Privacy Policy and Credits Page

Spaceopedia Privacy Policy:

Your privacy is important to Spaceopedia. This privacy statement provides information about the personal information that www.spaceopedia.com collects and the ways in which we use that personal information.

By using the www.spaceopedia.com website, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information in the manner set out below.

Spaceopedia may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

How We Collect and Use Information

Analytics information:

We may directly collect analytics data, or use third-party analytics tools and services, to help us measure traffic and usage trends for the website. These tools collect information sent by your browser or mobile device, including the pages you visit and other information that assists us in improving www.spaceopedia.com. We collect and use this analytics information in aggregate form such that it cannot reasonably be manipulated to identify any particular individual user.

Cookies information:

When you visit our website, we may send one or more cookies — a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters — to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser and conveys information to us about how you use the website (e.g., the pages you view, the links you click and other actions you take on the site), and allow us to track your usage of the website over time. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive after you close your browser. Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the site. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser’s directions. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.

Some of our advertising partners, such as Google Adsense, may use cookies and web beacons on our site.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

Log file information:

Log file information is automatically reported by your browser or mobile device each time you access the website. When you use www.spaceopedia.com, our servers automatically record certain log file information. These server logs may include anonymous information such as your web request, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, referring / exit pages and URLs, a number of clicks and how you interact with links on the site, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed, and other such information.

Use of certain service type information we collect about you:

We use or may use cookies, log file, device identifiers, location data and clear gifs information to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the site; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) to provide and monitor the effectiveness of our site; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, and demographic patterns; (e) diagnose or fix technology problems; (f) help you efficiently access your information after you sign in and (g) to provide advertising to your browser or device.

Sharing of Your Information

We will not rent or sell your information into third parties outside Spaceopedia, except as noted below:

Instances where we are required to share your information:

Spaceopedia will disclose your information where required to do so by law or subpoena or if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary to (a) comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement; (b) to enforce our Terms of Use or to protect the security, quality or integrity of our Service; and/or (c) to exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Spaceopedia, our Users, or others.

Sharing certain service type information we collect about you:

We may share certain service type information, including information obtained through tools such as cookies, log files, device identifiers, location data and clear gifs (such as anonymous usage data, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform types, number of clicks, etc.): (i) with our third-party business partners for the purposes described in the section above on “How We Collect and Use Information.” We may also aggregate or otherwise strip data of all personally identifying characteristics and may share that aggregated, anonymized data with third parties.

Ads on www.spaceopedia.com:

We may also share certain information such as your location, browser, and cookie data and other data relating to your use of our Service with our business partners to deliver advertisements (“ads”) that may be of interest to you. Spaceopedia may allow third-party ad servers or ad networks to serve advertisements on the Service. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser or mobile device, the ads and ad links that appear on the Service, and will automatically receive your IP address when they do so. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, device identifiers, location data, and clear gifs, see above) to compile information about your browser’s or device’s visits and usage patterns on the Service and on other websites, and to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize the advertising content delivered to you.

For example, Google uses DART cookies in order to deliver ads to you on www.spaceopedia.com. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to the website and previous websites that you may have visited. Other advertising networks also use similar cookies, clear gifs, or other mechanisms to deliver targeted advertising to you through the Service. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL – http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Please note that an advertiser may ask Spaceopedia to show an ad to a certain audience of Users (e.g., based on demographics or other interests). In that situation, Spaceopedia or our Partners determines the target audience and www.spaceopedia.com serves the advertising to that audience and only provides anonymous data to the advertiser. If you respond to such an ad, the advertiser or ad-server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience they are trying to reach.

To enhance your user experience or help us improve and measure our effectiveness, Spaceopedia may embed code from third parties on the Service. Examples of such parties may include Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google, YouTube, Howcast, VideoJug, AOL, and others. These third parties may collect information about you including IP address, cookies in ways Spaceopedia does not control.

The Spaceopedia Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of third-parties. Please consult the respective privacy policies of such third parties or contact such third parties for more information.

Links to Other Websites and Services

We are not responsible for the practices employed by websites or services linked to or from www.spaceopedia.com, including the information or content contained therein. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our website to another website, our Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites or services. Your browsing and interaction on any third-party website or service, including those that have a link or advertisement on our website, are subject to that third party’s own rules and policies. In addition, you agree that we are not responsible and we do not control over any third-parties that you authorize to access your User Content.

If you require any questions about www.spaceopedia.com privacy policy, please feel free to email us at contactspaceopedia@gmail.com.

Spaceopedia Credits:

The vast majority of the content on www.spaceopedia.com is in the public domain or has been produced by government agencies such as the National Aeronautical Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) so is therefore also in the public domain. Where at all possible, www.spaceopedia.com has endeavoured to credit images and content where necessary.

Animated icons throughout www.spaceopedia.com were designed by the following authors on www.flaticon.com;