What we collect from you, why, how long we keep it, and how to make us delete it.
Sparse is currently one person. There is no analytics on this site, no advertising network, no tracking pixel and no cookie banner, because there is nothing to consent to. The only personal data we hold is what an operator types into the registration form and sends us.
Sparse is the data controller. Contact: the contact form.
We recruit operators in many countries, and the rules differ in each. Rather than work out which law covers which person, we give everyone the same rights — the strongest set we found, drawn from UK and EU GDPR — no matter where you live. If your own country grants you something more, you have that too.
So the rights listed below are yours whether you are in Jakarta, Nairobi, Manila, São Paulo, Bengaluru or Berlin. If you are somewhere with a data-protection authority and we have not resolved something to your satisfaction, you can complain to them, and we will cooperate.
We collect nothing else. No location tracking, no browsing history, no device fingerprint, and nothing about you from third parties.
The registration and contact forms post to Netlify, the company that hosts this site. Netlify stores each submission and forwards it to our email account. Nothing else receives it.
Consent. You typed it in and pressed send in order to join an operator network. That is the entire lawful basis, and it means you can withdraw it at any time and we have to act on that.
Nobody. We do not sell, rent or share operator details. If that ever needs to change — for example if a buyer has to contract directly with the operator who flew their capture — we will ask you first, per capture, and you can say no.
Your name and credential type may appear in the public provenance record of a dataset you actually flew, because that is what makes provenance mean anything. You can decline that and still fly. Your credential number never appears anywhere public.
Until you ask us to delete it, or until you tell us you are no longer interested. We are not going to pretend to a retention schedule we do not yet operate. If you have heard nothing from us in twelve months and want to be removed, write to us and you will be.
One message through the contact form does any of these. We aim to act within 30 days, the UK and EU statutory limit, and in practice it will be faster because the list is small.
This site is for licensed commercial drone operators. It is not intended for anyone under 18 and we do not knowingly collect their data.
If this policy changes materially we will email everyone on the operator list rather than quietly editing this page. The date at the top is the date of the current version.