SpaceLaunching Privacy Policy

Welcome to the spacelaunching website (website domain: spacelaunching.org, hereinafter referred to as "this Website"). This Website is managed by the spacelaunching Operation Team (hereinafter referred to as "we"). We attach great importance to the protection of your personal information and privacy, adhere to the principles of legality, propriety, necessity and good faith, and comply with internationally recognized data protection standards (including but not limited to the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), etc.). We are committed to providing you with safe and reliable network services. This Privacy Policy is designed to detail how we collect, use, store, protect your personal information, as well as the rights you enjoy. Please read and understand all contents of this Policy carefully. By accessing, browsing or using this Website, you are deemed to have fully understood and agreed to all terms of this Policy.

1. Scope of Application

This Privacy Policy only applies to your personal information collected, used, stored and processed by this Website (spacelaunching.org), and does not apply to any third-party websites, applications or services (including but not limited to third-party websites linked from this Website, third-party plug-ins embedded in this Website, etc.). If you access third-party services through this Website, please refer to the respective privacy policies of those third parties for their information processing practices, and we shall not be liable for any joint liability.

This Website focuses on providing professional rocket launch information consulting services to global users, covering core services such as rocket launch plans, launch dynamics, launch sites, launch vehicles, launch providers and industry-related information consulting. All information processing activities involved in this Policy are carried out around the above-mentioned rocket launch information consulting services, and comply with international data protection compliance requirements throughout the process.

2. Personal Information We Collect

We strictly follow the "principle of minimum necessity" to collect your personal information, and only collect information necessary for providing rocket launch information consulting services on this Website. We will not actively collect personal information irrelevant to the services. The collected information is mainly divided into the following two categories:

(1) Personal Information You Voluntarily Provide

When you register an account on this Website, consult rocket launch-related information, submit feedback and suggestions, subscribe to information or use other services that require active information submission, you may need to provide the following personal information:

Account Registration Information: Including the user name and password you set yourself, as well as the email address and mobile phone number (optional) used for account verification and retrieval;
Consultation and Feedback Information: When you submit rocket launch-related consultations and feedback suggestions on this Website, the text content you enter and the relevant non-sensitive materials you upload (such as consultation-related documents and screenshots that do not contain personal privacy);
Subscription Information: The email address you provide when you subscribe to rocket launch information, consultation reminders and other contents;
Other Voluntarily Provided Information: For example, when you voluntarily participate in rocket launch-related surveys and activities organized by this Website, the relevant questionnaire information you fill in (excluding sensitive personal information).

(2) Personal Information We Automatically Collect

When you access, browse this Website or consult relevant information, our servers will automatically record some of your behavioral data. Such data does not directly identify your personal identity and is mainly used to optimize website performance, improve user consultation experience and analyze service usage. Specifically, it includes:

Device and Browser Information: Such as your device model, operating system version, browser type and version, and unique device identifier (such as IMEI, MAC address, which is only used for device identification and not associated with personal identity);
Access Behavior Information: Such as the time and date you access this Website, the rocket launch consultation-related pages you browse, the links you click, the stay time, the access frequency, and your IP address (used to identify the approximate scope of your geographical location to facilitate optimizing regional consultation service experience);
Information Collected by Cookies and Related Technologies: To ensure the normal operation of the Website and remember your browsing preferences (such as consultation records, language settings), we will use technologies such as Cookies and Web Storage to collect relevant information. You can disable Cookies through browser settings, but this may affect the normal use of some website functions and consulting services.

(3) Information Not Collected

We will not collect your sensitive personal information, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, religious belief, political views, biometric information, health information, property status, etc., unless you voluntarily provide it and give your explicit authorization (but we do not encourage you to provide such information). At the same time, we strictly follow the protection requirements of international regulations such as GDPR and CCPA for sensitive data.

3. Purposes of Using Personal Information

The personal information we collect is only used for the following legitimate purposes. Without your explicit consent, it will not be used for any other purposes, and we always adhere to the "purpose limitation" principle and internationally recognized data protection norms:

Providing Core Consulting Services: Including account login verification, maintaining account security, responding to your rocket launch information consultation needs, displaying the rocket launch dynamics and consultation records you care about, and realizing the consultation and communication function;
Optimizing Website Experience and Service Quality: According to your access behavior data and consultation preferences, analyze website usage, troubleshoot website failures, optimize page layout, loading speed and consultation service processes, and provide you with more suitable rocket launch information consultation content and services;
Responding to Your Needs: Handling your rocket launch-related consultations, feedback and complaints, and sending you subscribed information, consultation replies and activity notifications (for example, if you subscribe to rocket launch reminders, we will send relevant notifications to your reserved email address);
Ensuring Website and User Security: Identifying and preventing malicious access, fraud and other behaviors, protecting your account security and the legitimate rights and interests of this Website, maintaining the order of network services, and complying with international data security protection requirements;
Complying with International Regulations and Regulatory Requirements: Cooperating with investigations, evidence collection, law enforcement and other related work and fulfilling compliance obligations in accordance with the clear requirements of relevant international regulations, judicial organs or administrative regulatory authorities.

4. Storage and Protection of Personal Information

(1) Storage Method and Period

Storage Method: Your personal information will be stored in our designated secure servers, protected by internationally recognized encryption technologies (such as AES-256 encryption) to prevent information leakage, tampering and loss. Our servers are all deployed in secure and compliant computer rooms, equipped with complete access control and protection mechanisms, and comply with the security requirements for data storage in international regulations such as GDPR and CCPA;
Storage Period: We only store your personal information for the period necessary to achieve the purposes agreed in this Privacy Policy. After the expiration of the period, we will securely delete your personal information in an irreversible manner or anonymize it (anonymized data cannot identify personal identity and can be used for non-identifying purposes such as data analysis and service optimization). The specific storage periods are as follows:
1. Account Information: Stored during the existence of your account. After the account is cancelled, all account-related information will be deleted within the time limit specified by international regulations (no more than 30 days);
2. Access Behavior Data and Cookie Information: Stored for no more than 1 year, and automatically deleted or anonymized after expiration;
3. Consultation, Feedback and Other Information: Stored until 30 days after your relevant consultation needs are processed. If it needs to be retained for compliance auditing, it will be deleted immediately after the audit is completed;
4. If there are other provisions in relevant international regulations, such provisions shall prevail.

(2) Protection Measures

We have established a complete personal information security protection system, and taken dual technical and management measures to fully protect the security of your personal information, in line with international data protection standards:

Technical Protection: Adopt internationally recognized security technologies such as encrypted transmission, data desensitization, access control, intrusion detection and vulnerability scanning to prevent personal information from being leaked, tampered with or stolen during transmission and storage; regularly conduct security maintenance and upgrades on website systems and servers to improve security protection capabilities;
Management Protection: Establish strict internal management systems, clarify the information access rights of personnel in each position, and only authorized personnel can access your personal information, and all access behaviors will be recorded throughout the process; conduct training on international data protection regulations and privacy protection for employees, strengthen their awareness of privacy protection, and strictly prohibit employees from privately collecting, leaking or selling users' personal information;
Emergency Response: Formulate an emergency plan for personal information security incidents. If a personal information leakage, tampering, loss or other security incident occurs, we will immediately activate the emergency plan, take remedial measures, and timely inform you of the relevant circumstances of the incident and the handling results (if necessary) in accordance with the requirements of relevant international regulations.

(3) Instructions on Cross-Border Storage and Transmission

Your personal information may be stored in secure servers in any country or region that meets international data protection standards and is required for our operations. When we conduct cross-border storage and transmission of personal information, we will strictly follow relevant international regulations and data protection agreements, obtain your explicit consent in advance, and take security protection measures that meet the requirements (such as encrypted transmission, signing cross-border data protection agreements, etc.) to ensure the security of your personal information and protect your legitimate rights and interests.

5. Sharing, Transfer and Disclosure of Personal Information

We strictly protect your personal information and will not arbitrarily share, transfer or disclose your personal information unless it complies with the following circumstances and follows the requirements of international data protection regulations throughout the process:

Obtaining Your Explicit Consent: With your active authorization, we may share your relevant personal information with designated third parties (for example, if you agree to synchronize your consultation needs to cooperating rocket launch information providers to better respond to your consultation);
Sharing with Necessary Third-Party Service Providers: To realize some service functions of this Website (such as server hosting, email push, security protection, data analysis, etc.), we may share your non-identifiable personal information (such as access behavior data, anonymized account information) with third-party service providers. We will sign strict confidentiality agreements and data processing agreements with third-party service providers, clarify their information processing rights and obligations, require them to comply with international data protection standards, take corresponding security protection measures, and not use your personal information for any other purposes;
Complying with International Regulations and Regulatory Requirements: We may disclose your personal information in accordance with the clear requirements of relevant international regulations, judicial organs or administrative regulatory authorities to cooperate with investigations, evidence collection, law enforcement and other related work;
Necessary Disclosure to Protect Legitimate Rights and Interests: To protect the legitimate rights and interests of this Website, your personal and property safety or the personal and property safety of other users, or to respond to emergencies (such as preventing fraud, handling website failures, stopping illegal and irregular behaviors, etc.), we may disclose your relevant personal information within a reasonable scope;
Transfer Circumstances: If this Website undergoes changes such as merger, division, acquisition, restructuring, liquidation, etc., your personal information may be transferred to the subject after the change along with the business. We will notify you before the transfer (such as through website announcements, emails, etc.), and require the transferee to continue to perform the information protection obligations agreed in this Privacy Policy and comply with relevant international regulations to ensure the security of your personal information.

We will not sell or rent your personal information to any irrelevant third parties, nor will we use your personal information for any commercial purposes irrelevant to the rocket launch information consulting services of this Website.

6. Your Rights to Personal Information

In accordance with relevant international data protection regulations (including but not limited to GDPR and CCPA), you enjoy the following rights to your personal information, and we will provide you with convenient channels to exercise your rights:

Right of Access and Copying: You have the right to access your personal information submitted on this Website (such as account information, consultation records, feedback content, etc.) and apply to copy the relevant information;
Right of Correction: If you find that your personal information is incorrect (such as the wrong email address bound to your account), you have the right to request us to correct the relevant information;
Right of Deletion: You have the right to request us to delete your personal information under the following circumstances:
1. We collect and use your personal information beyond the agreed purposes;
2. You withdraw your consent to the use of personal information;
3. We no longer provide relevant services and there is no need to continue storing personal information;
4. Your personal information is leaked or tampered with, and cannot be solved through correction and remedial measures;
5. Other circumstances where deletion is allowed as stipulated in relevant international regulations.
Right to Withdraw Consent: You have the right to withdraw your consent to the collection and use of personal information at any time (such as withdrawing the authorization for Cookie use, withdrawing the authorization for information subscription, etc.). After withdrawing consent, we will stop collecting and using the relevant personal information, but this will not affect the legality of the information processing activities completed based on your consent before the withdrawal;
Right to Cancel Account: You have the right to cancel your account on this Website. After the account is cancelled, we will delete all your personal information within the time limit specified in this Privacy Policy and relevant international regulations (if it needs to be retained for compliance auditing, it will be anonymized);
Right to Complain and Report: If you believe that our personal information processing activities violate this Privacy Policy or relevant international regulations, you have the right to complain to us or report to the privacy protection regulatory authority in the corresponding region.

(1) Methods of Exercising Rights

You can exercise the above rights through the following methods:

Access, Correct and Delete Personal Information: Log in to your account on this Website, enter the "Personal Center" and operate independently in the relevant functional modules; if you cannot operate independently, you can contact us through the contact information agreed in Article 9 of this Policy;
Withdraw Consent: Disable Cookies through browser settings or cancel relevant authorizations (such as information subscription) in the "Settings" of this Website;
Cancel Account: Log in to your account on this Website, enter "Personal Center - Account Settings" and complete the account cancellation process according to the prompts;
Complain and Consult: Submit complaints, consultations or requests for exercising rights to us through the contact information agreed in Article 9 of this Policy. We will respond and handle them within the time limit specified in relevant international regulations (no more than 30 days at most).

(2) Exceptions

In accordance with the provisions of relevant international regulations, we may refuse your request to exercise relevant rights under the following circumstances:

Matters related to national security and national defense security;
Matters related to public security, public health and major public interests;
Matters related to criminal investigation, prosecution, trial and execution of judgments;
There is sufficient evidence to show that you have subjective malice or abuse your rights;
It is necessary to protect the legitimate rights and interests of you, other users or third parties;
Other exceptions stipulated in relevant international regulations.

7. Use of Cookies and Related Technologies

To improve your website usage experience, ensure the normal operation of the website and the smooth provision of rocket launch information consulting services, we will use technologies such as Cookies, Web Storage and pixel tags. The specific instructions are as follows, in line with international general norms:

Use of Cookies: Cookies are small text files sent by website servers to browsers to record your browsing preferences, login status and other information. We use Cookies mainly to remember your account login status (to avoid repeated login), save your consultation-related preferences (such as consultation records, language, font), and analyze website usage (to optimize page layout and consultation service recommendations). You can disable or delete Cookies through the "Settings - Privacy and Security" function of your browser, but disabling Cookies may cause you to be unable to log in to your account normally, view historical consultation records and other problems;
Use of Web Storage: Used to store your browsing history, consultation operation records and other temporary data, which is only stored on your local device and will not be uploaded to our servers. You can clear the relevant data through browser settings;
Use of Third-Party Technologies: This Website may embed third-party plug-ins (such as statistical analysis tools, sharing plug-ins). These third parties may use their own Cookies or related technologies to collect your access information. Please refer to the privacy policies of third parties for their usage rules, and we shall not be liable for any joint liability.

8. Protection of Minors' Privacy

This Website is mainly aimed at enthusiasts, professionals and other groups related to rocket launch information consulting, and does not specifically provide services for minors. We will not actively collect personal information of minors. If a minor accesses this Website and submits personal information without the consent of his/her legal guardian, the legal guardian may contact us through the contact information agreed in Article 9 of this Policy. After verifying the identity, we will immediately delete the relevant personal information of the minor and terminate the relevant services, in line with the international norms for the protection of minors' privacy.

If you are the legal guardian of a minor, please pay attention to supervising the minor's behavior of using this Website to avoid the disclosure of personal information.

9. Update and Notification of Privacy Policy

Update Frequency: We will update this Privacy Policy from time to time in accordance with changes in relevant international regulations, adjustments to the rocket launch information consulting services of this Website, and technological development. The update of this Policy will not reduce or exempt us from the privacy protection obligations we should bear before;
Update Notification: After this Privacy Policy is updated, we will publish an update announcement in a prominent position on the homepage of this Website (such as the bottom navigation bar), or notify you through your reserved email address, account message, etc. If the updated content involves your core rights (such as major changes in the scope of personal information collection, purpose of use, sharing method, etc.), we will obtain your explicit consent again after the update;
Effective Date: This Privacy Policy shall take effect on the date of publication, and the updated version shall take effect on the date of publishing the announcement, replacing the previous Privacy Policy.

10. Contact Information

If you have any questions, suggestions about this Privacy Policy, or need to exercise your rights related to personal information, complain or report, you can contact us through the following methods:

Website Name: spacelaunching
Website Domain: spacelaunching.org
Contact Email: supervisor @spacelaunching.org (It is recommended to contact us through this method first, and we will respond within the time limit specified in relevant international regulations)

If you are not satisfied with our handling results, you can report to the privacy protection regulatory authority in your region.

11. Disclaimer

1. We shall not be liable for the leakage, loss or tampering of personal information caused by force majeure (such as earthquakes, floods, typhoons and other natural disasters), network attacks, server failures, abnormal third-party services and other non-subjective reasons, but we will try our best to take remedial measures;

2. If you voluntarily disclose personal information to third parties, or the leakage of personal information caused by accessing third-party services through this Website, you shall bear the responsibility yourself, and we shall not be liable for any joint liability;

3. We strictly process your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and relevant international regulations, but we cannot rule out the possibility of minor information leakage due to technical limitations, network security risks and other factors. If the leakage is not caused by our intentional or gross negligence, we shall not bear liability beyond a reasonable scope.

The final interpretation right of this Privacy Policy belongs to the spacelaunching Operation Team.

Release Date: February 25, 2026