Third-Party Notices & Data Credits

Last updated: August 2026

This page provides third-party notices, data-source credits, and attribution information for Earth Shack Software products, including applications, dashboards, command tools, and related digital downloads provided by The Earth Shack Software LLC.

Earth Shack Software products may display, retrieve, transform, cache, calculate from, or summarize information provided by third-party public data sources, open-source software libraries, government agencies, scientific organizations, amateur-radio resources, satellite-data resources, mapping or visualization resources, browser services, and other external providers.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, The Earth Shack Software LLC is not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by, or officially connected with any third-party provider listed on this page. Third-party names, marks, data-source names, and service names are used for identification and attribution only.

Product behavior may vary by product version, user settings, browser capability, network availability, provider availability, local cache state, and product configuration. Product pages, documentation, release notes, and the product file itself may contain additional notices for a specific product or version.

1. General Data and Availability Notice

Third-party data may be delayed, unavailable, incomplete, revised, rate-limited, blocked by browser or network restrictions, changed without notice, or subject to provider terms, provider disclaimers, and provider operational limits.

Earth Shack Software products are not official government, emergency-management, aviation, maritime, financial, investment, trading, life-safety, disaster-response, or mission-critical decision systems. For official warnings, forecasts, alerts, earthquake information, weather information, space-weather information, satellite/orbital data, amateur-radio propagation data, financial data, or other operational decisions, consult the original authoritative provider directly.

Provider links and credits are included to help users understand where certain displayed or referenced information may originate. They do not imply endorsement of Earth Shack Software products by those providers.

2. Sentinel — Third-Party Notices and Data Credits

Sentinel is part of the Earth Shack Software Situational Awareness Suite. Depending on product version, user settings, browser behavior, and network availability, Sentinel may use or reference the following third-party sources and libraries.

Earthquake, volcano, weather, and hazard data

Satellite and orbital data

  • SatNOGS DB / Libre Space Foundation — satellite metadata, transmitter information, and TLE/orbital element information where used. SatNOGS DB data is made available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 unless otherwise noted by the provider.
    Source: https://db.satnogs.org/
    License: CC BY-SA 4.0
  • CelesTrak — satellite catalog, GP/TLE, and related orbital element resources where used, available, enabled, or referenced by product behavior.
    Source: https://celestrak.org/
    Usage policy: https://celestrak.org/usage-policy.php

Open-source software and calculations

  • satellite.js — JavaScript satellite propagation functions for TLE/OMM, SGP4/SDP4, and related orbital calculations where used.
    Source: https://github.com/shashwatak/satellite-js
    License: MIT License
  • D3 / D3.js — data visualization library where used.
    Source: https://d3js.org/
    License: ISC License

3. Guardian — Third-Party Notices and Data Credits

Guardian is part of the Earth Shack Software Situational Awareness Suite. Depending on product version, user settings, browser behavior, and network availability, Guardian may use or reference the following third-party sources and libraries.

Space weather, solar, geomagnetic, aurora, and HF-supporting data

Ionosphere and HF propagation data

  • KC2G / prop.kc2g.com — near-realtime ionospheric and HF propagation maps, MUF/foF2-related products, station resources, or related data where used.
    Source: https://prop.kc2g.com/
  • Global Ionospheric Radio Observatory (GIRO) / DIDBase — ionosonde, ionogram, station, or ionosphere-related data where used directly or indirectly through propagation resources.
    Source: https://giro.uml.edu/didbase/
  • INGV and participating ionosonde operators — ionospheric data contributions where used through third-party propagation resources.

Satellite and orbital data

  • SatNOGS DB / Libre Space Foundation — satellite metadata, transmitter information, and TLE/orbital element information where used. SatNOGS DB data is made available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 unless otherwise noted by the provider.
    Source: https://db.satnogs.org/
    License: CC BY-SA 4.0
  • CelesTrak — satellite catalog, GP/TLE, and related orbital element resources where used, available, enabled, or referenced by product behavior. Some Earth Shack Software product builds may use embedded or cached orbital elements and may restrict live provider access unless enabled or allowed by the product’s provider-safety logic.
    Source: https://celestrak.org/
    Usage policy: https://celestrak.org/usage-policy.php

Open-source software and calculations

  • satellite.js — JavaScript satellite propagation functions for TLE/OMM, SGP4/SDP4, and related orbital calculations where used.
    Source: https://github.com/shashwatak/satellite-js
    License: MIT License
  • Astronomy Engine by Don Cross — astronomical calculations involving the Sun, Moon, planets, rise/set, phases, coordinate transforms, and related astronomy functions where used.
    Source: https://github.com/cosinekitty/astronomy
    License: MIT License
  • D3 / D3.js — data visualization library where used.
    Source: https://d3js.org/
    License: ISC License

4. Vestrus — Third-Party Notices and Data Credits

Vestrus is a local-first portfolio recordkeeping and analysis application. Manual portfolio operation does not require a third-party market-data service. Users may optionally connect supported external providers using credentials issued through their own provider accounts.

Market data and company information

  • Finnhub — optional current quotes, company news, and company-profile information used for supported session-only market context.
    Source: https://finnhub.io/
    Vestrus requires the user to supply an API key issued through the user's own Finnhub account. Provider eligibility, plans, licensing, rate limits, availability, and terms are controlled by Finnhub.
  • Tiingo — optional quote support, price history, chart data, dividend information, market context, and other supported historical information.
    Source: https://www.tiingo.com/
    Vestrus requires the user to supply a token issued through the user's own Tiingo account. Provider eligibility, plans, licensing, rate limits, availability, retention rules, and terms are controlled by Tiingo.

Finnhub and Tiingo information is used as optional display and analysis context. Connected-provider observations are maintained in volatile session memory while Vestrus is running and are not written into the user's authoritative holdings, lots, cash records, transaction records, saved manual prices, or ordinary Vestrus backup files.

Securities reference information

  • U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) / EDGAR — Vestrus includes a compact embedded public reference snapshot used to assist with ticker identity, EDGAR company name, and reported exchange information.
    Source: https://www.sec.gov/edgar
    The embedded reference is not a live market-data feed and may be incomplete or stale. It does not provide Vestrus prices, news, dividends, sectors, asset classifications, or chart history.

Inflation reference

  • U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) — Vestrus Wealth Outlook provides a user-opened reference to publicly available Consumer Price Index information for inflation context.
    Source: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/
    Vestrus does not automatically retrieve or apply a BLS inflation assumption. Inflation assumptions used in Wealth Outlook are selected by the user.

Provider responsibility and independence

Vestrus does not create Finnhub or Tiingo accounts, determine provider entitlement, or redistribute connected-provider market data. Users are responsible for obtaining and maintaining any optional provider account, API key or token, plan eligibility, and compliance with provider terms.

The Earth Shack Software LLC is not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by, or officially connected with Finnhub, Tiingo, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Provider names are used for identification and attribution only.

5. CORS Proxies, Browser Requests, and Network Routing

Some product builds may include fallback logic, proxy configuration options, browser-side fetch requests, or provider-safety controls intended to work around ordinary browser, file-origin, CORS, cache, or network limitations. Any third-party proxy, browser service, network service, or endpoint used by a product or configured by the user is separate from The Earth Shack Software LLC and may be subject to its own terms, privacy practices, availability, rate limits, or restrictions.

Earth Shack Software products do not control third-party provider availability, third-party endpoint behavior, browser security policies, network filtering, or provider rate-limit enforcement.

6. No Official Endorsement

The inclusion of a third-party name, data source, agency, organization, API, library, website, or service on this page is for attribution and user transparency only. It does not imply that the provider sponsors, endorses, certifies, audits, approves, or is affiliated with The Earth Shack Software LLC or any Earth Shack Software product.

Earth Shack Software products may transform, summarize, visualize, filter, cache, or combine third-party data. Such presentation is not official provider output unless expressly identified as official provider material. Users should consult the original provider for official data, warnings, forecasts, advisories, licenses, restrictions, and updates.

7. Product-Specific Notices Control

Some product files may contain bundled open-source license text, embedded data notices, or release-specific provider notes. Where a product file includes more specific third-party license text or provider requirements, those product-specific notices should be read together with this page.

This page may be updated as products, providers, APIs, libraries, release channels, or data-source usage change.

8. Contact

Questions about third-party notices or data credits may be sent through the Contact page or by email at support@theearthshacksoftware.com.