Legal notice and privacy

Note legali e informativa sulla privacy · Last updated 2026-09-30

Legal notice (Note legali)

This website is a private, non-commercial project: no advertising, no sales, no paid services. It is run by Pokyh, who can be reached at [email protected].

Links to external sites were checked when they were added; their content is outside this site's control and responsibility.

Not a gambling site

Fly Lab is an educational neuroscience simulation. There is no money, no betting, no prizes and nothing to buy: a simulated fly plays alone, and the credits have no value of any kind.

The bar experiment does not promote or sell alcohol or nicotine. It shows a simulated fly drinking, passing out, poisoning itself with nicotine and waking up hungover; nothing on this site is advice about either substance.

The trading desk does not use real markets, real prices or real money. Its ticker, prices and headlines are generated by a seeded simulation, the fly trades paper money, and nothing on this site is investment advice.

The gaming setup shows a simulated fly playing League of Legends, Minecraft, Fortnite, Counter-Strike 2, Red Dead Redemption 2, God of War (2018), God of War Ragnarök and Rainbow Six Siege. Gameplay is drawn procedurally by this site; the Siege lodge uses CC0 material photos from Poly Haven. Its CS2 case-opening simulation uses locally hosted skin images credited to Valve and contributing artists. Drops are fictional, with no purchases, monetary value or Steam connection.

If gambling is causing you problems, help is free and anonymous. In Italy, call the national gambling helpline Telefono Verde Nazionale per le problematiche legate al Gioco d'Azzardo on 800 558 822.

Privacy policy (Informativa sulla privacy, art. 13 GDPR)

Who is responsible

The data controller is Pokyh, reachable at [email protected].

What this site does not do

This site sets no cookies and uses no local storage for tracking.
No analytics, no advertising, no tracking pixels.
No third-party requests by default: fonts, 3D models and connectome data are all served from this site. The only exception is optional and off until you switch it on: TikTok videos in the doomscroll experiment (see below).
The simulations run entirely in your browser. Nothing about what you watch or click is sent to us.

That is why there is no site-wide cookie banner. You are asked only on the one page where TikTok content can appear, and only if you want to see it.

TikTok videos in the doomscroll experiment (only with your consent)

The doomscroll experiment can show real TikTok videos (fan edits about Sabrina Carpenter) through TikTok's official embedded player, and a live feed of the hashtag #sabrinacarpenter through TikTok's official hashtag embed. Until you choose Allow TikTok videos, nothing is loaded from TikTok: no player, no feed, no script, no connection. The experiment works fully without it.

Which videos the flies can scroll comes from a list published on this site, kept up to date from public web search results and TikTok's public oEmbed service; loading that list sends nothing to TikTok. So that there is no pause between videos, each phone loads its next video in advance, muted and paused.

If you allow it, your browser connects directly to TikTok's servers when a video or the hashtag feed is shown or loaded in advance. TikTok then receives technical data such as your IP address, browser and device information and the address of this page, and TikTok may store or read cookies and similar information on your device, including for its own analytics and advertising. What TikTok does with these data is decided by TikTok: see TikTok's privacy policy and cookie policy. The provider for users in the European Economic Area is TikTok Technology Limited, 10 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin D02 T380, Ireland. TikTok may transfer data to countries outside the EU.

Legal basis: your consent (art. 6(1)(a) GDPR; for storing and reading information on your device, art. 122 of the Italian Privacy Code implementing art. 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive).
Who is responsible: for making the connection to TikTok by embedding the player and the hashtag feed, we and TikTok may be jointly responsible (see CJEU, C-40/17 Fashion ID). For everything TikTok does with the data afterwards, TikTok alone is responsible. You can exercise your rights with us or with TikTok.
Withdrawing: you can withdraw your consent at any time, as easily as you gave it, with the button below or with Cookie settings on the experiment page. Players and the hashtag feed are removed immediately. Cookies TikTok has already set are under TikTok's control; you can delete them in your browser settings. Withdrawing does not affect what happened before.
Your choice itself is saved in your browser's local storage under the key flylab.consent: only the answer and when you gave it. This is strictly necessary to respect your choice and is never sent to us or anyone else. Clearing your browser data removes it.
The list of videos: while TikTok is allowed, the last list of TikTok posts the page loaded from this site is kept in your browser's local storage under the key flylab.edits, so the videos start without waiting on your next visit. It holds only public post addresses and creators' names, nothing about you, is never sent anywhere, and is deleted when you withdraw your consent.

Simulation inventory

The gaming experiment saves collected simulation skins on your device under the local-storage key flylab.cs2.inventory.v1, so your inventory survives a reload. It contains only fictional drops and their appearance attributes, and is never sent to us or any third party. Clearing site data removes it. If browser storage is unavailable, the inventory lasts only for the current visit. Skin images are served from this site without requests to Valve, Steam or GitHub.

Server logs

When you open a page, our server may automatically process technical data needed to deliver and secure the website, such as your IP address, the date and time, the page requested, the referring page and your browser's user agent. This processing is necessary to operate and secure the site (art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, legitimate interest).

The website and its server infrastructure are operated by Pokyh. These technical data are not used to identify you and are not combined with other data. Server logs are retained only for as long as necessary for security, troubleshooting and the reliable operation of the website.

If you write an email

Your email address and message are used only to reply to you (art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) and are deleted once the conversation is over, unless the law requires otherwise.

Your rights

Under articles 15–21 GDPR you have the right to access your data, have it corrected or erased, restrict or object to its processing, and receive it in a portable format. To exercise them, write to the email address above. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority; in Italy this is the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (garanteprivacy.it).

Providing any data is not required, and no automated decision-making or profiling takes place.

Credits and licences

"Custom Gaming PC" in the gaming setup by Yolala3D | Y3D (original metadata: Yolala1232). Original model, CC BY 4.0. Presentation plinth removed, grille baked, geometry simplified and batched, glass and materials adjusted, textures resized, and compressed for the browser.
Plants, desk lamp, shelf, books and wall clock in the coder's room: Poly Haven, CC0. Compressed for the browser.
The code shown on the coder's screens is from POKYH's frontend by BedChem, copied into this site at build time; nothing is fetched from GitHub while the page runs.
Inter and JetBrains Mono typefaces, SIL Open Font License 1.1.

This project is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, HHMI Janelia, Google, the University of Cambridge or the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. League of Legends is a trademark of Riot Games, Minecraft of Mojang Studios and Microsoft, Fortnite of Epic Games, Counter-Strike 2 of Valve, Red Dead Redemption 2 of Rockstar Games, God of War of Sony Interactive Entertainment, Rainbow Six Siege of Ubisoft and Monster Energy of Monster Energy Company; Fly Lab is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any of them. The coder's laptop is drawn generically, and Fly Lab is not affiliated with Apple. All names belong to their respective owners.

TikTok videos shown in the doomscroll experiment remain the work and property of their creators and of the rights holders of the music and footage in them; each is credited and linked where it plays. They are shown only through TikTok's own embedded player and hashtag embed, under TikTok's terms, and are not downloaded, copied or re-hosted here. Fly Lab is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Sabrina Carpenter, her record labels, the creators of the edits, or TikTok. If you are a creator or rights holder and want a video removed, write to [email protected] and it will be taken out promptly.