Privacy

Effective August 2026 · plain English · deliberately short

BirdFrame is two separate things, and they have separate privacy stories: the listener that sits outside, and this website. Here is both, without the usual fog.

The listener outside

BirdFrame listens for birdsong and works out which species it is hearing. That identification happens on the device itself, on site, on your own network. Recordings are not streamed to us, not uploaded to a cloud service, and not reviewed by a person. That is as true in a school or a care home as it is in a back garden.

• Short sound clips and the day’s bird list are stored locally, so you can play back what was heard.
• They stay on your equipment. You can delete them whenever you like.
• When a new species needs a portrait painting, only a short written prompt - the bird’s name and a description of the style - is sent to the image service. No audio goes with it.

The plain version: BirdFrame hears the birds outside, not the conversation indoors, and either way the sound does not leave the building.

This website

This site collects as close to nothing as we can manage.

• The contact form. If you write to us we store the name, email address and message you typed, so that we can reply. That is the only reason we hold it.
• Server logs. The web server records requests, including IP addresses, so we can keep the site up and fend off the usual automated nuisance. Nothing more is done with them.
• No cookies. None at all - which is why you were not asked to accept any.
• No analytics, no trackers, no advertising pixels, no social buttons.
• One third party: the page’s typefaces are loaded from Google Fonts, so Google’s servers will see the request for those font files. Everything else - the paintings, the stylesheet, the page itself - is served from here.

How long we keep things

Contact messages are kept until they have been dealt with, and a reasonable while afterwards in case the conversation continues, then deleted. Server logs are short-lived and rotate away. We do not build a mailing list out of the contact form, and we do not pass anything to anyone else.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you can ask what we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected, or ask us to delete it. Say so through the contact form and we will do it and confirm - there is no process to navigate. If you would rather not use the form at all, do not: nothing on this site requires you to identify yourself.

Changes

If this note changes materially, the date at the top changes with it. BirdFrame is in private beta, so some of the above will get more specific as the product does.