WildKind Privacy Policy

WildKind is created and operated by Celestial Works LLC.

This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected, used, stored, shared, or deleted when you download, access, or use WildKind.

By downloading, installing, accessing, or using WildKind, you agree to this Privacy Policy.

If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, do not use WildKind.

1. About WildKind

WildKind is a mobile wildlife discovery app that may include species identification, camera scanning, photo uploads, personal wildlife collections, sighting logs, maps, location-based features, family features, parent approval features, account features, badges, streaks, reminders, purchases, subscriptions, paywalls, premium features, AI-assisted features, settings, and other app features.

WildKind is designed to help users explore, identify, and learn about wildlife.

WildKind is not a safety service, emergency service, scientific authority, animal control service, medical provider, legal advisor, park authority, or professional wildlife guide.

You are responsible for deciding what information you enter into WildKind and how you use that information.

2. Information You Provide

WildKind may collect information you choose to enter into the app.

This may include:

• Name or display name
• Email address
• Account login information
• Username
• Profile information
• Date of birth or age range
• Parent or guardian email address
• Wildlife photos
• Species notes
• Sighting notes
• Location notes
• Collection information
• Favorite or saved species
• Badges, streaks, and progress
• Family account information
• Published sighting information
• App preferences
• Feedback, support requests, or messages you send us

You should only enter information that you are comfortable storing in the app.

3. Age Information and Parent Approval

WildKind may ask for your date of birth or age range to help determine which app experience is appropriate.

If a user is under 13, WildKind may require parent or guardian approval before certain account features, online features, sharing features, or data storage features are available.

If a user is under 18, WildKind may require parent or guardian permission before using certain features.

Parent or guardian email addresses may be used to send approval, permission, decline, safety, account, or privacy-related messages.

WildKind is not intended for children under 13 to use online account features without parent or guardian approval.

Parents and guardians are responsible for supervising children's use of WildKind, including camera use, location use, map use, sharing, uploads, purchases, subscriptions, third-party links, and outdoor safety.

4. Children's Information

WildKind may allow children to use certain features with parent or guardian permission.

Information related to a child may include:

• Child name or display name
• Age or date of birth
• Parent or guardian email address
• Wildlife photos
• Sightings
• Collection progress
• Badges and streaks
• App activity
• Location-based sightings, if location features are enabled
• Family account information

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without parent or guardian approval where required.

If we learn that a child under 13 provided personal information without required parent or guardian permission, we will take reasonable steps to delete that information.

Parents or guardians may contact us to request deletion of child account data.

5. Wildlife Photos and Uploaded Content

WildKind may allow you to take, upload, save, scan, or publish wildlife photos.

Photos may include metadata or visual details that reveal location, time, surroundings, people, homes, schools, parks, landmarks, license plates, addresses, or other private information.

You are responsible for the photos you choose to take, upload, save, publish, or share.

Do not upload photos that include private information, faces of children, people who did not consent, private property, addresses, school locations, or other sensitive details unless you have permission and are comfortable storing or sharing that content.

If photo upload, account, sync, AI identification, or publishing features are available, photos may be processed by our backend service providers or AI service providers to provide the feature.

6. Camera Access

WildKind may request access to your device camera so you can scan, photograph, identify, or save wildlife sightings.

Camera access is only used when you choose to use camera-related features.

You can deny or disable camera access through your device settings.

If you disable camera access, camera scanning or photo capture features may not work.

7. Photo Library Access

WildKind may request access to your photo library or media library so you can upload or select photos for identification, collection, or sighting features.

Photo library access is only used when you choose to use photo upload features.

You can deny or disable photo library access through your device settings.

If you disable photo library access, photo upload features may not work.

8. Location Information

WildKind may use location information to help provide maps, nearby species, sighting locations, location search, wildlife discovery, personal collections, family map views, or published sightings.

Location information may include:

• Approximate location
• Precise location, if you allow it
• GPS coordinates
• Map search locations
• Sighting locations
• Location metadata connected to photos
• General region, city, state, or country

You can manage location permissions through your device settings.

If you disable location access, some map, nearby, sighting, or location-based features may not work.

You should be careful when saving, publishing, or sharing location-based sightings.

Do not publish or share locations that reveal your home, school, child's location, private property, endangered species locations, sensitive habitats, nests, dens, or places where sharing could create safety, privacy, or conservation risks.

9. Published Sightings and Sharing

WildKind may allow you to publish, share, or display sightings, species photos, notes, usernames, or general location information.

Some sightings may be private by default unless you choose to publish or share them.

If you publish or share information, other users or third parties may be able to view, copy, screenshot, save, or use that information outside WildKind.

We cannot control what others do with information you choose to publish or share.

You are responsible for reviewing your photos, notes, username, and location details before publishing or sharing.

10. Family Features

WildKind may include family account features, parent approval, private family map views, child profiles, shared collections, or family activity features.

Family features may allow parents or guardians to view child activity, sightings, collection progress, badges, or location-based records.

Parents and guardians are responsible for managing family access and deciding what information is appropriate to share within a family account.

Do not invite or allow people into family features unless you trust them.

11. Account and Sign-In Information

WildKind may allow you to sign in with Apple, Google, Facebook, email, or other supported login providers.

If account features are available, we may collect or receive information needed to create, manage, secure, or support your account.

This may include:

• Email address
• Name or display name
• Username
• Login provider ID
• Authentication token or account identifier
• Account creation date
• Account settings
• Subscription or entitlement status
• Device or app session information needed for login and security

We do not receive or store your Apple, Google, or Facebook password.

Your use of third-party login providers may also be subject to their own privacy policies and terms.

12. Guest Use and Local Data

WildKind may allow you to use some features without creating an account.

Some guest or local-only information may be stored only on your device.

Local-only information may not be backed up to our servers unless you later use an account feature, sync feature, cloud backup feature, publishing feature, or other feature that stores data online.

This means:

• If you delete the app, local-only data may be lost.
• If you switch phones or devices, local-only data may not transfer.
• If your phone is lost, reset, damaged, replaced, or wiped, local-only data may be lost.
• If your device storage is cleared, local-only data may be lost.
• We may not be able to recover local-only data because we may not store it on our servers.

You are responsible for understanding the risk of using local-only or guest features.

13. Information Collected Automatically

When you use WildKind, some information may be collected automatically by the app, your device, app stores, or service providers.

This may include:

• Device type
• Operating system
• App version
• Language settings
• Country or region
• General usage events
• Feature usage
• Crash logs
• Error reports
• Performance data
• Subscription status
• Purchase entitlement status
• Authentication events
• Security or fraud prevention signals

We use this information to operate, improve, secure, debug, and support WildKind.

14. AI and Species Identification Features

WildKind may use AI-assisted tools, computer vision, species databases, or third-party identification services to help identify wildlife from photos or observations.

These services may include providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Vision, GBIF, iNaturalist, or other identification, AI, wildlife data, or species information providers.

If you use identification features, photos, notes, location information, species details, or other submitted information may be processed by these providers to help generate identification results or species information.

AI and species identification results may be incomplete, inaccurate, outdated, uncertain, or inappropriate for your location.

WildKind does not guarantee that species identification results are correct.

You should not rely on WildKind for safety decisions, medical decisions, venomous species identification, poisonous plant or mushroom identification, wildlife handling, legal compliance, hunting, fishing, foraging, emergency decisions, or conservation decisions.

Always use caution outdoors and contact qualified professionals or official sources when needed.

15. Species Data and Third-Party Wildlife Information

WildKind may display species information, images, maps, names, descriptions, taxonomy, conservation status, occurrence data, or other wildlife information from third-party sources.

Third-party wildlife information may be incomplete, outdated, inaccurate, unavailable, or different across providers.

We do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, availability, or safety of third-party wildlife information.

Your use of third-party wildlife data may be subject to the provider's own terms, licenses, and privacy policies.

16. Purchases and Subscriptions

WildKind may offer optional paid features, subscriptions, premium tools, family plans, sponsor features, paywalls, or other paid benefits.

Purchases and subscriptions are processed by the platform where you downloaded the app, such as the Apple App Store or Google Play.

Celestial Works LLC does not process your payment directly and does not receive or store your full credit card number, debit card number, bank account information, payment account password, or complete payment details.

We may receive limited purchase or subscription information from Apple, Google, or service providers so the app can unlock paid features.

This may include:

• Subscription status
• Purchase status
• Renewal status
• Trial status
• Product ID
• Expiration date
• Transaction confirmation
• Refund or cancellation status

Subscription billing, renewal, cancellation, refunds, chargebacks, taxes, payment methods, payment disputes, free trials, introductory offers, and billing problems are managed by Apple or Google according to their own rules and policies.

Deleting WildKind, deleting your account data, deleting local data, or signing out does not automatically cancel an active Apple App Store or Google Play subscription.

You must manage or cancel subscriptions through your Apple App Store or Google Play account settings.

17. Notifications

WildKind may allow you to receive notifications.

Notifications may include reminders, weekly creature updates, badge updates, streak reminders, parent approval messages, account notices, safety notices, or other app-related messages.

Notification content may appear on your device lock screen depending on your device settings.

You are responsible for managing notification permissions and lock screen privacy settings on your device.

You can disable notifications through your device settings or app settings where available.

18. Safety and Outdoor Use

WildKind may include outdoor exploration features, wildlife discovery, maps, nearby species, camera scanning, or educational content.

WildKind does not guarantee your safety outdoors.

WildKind does not tell you whether an animal, plant, mushroom, location, trail, waterway, weather condition, or outdoor situation is safe.

Do not approach, touch, feed, chase, trap, disturb, or handle wild animals.

Do not enter private property, restricted areas, dangerous areas, roads, unsafe trails, construction zones, protected habitats, or closed parks.

Do not rely on WildKind for emergency help, navigation safety, legal access, weather safety, animal danger, venomous species identification, poisonous species identification, or child supervision.

Parents and guardians are responsible for supervising children outdoors.

19. How We Use Information

We may use information to:

• Provide WildKind features
• Save sightings, collections, notes, photos, badges, streaks, settings, and preferences
• Support account features
• Support parent approval and family features
• Support optional syncing or backup features
• Provide species identification features
• Provide maps and location-based features
• Provide paid features or subscription access
• Send app-related messages or service notices
• Respond to support requests
• Improve app design, performance, and reliability
• Fix bugs and crashes
• Protect against fraud, abuse, misuse, or unauthorized access
• Enforce our Terms of Use
• Comply with legal, tax, accounting, security, or platform requirements

We do not use your wildlife photos or sightings to provide emergency, medical, legal, or professional wildlife safety advice.

20. Third-Party Services

WildKind may depend on third-party services, including Apple, Google, Facebook / Meta, Supabase, Mapbox, Google Vision, OpenAI, Anthropic, GBIF, iNaturalist, Resend, purchase processors, analytics providers, crash-reporting providers, hosting providers, authentication providers, app stores, notification providers, AI providers, and other service providers.

These providers may process information for app operation, login, storage, maps, location search, identification, AI features, analytics, crash reporting, subscriptions, payments, notifications, security, parent approval emails, or customer support.

We are not responsible for third-party service outages, data practices, policies, errors, billing issues, account issues, login issues, refund issues, platform changes, service changes, security events, AI output, species data, identification results, or decisions made by those third parties.

Your use of third-party services may be subject to their own terms, privacy policies, and platform rules.

21. Ads and Third-Party Advertising

WildKind may show ads in the future, including rewarded ads, interstitial ads, banner ads, sponsor placements, or other ad formats.

Ads may be provided by third-party ad networks, including Google AdMob or other providers.

Ads may collect or use information according to the ad provider's own privacy policies and settings.

We do not control the specific ads shown, the products or services advertised, or the websites, apps, services, offers, subscriptions, purchases, or pages that ads may link to.

If you tap an ad, download another app, make a purchase, subscribe to another service, sign up for an account, communicate with an advertiser, or share information with a third party, that interaction is between you and the third party.

Celestial Works LLC is not responsible for third-party ads, advertisers, ad links, third-party purchases, third-party subscriptions, or third-party privacy practices.

22. Analytics and Crash Reporting

WildKind may use analytics and crash-reporting tools to understand app performance, fix bugs, improve usability, and detect issues.

Analytics and crash data may include device information, app version, feature usage, error logs, crash reports, performance data, and general location such as country or region.

We do not use analytics to read private notes, private family map data, private child profiles, or unpublished sightings.

23. How We Share Information

We may share information with service providers who help us operate WildKind.

This may include providers for:

• App hosting
• Database storage
• Authentication
• Account management
• Subscriptions and purchases
• Maps and location features
• Species identification
• AI processing
• Wildlife data
• Analytics
• Crash reporting
• Notifications
• Parent approval emails
• Customer support
• Security
• Legal or compliance support

We may also share information if needed to:

• Comply with law
• Respond to legal requests
• Protect our rights, users, app, business, or service providers
• Investigate fraud, abuse, security issues, or policy violations
• Enforce our Terms of Use
• Complete a business transfer, merger, acquisition, sale, restructuring, or similar transaction

We do not sell your private wildlife photos, private sightings, private child profile information, private family map information, or private app content.

24. Data Retention

We keep information for as long as reasonably needed to provide WildKind, support your account, maintain records, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent fraud or abuse, enforce agreements, and operate our business.

Some information may be deleted sooner if you delete it in the app or request deletion.

Some data may remain in backups or logs for a limited time.

Some data may be retained where required or permitted for legal, security, fraud prevention, tax, accounting, payment, dispute, backup, or platform compliance reasons.

Local-only data stored on your device may remain on your device until you delete it, clear app data, reset your device, or uninstall the app.

Published or shared sightings may remain visible until deleted, removed, moderated, or unpublished where features allow.

25. Data Deletion

If account features are available, you may request deletion of your WildKind account data by contacting:

celestialworksapps@gmail.com

Please use the subject line:

WildKind Data Deletion Request

We may need to verify your request before deleting account data.

Deleting WildKind account data does not automatically cancel an active Apple App Store or Google Play subscription.

You must cancel subscriptions through your Apple App Store or Google Play account settings.

Local-only or guest data may be stored only on your device. We may not be able to recover, transfer, restore, or delete local-only data from our servers because we may not store it in our database.

Some data may be retained where required or permitted for legal, security, fraud prevention, tax, accounting, payment, dispute, backup, or platform compliance reasons.

26. Parent or Guardian Requests

Parents or guardians may contact us to request deletion of child account data or personal information that may have been provided by a child under 13 without required permission.

Contact:

celestialworksapps@gmail.com

Please use the subject line:

WildKind Child Privacy Request

We may need to verify your request before taking action.

27. Security

We use reasonable technical, organizational, and administrative measures to help protect information.

However, no app, database, network, device, or online service is completely secure.

We do not guarantee that WildKind will be free from unauthorized access, data loss, bugs, errors, breaches, service interruptions, or security issues.

You are responsible for keeping your device, account, login provider, password, location settings, photo permissions, and device lock screen secure.

You should not share your account login information with anyone you do not trust.

28. Your Choices

Depending on the features available, you may be able to:

• Use some features without creating an account
• Edit or delete sightings in the app
• Keep sightings private
• Publish or unpublish sightings where available
• Turn notifications on or off
• Change app settings
• Sign out of your account
• Request account data deletion
• Request child account data deletion
• Manage subscriptions through Apple App Store or Google Play
• Control camera, photo, notification, and location permissions through your device settings

Some features may not work if you disable permissions, delete data, turn off notifications, or refuse certain access.

29. Device Permissions

WildKind may request device permissions depending on the features you use.

These may include:

• Camera, for scanning or photographing wildlife
• Photos or media library, for uploading images
• Location, for maps, nearby species, sightings, and location-based features
• Notifications, for reminders, updates, parent messages, and app alerts

You can manage permissions through your device settings.

If you deny permissions, some features may not work.

30. International Users

WildKind is operated by Celestial Works LLC in the United States.

If you use WildKind outside the United States, your information may be processed in the United States or other locations where our service providers operate.

Privacy laws in those locations may be different from the laws in your location.

By using WildKind, you understand that your information may be transferred, stored, or processed outside your location where allowed by law.

31. California and Other Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, or information about how your personal information is used.

You may contact us at:

celestialworksapps@gmail.com

Please include enough information for us to understand and respond to your request.

We may need to verify your request before taking action.

Some information may be exempt from deletion or access requests where allowed by law.

32. Children's Privacy Rights

Parents or guardians may contact us to request access, correction, or deletion of personal information related to a child where required by law.

Contact:

celestialworksapps@gmail.com

Please use the subject line:

WildKind Child Privacy Request

We may need to verify your request before taking action.

33. No Sale of Personal Information

We do not sell your private wildlife photos, private sightings, private child profile information, private family map information, or private app content.

We do not sell children's personal information.

If our practices change, we will update this Privacy Policy where required.

34. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

If we make changes, we will update the effective date and make the latest version available in the app or on our website.

Your continued use of WildKind after the updated Privacy Policy is posted means you accept the updated Privacy Policy.

35. Contact

For questions about this Privacy Policy, contact:

Celestial Works LLC

celestialworksapps@gmail.com