can use Explore without an account or payment. Explore does not request your name, email, precise location, camera, microphone, or contacts. Its launch data, fonts, spacecraft illustrations, and fallback Earth image are served from our hosting. Map drawings stay in the current page and disappear when it is reloaded.
Our hosting providers process ordinary connection information, such as IP address, requested URL, time, and browser information, to deliver the site, operate it, and protect it from abuse. These technical records are different from advertising analytics.
Your choices and optional content
Explore uses local storage for your chosen color palette, language, theme and privacy preference, and to remember that the introduction has been shown. It uses session storage to keep its optional coffee reminder from repeating during a visit. Interface translations are packaged with the site; switching languages does not send page text or visitor information to a translation service. It has no advertising or analytics SDK. See the cookie and local-storage policy.
Detailed Esri map imagery loads automatically, unless you previously selected the basic Earth image. NASA night imagery loads when you select that layer. These providers receive your IP address and requested map tiles. Choose the basic Earth image through Privacy choices. Choosing the basic Earth image stops further external imagery loading; it cannot recall requests already received by a provider. Esri privacy · NASA privacy.
Contact and pilot inquiries
We use details you send us to review your inquiry and reply. The pilot brief editor keeps what you type in the current page; it does not save the brief in browser storage or send it when you select Review. Online submission is currently unavailable. Copy or download your brief and email it only if you choose. Your email provider and our mailbox provider process email you send.
Give only the contact information and high-level description needed for a reply. Do not send passwords, payment-card details, sensitive personal information, or restricted mission information. An inquiry does not subscribe you to marketing or commit you to a paid service.
Optional support payments
After five minutes of visible browsing, Explore loads the Buy Me a Coffee support widget. Selecting its launcher opens the payment experience in an embedded frame operated by Buy Me a Coffee under its privacy policy. The widget is not loaded before the reminder appears. We may receive the supporter information, message, amount, and transaction details that the platform makes available to creators. We use them to acknowledge support, handle payment questions, and keep business records. Do not put sensitive information in a public supporter message. See our support and refund policy.
Accounts and existing workspace features
The separate workspace is for approved users and has additional data flows. Signing in uses Amazon Cognito and authentication storage. Account details, settings, saved locations, API activity, or community content you choose to submit may be processed by our AWS services. Content submitted for public sharing can be visible to others. Avoid uploading personal location information or images containing location metadata unless you intend to disclose it. Explore does not require these features.
For an account or community-content deletion request, contact us to identify the associated records. We will explain any necessary retention for security, business records, or legal obligations, including records held by third parties.
Use, sharing, and retention
We use information to provide requested features, respond to you, keep the service secure, and meet applicable obligations. We use service providers including AWS for hosting and authentication, and Buy Me a Coffee for support payments. We do not sell personal information or use Explore for targeted advertising. We may disclose information when legally required or necessary to address abuse or establish legal claims.
Contact and business records are kept as needed to handle the inquiry, maintain necessary business records, and address legal obligations. Technical and security records follow the relevant hosting retention settings. We do not claim a single fixed retention period across those systems. Ask us about access, correction, or deletion at the contact above. Local preference expiration is listed in the cookie policy.
Location, rights, and children
LaunchDetect is based in the United States, and information may be processed there and where our providers operate. Where applicable law grants access, correction, deletion, portability, objection, or consent-withdrawal rights, contact us to exercise them. We may need proportionate verification of your request; do not email identity documents unless we have arranged a suitable method. You may also complain to your local privacy authority. Using this policy is not consent to optional tracking or a waiver of your rights.
We do not direct account registration or support payments to children under 13 or knowingly collect their information. A parent or guardian who believes a child has sent personal information can contact us for review and deletion.
Changes
We will update this notice when relevant practices change and identify the revision date. Material changes that require a new choice will be presented before the new optional processing begins.