Privacy Policy
Last updated November 13, 2026
Starship Tracking (“the app”) is run by @willstarbase. This policy explains what happens with your information when you use it.
Your location
The app only asks for your device location when you tap Use my location. Your browser shows its own permission prompt, and you can say no. If you allow it, your coordinates stay in your browser. Pass times are calculated on your device, and your coordinates are never sent to our server.
Typed locations (zip, postal code, city, address)
When you type a place and tap Go, your browser sends that text directly to a public geocoding service to turn it into map coordinates: Zippopotam.us (US zip codes), OpenStreetMap Nominatim, and, if needed, Open-Meteo geocoding. The app then sends the rounded coordinates to Open-Meteo to look up that place’s time zone. Those services have their own privacy policies. Our server never receives what you type.
What we store
The app has no accounts, cookies, third-party analytics, ads, or trackers, and it never sends your location to our server. To save you re-entering your location after a refresh, the app keeps the place you chose (rounded coordinates, its name, and its time zone, with no location history) in your browser’s local storage on your device only. It expires automatically after 24 hours. Choosing a new location (the location button or typing a place) replaces it, and clearing this site’s data in your browser removes it right away.
Anonymous visit counts
To see how many people use the app, our server keeps simple, anonymous counts: page views, a count of visitors per day, phone or desktop, the website that linked you here (its domain only, such as x.com), your country only if our hosting provider supplies it, and when a location is set (only whether it came from the location button or was typed, never the location itself). This uses no cookies and stores nothing on your device. To count each visitor once per day, the server turns your IP address and browser type into a one-way scrambled code using a key that changes every day, so a visitor can't be linked from one day to the next, and this counter never stores your IP address. These counts are kept in our Google Cloud logs, are never shared or sold, and are used only to understand overall usage.
Server and hosting
The app is hosted on Google Cloud Run. Our server only serves the app files and passes along the public Starship feed from stardash.live. Like most web hosts, Google Cloud may keep standard technical request logs, such as IP address, time, page requested, and browser type, for security and operations. We don’t use these logs to identify or track anyone. The world map is served from our own server (Natural Earth public-domain data), so map viewing involves no third party.
Children
The app isn’t aimed at children under 13 and doesn’t knowingly collect information from anyone.
Changes and contact
We may update this policy, and the date above will change when we do. Questions: @willstarbase on X.