Effective Date: August 13, 2025
This Privacy Policy (this "Policy") describes how Blacksky Algorithms Inc. ("Blacksky," "we," or "us") collects, uses, and shares personal information on blacksky.community, a social networking client that runs on the Authenticated Transfer Protocol ("AT Protocol") with additional features built to support the Blacksky community (collectively, the "Services").
Unless otherwise indicated, all terms in this Policy have the same definitions as those in our blacksky.community Terms of Service, the agreement that governs your use of the Services.
Please note that this Policy does not apply to third-party services that you might use on the AT Protocol, including personal data servers hosting content from other users on the AT Protocol and third-party software used to access and format content on Blacksky's services (collectively, "Third-Party Services"). These Third-Party Services may have their own privacy policies, which we encourage you to read.
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When you use the Services, we collect the following information.
We collect the following information that you provide to us directly:
Please note that on the AT Protocol as currently implemented all direct messages sent to or from users (regardless of which personal data service they use) pass through servers owned or controlled by Bluesky. These messages are not end-to-end encrypted, and Bluesky reserves the right to inspect those messages in certain circumstances. For more about their practices when handling this information, please see their AT Protocol Network Services Privacy Notice.
We also collect the following information:
We may use the information collected about you in order to operate, develop, research, modify, and improve the Services and any other related services. This may include using your information:
As a part of this use, we may access and view any User Content that you submit, including direct messages. We do not review direct messages unless such messages are (1) reported to Blacksky moderators; (2) are related to an investigation of significant violations of our Terms of Service; or (3) as required by law.
We share your information in the following ways:
Some content, including User Content, is designed to be shared publicly or with other users of the Services or with Third-Party Services. We share such information accordingly.
Members of the Blacksky team, and any independent contractors that they work with, may have access to your information as is reasonably needed for the operation of the Services.
Blacksky may work with Third-Party Services and other service providers in order to operate the Services, and may share user information with such providers as is needed for those service providers to work with Blacksky.
As a part of the Services, we are connected with the AT Protocol relays, including the relay provided by Bluesky Social, PBC. This means that some of your personal information is shared with Bluesky as it transmits your profile information and User Content to other users of services on the AT Protocol. Direct messages are also transmitted through Bluesky for delivery to other users, regardless of which personal data server they use for communication. For information on how Bluesky Social, PBC uses this information, please see their AT Protocol Network Services Privacy Notice.
Blacksky uses Cloudflare, Digital Ocean, and OVHCloud to host aspects of the Services. For information about how Cloudflare handles user information, please see the Cloudflare Privacy Policy. For information about how Digital Ocean handles user information, please see the Digital Ocean Privacy Policy. For information about how OVH handles user information, see the OVH Privacy Policy.
If Blacksky is acquired by another company, goes into dissolution, or otherwise transfers ownership or assets, it may sell or transfer user information as part of that transaction.
Blacksky may share information if we believe, in our sole discretion, that such disclosure is necessary in order to comply with any court order, subpoena, or other legal process, including an order to respond to any government or regulatory request. Unless prohibited by relevant law or impractical due to time sensitivity, we will endeavor to contact you prior to sharing this information so that you can raise any appropriate objections in the relevant legal forum.
We may also share information if we believe such disclosure is necessary to enforce or apply our Terms of Service and other agreements, or if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Blacksky, our users, or others.
We may share aggregated, non-personally-identifiable information derived from user information for any business purpose, including for analyzing general usage information or to help identify new features or partners for the Services.
Please see our Terms of Service for information about how to delete User Content and how we handle such requests.
The Services allow you to communicate with other users of the Services, as well as Third-Party Services. If you choose to disclose information to other users while using the Services, you do so at your own risk.
Children under the age of 13 are not permitted to use, access or register on the Services in any way. We do not knowingly collect or solicit information from anyone under the age of 13. If we learn that Blacksky has collected personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time at our sole discretion. If we do, we'll let you know by posting the updated Privacy Policy on the site, and may send other communications.
If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact support@blacksky.app.