Privacy

Space Events, Night Sky, and Flight Radar can use your device's location (via your browser's Geolocation API) to sort launches by distance, position the night sky accurately, and center the flight radar near you. Location is only requested after you click "Use my location" — it is never requested automatically.

Your coordinates are saved in your browser's localStorage (not sent to us — there is no server to send them to) so you don't have to re-enter them each visit. They are sent directly from your browser to:

• BigDataCloud's reverse-geocoding API, to turn coordinates into a city/country label shown in the location bar.
• airplanes.live, to fetch aircraft within your chosen radius, on the Flight Radar page only.

You can clear saved location data at any time by clearing this site's data in your browser settings, or by entering a different location manually.

The Night Sky page's optional AR Sky View requests camera and device-orientation access to overlay star and planet labels on your camera feed. The video feed is processed entirely on your device and is never uploaded, recorded, or transmitted anywhere.

Overhead uses your browser's localStorage to remember your saved location, and sessionStorage to briefly cache API responses (news, launches, flight positions) so pages load faster and stay within third-party rate limits. None of this data leaves your device except as described above.

Loading a page fetches data directly from the third-party APIs listed on the About page (news feeds, launch data, flight positions, star catalogs). Each of those services may log standard request metadata (like your IP address) according to its own privacy policy — Overhead does not control or have access to those logs.

Overhead does not use analytics or advertising scripts, does not have user accounts, and does not knowingly collect any personal information beyond what's described above.