Imprint & Data Privacy Information

for the websites https://areo.info, http://areo.info, https://mars-news.de, http://mars-news.de, the areoHDR app and the Heliacal Rise app.

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Above services and products are provided by:

Areo Info LLC
Founder and Owner: Holger Isenberg
San Francisco, California, United States of America, Earth
email: web@areo.info

The paper mail address and Registered Agent contact is available at the California Secretary of State business directory: https://bizfileonline.sos.ca.gov/search/business

Further contact information: areo.info and areoHDR app for iPhone, iPad & Vision Pro.

Web Site Server Data

For technical reasons your Internet web browser software, when accessing and reading above listed web sites, transmits data to this site when you visit the site. Only the following data is received by and stored by the systems of Areo Info LLC for the technically necessary time needed to operate it:

areoHDR app

The areoHDR app available on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store sends the following data, when the app is installed and used, to Areo Info LLC. The data transmit is an side-effect of the app requesting image files from the areo.info web server, operated by Areo Info LLC via CloudFlare Content-Delivery-Network (CDN). None of that date is linked to your identity or your specific device and the app doesn't have access to your Internet usage on the device or web browser:
Usage Data:
This is data about app interaction used for analytics and app functionality only. For example at which time the app is started and at which time a specific image is started to be viewed. But that data is anonymous and it's not related to a user identity or device identity. The same usage data is also received by the external third party Cloudflare Content-Delivery-Network (CDN) described in the section below.
Purchases:
This data is about subscription purchases and is used for analytics, and app functionality only. For example to detect whether a device has an active app subscription to enable access to more images than the free version offers. But that data is anonymous and it's not related to a user identity or device identity.
Coarse Location:
This data is about your device IP address which indirectly provides coarse location information of your device. But that data is anonymous and it's not related to a user identity or device identity. The same usage data is also received by the external third party Cloudflare Content-Delivery-Network (CDN) described in the section below.

Heliacal Rise app

The Heliacal Rise app available on the Apple app store does not collect or transmit any data except for the device location information transmitted to Apple Maps to show the device location on the built-in map view when the map view function is actively used. Privacy policy of Apple Maps: Apple Maps & Privacy

CloudFlare Content-Delivery-Network (CDN)

To safely and continuously operate this site and the areoHDR app, the external service CloudFlare is used as CDN (content delivery network). That's a service provided by Cloudflare Inc., 101 Townsend Street, San Francisco, California 94107, USA, Earth, name CloudFlare in this text.

When accessing this site (https://areo.info, http://areo.info, https://mars-news.de and http://mars-news.de) with your Internet web browser software or when you use the areoHDR app, your requests are delivered through CloudFlare servers. During the access, the following statistical access data is recorded by CloudFlare and made available to Areo Info LLC:

That data is only used to safely and continuously operate this site.

Further information about data storage at CloudFlare: What CloudFlare Logs