What we collect, and what we do with it
Short version: we collect almost nothing, and only when you ask us to.
What we collect
If you use a "notify me" form, we collect your email address, optionally your postcode, and the page you signed up from. That's the entire list. We don’t collect names, and we don’t buy data about you. Reading our pages requires no account and sends us nothing — but your browser does contact a few third parties to load the page and, on the tracker pages, to work out where you are. Those are listed below.
Why we collect it
For exactly one purpose: to send you the notification you asked for — when satellite availability changes for your area, or when timing for your area is announced. The postcode exists so we can tell you about your area rather than spamming everyone about everywhere. We don't send newsletters, we don't sell or share the list with anyone, and we don't use it for advertising.
Where it lives
Signups are stored in Cloudflare's Workers KV storage, which may hold data on servers outside Australia. Access is limited to the operator of this site.
Getting off the list, or deleted entirely
Every email we send includes an unsubscribe link. If you want your record deleted entirely — or want to know what we hold about you (it will be the email, postcode and signup date above) — contact us via orbitalnodes.ai and we'll action it promptly.
Cookies and analytics
We use Google Analytics 4 to understand which pages are read. It sets cookies and your IP address is processed by Google. We don’t run advertising trackers that follow you around the internet. If display advertising is ever introduced, the ad provider’s own notices will apply and this page will be updated first.
Third parties your browser contacts
Loading a page on this site causes your browser to make requests to services we don’t control. Each one necessarily sees your IP address. We’ve listed all of them:
- Cloudflare — hosts the site, stores notify-me signups, and provides cookieless visitor analytics (no cookies, no cross-site tracking).
- Google Analytics — page analytics, sets cookies.
- Google Fonts — serves the typefaces.
- jsDelivr — serves the satellite-maths library used by the trackers.
On the satellite tracker pages only, if you ask for pass times we need an approximate location. If you grant browser location permission we use that and it never leaves your device except to compute passes locally. If you don’t, we fall back to an approximate lookup from your IP address using ipapi.co or BigDataCloud. That lookup sends your IP to those services. The resulting coordinates are stored only in your own browser’s local storage, never sent to us.
Tracker pages also fetch orbital data from CelesTrak and our own Cloudflare Worker, and occasionally through public relay services when a direct request is blocked.
Changes
If our practices change, this page changes before the practice does, with the review date below updated.