Hummingbird Season
Privacy Policy
1. Who we are
This policy explains how dvainsolutions (“we”, “us”) handles information in Hummingbird Season, including its Spanish localization, and on these legal pages. For privacy questions, contact dvainsolutions@gmail.com.
2. Your app records stay on your device
The app does not require an account and does not send your app records to us. It stores your manually selected region, display and widget preferences, feeder names, cleaning and refill records, reminder settings, and sighting dates and optional notes locally. Local record identifiers are used to manage these records, not to track you across apps or websites. The app and its widget share app-specific settings on your device; the widget uses your selected region and bundled seasonal information, not your private journal.
3. No tracking or location access
Hummingbird Season has no advertising SDK, third-party analytics SDK, account service, developer-operated backend, or in-app purchase service. We do not sell or share app records for advertising. The app does not request GPS or other device-location access. You choose a region manually; the offline map shows geography and available guides, not your location or live bird positions.
4. Optional notifications
If you enable daily feeder checks, iOS asks for notification permission. Reminders are scheduled locally on your device, without a remote push-notification service. You can change reminders in the app or disable notification permission in iOS Settings.
5. Retention, deletion and backups
App records remain on your device until you edit or delete them, or remove the app and its data. You can edit or delete sightings and delete feeders in the app. If you explicitly recover a damaged journal, the app preserves a local recovery copy before starting a new journal; deleting entries from the new journal does not erase that recovery copy. Deleting the app removes its local app data, subject to iOS app-group and backup behavior; offloading the app can retain data. Your device or iCloud backups may include app data depending on your Apple settings. Manage those backups through Apple. Hummingbird Season does not provide its own cloud sync or journal export, and we cannot remotely access or restore your records.
6. Apple and external websites
Core app features work offline after installation. Apple handles app distribution and the upfront App Store purchase, and may process purchase or diagnostic information under its own policies and your settings. We do not receive your full payment-card details. See the Apple Privacy Policy. Scientific reference links open external websites only when you choose them. Those websites may receive your IP address and other browser request information and apply their own policies.
7. When you contact support
If you email dvainsolutions@gmail.com, we receive your email address, message, and any attachments you choose to send. We use them to answer your request, troubleshoot the issue, and handle related legal obligations or claims, not for advertising. Our email provider processes these messages to deliver and store email. Do not send passwords or unnecessary sensitive information. We retain correspondence only while needed for those purposes and delete it when no longer needed, unless a legal obligation requires retention. Where relevant, our legal bases are responding to contractual requests, legitimate interests in support and resolving issues, and compliance with legal obligations.
8. Visiting these pages
These Hummingbird pages use no advertising, analytics scripts, forms, or cookies set by us. They are hosted on GitHub Pages. GitHub logs visitors’ IP addresses for security, including visitors who are not signed in; see GitHub Pages data collection and the GitHub Privacy Statement. This website hosting is separate from the offline app. Apple, GitHub and our email provider may process information outside your country under their own policies.
9. Your choices and rights
You control the records stored in the app and your notification and backup settings. We cannot retrieve local app records in response to a request because we do not receive them. For support correspondence that we hold, applicable law may give you rights to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to processing, and receive a portable copy where applicable. Email us to exercise these rights. You may also complain to your local data-protection authority. We do not use app records for automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects.
10. Security and children
The app relies on iOS app isolation and device protections for local records. Keep your device and backups protected; no storage method is guaranteed completely secure. The same local-only app practices apply regardless of age. We do not knowingly collect children’s personal information through the app. A parent or guardian can contact us about information a child may have included in a support email.
11. Updates and contact
If the app or our practices change, we will update this page and its date. A future change to data collection will be explained in the policy and through any notice or consent required by law.
dvainsolutions
dvainsolutions@gmail.com