Privacy Policy
Last updated: 2026-07-15
Stargaze Atlas collects no personal information and sets no cookies. When you use "stargazing tonight near me," your device location is used only in your browser to find your nearest town — it is never sent to us. To show tonight's cloud cover and aurora odds, only that town's public coordinates (not your exact location) are sent to the public NOAA and Open-Meteo forecast services. Traffic is measured with aggregate, privacy-preserving analytics that use no cookies and identify no individual. The site shows no advertising today; if third-party ads are added later, this policy's Advertising section explains what that would mean. Contact [email protected].
The short version
Stargaze Atlas collects no personal information, requires no account, and sets no cookies. The town finder and the "tonight" panel run in your browser.
“Stargazing tonight near me” and your location
If you tap “use my location,” your device shares your coordinates with your browser only. We use them in the browser to find your nearest rated town, and then discard them. Your exact location is never sent to us or stored.
To show that town's cloud cover and aurora odds, only the town's public coordinates — not your exact position — are sent to the public NOAA and Open-Meteo forecast services. Those are third-party services with their own privacy policies.
The town finder
The search term you type filters an embedded list in your browser — it is never sent to a server.
Analytics
Traffic may be measured with aggregate, privacy-preserving analytics that use no cookies and identify no individual — coarse signals such as page views and referrers, never who you are.
Advertising
The site shows no advertising today. If lightweight display ads are added later, this section will be updated to describe any third-party cookies or identifiers that would involve, and your choices about them.
Contact
Questions about privacy can go to [email protected].
Questions about this page? Email [email protected].