Privacy
Privacy policy
Last updated 8 November 2026
Wild Acre is a wildlife recording app made by Cavru Studio in Ireland. This policy explains what we collect when you use the Wild Acre app and website, why we collect it, who we share it with, and the choices you have. We have tried to keep it short and plain.
Who we are
The data controller is Cavru Studio, Ireland, trading as Wild Acre. You can reach us at hello@wildacre.ie.
What we collect
| Data | Where it comes from | Why we need it |
|---|---|---|
| Email address | You, when you create an account | To sign you in with a one-time code and to contact you about your account |
| Display name and profile photo | You, optionally | To show who recorded a sighting inside a shared project |
| Photos you capture or import | Your camera or photo library, with your permission | To store your sightings and to identify the species in them |
| Location of a sighting | GPS data embedded in the photo, or your device location if the photo has none | To place the sighting on your map and in the right county or townland |
| Sighting details | You, and our identification service | Species name, date, notes, the suggestion our identification service made and whether you accepted it |
| Project membership | You, when you create or join a project with a code | To share sightings with the people running a survey you take part in |
| Usage analytics | Automatically, from the app and website | To understand which features are used and to find bugs. Includes device type, app version and screens visited |
We do not collect payment details, contacts, precise background location, or anything from your photo library other than the images you choose.
Automatic species identification
When you capture a photo, a downscaled copy is sent to our server and then to an artificial-intelligence model to suggest what the organism is. The copy is used only to produce the suggestion and is not used by the model provider to train its models. The suggestion, and whether you accepted or changed it, is stored with your sighting so we can improve identification over time.
Who we share data with
We use a small number of service providers to run Wild Acre. They process data on our instructions.
- Supabase hosts our database, authentication and photo storage in the European Union.
- Vercel hosts the website and the server that handles identification requests, and routes those requests to the AI model provider (currently Google Gemini) through Vercel AI Gateway.
- PostHog (EU region) provides product analytics.
- Mapbox and Apple or Google Maps provide the map tiles shown in the app.
- Expo builds and distributes the mobile app.
If you join a project, the organiser of that project can see the sightings you contribute to it, including photo, species, location and date, together with your display name.
We may share anonymised, aggregated species records with biodiversity bodies such as the National Biodiversity Data Centre. These records do not include your name or email.
We do not sell your data and we do not show advertising.
Legal basis
Under the GDPR we process your data to provide the service you signed up for (performance of a contract), with your consent where we ask for it (camera, photo library and location permissions), and in our legitimate interest to keep the service secure and improve it.
How long we keep it
We keep your account and sightings until you delete your account. Analytics data is kept for up to 12 months. Server logs are kept for up to 30 days.
Deleting your account
You can delete your account at any time from the profile screen in the app, or at wildacre.ie/delete-account. Deletion removes your profile, your photos, your sightings, and any projects you own. It cannot be undone.
Your rights
You can ask us for a copy of your data, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it, by emailing hello@wildacre.ie. You can also withdraw permissions at any time in your device settings. If you are unhappy with how we handle your data you can complain to the Data Protection Commission in Ireland.
Children
Wild Acre is not intended for children under 16 and we do not knowingly collect their data.
Changes
If we change this policy in a meaningful way we will update the date at the top and let you know in the app.