Privacy notice

Who is responsible

The controller of your data is Andrii Shramko. You can reach him at zmei116@gmail.com or through the contact form on this site.

Cookieless visit counter

The site and the simulator send a few whitelisted events to their own server at /api/e: page views (only the language of the page), switching language, clicks on the main buttons and contact links, opening and switching a scene, the kind of input connected (radio, gamepad, keyboard or touch), arming, crashes and the walls switch. No cookies are set, no device identifier is created and the events do not contain your IP address.

Purpose: understanding which parts of the site and the simulator are useful (legitimate interest, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Events are kept for 12 months.

Google Analytics — only with your consent

The site and the simulator use Google Analytics 4, a service of Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland), only if you press Accept in the banner. Until then nothing from Google is loaded. Consent mode starts with every storage type denied, and Accept grants analytics storage only; advertising features and Google signals are off.

After you accept, Google Analytics sets the cookies _ga and _ga_E7X0ES0QBE on this site and records the pages you view and what you do on them: the events of the counter above, the sections of the page you scroll to, the forms you start and send (never their content or your e-mail address) and errors of the page's scripts, together with your browser, device type and an approximate location that Google derives from your IP address (Google Analytics 4 does not store the IP address). The cookies expire after 14 months at most, and Google keeps this data for 14 months; it may be processed outside the EU under the EU standard contractual clauses.

Legal basis: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). Your choice is kept in your browser's storage. You can withdraw it at any time: Cookie settings at the bottom of every page (in the simulator: Cookie settings in the pause menu), then Decline. The cookies are then deleted and nothing more is sent to Google.

Stored only in your browser

Radio calibration, flight history and favourites stay in your browser's storage. They are strictly necessary for the simulator to work, never leave your device and need no consent.

Collaboration form

If you send the form, your email, the role you chose and your message are stored on the server and forwarded to the owner's Telegram notification bot.

They are kept without a fixed time limit, so that the owner can get back to you later, even years from now, until you ask for them to be deleted or withdraw your consent: write to zmei116@gmail.com or use the contact form. Legal basis: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).

Bug reports and ideas

If you send a bug report or an idea from the simulator or this site, your message, the page and scene you were on, the release, your language and, if you leave one, your contact (an e-mail address or another handle) are stored on the server. Technical details (browser, graphics card, screen, frame times, recent errors, settings, the flight log and a small picture of the view) are added only if you tick the box for them.

A Drone physics report, sent with Help tune it in the simulator, also carries the drone it is about, the Betaflight text and the blackbox log link you paste and, unless you untick its box, the simulator settings you changed for that drone, the flight mode and the input you fly with (radio, gamepad, keyboard or touch). They are stored and forwarded like a bug's technical details.

Everything you send, including your message, your contact and, if you added them, the technical details and the picture, is forwarded to the owner's Telegram chat (so it passes through Telegram's servers), where he reads and sorts the reports. Your e-mail address is used only to answer you: the owner's replies, and a thank-you once your idea is in the simulator, come from his Gmail address (zmei116@gmail.com) through Google's mail servers. So that a reply reaches you in the language you wrote in, your message (to recognise its language) and the owner's reply (to translate it) are sent to Google's Gemini API. Nothing is sent automatically, and if you reply, your answer goes to his Gmail inbox. If you tell him an idea in person and give him your address, it is kept and used the same way.

Reports are kept while the idea or the problem is being worked on and afterwards as a record of how the simulator was improved; your contact is kept with them, without a fixed time limit, so that the owner can write to you again later. The public roadmap shows only titles written by us, never your words or your contact. You can ask at any time (zmei116@gmail.com) for your report, or only your e-mail address, to be deleted. Legal basis: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), given by sending the report and ticking the box for technical details.

Scene images and scene data

Scene preview images on this page, and the scenes themselves in the simulator, are loaded by your browser directly from PlayCanvas servers (SuperSplat). As with any website, those servers see your IP address.

Fly by Sound recordings

Fly by Sound lets blind and low-vision pilots learn to fly by ear. Recording is off until the pilot, or the helper beside them, agrees to it. If you agree, the simulator records on your own device: the flight (path, speed and sticks), the sounds and spoken lines played, the lesson's events (gates, touches, resets, steps), your answers to a short survey and, if your browser allows the microphone, your voice. It also notes your language, audio settings, the type and name of the input device, the name of the graphics adapter and the simulator version, a random pilot ID and, only if you type one, a nickname (never required: please do not use your real name). After you stop, the app offers a short survey by voice. The microphone stays on while the survey is asked, so that spoken answers are in the recording, and it goes off when the survey ends or is declined.

The recording stays on your device, in the browser's private storage, until you save it to a file or send it. Sending needs a separate confirmation: a second key press after the app has asked, the Send button with the pilot's agreement ticked, or, if you chose voice commands, saying yes. Nothing is sent before that.

Purpose: to test and improve the sound language, the lessons and the simulator with blind and low-vision pilots, and to answer them. Legal basis: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), given separately for recording, for sending and, if you use them, for voice commands. A voice recording is personal data, and consent is the basis for it too. You can withdraw consent at any time; that does not affect what was done before.

A recording you send is stored on this site's server and forwarded to the owner by Telegram (so it passes through Telegram's servers) and by e-mail (through Gmail). Only the owner can open it on the server: the admin page is behind his password.

How long: the server keeps a recording while the project runs and at most five years, and deletes it earlier if the pilot or a parent asks. The owner deletes his copies in Telegram and in his mailbox on the same request. A recording that was never sent exists only on your device, and you can delete it there at any time from the recordings panel.

Pilots under 18: a recording can be sent only if a parent or guardian has signed the consent form and the helper has confirmed this before recording. The confirmation is written into the recording, and the server refuses a minor's recording without it. Without the confirmation the recording stays on the device. A template of the consent form is in the open-source repository of Fly by Sound (it is not legal advice).

Voice commands (saying "send it to the author") are off until someone ticks the box in the recordings panel. They use your browser's own speech recognition, which sends the audio to the browser's maker (in Chrome, to Google) under its own privacy terms: we do not receive or control that audio. The keys always work, and nothing is listened to while a recording runs. For a pilot under 18 the box can be ticked only after the guardian's consent is confirmed.

Deletion: to have a sent recording deleted, write to zmei116@gmail.com or use the contact form and give the reference shown beside the recording in the recordings panel (it starts with S-) or, if you no longer have it, the date and the lesson. Your other rights are listed under "Your rights" below.

Your rights

You can ask for access to your data, its correction or erasure, restriction of processing, data portability, and you can object to processing or withdraw consent — through the contact form or by email.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Polish supervisory authority, the President of the Personal Data Protection Office (UODO).