We are Celestial Dynamics, a small and enthusiastic team of dreamers, visionaries and profound seekers with the mission to create beautiful and inspiring apps to raise awareness of earth, sky and the cosmos.
We respect the privacy of every person who visits this website and use our apps. All contact details will remain confidential. Any information you provide to us will not be sold or passed along to third parties.
CONTENTS
• Contact Information
• Website
• Cosmic Watch App
• Cosmic Deepsky App
• Earth's Core App
• Connected Earth App
• Additional Information
CONTACT INFORMATION
We welcome your comments or questions.
Data Controller, us, we:
CELESTIAL DYNAMICS LTD
c/o niu GmbH
Letzigraben 184
8047 Zürich
info@cosmic-watch.com
For support about the apps and feature requests please use support@cosmic-watch.com
WEBSITE
Personal Information
Celestial Dynamics may use contact details provided when you drop us a mail to inform you of updates via email. This information will remain confidential. If you wish to unsubscribe from our mailing list, send us an email at info@cosmic-watch.com.
Cookies
Celestial Dynamics does not save any cookies but some technologies or features used on the website do use cookies (a cookie is a small text file that’s stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website)
• Wordpress: used to build this website. Wordpress Privacy policy
• Vimeo: used to play videos on
this website. Vimeo Privacy
Policy
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Youtube: used to play videos on this website. Google Privay Policy
• Matomo (Piwik): analytics
software
used by this website to analyse data directly without the help of third parties. Matomo Privacy Policy
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Akismet: used to filter out spam on the contact form: Automattic Privacy Policy
On our blog we have sharing buttons for the articles witch may create cookies or share information with the respective platform
COSMIC WATCH APP
The Cosmic Watch App uses different App Permissions to operate. None of them will compromise your privacy.
App Permissions
Location: to show the sky as viewed from your location
• coarse location (GPS and network-based)
We don’t store nor share any location information.
Network: to check and download data like timezone info, meteor showers, near real-time clouds, comets and minor body data
• view network connections
• full network access
We don’t store nor share any network information.
Other: to check that your Cosmic Watch was purchased
• Google Play license check
Analytics
We use a self-hosted analytics system (Matomo) to understand how the app is used and to improve performance, features, and reliability.
The analytics data we collect includes:
• App usage events (such as screen views, feature toggles, and settings usage)
• Session information (session count and app startup time)
• Device and system information (operating system and app version)
• Approximate location at country level
• Purchase-related events (product identifier, price, and currency)
We do not collect:
• Names, email addresses, or account information
• Precise location data
• Advertising identifiers
• User-generated content
• Selected locations, saved dates, or other personal inputs
• Referral information, when present, is hashed and non-reversible.
All analytics data is completely anonymous, processed on our own servers, and is not shared with third parties.
Matomo Privacy Policy
Analytics collection is optional and can be disabled at any time in the app’s settings.
COSMIC DEEPSKY APP
App Permissions
Location: to show the sky as viewed from your location
• coarse location (GPS and network-based)
Network: to search and show deepsky images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, PanSTARRS, and the Digitized Sky Survey 2
• full network access
Personal Information
The Cosmic Deepsky App does not collect any personal information.
EARTH'S CORE APP
App Permissions
The Earth's Core App does not need any permissions.
Personal Information
The Earth's Core App does not collect any personal information.
CONNECTED EARTH APP
App Permissions
The Connected Earth App does not need any permissions.
Personal Information
The Connected Earth App does not collect any personal information.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The rights of Users
Users have the right, at any time, to know whether their Personal Data has been stored and can consult the Data Controller to learn about their contents and origin, to verify their accuracy or to ask for them to be supplemented, cancelled, updated or corrected, or for their transformation into anonymous format or to block any data held in violation of the law, as well as to oppose their treatment for any and all legitimate reasons. Requests should be sent to the Data Controller at the contact information set out above.
Changes to this privacy policy
The Data Controller reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by giving notice to its Users on this page. If a User objects to any of the changes to the Policy, the User must cease using this Application and can request that the Data Controller removes the Personal Data. Unless stated otherwise, the then-current privacy policy applies to all Personal Data the Data Controller has about Users.
This policy was last updated on February 25, 2026.