Privacy Policy
Effective 26 October 2026Odin’s Gaze is made by Blackwood Strategic Intelligence. We built it to collect as little as possible: there are no accounts, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking. Nothing about you is sent to us.
Applies to Odin’s Gaze for Android and Wear OS, version 1.4.0 and later (Minor Planet Center added in 1.7.0; telescope connections in 1.8.0; questions out loud and the watch app in 2.0.0)
What stays on your phone
- Your location. Used to work out which part of the sky is above you. It's stored on your phone only, rounded to about 100 metres.
- The camera picture. Used live to draw labels over the sky, to line the labels up with real stars, and to keep the Milky Way off buildings and trees. It's processed on your phone as it's shown and is never recorded, saved or sent anywhere.
- Your settings, reminders and a crash log (if the app ever crashes) are kept in the app's private storage on your phone. Uninstalling the app deletes them.
What is sent over the internet
| Service | What it receives | Why |
|---|---|---|
| MET Norway (api.met.no) | Your position rounded to about 1 km. You can turn this off in Settings > Cloud forecast. | The cloud forecast for tonight's score and tonight alerts. |
| CelesTrak (celestrak.org) | Nothing about you. | Public satellite orbit data, for passes and Starlink trains. |
| IAU Minor Planet Center (minorplanetcenter.net) | Nothing about you. | Public comet and asteroid orbits, for comets in the sky view and comet alerts. |
| NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (swpc.noaa.gov) | Nothing about you. | Public space-weather forecasts, for southern lights alerts. |
As with any internet request, these services can see your phone's internet (IP) address. Each one has its own privacy policy. All requests use encrypted connections (HTTPS).
Photos you share
When you tap Share, Odin’s Gaze makes a photo of the view and opens your phone's share options. The photo goes only where you choose to send it. Odin’s Gaze keeps a temporary copy for up to a day so the sharing app can read it.
Permissions
- Location (while using the app): to work out your sky. Optional: you can pick a city instead.
- Camera: for the live sky view. Optional: a star map is shown instead.
- Notifications: for reminders and alerts you turn on. Optional.
- Microphone: only if you tap the microphone to ask a question out loud, and only while it's listening for that one question. Optional: you can type questions instead.
- Location on the watch (Wear OS): to work out pass times and darkness for the watch tile. Optional.
Children
Odin’s Gaze doesn't knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children.
Your choices
You can turn off location, camera and notifications at any time in your phone's settings, and turn off the cloud forecast in the app's Settings. Because we don't receive or store your data, there's nothing for us to delete; uninstalling the app removes everything it stored on your phone.
Changes
Telescope (optional). If you connect a telescope, Odin’s Gaze talks to it directly over your local Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. Bluetooth permission ("Nearby devices") is only asked for if you choose a Bluetooth telescope. Nothing about you is sent to the telescope or anywhere else.
Questions you ask out loud. Your words are turned into text by your phone's own speech recogniser. On most phones (Android 12 and later with offline speech) this happens on the phone and nothing is sent anywhere; the question panel says when your phone's recogniser instead sends the sound to its maker (usually Google), under that maker's privacy policy. Odin’s Gaze never records, keeps or sends your voice or your questions.
The natural voice. The voice that speaks to you is built into the app. Nothing is downloaded or sent to make it talk.
The watch app. It keeps your position on the watch, rounded to about 1 km, and downloads public satellite orbits from CelesTrak once a day (nothing about you is sent).
Observing log. Your log stays on your phone, with places rounded to about 1 km. It only leaves the phone if you choose Export.
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date.
Contact
Blackwood Strategic Intelligence · googleplaystore.aorta044@passinbox.com