Flyglance is a 3D flight simulator that runs in a web browser, provided for entertainment. It uses Google Maps Platform (Photorealistic 3D Tiles) for the 3D imagery, and Nominatim (OpenStreetMap reverse geocoding) to show the name of the place you are flying over. Those place lookups are made by our own server, not by your browser — see section 2.
The Service is made for smartphones. It is not available on desktop computers or tablets.
The Service does not ask you to create an account. We never ask for your name, address or any similar detail, and we do not build a profile of you.
We do measure how the Service is used, with
Google
Analytics 4. It stores two cookies in your browser — _ga and
_ga_JZXFGFECG7 — which hold a randomly generated identifier. Its only purpose is so that
several visits from the same browser count as one visitor rather than several. We do not connect that
identifier to your name or your email address.
What is sent to Google Analytics is limited to how the Service is used: which pages were opened,
the type of device and browser, the approximate location Google derives from your IP address, whether
the purchase screen was shown, and whether a purchase or a search took place. For searches we send only
how many characters you typed and which alphabets they came from (for example latin or
han) — never the words themselves. For purchases we send a one-way hash of the payment
session, never the session itself.
If you would rather not be counted, any browser setting or extension that blocks Google Analytics will stop it, and the Service will work exactly as it does now.
When you use the Service, your browser fetches the 3D imagery directly from Google, and the tiles of the simple map directly from OpenStreetMap. In doing so, those third parties may process your IP address and similar connection information.
Place names are handled differently. Both the name of the place you are flying over and the place search go through our own server rather than your browser, so OpenStreetMap's geocoding service is not given your IP address. What our server passes on is limited: for the place you are flying over, coordinates rounded to about 222 m, and nothing else; for a search, the text you typed, and only at the moment you press Enter or Go, never while you are still typing.
The handling of what these third parties do receive is governed by their own privacy policies:
The Service is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Cloudflare processes request information (including your IP address and approximate country) in order to serve the site and to show you the price in your local currency.
Payments are processed by Stripe, Inc. Card numbers and other payment details are handled by Stripe directly; they do not pass through, and are not stored on, our servers. Stripe’s handling of the information it collects is governed by the Stripe Privacy Policy.
If you buy Premium, we store an access credential in your browser (localStorage) so the Service knows your access is active. It is used only for that, and is not used to identify or track you.
So that one purchase is used on one device (one browser), your browser also stores a randomly generated device identifier in localStorage and sends it to our server each time your paid access is checked. Our server keeps one pairing only — which purchase is currently linked to which device identifier — for at most 45 days, and does not unlock the paid features on a device that does not match. The identifier is a random string. It is not linked to your name, your email address, or anything else that identifies you or your device. If you move to another device, the pairing is replaced by the new one.
If you use the “Already paid but not unlocked?” restore option, the email address you enter is sent to our server once, used to look up your payment with Stripe, and is not stored by us.
To stop that restore option being used over and over in a short time, and only when it is used, we keep the IP address it was called from as a count on our side for 10 minutes. It is deleted automatically after that, and is not used for anything else — not analytics, not advertising, and not to identify you.
Copyright in the maps and 3D imagery belongs to Google, its data providers, and the respective rights holders. The attribution shown on screen (the Google logo and similar) is required by licence and cannot be removed or altered.
Place names come from OpenStreetMap data. © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL licence).
For any question about privacy — including a request to access or correct information relating to you, or to make a complaint — email justaboutduet@gmail.com. We aim to reply within 30 days.
Depending on where you live, you may have rights under laws such as the Singapore Personal Data Protection Act, the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020, the Australian Privacy Act 1988, or the Hong Kong Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance. Those rights apply regardless of anything in this policy.
The Service is provided for entertainment and as a technical demonstration. It is not suitable for navigation, or for any purpose that depends on positions, terrain or imagery being accurate or current. To the extent the law allows, we make no warranty that the map data is accurate, complete or available.
Nothing here excludes, restricts or modifies any guarantee, warranty, right or remedy that the law gives you and that cannot lawfully be excluded — see section 8 of the Terms of Service.
Copyright in the Service’s source code, images, design, the name “Flyglance”, its logo, colour scheme, interface layout and other original expression belongs to the operator. You may not copy, republish, modify, redistribute or commercially exploit the Service in whole or in part without prior permission, nor build or publish a similar service likely to be confused with it.
The Service contains unique identifiers (canary strings) in several places so that unauthorised copies can be detected. Where a copy is found, we will ask the operator, their host and search engines to take it down, and will take further action where warranted.
Rights in the map data (Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles) and place data (OpenStreetMap / Nominatim) are covered in section 3 above.
We may update this policy. The date at the top shows when it last changed.
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