SkysSense

Legal notice

Version 1.0 · 27 September 2026

This notice covers the website skyssense.com and the SkysSense Android app (together, "SkysSense"). Using SkysSense means you have read it. How the service may be used is set out in the Terms of use, and how personal data is handled in the Privacy policy.

1. Owner

SkysSense is a personal project run by a private individual resident in Spain. Contact for any question, request or notice: [email protected]. This address is also the single point of contact for users and authorities under the EU Digital Services Act (Spanish and English).

The Android app is published on Google Play from a developer account of a third party ("Comunio Premier Scores"), which only distributes it. That account holder doesn't receive the personal data of SkysSense users beyond the anonymous statistics Google Play gives any developer; the controller of your data is always SkysSense, as the Privacy policy explains.

2. What SkysSense is

SkysSense is a free plane spotting tool. It shows aircraft near a place on a radar and in a list, reads them out by voice, and lets people who create an account share aircraft photos, follow other spotters and appear in a ranking.

3. Intellectual and industrial property

The name and logo of SkysSense, its design, source code, texts and the compilation of its content belong to its owner or are used with permission. You may use SkysSense for your own personal, non-commercial purposes. Any other reproduction, distribution, public communication or transformation needs prior written permission.

Photos shared by users belong to their authors, who give SkysSense the licence described in the Terms of use. Airline names and logos, aircraft manufacturer names and other trademarks belong to their owners and are only shown to identify the aircraft and operator; their appearance doesn't mean any relationship with or endorsement by them.

The open source software SkysSense is built with is listed, with its licences, on the Licenses page.

4. Data sources and attributions

SkysSense doesn't operate any receiver. It shows data from these third parties, each under its own licence or terms of use:

SourceWhat SkysSense usesLicence or terms
adsb.lolLive aircraft positionsOpen Database License (ODbL 1.0). Contains data from adsb.lol.
adsb.fiLive aircraft positions, as a backupadsb.fi open data terms, for non-commercial use with attribution
adsbdb.comFlight routes and aircraft detailsadsbdb.com terms of use
hexdb.ioAircraft and route detailshexdb.io terms of use
planespotters.netAircraft photosPlanespotters.net API terms. Each photo shows its photographer and links to its page; rights stay with the photographer.
Open-MeteoWeather conditions and place searchWeather data by Open-Meteo.com under CC BY 4.0; place names from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
pics.avs.ioAirline logosLogos are trademarks of their airlines

The data in SkysSense may not be copied, extracted or reused beyond what these licences allow. Anyone who wants the data should get it from the original sources under their terms.

5. Automated access

It isn't allowed to extract or reuse, systematically or in bulk, the content of SkysSense or its databases (aircraft data, photos, profiles, ranking) with robots, scrapers or any other automated means, to build another database or service, or to access SkysSense other than through its own interface. This protects the rights of SkysSense and of the data sources above, whose terms forbid it too. SkysSense may block the traffic concerned.

6. Disclaimers

7. Aircraft owners and operators

The positions shown are broadcast publicly by the aircraft itself. Even so, if you own or operate an aircraft and would rather its registration and photos didn't appear in SkysSense, open the aircraft in the app and choose Is this your aircraft? Ask us to hide it, or write to [email protected] with the registration and how we can check it's yours. Once checked, the registration is hidden and its photos are left out. Many owners also use the programmes of the aviation authorities (for example the FAA's LADD and PIA in the United States), which the data sources respect.

8. Applicable law and courts

This notice and the use of SkysSense are governed by Spanish law. If you are a consumer, any dispute will be heard by the courts of your place of residence, and you keep the protection of the mandatory rules of the country where you live. The European Online Dispute Resolution platform closed on 20 July 2025, so it is not available; you can still turn to the consumer authorities of your country.

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