Information you give us
- Pilot account: your pilot nickname, a salted password hash and a recovery-code verifier. Active account records store these checks rather than a readable password or recovery code.
- Game progress: your saved aircraft collection and deck, points, match activity, Daily Spot results, streaks and friend connections.
- Private spotting log: the aircraft type, airport, date and any notes you choose to save.
- Support: the email address and information you send when you contact us.
A Flight Deck pilot account uses a nickname. Please avoid putting personal contact details in your nickname or spotting notes.
Sessions, browser storage and technical logs
A random session key in an HttpOnly cookie connects this browser to its guest or signed-in progress. HttpOnly keeps that cookie out of ordinary page scripts. Signing out or deleting your account changes which sessions can access your saved information.
Some preferences and saved selections are kept in your browser. Clearing browser storage can remove that local information; sign in to restore account-backed progress on another device.
Hosting and service providers may process technical information such as IP addresses, request times, browser or device details and error logs to deliver pages, protect the service and diagnose problems.
How the information is used
We use account and activity information to authenticate pilots, save collections and sightings, run games, maintain daily scores and streaks, connect accepted friends and respond to support requests.
Accepted friends can see your pilot nickname, Daily Spot score and streak. Your private spotting log, airport entries and notes are not part of the friends leaderboard.
Services that help run Flight Deck
Vercel provides website hosting. Supabase provides the game backend and storage for account-backed information. These providers may process information in countries other than your own.
Shopify operates the separate store and, when enabled, checkout. Store accounts, orders and payment handling are covered by the notices shown in that store. Flight Deck Plus is currently a free preview; trying the preview does not start a payment or subscription.
Links to other websites, including photo sources and stores, have their own privacy notices.
Your choices and account deletion
You can manage your friend connections, edit or remove your sightings, sign out, or delete your Flight Deck account.
Account deletion removes your profile, account credentials and sessions, saved fleet, Daily Spot records, private spotting entries and notes, and friend connections from the active service.
Shopify customer, order and subscription records are separate. Deleting a Flight Deck pilot account does not delete those records or cancel a Shopify subscription. Flight Deck Plus currently has no live subscriptions; contact support for separate Shopify store requests.
Shared completed-match records may remain in anonymized form so other players' match history still works. Minimal SHA-256 fingerprints of revoked session keys are retained to reject old sessions. These retained records do not contain your pilot nickname, password or recovery code.
Deletion from the active service does not instantly erase every hosting log or backup copy. Routine backup and log copies may take longer to expire. Browser-only preferences and files you downloaded or exported are separate and can be cleared on your device.
Privacy questions
For help accessing, correcting or deleting account information, use Flight Deck support or email FlightDecksupport7@gmail.com.
Include your pilot nickname and a description of the issue. Never send your password or recovery code.