Privacy Policy

1. Data Controller

The data controller is Gabriele Alessandro, an individual operating under the trade name “Launch Countdown” (hereinafter “we”). We act as data controller for the personal data described in this policy. For any privacy-related request you can contact us through the support page of the site.

2. Personal Data We Process

• ▸ Account data: email address, user identifier, login credentials or identity of the Google provider used to sign in.
• ▸ Preferences: followed companies and missions, notification settings, interface theme.
• ▸ Push notifications: device token and device type, if you enable notifications.
• ▸ Technical and usage data: IP address, browser and device type, error logs, visited pages.
• ▸ Communications: messages you send us for support requests.
• ▸ Support status: presence and expiry of Pro extras linked to your account.

We do not collect or process payment data: no payment system is active on the site.

3. Purposes and Legal Bases

• ▸ Creating and managing your account and providing the service — contract performance.
• ▸ Saving favorites and sending launch notifications — contract performance and consent for push notifications.
• ▸ Activating and maintaining Pro extras linked to support — contract performance.
• ▸ Security, abuse and fraud prevention — legitimate interest.
• ▸ Diagnostics, stability and product improvement — legitimate interest.
• ▸ User support — contract performance and legitimate interest.
• ▸ Accounting and tax obligations — legal obligation.

4. Data Sharing

• ▸ Service providers (sub-processors): hosting, database and authentication, push notification delivery, error monitoring tools.
• ▸ No payment provider: the site does not process payments and shares no data with payment providers.
• ▸ Professional advisors (legal and accounting), when necessary.
• ▸ Public authorities, when required by law.

We do not sell your personal data.

5. International Transfers

Some providers may process data outside the European Economic Area. In such cases the transfer relies on European Commission adequacy decisions or Standard Contractual Clauses, with additional safeguards where necessary.

6. Retention

We keep account data for as long as the account remains active and delete or anonymize it within a reasonable time after a deletion request. Technical logs are kept for short periods (typically no more than 12 months). Data required for accounting and tax obligations is kept for the period required by law.

7. Your Rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict, port and object to processing, and you can withdraw consent at any time (for example by disabling push notifications). We respond to requests within one month. You can also lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority (in Italy, the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali).

8. Security

We adopt appropriate technical and organizational measures, including encryption in transit, database-level access controls and the principle of least privilege for administrative access.

9. Cookies and Local Storage

We only use essential cookies and local storage: keeping you signed in, theme preference and interface state. We do not use advertising or profiling cookies. You can clear this data from your browser settings; disabling it may prevent login from working.

10. Minors

The service is not intended for children under 16. If we become aware of having collected a minor's data without a legal basis, we delete it.

11. Changes

We may update this policy; the last-updated date at the top of the page always indicates the version in force.