Privacy
Last updated 12 October 2026
Rotate is a flight-odds app. It works without an account, and it collects the minimum needed to tell you whether your flight is going to leave. This page describes exactly that, and nothing here is aspirational — it matches what the app sends and stores.
What we collect
Flights you look up or track. The flight number and departure date. We send these to our server to look up that flight’s status. For a flight you track, we store them with your device’s notification token (below), so we can keep the odds current and notify you about changes. A lookup also adds a reading to that flight’s odds history, which is about the flight, not about you, and is not linked to your device.
A notification token. If you turn on alerts or a Live Activity, Apple issues a push token for your device. We store it so our server can send notifications about the flights you track. It identifies a device, not a person, and we cannot read anything else on your phone with it.
That is the whole list. No name, no email, no account, no contacts, no location, no photos, no advertising identifier, no payment details.
What we don't do
We do not sell or share this data. We do not use it for advertising, we do not track you across other apps or websites, and the app contains no analytics or advertising SDKs of any kind.
Purchases
Payments are handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. We never see your payment details. The app checks each purchase with Apple on your iPhone, and nothing about what you have bought is sent to our server.
The number of free flights you have used, any unused flight credits and the flights you have unlocked are kept in your iPhone’s Keychain, on the phone itself. That is why they survive deleting and reinstalling the app on the same iPhone. They do not move to a new phone, and we do not hold a copy. How purchases work is set out in the Terms of Use.
Where flight data comes from
Flight status, positions and schedules come from third-party aviation data providers (AeroDataBox and FlightAware), plus public sources including the FAA and the US National Weather Service. To answer a lookup we send them the flight number and date. We do not send them your push token or anything identifying you or your device.
Removing your data
Removing a flight in the app stops tracking it and deletes its record, including any notification token registered for it. Deleting the app stops notifications reaching you, but the app cannot tell our server it has gone, so the server deletes things on its own: a tracked flight’s record, with every notification token registered for it, about three days after the last time any device tracked or stopped tracking that flight (a token sooner if Apple tells us it is no longer valid), a flight’s odds history after two days, and the predictions we log to measure our own accuracy after seven days. Once a flight has operated or been cancelled, though, we keep a permanent copy of our predictions for it alongside what actually happened, and we keep a log of the latest 2,000 lookups in which our two flight-status providers disagreed. Both hold only the flight number, date, times and flight data, never a notification token or anything about who looked the flight up.
If you want anything removed sooner, email support@rotatefly.com. Because we hold no account, include the flight numbers and dates so we can find the records.
One thing deliberately survives deleting the app: the count of free flights you have used, your unused flight credits and your unlocked flights stay in that iPhone’s Keychain, so reinstalling does not lose what you paid for. They stay on that phone only. We cannot see or remove them, because we do not have them; erasing the iPhone can remove them. If something about your purchases looks wrong after a reinstall, email support@rotatefly.com with the flights involved and roughly when you bought them, and we will help.
Children
Rotate is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect data from them.
Changes
If this policy changes we will update this page and the date above. If a change ever meaningfully broadens what we collect, we will say so in the app rather than only here.