Privacy

What we collect

• Your email address, from your Google or Apple account (to identify your sign-in).
• Your chosen username and optional home airport.
• For each capture: the photo you take, the time, your GPS location, and the compass heading and tilt at that moment — used to verify the sighting.
• Comments you post.

How it's used

Location, time and camera direction are used only to confirm you could genuinely have seen the aircraft. Your photo, username and aircraft details appear on your scrapbook and — for verified sightings — on the public feed. Your username and sighting statistics (spot counts, aircraft types, carriers, airports and rarity scores derived from your verified sightings) appear on the public leaderboards, which every SkyDex user can see. Your precise location is never shown publicly; the feed and leaderboards exclude exact coordinates.

Your consent, and your choice

Nothing is published until you agree to it. The first time you open SkyDex signed in, the app asks for your explicit agreement to your username, photos and sighting scores being uploaded and shown on the public feed and the global leaderboards — you can decline and sign out instead. Until you agree, you are not on the leaderboards at all.

You can also leave the global leaderboards at any time from Settings → Public sharing; switching it off removes your scores from the public boards immediately.

Storage

Data is stored with Supabase in the EU (London region). Photos are kept in object storage; everything else in an EU Postgres database.

Your rights

From your settings you can export all of your data as a file, or permanently delete your account and every sighting, photo and comment tied to it.

Questions

Anything unclear, or a request about your data? Write to the team from the support page — messages go straight to the SkyDex support queue, and we reply to the email address you leave there (usually within two working days).