Privacy Policy

Flarient ("we", "us", "our") operates flarient.com. This policy explains what personal data we collect, why, and the rights you have under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). We are committed to data minimisation: we collect only what is needed to run the service. This policy was last updated on 20 August 2026.

1. Data we collect

You do not need an account to read the dashboard. If you register, we store your email address and a securely hashed password, managed by our platform provider. We do not sell, rent or share personal data with third parties for commercial purposes. The personal data we collect from registered users includes:

• Account data: email address, name (optional), and role.
• Display preferences: display name, avatar emoji, profile photo, and country (optional) for the public leaderboard.
• Cosmetic preferences: owned and equipped avatar frames, badge styles, and profile themes purchased with Orbit Credits. These are visual-only and do not affect competitive outcomes.
• Saved locations and Terminal assets: latitude, longitude and a label you choose for personalised aurora forecasts, plus monitored assets (equipment, trips, infrastructure) you add to My Flarient Terminal, including their configuration, status history, alert thresholds and notification preferences.
• Bookmarks: links you save to briefings, articles, archive days and pages.
• Aurora diary and sighting reports: dates, locations, photos and notes you submit.
• Photo competition entries: photos, titles and photographer names you submit for community voting.
• Storm and flare predictions: the dates and values you predict for the Forecast League and storm prediction game.
• Gamification data: visit streaks, points, earned badges, quiz completion records and achievement notifications.
• Email preferences: whether you receive weekly recaps, daily digests and alert types (storm, aurora, flare).
• Feature suggestions and contact form submissions: feedback you voluntarily submit, stored to route to our admin team.
• Fact check submissions: claims you submit for fact-checking, including the claim text, your display name, and the verdict article generated from your submission.
• Signal observations: observation type, coarse location label, approximate coordinates, optional photo, intensity rating and comments you submit to the Signal Network.
• Ionosphere and satellite data: Flarient retrieves real-time TEC data from NOAA GloTEC, satellite positions from CelesTrak and wheretheiss.at, community telemetry from SatNOGS, and launch schedules from Launch Library 2. These are public scientific datasets and no personal data is sent to these providers.
• Crew membership: display name, role, current status, poll votes and activity you contribute within aurora-chasing crews.
• Event passport: records of events you have observed, photographed, joined crews for, or submitted forecasts for.
• UAP sighting reports: dates, locations, descriptions and photos you submit to the UAP reporting tool.
• Push notification subscriptions: browser push endpoint URL, ECDH public key, auth secret and user agent, used solely to deliver push notifications to your device.
• Telegram chat preferences: your Telegram chat ID, username, preferred language, Kp alert threshold, saved location and mute/snooze settings, if you use our Telegram bot.
• Facebook Messenger subscriber data: your Page-Scoped ID (PSID), display name and last message, if you interact with our Facebook Messenger bot.
• Forecasting data: probabilities you express on forecast markets, PIQ balances and transactions, Brier scores, calibration metrics, Flarient Rating, reputation data, and league standings. AI analyst predictions are generated server-side from public data and do not use your personal data.
• Research submissions: thesis text, cited sources, AI Review Panel scores, and community upvotes you submit to the Research Wing.
• Direct messages: conversation content, sender name, and timestamp for private messages between users. Messages are stored server-side and visible only to conversation participants.
• Friend/follow data: user IDs and display names of users you follow or have friend relationships with, for quick access in messaging.
• Profile photo: if you upload a custom profile photo, the image URL is stored and displayed on your profile, in the top-right account button, and alongside your posts and messages.
• Bot agent data: if you register an AI bot, the agent's name, API key hash, forecast submissions, and performance metrics are stored and publicly displayed on the bot's performance page.
• Enterprise API keys: if you use the enterprise API, your key hash, organisation name, scopes, usage logs, and webhook configuration are stored for authentication and metering.

2. User-generated content

When you submit aurora photos, sighting reports, photo competition entries, signal observations, UAP sightings, crew activity or feature suggestions, that content is associated with your account. Aurora photos, sighting reports and signal observations may be displayed publicly (with your display name and coarse location) on the gallery, community map, signal network and photo competition pages. Your email address is never displayed publicly. You can delete your own content at any time from your account page, the Privacy Center, or by emailing us.

3. AI-generated content

Daily briefings, blog articles, news flashes, audio briefings, weekly recaps and the Daily Space Podcast are generated by automated AI agents using public scientific data from NOAA, NASA and JPL. This content is produced without human review of every article and may occasionally contain inaccuracies. It is provided for general interest and education, not as an authoritative forecast. Always consult official sources for safety-critical decisions. The podcast is hosted on GitHub Releases and distributed via a public RSS feed — no personal data is collected from podcast subscribers.

4. Auto-translation

When you select a non-English language, UI text (page titles, subtitles, labels) may be translated automatically using a large language model. The English source text is sent to our translation provider, which returns the translated string. Translations are cached in your browser's local storage so each unique string is only translated once. No personal data is sent to the translation provider — only the UI strings being translated.

5. Leaderboard and gamification

The public leaderboard displays display names, avatar emojis, countries (if provided), visit streaks, badge counts and points. Email addresses are never shown on the leaderboard or any other public page. You can set a display name and country from your account page, or choose to remain anonymous. Streak data is calculated from your daily visits and stored server-side. Forecast League predictions display your chosen display name alongside your prediction.

6. Messaging bot integrations

If you interact with our Telegram bot or Facebook Messenger bot, we store your chat ID, username, language preference, alert threshold and (for Telegram) your saved location to deliver aurora window alerts, daily digests and storm notifications. You can unsubscribe from bot alerts at any time by sending STOP (Messenger) or using the bot's /stop command (Telegram). Bot data is retained while your subscription is active and removed on request.

7. Social media posting

Flarient posts automated space weather briefings, blog article highlights, and business impact summaries to Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Telegram, and Discord using authorised connector accounts. These posts contain only public space weather data and links to flarient.com. No personal user data is included in social media posts. We do not post on behalf of individual users. Each platform receives content with a tone of voice tailored to that platform's audience. Instagram posts use a single shared AI-generated image; no user data is sent to the image generation provider.

8. Email communications

Registered users can opt in to weekly recap emails, daily digest emails, and real-time alerts for geomagnetic storms, aurora visibility and solar flares. Each email includes a personalised unsubscribe link that lets you turn off specific alert types or all emails. You can also manage all email preferences from your account page. We do not send unsolicited email to users who have not opted in. No tracking pixels or open-rate cookies are used in our emails.

9. Push notifications

If you enable push notifications, we store your browser's push subscription endpoint and cryptographic keys to deliver storm and aurora alerts to your device. You can disable push notifications at any time from your browser settings or the account page, which deletes your subscription data.

10. PIQ points and Orbit Credits

Flarient maintains two separate virtual unit systems. PIQ (Prediction IQ) points are free, non-transferable units used to express conviction in prediction markets — they are automatically replenished, cannot be purchased, sold, withdrawn, or exchanged for anything of monetary value. Orbit Credits are a separate cosmetic currency purchasable for non-competitive visual customisation (themes, animated badges, AI-generated gifts). Orbit Credits cannot purchase PIQ points, influence leaderboard scores, affect tournament qualification, or be transferred outside Flarient. Both systems maintain append-only ledger records with idempotency keys and audit metadata.

11. Premium subscriptions

Premium subscriptions are processed by our secure payment provider. We store your subscription status and entitlements but do not store card details — these are handled entirely by the payment provider. If you cancel your subscription, access to premium features continues until the end of the current billing period.

12. Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 with IP anonymisation enabled and advertising signals disabled. We rely on the limited-analytics configuration, which does not require a consent banner. No personally identifying cross-site tracking is performed. You can block analytics via your browser's Do Not Track setting or cookie controls without affecting dashboard functionality.

13. Local storage and embeddable widgets

Preferences such as theme, language, asteroid watchlist, dashboard layout, visit streak, translation cache, onboarding tour state and A/B test assignment are stored in your browser's localStorage. This data never leaves your device and is not sent to our servers. The Flarient WordPress plugin and embeddable widgets render via public iframe URLs on third-party sites; these embed pages do not require authentication and do not collect personal data from visitors of the embedding site. Widget configuration (theme, size) is passed as URL parameters and is not stored server-side.

14. Community moderation

Signal observations and user-generated content may be flagged by community members for review. Flagged content is reviewed by administrators who may remove content that violates our terms. Flagging data (flag reason and date) is stored with the flagged content and is visible only to administrators.

15. Legal basis for processing

For registered users, processing is based on contract and legitimate interests. For anonymised analytics, we rely on the limited-analytics exemption. We do not process special category data. User-generated content is processed based on your consent when you submit it. Messaging bot data is processed based on your consent when you initiate a conversation with the bot. Push notification subscriptions are processed based on your consent when you enable notifications.

16. Your rights

You have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict, port and object to the processing of your personal data, and to withdraw consent where applicable. You can delete your account and all associated data from the account page, the Privacy Center, or by emailing us. You can export your data from the Privacy Center at any time. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk. To exercise any right, email hello@derinatlas.com.

17. International transfers

Our platform, analytics, AI and payment providers may process data outside the UK. We rely on standard contractual clauses and provider-level safeguards to ensure appropriate protection.

18. Data retention

Account data is retained while your account is active and removed on request or via the Privacy Center. Space weather snapshots and daily briefings are retained indefinitely as a public historical archive. User-generated content (photos, reports, bookmarks, signal observations, crew activity, UAP sightings) is retained until you delete it or your account. Messaging bot data is retained while your subscription is active. Push notification subscriptions are retained until you disable notifications. Forecast League predictions are retained until the target year is resolved. Aggregated, anonymised analytics are retained long-term in a form that does not identify individuals.

19. Affiliate links

Some blog articles contain contextual affiliate links to third-party astronomy and astrophotography retailers. When you click an affiliate link, you leave flarient.com and visit the retailer's website, which is governed by that site's own privacy policy. Flarient does not share your personal data with affiliate partners, and the affiliate destination does not receive any personal data from us when you click through. The affiliate URL contains an affiliate identifier so the retailer can attribute any purchase to Flarient, but no personal data about you is transmitted in the link.

20. Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to hello@derinatlas.com. We will respond within one month as required by UK GDPR.