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Mission Control's live sky calculations: if you choose "Use my location" or search for a place, that location is used only to calculate altitude, azimuth, rise/set times and related figures directly in your browser. It is stored solely in your browser's local storage, is never sent to ORIVON's servers, and is never sent to Google Analytics — our Analytics events record only which feature you used (for example, that a location was set, and by which method), never coordinates, search text or place name. Typing a place name sends that search text directly from your browser to Photon (photon.komoot.io), a location-search service built on OpenStreetMap data, to find matching places; ORIVON does not see or store that request. If Mission Control shows a weather forecast (available worldwide), your general location (latitude and longitude, rounded to city-block precision) is sent directly from your browser to MET Norway (api.met.no), a national meteorological service, to retrieve that forecast; no other ORIVON data is sent with that request, and ORIVON's own servers do not see or store it. You can remove your saved location at any time with the "Forget location" control.

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