Terms of Service

1.The service

Flight Atlas (flightatlas.org) is a database and visualization site for rocket launches. Most of the site, including the launch database and visualizations, is available without an account. Creating an account gives you a personal dashboard (saved views, pins on the home page, and an optional Monday email digest), the Advanced Launch History, and walks through the Rocket Garden. A paid premium subscription expands that dashboard (more saved views, scheduled screenshots, a larger or daily digest) and unlocks Chart Builder (building, downloading and saving finished branded launch graphics), chart animation exports and full-detail 3D models in the Rocket Garden (the garden view is free, and walking through it needs a free account). By using the site or creating an account you agree to these terms.

2.Accounts

You need an account for the dashboard, the Forum and premium features. Keep your login credentials to yourself; you are responsible for activity under your account. Provide a real email address: verification, password resets, billing notices and any digest emails you turn on go there. You can delete your account yourself at any time from your profile page.

3.Premium subscription, billing and renewal

Premium costs $3 per month, billed through Stripe. The subscription renews automatically each month until you cancel. We email you a reminder before each renewal, and Stripe issues a receipt for every charge.

You can cancel anytime from your profile page: cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid period by default (you keep premium access until then), or immediately if you choose. Cancelling is as easy as subscribing: no email, no phone call, no waiting.

If a renewal payment fails, premium access is suspended until payment succeeds. We may change the price with at least 30 days’ notice by email; the new price only applies from your next renewal after the notice, and you can cancel before it takes effect.

4.Refunds

If something went wrong with a charge (you meant to cancel, a renewal surprised you, a feature you paid for did not work), email apostructura@gmail.com and we will sort it out; we do not fight refund requests over $3. UK and EU consumers have a statutory 14-day withdrawal right for the initial purchase; by starting the subscription immediately you agree that the service begins before that period ends, and the right lapses once the service is fully delivered for the period.

5.Acceptable use

Don’t abuse the service: no attempts to break authentication, scrape at volumes that degrade the site, resell access, or use the site for anything unlawful. We may suspend accounts that do, and will say why.

6.Forum

With a verified account you can post in the Forum and under launches. Your posts are public and you are responsible for them. Post only what you have the right to share.

No spam or advertising, harassment, threats, hate, sexual content, other people’s private information, or anything unlawful.

Your posts stay yours. You allow us to store them and show them on Flight Atlas for as long as they stay up, including after you delete your account, when they show as "Account deleted". You can delete your own posts until then. After that, email apostructura@gmail.com with a link to a post to have it removed.

Members can report a post, and reports from three different members hide it until we review it. We may hide or delete posts that break these rules, and suspend accounts that keep doing so.

To report illegal content, use Report or email apostructura@gmail.com. If you think we removed your post by mistake, write to the same address.

7.Content and data

Launch data is compiled from public sources (such as The Space Devs) and provided for personal and research use, with no guarantee of completeness or accuracy. Launch descriptions are drafted from public sources and checked against launch data. Screenshots and charts you create from your own saved views are yours; the rocket illustrations in them remain covered by the next section.

8.Rocket illustrations and 3D models

The rocket illustrations and 3D rocket models on Flight Atlas are original artwork made for the site by its publisher, ApoStructura, who owns the copyright in them.

The rocket illustrations, at the sizes shown to every visitor on flightatlas.org, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). Under it you may copy, share and adapt them for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you credit “Flight Atlas (flightatlas.org)” visibly with the image, name the license and indicate if you changed them. The credit must sit with each illustration it covers: in its caption, on the image or in the same post. Wherever reasonably practicable, the credit must link to the illustration’s page on the site. How the credit is to be given is set out at flightatlas.org/license. Using an illustration without the credit falls outside the license, and the rights it grants end automatically, as section 6 of the license sets out.

The license covers the rocket illustrations only. It does not extend to the full-size illustration files offered to Premium members, to posters, poster designs or print files, to the 3D models or pictures of them, to the launch data described in the Content and data section above, or to the Flight Atlas name and logo. Crediting Flight Atlas does not suggest that Flight Atlas endorses you or your use.

The 3D models are shown on the site only. Downloading, extracting or redistributing the model files is not permitted.

Any other use needs prior written permission: commercial use of the 3D models, reproducing the posters or print files, or using an illustration without the credit, including in a white-label arrangement. To ask, email apostructura@gmail.com.

9.No warranty, limitation of liability

Flight Atlas is a one-person project provided “as is”, without warranties of any kind. To the extent the law allows, our total liability for any claim related to the service is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, or UK and EU consumers’ statutory rights.

10.Changes and termination

We may update these terms; material changes will be announced on the site or by email at least 30 days before they take effect, and continuing to use the service after that means you accept them. If you disagree, cancel and delete your account: that right is always available. These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, without depriving consumers of the protections of the country where they live.

11.Contact

Questions about these terms: apostructura@gmail.com. Flight Atlas is published by ApoStructura, an individual based in the United Kingdom. Host: Vercel Inc., 340 S Lemon Ave #4133, Walnut, CA 91789, United States.