No accounts

Launch Day has no sign-in. We never ask for your name, email address or phone number.

Your location stays on your device

If you tap "Use my location" on the Spots tab, the app reads your location to sort viewing spots by distance and estimate drive times. If you open "Point me at the pad", it reads your location and your phone's compass to point you at the launch pad. That happens on your phone; your location is never sent to us or anyone else.

Launch alerts

If you turn on alerts, your phone gives the app a push token (an address for notifications). We store that token, whether it's an iPhone or Android phone, the launches you follow and which alerts you want, so our server can send them. There is no account behind it: the token identifies the app on your phone, not you. Alerts travel through Expo's push service and Apple's or Google's notification service.

Turn alerts off in Settings or in your phone's settings to stop them. After you uninstall the app, its token is deleted the first time an alert to it comes back undeliverable.

Settings

Your settings (units, alert choices, launches you follow) are saved on your device.

Ads

The app shows banner ads from Google AdMob. Google's ads SDK collects device identifiers (the advertising ID, and on Android the app set ID), your approximate location from your IP address, how you use the app and its ads, and diagnostics such as crashes and performance, for advertising, analytics and fraud prevention. The app never asks iOS for permission to track you, so on an iPhone Google doesn't get the advertising identifier. On Android you can reset or delete it in Settings. See Google's policy: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

Where the data comes from

Launch schedules come from The Space Devs' Launch Library 2 and weather from the US National Weather Service, both through our server. Your device doesn't contact them directly.