In short

• Be decent to other people.
• Only share photographs you took yourself.
• Don't post anything illegal, cruel, or meant to frighten or upset somebody.
• If you see something wrong, report it — every shared photo and every profile has a report button.
• We read every report, and we answer every complaint.

The rest of this page is the same thing said carefully.

What Flyaboo is

Flyaboo shows aircraft picked up by radio receivers run by hobbyists, along with information about those aircraft gathered from public sources. It is run by an individual as a hobby, not by a company.

It is not for navigation, flight planning, or any safety-related purpose. Positions, routes, weather and timings can be wrong, late or missing, and sometimes are. Nothing here is official, and nothing here should be relied on by anybody flying an aircraft.

Your account

• Keep your password to yourself, and tell us if you think somebody else has it.
• One person, one account. Don't pretend to be somebody else.
• Children are welcome, but through a grown-up's account — Junior Mode is made for exactly that. Flyaboo does not give children their own logins.
• You can delete your account at any time from ACCOUNT, and everything of yours goes with it.

What you post

You keep ownership of your photographs and your words. By sharing a photograph on Flyaboo you are saying:

• you took it yourself, or you have the photographer's permission;
• you're happy for other Flyaboo users to see it, credited to your operator name;
• you'll take it down if that ever stops being true — you can unshare or delete it whenever you like.

Shared photographs are checked before anybody else sees them. That usually takes a day or so. Until then your photograph is visible to you alone, and your logbook will say it's waiting.

What isn't allowed

None of this, anywhere on Flyaboo — in a photograph, a profile, an operator name, a spotting spot or a note:

• Anything illegal, or anything encouraging somebody else to do something illegal.
• Anything that bullies, threatens, harasses or sets people on somebody else.
• Anything sexual, and absolutely nothing sexual involving children.
• Hatred or abuse aimed at people for who they are.
• Anything that frightens or grooms a child, or tries to contact one privately.
• Other people's photographs passed off as your own.
• Photographs of identifiable people who haven't agreed to it, car number plates, or anything that gives away where somebody lives.
• Pretending to be somebody else, or to be an official source.
• Advertising, spam, or scraping the site automatically.
• Anything that gets in the way of other people using Flyaboo.

Please also use common sense about where you stand to take photographs. Airfields have rules and so do the people who live near them.

What happens if somebody breaks the rules

Depending on how bad it is, and how often:

• the photograph, spot or profile picture is removed;
• the account is suspended, or closed;
• for anything illegal — and always for anything involving a child — it goes to the police.

A reported photograph is hidden from everybody else straight away, while it's looked at. That isn't a judgement; it's just the safer order to do things in.

If you think we got it wrong, say so. Use COMPLAIN OR APPEAL and we will look again and reply.

Reporting something, and complaining

• Every shared photograph has a ⚑ button. Every profile has a report link.
• Anything else — including an appeal against something we did, or a worry about a child — goes through COMPLAIN OR APPEAL.
• You don't need an account to complain, and you can do it about somebody else's safety, not just your own.

Your data

YOUR DATA explains what Flyaboo stores, why, how long for, and how to get it or delete it. If you aren't happy with how your data has been handled you can complain to us, and you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

The boring but honest part

• Flyaboo is free, run by one person, and may be slow, broken or switched off without notice.
• Information here may be wrong. Don't make decisions that matter on the strength of it.
• Nothing in these rules takes away the rights the law gives you.
• These rules may change; the date at the top says when they last did, and anything significant will be said on the site rather than slipped in quietly.
• These rules are governed by the law of England and Wales.