RAD SPACE is playable with no sign-in at all, and most of it works offline. Signing in is optional. It adds your profile on your other devices and on our website, spaceisrad.com, and it is needed to join a squad, because squad scores have to belong to someone.
If you do not sign in: nothing about who you are. No account, no identifier, no profile.
If you choose to Sign in with Apple (in the app or on spaceisrad.com): we ask Apple only to confirm it is you. We do NOT request your name or email, so we never receive them. Apple gives us a single anonymous identifier, and our server stores only a one-way scrambled (hashed) version of it that cannot be turned back into anything about you. Under that scrambled identifier we store:
No personal details, no contacts, no messages, no browsing history. There is nowhere in the RAD SPACE app, or on your profile, to type a name or write a message. Everything on your profile, including your callsign, is picked from a list we wrote, and our server refuses anything else. The only way to write to us is by email or the website's contact form (see "Contact").
Squads are teams. Other players only ever see squad TOTALS, such as how many points a squad has. Nobody can see your name, your profile, your answers, or your individual score, and there is no chat. Squad numbers stay hidden until every squad has enough active players that a total cannot point to one person.
RAD SPACE can use your location to show the sky for where you are standing: what is up right now, the Atlas Sky finder, and tonight's events. This is optional, and you can say no.
In the app, location is asked for only when you open a feature that needs it, and only "while using the app." It is used on your device to calculate star and planet positions and is never uploaded to our server or shared with anyone. Most features use roughly city-level accuracy; the Atlas Sky AR finder uses a closer fix (about 100 meters) so planets line up with the real sky.
On spaceisrad.com, the sky guide (and its preview on the home page) starts from your approximate city, which our hosting provider, Cloudflare, works out from your internet connection like it does for every website. There is no permission pop-up, nothing is stored on our side, and it is only city-level. If you want a more precise sky, you can tap "use my location": your browser then asks you first, the position stays in your browser, and to show a place name we send a version rounded to about a kilometer to BigDataCloud, a location-naming service. Your exact position is never sent anywhere.
You can turn location off at any time in your device or browser settings, and everything else keeps working.
Some optional features ask for a device permission, and each is used only for that feature:
You can grant or deny each of these in the iOS Settings app, and RAD SPACE keeps working.
Your progress and preferences are stored on your device. If you are signed in to iCloud, Apple syncs this across your own devices through iCloud, tied to your Apple ID and covered by Apple's privacy policy. If you also Sign in with Apple inside RAD SPACE, the same progress is saved to our own server (see "What we collect") so it appears on the website too.
You are always in control:
Memberships and purchases are handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. Apple processes the payment. We receive only what you bought, Apple's transaction number and the expiry date, so your purchase unlocks everywhere you sign in. We never receive or store your name, card number, or billing details.
spaceisrad.com uses one cookie while you are signed in (for up to 60 days), plus a second, short-lived cookie only while completing Sign in with Apple. Your browser also keeps your preferences and game progress for the site in its own local storage. The website uses Cloudflare's privacy-first visitor counter, which uses no cookies and does not track you across sites, and our hosting keeps short technical logs of requests (like which page was loaded) to keep the site working and secure. If you use the contact form, your name, email, message and any images you attach are emailed to us so we can reply; they are not stored in a database.
The RAD SPACE app includes zero analytics, advertising, or tracking libraries. We do not use the Advertising Identifier, and we do not track you across other apps or websites. The website's only measurement is the cookieless visitor counter described above.
To keep space data fresh, RAD SPACE downloads public information such as upcoming rocket launches, satellite tracking data, space news, videos, and images, from spaceisrad.com and from public sources including TheSpaceDevs, Celestrak, the Spaceflight News API, NASA, ESO, NOIRLab, and Wikimedia Commons. These are ordinary requests for public data. The app does not send your identity or your location to these services.
When you open a news story, it loads inside RAD SPACE from the publisher's own website, and RAD SPACE keeps you on that site. That page is run by the publisher, may have its own ads or measurement, and is covered by the publisher's privacy policy, not this one. On spaceisrad.com, some news and space images load directly from the sites that host them, which means those sites see the ordinary connection details any website sees.
RAD SPACE is made to be safe for classrooms and young learners. It shows no ads, includes no tracking, and has no chat and nowhere to write messages or share anything personal. Squads show only team totals, never a player's name or score. Signing in is optional and never required to use the app or in a classroom, so a student can use RAD SPACE with no account and no personal information collected at all.
We do not ask for, and do not knowingly collect, personal information from children under 13. If a child signs in, we receive no name and no email: only the anonymous Apple identifier, stored scrambled, which is used solely to run RAD SPACE for them (saving their progress, unlocks and squad play, and keeping the service working and secure). It is never used for advertising, never used to build a profile of them, and never sold or shared. Everything a player shows, such as a callsign, avatar or squad, is picked from lists we wrote.
If a child writes to us by email or through the contact form, we use their email address only to reply once, and then we delete the message. We ask children to get a parent's, guardian's or teacher's help before writing to us.
Parents, guardians and schools can see everything stored for a player in the app or on spaceisrad.com while signed in, and can erase all of it at any time with Delete Account in Settings. For help with either, email rozzilabs@gmail.com.
If this policy changes, we will update the date at the top of this page. Meaningful changes will be reflected here before they take effect.
Questions about privacy? Email rozzilabs@gmail.com and we will get back to you.
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