Scrubline terms of service: what you agree to, in plain language

The short version. Scrubline shows you reserved launch windows assembled from public sources, and it can wake you for them. The data is informational and can be wrong or stale. Never use it for navigation or safety, and never let it be your only reason to be somewhere or not. Alerts are scheduled on your phone and are best-effort, because phones and their operating systems can delay or suppress them; we measure and publish how often that happens instead of promising it doesn't. The app is free. PRO is billed by the store you bought it in, Google Play or Apple's App Store, as a renewing subscription, a one-off lifetime purchase, or a one-off event pass that runs for a fixed period and then stops. A subscription is cancellable in that store any time; a trial, where one is offered, becomes a paid subscription unless you cancel first. Don't scrape or mirror our endpoints; the government sources we read are public, and bulk data belongs at the source. Nothing here limits the consumer rights of the country you live in.

Who you are dealing with

Scrubline is operated by an individual based in Poland, the same operator the privacy policy names as the data controller. Questions, complaints and everything else about these terms go to scrublineapp@gmail.com. These terms cover both Scrubline apps, Android and iOS, and this website. What data moves and why is the privacy policy's job, and that is a separate document.

What the service is

Scrubline reads public operational sources and assembles them into a board of reserved launch windows: the primary attempt and its backup nights, with a countdown to each and an alert you can set for any of them. The sources, each linked to where it is published: US Coast Guard Broadcast Notices to Mariners (the reserved sea space every window is transcribed from), Launch Library 2 (the mission listing, its description and its planned sequence), NOAA / National Weather Service forecasts, FAA temporary flight restrictions, the USGS 3D Elevation Program (pad elevation, for the visibility screen) and, since 23 August 2026, the public satellite catalog published by U.S. Space Command at Space-Track.org(after a launch, the orbital elements of what it put up, so the app can say where it is; passes over you are computed on your phone). The same list, with the same links, is under Settings → Sources in the app, and it is the whole of what Scrubline reads. Using the app takes an Android phone on Android 8.0 or newer with Google Play services, or an iPhone on iOS 16 or newer, and a network connection when the board refreshes. Alerts you have already set fire without one. Part of the app is free and part is paid. What PRO includes is stated in the app, at the point where you would buy it, and that is the statement that counts.

Informational, and never for safety

Everything shown is derived from public sources, automatically, and every layer can be wrong: a notice can be reissued after we read it, a forecast is a forecast, and a reserved window is not a promise of an attempt. Most backup windows pass unused without anything being scrubbed. So: never navigate by this data, never make a safety decision on it, and never treat it as the operational truth. The Coast Guard's broadcasts, the FAA's restrictions and the range's own announcements are the operational truth; Scrubline is a reading of them. Scrubline is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or speaking for any launch provider or government agency.

Alerts are best-effort, and here is the honest mechanics

Alerts are scheduled on your phone, by the app, so they fire even without signal. What no app can promise is that they always fire on time. On Android, manufacturers throttle background apps in ways an app cannot detect or opt out of, and a force-stopped app loses its alarms until you open it again. On iOS, none of the app's code runs at the moment a scheduled alert fires, so its content is frozen when it is set and corrected by rewriting; on iOS 26 and newer the app can additionally ring a system alarm that survives the app being closed. We refuse to advertise a delivery rate we have not measured. Instead the app measures what it can honestly measure (on iOS, only fires the phone could prove afterwards), and we publish the record per phone brand, including the brands that do badly. One more mechanic, stated here because it decides when an alert fires: the short alerts (T−1 h, T−15 min and T−0) count, by default, from the instant the operator has published as its target when the listing states one to the minute inside the reserved window, and from the moment the range window opens otherwise; you can switch every alert to the window's open in Settings → Alert types. A target that moves by more than five minutes after an alert was sent re-sends it for the new time, when the correction reaches your phone. The countdown on the board stays on the reservation either way. If an alert matters enough that missing it would cost you money or a night's drive, set a second alarm somewhere else. That sentence is in the terms because it is true.

There is no account

You do not need an account, there is nothing to sign up for, and there is nothing to sign in to. That is true of PRO as well: a purchase belongs to the store you bought it in — your Google Play account or your App Store account — and that store account, including its age and its purchase rules, is between you and Google or Apple. We are never told your name or your email address.

The consequence is worth stating plainly rather than discovering: because we hold nothing durable about you, a new phone, a reinstall or a factory reset does not carry PRO across on its own. Tap Restore a purchase on the subscription screen and the store — which does remember — puts it back. There is no limit on how often you may do that. Scrubline is not directed at children.

PRO, billing, and changing your mind

PRO is sold three ways, and the difference between the last two is the part worth reading. A subscription renews until you cancel. A lifetime purchase is charged once, never renews, and covers every PRO feature for as long as Scrubline runs — the ones there now and the ones added later. An event pass is also charged once and also never renews, but it is not permanent: it turns PRO on for a fixed period from the moment you buy it, currently 48 hours, and then PRO simply switches off again. Nothing is charged at the end of it and there is nothing to cancel. The app states the period on the screen where you buy it, and that statement is the one that counts.

All three are billed by the store you bought in, Google Play or Apple's App Store, at the price that store shows you before you confirm. We never see or hold your payment details. A subscription is cancelled in that store's subscription settings, takes effect at the end of the period already paid, and needs no reason and no email to us. If a price changes, the store notifies you before it applies to you, and cancelling first costs nothing.

If a free trial is offered on a subscription, the store — not us — decides whether you are eligible and shows you the length and the price before you confirm. A trial becomes a paid subscription automatically when it ends, at the price shown, unless you cancel before then; cancelling during a trial costs nothing and you keep PRO until the trial's last day. Cancellation is in the store, the same place as any other subscription. A trial is only ever attached to a subscription: neither the lifetime purchase nor the event pass has one.

Refunds run through the store first, Google Play or Apple, because that is where the money went. If the store's process leaves you somewhere that feels unfair, email us and we will look at it ourselves. If you are in the EU, the statutory 14-day right of withdrawal for digital purchases applies and is exercised through that store's refund flow. Nothing in these terms limits any consumer right of the country you live in. Wherever these terms and your local law disagree, your local law wins.

What you may not do

Use Scrubline personally, and leave the plumbing alone. Specifically, do not:

bulk-collect, scrape or mirror the app's data endpoints, or republish or resell the board as a feed;
circumvent or spoof the app-attestation gate in front of those endpoints, or call them with anything pretending to be the app;
interfere with the service, probe it for weaknesses (tell us about them instead), or use it to break any law.

The underlying sources are public bodies publishing public data. If you want bulk data, take it from the Coast Guard, the FAA, NOAA, the USGS, Space-Track and Launch Library directly: that is the honest route, and it does not involve our infrastructure. Nothing here forbids what the law explicitly permits, including the interoperability rights EU law grants over software.

Whose content is what

The app, this site, the design, the writing, and the assembled board — the selection, matching and presentation of windows — belong to the operator above. The raw material mostly does not. US government publications are public domain — the Coast Guard's notices, the FAA's restrictions, NOAA's forecasts and the USGS elevation model included; Space-Track's basic catalog data is redistributable with the citation the app prints beside it (“U.S. Space Command via Space-Track.org”); Launch Library 2 data comes under its own licence; and every rocket, mission and company name belongs to its owner and appears here to identify, never to claim a relationship. The pass predictions on the visibility screen are Scrubline's own calculation from that catalog (SGP4), not a publication of any agency. The app's open-source components and their licences are listed in the app, under Settings. You get a personal, non-transferable right to use the app for what it is for; what we sell is a service, not the software and not the data.

Availability, attestation, and change

The service changes: features arrive, move into or out of PRO, and occasionally leave. The board refresh runs on our backend and requires an install the platform can attest: Google Play on Android, Apple's App Attest on iPhone. A rooted or jailbroken phone, an emulator or a sideloaded copy keeps working from the last board it fetched, with its age stated, and alarms already set still fire; what it loses is refresh. We do not promise uninterrupted service, and maintenance and outages happen. If Scrubline is ever discontinued, this site will say so ahead of time, renewing billing would be ended, and your statutory rights around anything already paid stay exactly what they are.

Liability, in the plainest words the law allows

We built Scrubline carefully and run it seriously, and it can still be wrong: a stale window, a missed forecast, an alert a phone suppressed. To the extent the law allows, the service is provided as-is, the data is not warranted, and we are not liable for what you decide in reliance on it: the trip made or not made, the booking cancelled, the launch watched from the wrong hill. Where the law does not allow that, and it does not for deliberate misconduct, gross negligence, or any consumer right that cannot be waived, the law wins unchanged. This section is not a trick. It is the same claim the rest of this page makes, that the data is informational and the decisions on it are yours.

Complaints, disputes, and where this is anchored

Complaints go to scrublineapp@gmail.com, and we answer within 14 days. If we cannot fix it between us, these terms sit under Polish law, and disputes go to the courts with statutory jurisdiction, which for consumers includes the protections and venues your own country's law gives you. The consumer-protection bodies where you live are always open to you; in Poland, the municipal consumer ombudsman is free.

What changed, and when

27 August 2026. Three corrections, all of them things this page already should have said. (1) The billing section described PRO as sold two ways when it is sold three: the event pass is a one-time purchase that switches PRO on for a fixed period rather than permanently, and a reader of the old wording would reasonably have concluded that any one-time purchase was forever. The period is now stated. (2) Free trials are described for the first time — what converts, when, and how to stop it — because a subscription trial has been offered in both stores since 26 August and this page said nothing about it. (3) A factual correction: this page claimed the delivery record was published "per phone brand and model". It is published per brand; no model-level figure has ever been published, and the privacy policy said so correctly while this page did not. Nothing about price or what PRO includes changed on this date.

23 August 2026. The source list grew by two and now links every government source to where it is published: the USGS elevation model, which the visibility screen has read since 18 August for pad elevation, and Space-Track's public satellite catalog, which the app reads after a launch from this date. The alert section now states which instant alerts count from, because that became a setting. Nothing about price, what PRO includes, or what you may do changed.

20 August 2026. NOAA / National Weather Service replaced the previous forecast provider on the board and in this list, and the account section was rewritten the same day the optional account left the product: there is nothing to sign up for, and Restore is the way PRO comes back.

Changes to these terms

If these terms change, this page changes first and the effective date at the top moves. A change that matters to something you paid for — price, what PRO includes, a new restriction — is announced in the app before it applies, with time to cancel if you disagree. Continuing to use Scrubline after a change takes effect is acceptance; stopping is always available, and for anything paid, cancellation is in the store you bought in. Questions to scrublineapp@gmail.com.

The terms, in plain language.