Privacy
What the site stores, what it sends, and to whom.
Operator: Moneta Media Labs LLC. Effective 21 September 2026.
The short version
There are no accounts, no advertising, no advertising cookies and no sale of personal information. What you do in the explorer stays in your browser, with the exceptions listed here.
What stays on your device
- The observing location you save for Sky view, and your motion preference, are kept in your browser’s local storage. They are never sent to us. Clearing the site’s data in your browser removes them.
- A location that arrives in a link someone shared is used for that view only and is not saved.
Requests the site makes to others, only when you use the feature
- Place search in the location chooser sends the text you type to Photon (photon.komoot.io), a search service built on OpenStreetMap data.
- Use my location asks your browser for the device’s position. The browser asks your permission first. The position is used in your browser and is not sent to us.
- The ISS: while the International Space Station is shown, its current position is requested from wheretheiss.at.
Each of those services receives your network address, as any web server does, and has its own privacy policy.
Hosting
The site is served by Cloudflare. Like any host, Cloudflare processes each request’s network address, time, address requested and browser type to deliver the page and to protect the service, and keeps logs under its own policy.
Measurement
We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits and measure page performance. It uses no cookies, does not store anything on your device and does not build a profile of you. It records the page address without anything after “?” or “#”, so the object, date, camera and observing location in a shared link are not sent to it (checked on the live site on 20 September 2026). It also records the referring site, the browser and device type, the country derived from the network address, and load timings. If your browser blocks the script, the site works the same.
Links you share
A link from the Share button contains the object, the date and time, the camera position and view settings, and in Sky view the observing latitude and longitude. Anyone you send it to can read them.
If you write to us we keep the message and your address for as long as needed to deal with it, and we do not use them for marketing.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask what personal information we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, and to object to its use. Write to info@moneta-media.com. In practice we hold nothing about visitors beyond email they send us.
Children
The site is for a general audience and does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, children included.
Changes
When this page changes, the date at the top changes.