Privacy policy

esp32flight (the device firmware and the Android application „esp32flight”, package pl.theqkash.esp32flight). Effective: 27 July 2026.

The short version

esp32flight collects no personal data, requires no account, contains no advertising and no analytics or tracking of any kind. There is no server of ours behind it - the app talks directly from your device to public data services.

What the app processes, and where

• Your location is used only to know which part of the sky to show. You either type it in yourself, or the app estimates a rough position from your IP address using the public ip-api.com service. The location is stored only on your device and is never transmitted to the author. When fetching nearby aircraft, the coordinates you chose are sent to the flight-data services below, as this is technically necessary to answer the question „what flies near me”.
• Settings (radius, filters, themes, optional API keys you provide) are stored locally on the device or in the app's private storage, nowhere else.
• Observation history (the list of aircraft the device has seen) is stored locally and never leaves the device unless you export it yourself.

Third-party services

To do its job the app makes direct requests to: airplanes.live, adsb.lol, adsb.fi (aircraft positions), adsbdb.com, hexdb.io (routes and aircraft data), CARTO / OpenStreetMap (map tiles), RainViewer (precipitation), Open-Meteo (weather and geocoding), aviationweather.gov (METAR/TAF), planespotters.net (aircraft photos), wheretheiss.at (ISS position), SondeHub (radiosondes), ip-api.com (coarse IP geolocation), GitHub (airline logos, update check), and - only if you enable them with your own keys - FlightAware, aisstream.io and openAIP. Each of these services sees the standard technical data of any internet request (your IP address, the query) and handles it under its own privacy policy. The author receives none of it.

Permissions (Android)

The app requests only INTERNET and ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE. It does not access your device's GPS, contacts, storage, camera or anything else.

Children

The app is not directed at children and processes no personal data of any user.

Changes and contact

If this policy ever changes, the new version will appear at this address. Questions: github.com/theqkash/esp32flight/issues.