Service providers (sub-processors)

About this list

These are the companies and services that process personal information for SkyCheck, what they do and where. We update this page before adding a new provider that handles personal information. Updated October 8, 2026.

Supabase

• Purpose: database, sign-in, photo storage, server functions and transactional email (account confirmation and password reset).
• Data: everything saved to your account (account details, drones, spots, log, settings, LAANC requests, marketplace and community content and messages, photos, push tokens, subscription records, terms acceptance, and the latest location for alerts).
• Location: United States (AWS us-east-2, Ohio).

Cloudflare

• Purpose: hosts skycheck.app and counts page views with Cloudflare Web Analytics (no cookies), and runs our proxy that fetches weather, satellite and building data for the apps.
• Data: IP address and request details, including rounded coordinates sent through the proxy. Responses are cached without user details.
• Location: United States company; global network.

Apple

• Purpose: App Store purchases and subscription notices, push notifications and Live Activities, Sign in with Apple, Apple Maps (iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch).
• Data: transaction IDs, push tokens and notification text, Apple sign-in details, map and search requests.
• Location: United States.

Google

• Purpose: Google Play purchases and subscription notices, Firebase Cloud Messaging push notifications, Google Analytics for Firebase and Firebase Crashlytics (both apps), ad measurement for Google Ads, Google Maps and the device geocoder, Wear OS data layer, and Sign in with Google where offered.
• Data: purchase tokens, push tokens, Firebase installation IDs, app activity and crash reports linked to your SkyCheck user ID, advertising identifiers if you allow them, notification text, map and search requests, Google sign-in details.
• Location: United States.

Meta

• Purpose: measuring and personalizing our ads for SkyCheck on Facebook and Instagram (Meta SDK in the apps; Meta Pixel on the website only after you click Accept).
• Data: app events such as install, sign-up, trial start and subscription, device advertising identifier if you allow it, device and app details, IP address; on the website, page views and button clicks with Meta's cookies.
• Location: United States.
• Opt out: Settings › Privacy › Personalized ads, Apple's tracking prompt, or the website's Privacy choices link.

Loops

• Purpose: sending product news and offers by email, and managing unsubscribes.
• Data: email address, SkyCheck user ID, subscription status and email engagement (opens and clicks).
• Location: United States.

Open-Meteo

• Purpose: weather forecasts, including the server's weather checks for your alerts.
• Data: coordinates rounded to about 1 km, and your IP address when the app connects directly.
• Location: Switzerland.

Airspace Link

• Purpose: LAANC authorization requests.
• Data: the flight name, area, altitude, start time, duration and flight type you enter; the pilot details you enter on its own page.
• Location: United States.

Public data services

These services receive your device's IP address and the area requested when the app contacts them, but no account details:

• NOAA (airport weather, radar, space weather; lightning data is downloaded by our server).
• Iowa Environmental Mesonet at Iowa State University (forecast radar).
• OpenStreetMap's Overpass service, run by FOSSGIS e.V. (building outlines; Germany).
• CelesTrak (satellite orbits).
• The FAA and Esri (airspace maps, TFRs, and NOTAMs looked up by our server for map areas, not for named users).

Not used

SkyCheck shows no ads inside the app and uses no data brokers or AI model providers for your data.