Privacy
WhatsAbove is built to know as little about you as possible.
What we don't collect
- No accounts. There is nothing to sign up for.
- No stored addresses. The location you search lives in your URL bar and nowhere else. Our servers geocode it, return coordinates, and forget it (geocoding responses are cached briefly by text of the query, never tied to you).
- No location tracking. If you allow browser geolocation, the coordinates go from your browser straight into the page — they are used to query the aircraft feed like any other coordinates and are not logged as "yours".
- No analytics scripts, no fingerprinting, no social pixels.
What the infrastructure sees
The site runs on Cloudflare Workers. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes IP addresses and request logs to deliver and protect the service. Aircraft queries are rounded to a coarse 15-mile grid before leaving our edge, so upstream data providers see grid squares, not addresses.
Local storage
Your browser caches satellite orbital elements (a few hundred KB, refreshed every 2 hours) in localStorage
so repeat visits are instant. That's the only thing we keep on your device, and clearing site data removes it.
Advertising
Content pages may carry ads served in sandboxed frames. Ad partners may use cookies or similar technology subject to their own policies; we do not pass them your searches, your location, or any identifier. The live scope itself is never covered by ads.
Third-party data requests
Live aircraft data comes from adsb.lol and orbital elements from CelesTrak, fetched by our edge servers — your browser talks only to us for data. Fonts are self-hosted. No request from this site sends your identity to those providers.
Changes
If this policy changes materially, the date above changes with it. Questions: see the About page.