Privacy Policy

The short version

We do not sell, rent or share your email address or contact details with anyone. We collect the minimum needed to send you what you asked for. Anonymous answers from the readiness check are combined into industry totals that cannot be traced back to you.

What we collect and why

Reading the site. You can read every article, the Part 108 tracker and the changelog without giving us anything. Our hosting provider keeps standard server logs, which include the IP address of each request, for security and to keep the site running. We do not use those logs to identify readers.

The Part 108 readiness check. You can complete the check and see your score without entering any personal details. When you finish, we store your answers, your framing choices (what you fly, which path you are aiming for, where you operate), your scores and the date. No name, email, organization or IP address is stored with that record. These anonymous records are combined into aggregate figures, such as the share of operators in a given category who have an automated data service provider arrangement, which we may publish as a Readiness Index.

Requesting a readiness report. If you ask us to send you a Part 108 readiness report, we collect your name, your work email and your organization. We use them to generate the document, send it to you, and give you a download link that works for thirty days.

Downloading a briefing. If you request one of our briefings, we collect your first and last name, your work email, your company, your industry and your role. Name, email and company let us send the document and address you properly. Industry and role tell us who our readers are, which shapes what we publish next; they are never used to sell or share your details. The download link works for thirty days.

For readiness report requests, we store a one-way hash of your IP address, not the address itself, to limit abuse. Your email address is checked for correct formatting, for whether its domain can receive mail, and against a list of disposable-address domains; the results of those checks are stored with your request.

For briefing requests, we store the IP address and browser user-agent information with the request for abuse prevention. The briefing form checks email formatting; it does not perform the readiness form’s domain or disposable-address checks.

Future briefings. The request form includes a box, unticked by default, that lets you ask for future briefings. If you tick it, we may email you when we publish something new, roughly one or two times a month. Every one of those emails includes an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing takes effect immediately. If you do not tick the box, you will not hear from us again unless you write to us.

The contact form. If you use the contact page, we collect what you type, including your name and email if you give them, so that we can reply. If you arrive at the contact page from the readiness check, the form carries a reference to your anonymous result so that we understand which gaps you are asking about.

Domain enquiries. If you contact us about acquiring the domain, we keep the correspondence for as long as the discussion is live.

What we do not do

We do not sell your contact details. We do not share them with advertisers, data brokers, vendors, or any third party for their own use. We do not run advertising on the site. We do not build individual profiles of readers. We do not publish or share any readiness result in a way that could identify the operator who completed it.

Who processes data on our behalf

A small number of providers handle data so the site can work. Each one processes it only to provide its service to us:

- Our hosting provider, which runs the site and stores its database.
- Our email delivery provider, which sends the report links, briefing links and any future briefings you asked for.
- Standard DNS lookups, used only to check that an email domain can receive mail; no personal data is sent in that lookup beyond the domain name.

We do not use providers that process your data for their own purposes.

How long we keep things

- Anonymous readiness results: kept indefinitely, because they contain nothing that identifies you and they feed the aggregate index.
- Report and briefing requests (name, email, organization): kept until you ask us to delete them, or until we retire the feature, whichever comes first. Download links expire thirty days after they are issued.
- Contact form messages: kept for as long as needed to deal with your enquiry, then deleted.
- Server logs: kept by our hosting provider for its standard security retention period and then discarded.

Your choices and rights

You can ask us, at any time, to tell you what we hold about you, to correct it, or to delete it. Write to editorial@dronetracking.com from the address you used, and we will act on it within thirty days. Deleting your request record removes your name, email and organization; the anonymous readiness result it was linked to stays anonymous and cannot be traced back to you afterwards.

If you are in a jurisdiction that gives you additional rights over personal data, such as the European Union, the United Kingdom or California, those rights apply and the same address is the way to exercise them.

Cookies and local storage

The site uses only what is needed for it to function. A session value may be stored in your browser to remember that you dismissed an announcement or to carry your readiness answers from one screen to the next while you complete the check. We do not use tracking cookies or third-party advertising cookies.

Children

The site is written for working adults in the drone industry. We do not knowingly collect personal details from anyone under 16. If you believe a child has sent us details, write to us and we will delete them.

Security

Data is transmitted over encrypted connections. Readiness report download links are long, random and signed. Briefing download links use long, random tokens without a signature. Both types expire after thirty days. Access to stored contact details is limited to the people who run the site and is protected by a password.

Changes to this policy

If we change how we handle personal data, we will update this page and change the effective date at the top. Material changes to what we collect or why will also be noted on the readiness changelog page.

Contact

editorial@dronetracking.com

DroneTracking.com is an independent publication covering drone tracking, Remote ID and low-altitude airspace regulation. It is not a law firm, and this policy is not legal advice about your own obligations.