WindowBird

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 30 September 2026

What the app handles, and where it stays

Camera	Used by the watching phone during a session to detect and record visits.
Microphone	Not used; clips are silent.
Clips and photos	Stored on the device and, if you connect one, in your own Google Drive folder. They are yours; we never receive them.
Year Book	Made as a PDF on your phone from your own collection, handed to your phone's share sheet and not kept by the app. Its only metadata is the app's name. If you order a print, you upload the file to Peecho and pay them yourself: Peecho is an independent printer and the seller of that print, under its own terms and privacy policy. We send Peecho nothing and receive nothing from the order.
Species recognition	Runs entirely on the device with a bundled model. No image is sent anywhere for recognition.
The two-phone link	The phones talk over your own network. No relay of ours is involved.
Approximate location	Only when you tap Use my location in the sleep schedule. WindowBird reads it once on your phone to work out sunrise and sunset, keeps it on the phone rounded to about 10 km, and never sends it to us or anyone else. Without it, dusk and dawn follow your time zone.
Account	There is none with us. Any cloud account used is yours and is authorised directly with that provider.

Your phone’s own backup

Your visits, collection and clips are kept out of your phone's own backup; the copy you keep is the one in your own Google Drive folder, if you connect one. On Android your settings are kept out too. On an iPhone, an iCloud Backup may carry your display settings (theme, language, text size, region and whether crash reports are sent), but never the pairing or the purchase: a restored iPhone starts like a new install, and Restore purchases brings the lifetime back. A backup like that is made by your phone into your own Google or Apple account, under your control and your provider’s terms. It never reaches us, and you can switch it off in your phone’s settings.

This website

This site is served by Cloudflare Pages, which counts visits through Cloudflare Web Analytics — it sets no cookies, stores no identifier and does not follow you across sites. The pages themselves set no cookies, contain no forms and load nothing from anywhere else.

Crash and error reporting

To find and fix defects, the app sends crash and error reports to Sentry, our error-monitoring provider. A report contains the error itself, a technical breadcrumb trail, the app version, the device model and the operating system version. Reports contain no personal content by construction: nothing you type or map is ever attached, the breadcrumb trail is trimmed to technical operation names before sending, and session tracking is switched off so a report carries no installation identifier. Like any request over the internet a report arrives from your IP address; the project is configured not to store it. Reports are never sent from development builds. No image or video data is ever part of a crash report.

You can switch this off. Settings → Send crash reports stops the app sending anything at all; everything else keeps working. Reports are processed on Sentry's servers in the United States and are deleted automatically after 90 days.

Feedback you send

Settings → Send feedback is the one place where something you wrote leaves the phone, and only because you wrote it and tapped send. It carries your message and the diagnostic journal the app shows you in full beforehand, to the same provider as the crash reports. Two things travel only if you choose them: your email address, if you type one so that a person can reply, and a picture of the app’s own screen, if you switch that on for that one message. The picture is the screen you were looking at and you see it before it goes; it is never a photo, a recording or a file from your phone. If crash reporting is switched off, the app opens your own mail app instead and sends nothing itself. Feedback is deleted after 90 days like the reports; a feedback carrying your email address can be found and deleted sooner if you ask, and one sent without an address cannot be found at all.

Purchases

Payments are processed entirely by Google Play or the Apple App Store. We never see or store your card details, address or payment identity — the app only learns whether a purchase is active.

Advertising and tracking

The app contains no advertising, no analytics SDK, no advertising identifier and no cross-app or cross-site tracking of any kind. Nothing you do in the app is sold or shared for marketing.

Children

The app is a household utility and is not directed at children under 13.

Your data, your control

Deleting clips in the app removes them from the device; clips in your own cloud folder are deleted by you, in your own storage, at any time. Because we operate no accounts and no servers holding your content, there is nothing for us to delete on our side and nothing to export from us. If you have any question about your data, write to [email protected] and you will get an answer from a person.

If you are in the EU, the UK or California

The controller of the little data described above is Dmitrii Zusmanovich, an independent developer established in Israel, reachable at [email protected] — so Israeli privacy law applies to us alongside the law of the country you live in. Crash reports are processed on the basis of legitimate interest — keeping the app from crashing — and you can withdraw from that at any time with the switch in Settings, with no effect on anything else. Because there is no account and no server of ours, there is nothing about you for us to look up, correct, port or erase: the crash reports above carry nothing that identifies you, so we could not find yours even in order to delete it, and they are deleted after 90 days regardless. Everything else exists on your own device and under your control. You retain the right to lodge a complaint with your national data-protection authority. We do not sell or share personal information, and we have no “sale” or “targeted advertising” to opt out of.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and the updated text is published on this page before the release that relies on it.

Contact

WindowBird is made by Dmitrii Zusmanovich, an independent developer. Questions, requests or complaints: [email protected].