This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you use Birdsky and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
We use your personal data to provide and improve Birdsky. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Interpretation and Definitions
Interpretation
The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
- Account means a unique account created for you to access our Service or parts of our Service.
- Application refers to Birdsky, the software program provided by Arthur De Araujo.
- Developer (referred to as either "the Developer", "we", "us" or "our" in this Agreement) refers to Arthur De Araujo.
- Country refers to: United States
- Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
- Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
- Service refers to the Application.
- Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Developer. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Developer to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Developer, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Developer in analyzing how the Service is used.
- Third-party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social network website through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Service.
- Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
- You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- First name and last name
- Profile information and bio
- Usage Data
Location Data
We collect coarse location information to enhance your bird watching experience. This data is:
- Coarse Location: Used for app functionality to help you discover nearby bird sightings and connect with local birding communities
- This information is linked to your identity and helps personalize your birding experience
User Content
We collect content that you create, upload, or share through our Service:
- Photos or Videos: Bird photos and videos you share, used for app functionality and linked to your identity
- Other User Content: Posts, comments, bird sighting reports, and other content you create. This data is used for app functionality, product personalization, and may be used for tracking purposes. All content is linked to your identity
Identifiers
We collect certain identifiers to provide and improve our Service:
- User ID: A unique identifier for your account, used for analytics and app functionality. This is linked to your identity and may be used for tracking purposes
- Device ID: Your device's unique identifier, used for app functionality and linked to your identity
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service and includes:
- Product Interaction: How you interact with our app features, used for analytics, product personalization, and app functionality. This data is linked to your identity
- Device Information: Device type, operating system, app version, and browser information
- Access Information: IP address, time and date of visits, pages visited, and time spent on pages
Diagnostics
We collect diagnostic information to maintain and improve our Service:
- Crash Data: Information about app crashes to help us fix bugs and improve stability. Used for app functionality and analytics, linked to your identity
- Performance Data: App performance metrics to optimize user experience. Used for app functionality and analytics, linked to your identity
- Other Diagnostic Data: Additional technical information to help troubleshoot issues. Used for app functionality and analytics, linked to your identity
Use of Your Personal Data
We may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
- App Functionality: To provide and maintain our Service, including core birding features, user account management, content sharing, and location-based bird discovery.
- Analytics: To analyze how you use our app, track user interactions, monitor performance, and understand usage patterns to improve our Service.
- Product Personalization: To customize your experience, show relevant bird content, personalize your feed, and recommend nearby birding locations and communities.
- Tracking: To track user engagement with content and features for improving user experience and app performance.
- To manage your Account: To manage your registration as a user of the Service and provide access to different functionalities available to registered users.
- To contact you: To contact you by email or push notifications regarding updates, security information, and communications related to app functionality.
- To provide you with news and information about birding-related features and updates, unless you have opted not to receive such information.
- To manage your requests: To attend and manage your requests and support inquiries.
- For business transfers: We may use your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets.
- Bird-related features: To help you discover nearby bird sightings, connect with local bird enthusiasts, enhance your birding experience, and improve location-based functionality.
- Diagnostics and Performance: To identify and fix bugs, crashes, and performance issues to ensure optimal app functionality.
We may share your personal information in the following situations:
- With Service Providers: We may share your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact you.
- For business transfers: We may share or transfer your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another party.
- With business partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.
- With other users: when you share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If you interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see your name, profile, pictures and description of your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of your activity, communicate with you and view your profile.
- With your consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
Retention of Your Personal Data
We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at our operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
Delete Your Personal Data
You have the right to delete or request that we assist in deleting the Personal Data that we have collected about you.
Our Service may give you the ability to delete certain information about you from within the Service.
You may update, amend, or delete your information at any time by signing in to your Account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage your personal information. You may also contact us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us.
Please note, however, that we may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Business Transactions
If we are involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Law enforcement
Under certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Other legal requirements
We may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation
- Protect and defend our rights or property
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
- Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
- Protect against legal liability
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of your Personal Data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Children's Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires consent from a parent, we may require your parent's consent before we collect and use that information.
Links to Other Websites
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us:
By email: [email protected]