Book Your Planet

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Privacy Policy & Terms

Plain language, no legalese marathon. If anything here is unclear, email hello@akai.solutions.

What this site is

Book Your Planet is a free entertainment site. It generates a procedurally-created, fictional planet from a name you type. It is not a real astronomical naming service and has no affiliation with the International Astronomical Union or any scientific body. Nothing claimed here grants real-world naming rights to anything.

What we collect, and why

  • The name you type. Used to generate your planet and stored permanently as part of the public catalog (see "How long we keep it," below).
  • Your approximate country. Detected automatically from your IP address using a third-party lookup service, ipapi.co, and stored on your claim for one purpose: the small flag shown beside your name in the public registry. It has no effect on the planet you get — your planet is generated from your name alone. We don't see or store your IP address ourselves — it's sent directly from your browser to ipapi.co, which has its own privacy policy. If this lookup fails or is blocked, claiming works exactly as normal and your claim simply carries no flag.
  • An ownership code. Generated randomly in your browser when you claim a planet. We store a one-way cryptographic hash of it, not the code itself — we cannot look up or recover your code from our database, which is also why we can't recover a lost code for you. There is no account or password-reset system.
  • A transmission message (your planet’s one public signal), only if you choose to broadcast one — up to 480 characters, shown publicly, permanently, and exactly as written.
  • Planet DNA quiz answers, only if you choose to take the optional quiz — used to show a "governance profile" on your planet and in aggregate statistics on the star map.
  • A random device identifier. When you claim a planet, your browser generates a random string and keeps it in this site's localStorage. It is sent with your claim so the registry can space out repeat claims from the same browser — your first claim is never delayed, later ones are. It is not linked to your name, is never attached to your planet or to anything public, and is not used for advertising, analytics, or recognising you on any other site. Clearing this site's data removes it (and resets the spacing). We do not use browser fingerprinting.

We do not collect your real name (unless that's what you typed) or precise location. Payment for the optional Sealed Edition is made from your own crypto wallet, directly to a contract on the Base network: there are no cards, no card numbers, and no payment processor holding anything of yours. What it does involve is a permanent public record, and that is set out in full under What the blockchain records below — please read it before you seal anything. We don't run advertising, ad trackers, or analytics cookies. We don't sell or rent data to anyone.

The email exception, clearly stated: nothing on this site asks for an email address any more. One feature used to — the sealing list, which took an address so we could write to you once when sealed editions opened. Editions are open, so the list has been retired and the form is gone.

  • Sealing-list records already held. While the list existed we stored, in a single record, an email address, the catalog ID, name and generated seed of the world it was for, and the date it was submitted. Those records still exist and are covered by everything on this page: they were never added to a mailing list, never used for marketing, and never shared, and any one of them is deleted on request via the address above. Nothing new is written there — the form that wrote them no longer exists.

Sealing-list entries and any earlier reservations live in a write-only collection which no visitor, script, or search engine can read; only the site operator can access it, and any record is deleted on request via the email above.

What the blockchain records

Sealing a world is a payment made on a public blockchain, and a public blockchain is a permanent, worldwide, searchable record that nobody — not us, not you — can edit or erase. This is the one part of this site that behaves differently from everything else on this page, so it is written out plainly rather than summarised.

When you seal a world, three things become permanently public: the wallet address you paid from, the amount you paid, and the numeric seed of the world you sealed. The seed identifies the world, and the world carries the name you gave it. Anyone can read all of it, forever, and connect the address to the name.

If you do not want a wallet address publicly and permanently linked to a name you chose, do not seal that world. The free tier records none of this: a claimed world is generated from its name and stores nothing about you. Sealing is the only part of this site that puts anything on a public ledger, and it is entirely optional. If you want to seal a world without linking it to the rest of your on-chain activity, use a wallet you have not used for anything else.

What we receive, and what we do not keep. To authorise a seal, your browser sends us the world's seed, a hash of your ownership code, and the wallet address you are about to seal from. We use them for one thing — checking that the code you hold really is for that world, and then signing a short-lived authorisation for that address, good for one hour and for that address only — and we store none of them. That request is not written to our database and the address is deliberately kept out of our server logs. We never receive your ownership code itself: your browser hashes it before it leaves, as it always has.

Payment goes straight past us. The contract sends your payment directly to the operator's wallet; this site never holds your money, and there is no account, balance, or custody of any kind.

The Wallpapers page used to take its own "Cosmic Drop" pack reservations, which collected an email address and a catalog ID the same way. That feature has been removed and the site no longer collects anything there — the full wallpaper set now ships inside the Sealed Edition. Reservations made while it existed are still held under the terms above and can be deleted on request.

How long we keep it

By design, claimed planets, transmissions, and Planet DNA answers are permanent and cannot be edited through the site once submitted — that permanence is part of the product (a founding transmission, a catalog entry). This is different from saying it can never be removed: if you want your entry deleted or corrected (for example, you typed someone else's name by mistake, or want your transmission taken down), email hello@akai.solutions with the catalog ID or ownership code and we will action the request manually. Residents of the EU/UK and other jurisdictions with a legal right to erasure or correction of personal data can invoke that right the same way.

Other services this site uses

This is the complete list of third parties your browser contacts when you use this site. It was checked against what the pages actually request, not against what we remembered building.

  • Firebase / Google Cloud hosts the catalog database. Claim, transmission, and quiz data described above is stored there, subject to Google's privacy policy as our data processor. Loading any page fetches the Firebase code itself from www.gstatic.com and then talks to firestore.googleapis.com, so Google sees your IP address on every page load whether or not you claim anything.
  • Google reCAPTCHA, via Firebase App Check. Every page loads reCAPTCHA from www.google.com and www.gstatic.com. Its job here is narrow — it produces a token that tells our server a request came from a real browser on this site rather than a script, which is what keeps the catalog from being filled by a bot. We never see a score, and it is not used to decide anything about you. But it is Google code that runs on every page, it profiles browser and interaction signals to do its work, and it stores a _grecaptcha entry in your browser (see below). It is currently in monitoring mode: a failed or missing token never blocks a claim. This was not previously disclosed on this page, and should have been.
  • ipapi.co, for the country flag only, exactly as described above. Contacted when you claim, not on an ordinary page view.
  • The Base network, only on the Sealed Edition page, and only once you ask to seal a world. To read whether a world is already sealed and to send your payment, your browser contacts a public Base node at mainnet.base.org, which sees your IP address; your wallet may use a different node of its own choosing. Base is operated by Coinbase. Nothing on any other page of this site contacts it.
  • Your own wallet. A browser wallet extension can see the pages you use it on and the requests this site makes to it. It is software you installed and it is governed by its own privacy policy, not ours. We never receive your private key, and no part of this site can move funds without you approving each transaction yourself.

Two third parties were removed rather than disclosed, which is the better outcome where it is available:

  • Fonts are served from this site, not from Google. Cormorant Garamond, Inter and JetBrains Mono used to be fetched from Google's servers, which meant your browser announced its IP address to Google on every page load for the fonts as well. They are now self-hosted here, so no third-party font server is contacted. (This page previously said otherwise; the policy was out of date, not the site.)
  • The registry's country flags are served from this site, not from a CDN. The Claimed Planets page used to load its flag stylesheet from cdnjs.cloudflare.com, which announced your IP address to Cloudflare on every visit to that page. The flags are now self-hosted here and Cloudflare is no longer contacted from anywhere on this site.

Cookies & local storage

We set no cookies of our own — not for tracking, not for advertising, not for anything. We do use your browser's local storage. This is the full list of what this site writes there and why; it was read out of a browser rather than written from memory.

  • byp_device — a random number generated in your browser the first time you claim. It identifies the browser to the pacing rule, so repeat claims from one browser are spaced out. It is not linked to you, and clearing it simply produces a new one.
  • byp_claim_window — when this browser may claim again, so the countdown can be shown without asking the server.
  • byp_last_claim — when you last claimed, for the one-per-minute limit.
  • byp_planets_last_visit — when you last opened the Claimed Planets page, so it can mark what is new since then.
  • byp_ambient_on — whether you turned the ambient sound on.
  • byp_world — the world you are currently looking at. This one is in session storage, so the browser discards it when you close the tab.

One more entry is not ours: _grecaptcha, written by Google's reCAPTCHA as part of the anti-bot check described above. We do not read it and cannot see its contents, but it is in your browser because of a choice we made, so it is listed here. reCAPTCHA may also set cookies on Google's own domains, which are outside our control and covered by Google's privacy policy.

Nothing in this list is used to track you across other sites. Clearing your browser storage loses nothing but the conveniences above — your planet lives in the catalog, not in your browser.

An earlier version of this section said local storage was used only for the rate limit and for remembering whether you had taken the Planet DNA quiz. The first was true; the second described something the site does not actually store, and the list left out everything else, including _grecaptcha. Corrected here after checking against a real browser.

Children

Book Your Planet doesn't knowingly collect data from children. The catalog is general-audience entertainment content; if a parent or guardian believes a child has entered their name and wants it removed, email us and we'll remove it.

Terms of use

  • The core service — claiming, the star map, the on-screen certificate — is provided free, "as is," with no guarantee of uptime, accuracy, or availability.
  • The Sealed Edition is an optional digital product: a permanent record, on the Base blockchain, that a world you already hold the ownership code for has been sealed. It costs 100 USDC, paid from your own wallet, and you also need a small amount of ETH on Base to pay the network's transaction fee — that fee goes to the network, never to us. Checkout is immediate and automatic; nothing is reviewed by hand and nothing arrives by email. The sealed certificate, dossier and wallpapers are generated by your own browser and unlocked by the on-chain record, so they are yours the moment the transaction confirms. Only the holder of a world's ownership code can seal it.
  • A seal cannot be undone, and refunds are manual. The record is permanent by design and the contract has no function that could erase it — that permanence is the thing being bought, and a site that could un-seal your world would not be selling you anything. Payment is equally irreversible: it goes straight to the operator's wallet with nothing held in escrow. If something goes wrong — the wrong world, files that will not generate — email hello@akai.solutions. Files we can regenerate. A refund is discretionary rather than automatic: it is considered case by case and sent by hand if it is warranted, and there is no mechanism in the contract that could issue one. Either way the on-chain record stays exactly where it is.
  • Transmission messages and any other public submissions must not be illegal, harassing, hateful, or infringe someone else's rights. We reserve the right to remove content that violates this, at our discretion.
  • Procedurally generated planet content (names, descriptions, certificates) is provided for personal, non-commercial use such as gifts and personal keepsakes.
  • We may update these terms or this policy as the site evolves; the version here is always the current one.

Last updated 2026-08-19