Last updated 3 November 2026
If you are in Brazil, our privacy notice in Portuguese is at getgatecast.com/br/privacidade/. (Added 28 October 2026.)
What we collect
GateCast keeps no record of who searched for what. Most searches run in your browser. The airports, dates or flight numbers you enter appear in the page address so you can share or bookmark a result. We don't keep them.
We count searches: how many there are each day, whether they come from visitors, from automated traffic or from us (our own use and testing), and whether the airlines' live schedule was used for them (and if not, a short reason code, for example that the date had already passed). Each count holds only the day, those labels and the number: no airports, dates searched, flight numbers, IP addresses or other identifiers. Cloudflare stores the counts for us for three months. We use them to see how much the site is used and what our schedule provider costs us. (Added 26 September 2026; live-schedule use added 2 October 2026.)
For dates we can check against the airlines' published schedules, the site asks our schedule provider, AeroDataBox, for that airport's departures on that date and keeps the list for up to seven days, so the next search for the same airport and date doesn't ask again. That list is the airport's timetable. It doesn't record who asked.
To send visitors in Brazil to the Brazilian edition of the site, in Portuguese, our hosting provider, Cloudflare, tells us which country your internet address appears to be in. We use that code only for the page you asked for and do not store it or your address. You can change the country at any time with the switcher. (Added 28 October 2026.)
Requests to the API and the connector reach us through Cloudflare. Our service holds the sending address in memory to apply the per-caller limit, drops it once its minute has passed (at the next request it handles), and does not store it. The answer to each question (the flights and date asked, and the grade) is kept in Cloudflare’s cache for up to 6 hours, so the same question gets the same answer; a stored answer holds no information about who asked. We keep daily counts of requests and errors, with no query content and no addresses, for three months. (The GateCast API and AI-assistant connector; added 13 October 2026.)
Aircraft tracks
For 16 areas where satellite-navigation interference is common, we keep the position reports that aircraft broadcast over ADS-B, as collected by adsb.lol's volunteer receivers: time, position, altitude and navigation-integrity fields, with the aircraft's ICAO address, callsign and registration where present. We use them to find when and where satellite navigation was lost. A privately owned aircraft's registration can identify its owner, so for aircraft our data shows as general aviation or business aircraft we remove the identifying fields as soon as we receive the reports; for other aircraft we keep them for 30 days. Our basis is our legitimate interest in measuring interference. We will remove any aircraft on request to hello@getgatecast.com. We publish maps and counts only. An individual aircraft's track is never published, and the stored tracks are never passed to anyone. (Added 3 November 2026.)
Cookies and tracking
GateCast sets no cookies and runs no advertising trackers. Cloudflare, which hosts the site, may set a strictly necessary security cookie if it needs to check that a visitor isn't a bot. That cookie is not used for tracking.
We count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics. When a page loads, a small Cloudflare script on each page reports performance measurements, such as how fast the page loaded, to Cloudflare, which records the page's address, the page that linked to it, your browser type, operating system, device type and country. Cloudflare does not log the search part of the address, so not the airports or dates you searched for. It sets no cookies, stores nothing on your device, doesn't follow you to other sites, and does not use your IP address or browser details to single you out. If you choose a country with the switcher, we keep that choice in your browser's local storage so the site remembers it; it holds only the country code and nothing about you. (Added 28 October 2026.) Cloudflare keeps unsampled data for 7 days, then aggregates it to about 10%. We see totals and breakdowns: visits, pages, countries, referring sites, browsers and load times. The counts are approximate and may leave some visits out. Our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in knowing how the site is used. Cloudflare's privacy policy covers it: cloudflare.com/privacypolicy. (Cloudflare Web Analytics has run on this site at times since 2 October 2026; this paragraph was added on 5 October 2026.)
Hosting
The site is hosted by Cloudflare. Cloudflare processes every request, including your IP address, to deliver and protect the site, and keeps aggregate traffic statistics. Cloudflare's own privacy policy covers that: cloudflare.com/privacypolicy.
Links to other sites
Booking buttons take you to other sites, such as Kiwi.com, Expedia or trivago, each with its own privacy policy. What you do there is between you and them. Kiwi.com links and the hotel search (trivago) pass through our affiliate network, Awin, which records the click so that the site you land on can credit us if you book; Awin's privacy policy covers that: awin.com/gb/privacy. Expedia links pass through Expedia's affiliate programme, run on Partnerize, which records the click so that Expedia can credit us if you book; see expedia.com/legal/privacy and partnerize.com/legal/privacy-policy.
Mail to hello@getgatecast.com is forwarded to us by Cloudflare Email Routing. We keep what you send us for as long as it takes to reply and act on it.
Changes
If any of this changes, for example if we add analytics, this page will say so, with the date. (25 October 2026: the UK edition and its country detection were removed. 28 October 2026: the Brazilian edition was added; visitors in Brazil are sent to it by country, and the switcher stores the chosen country code. 3 November 2026: the "Aircraft tracks" section was added.)
Who is responsible for your data
The controller for this site is Wingmark Analytics LLC, c/o Registered Agents Inc, 30 N Gould St Ste R, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA. Contact: hello@getgatecast.com.
Your rights under UK data-protection law
You can ask what we hold about you, have it corrected or deleted, or object to our using it, by emailing hello@getgatecast.com. You can complain to us, and to the UK Information Commission (the ICO, ico.org.uk) or, in the EU, to your own data-protection authority.
Questions
Email hello@getgatecast.com.