Privacy

This covers the Everything Space iOS app and everythingspace.online. It is written from what the software actually does. Where something leaves your device, it says so and says where it goes.

The short version: you can read everything here without an account. An account exists so your saved items follow you between devices and so you can post. We do not sell anything, there is no advertising, and there is no third-party tracking in the app.

Most of what the app knows about you is only ever stored on your phone, and is deleted with the app:

• What the app has learned about your interests, and the topic weights built from it.
• Reading and activity counts, streaks and badges.
• Recently viewed items, and saved articles when you are signed out.
• Launch and sky alerts — these are scheduled locally, so nothing is sent to arrange them.
• Cached article text, images and API responses, so the app works offline.
• ISS pass predictions. Your location is used to compute them on the device and is not transmitted for that purpose.

• Your email address, if you create an account. It is how you sign in — we send a link rather than storing a password. Sign-in emails are delivered by Resend.
• Your public profile: username, display name, the astronaut picture you chose, and your bio. This is public by design — it appears beside your posts and at your profile URL.
• What you post: posts, replies and votes, with the time you made them. Posts and replies are public. Reports you file are visible to us, not to other members.
• Saved items, once you are signed in, so they follow you between the app and the website.

That is the whole list. There is no advertising identifier, no contacts access, no photo library access, and no profile built for targeting.

Location is never requested at startup. It is requested when you press a button that cannot work without it, and it is used for two things:

• ISS pass predictions, computed entirely on your device. Your coordinates are not transmitted.
• The aurora forecast, which cannot be computed on your device: NOAA publishes a 65,160-point probability grid, so the lookup happens on our server and your device receives a single number. Coordinates are rounded to about a kilometre before they are sent, are used only for that lookup, and are not stored in any database. They do appear in our hosting provider’s standard request logs, which are retained briefly and then discarded.

The assistant in the iOS app runs on an Anthropic API key that you supply. The key is kept in the iOS Keychain on your device and is never sent to us. When you use it, your questions — and the launch and news context the app attaches to them — go directly from your phone to Anthropic under your own account, not through our servers. If you never enter a key, nothing is sent anywhere. Anthropic’s handling of those messages is governed by your agreement with them.

The website uses Vercel Analytics and Vercel Speed Insights to count page views and measure how fast pages load for real visitors. Neither sets cookies and neither identifies you, which is why this site has no cookie banner — there is nothing to consent to. The iOS app contains no analytics at all: it has no third-party SDKs whatsoever, and sends us nothing about how you use it.

Everything Space shows data from NASA, NOAA, Launch Library 2, the Spaceflight News API, Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, Open-Meteo, and wheretheiss.at. Some of these the app requests directly, which means those services can see your device’s IP address in the ordinary way any website does. We do not send them anything about who you are. The full list is on the About & Sources page.

In the iOS app: Profile → Account → Delete account. It asks you to type DELETE to confirm, and then it is gone.

Everything goes: the account itself, your public profile, your saved items, and every post, reply and vote you have made. Replies other people wrote on your posts go with them. It happens immediately, it cannot be undone, and we have no copy to restore afterwards — so if there is something you want to keep, copy it out first.

Everything Space is built to be usable by a school pupil and a professor alike, and the whole of it can be read without an account or any personal information at all. Accounts and posting are intended for people aged 13 and over. We do not knowingly keep an account for anyone younger; if you believe a child has created one, email us and we will remove it.

If this policy changes in a way that affects what we collect, the change will be described here rather than quietly swapped in. Questions, deletion requests, or anything that looks wrong: kenneth.burridge2005@gmail.com.

Last updated 8 August 2026.