Flock Legends Privacy Policy
The short version. Flock Legends is a bird-spotting game. When you capture a bird, the photo and your approximate location are sent to an AI service to identify the species. Your collection lives only on your phone. There are no accounts, no ads, no analytics, and we never sell or share your data.
Who we are
Flock Legends is made by an independent developer. If you have any questions about this policy, email flocklegends.app@gmail.com.
What the app collects and why
- Photos you take in the app. When you press the capture button, the photo is resized and sent to our server, which forwards it to Google's Gemini AI service to identify the bird. The photo is also saved on your phone as part of your collection. The app only uses photos you take with its own camera; it does not access your photo library.
- Approximate location. With your permission, the app uses your location for two things: to rate how rare a bird is in your area, and to label each capture with a place name. The location sent for rarity scoring is rounded to roughly one kilometer. Place names come from Apple Maps. You can decline location access and the app still works. In that case it uses only the country from your phone's Region setting to judge how common a bird is.
- Your collection. The birds you've caught, your captures, points, and level are stored in the app's private storage on your phone. They are not uploaded anywhere and are not synced between devices.
Who receives data
- Our identification server, hosted on Cloudflare. It receives the photo and rounded location, passes them to Google, and returns the answer. It does not store photos. Like any web server, it briefly logs technical details such as your IP address and request timing, which are automatically deleted after a few days.
- Google Gemini API, which performs the bird identification. We use Google's paid service, under which Google does not use your photos to train its models. Google may retain requests briefly for abuse monitoring. See Google's Gemini API terms.
- Apple Maps, which turns your coordinates into a place name on your device, under Apple's privacy policy.
- Wikipedia, from which the app fetches a reference photo of each species. Only the species name is sent, never your photo or location.
International processing. These services run on servers in the United States and other countries. If you live elsewhere, including Japan or the European Union, using the app means your photo and approximate location are transferred to and processed in those countries for the purpose of identifying the bird.
We do not sell your data, share it with advertisers, or use any analytics or tracking tools.
Permissions
- Camera to photograph birds.
- Location, while using the app for rarity scoring and place names. Optional.
You can change either permission at any time in your phone's Settings.
Deleting your data
Everything the app stores is on your phone. Use Reset ChickaDex inside the app to erase your collection, or delete the app to remove all of its data. Because we keep nothing on our servers, there is nothing further to delete.
Children
Flock Legends is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with an updated date.