Privacy Policy
There is not much to write here. As an open source project, the source code of the app is publicly accessible and I do not have any commercial interests.
The app Birds of Switzerland does not collect any information on you, your device or your behaviour. It does not contain extensions from third parties (like Google, Facebook) and fully relies on system libraries provided by Apple.
As Birds of Switzerland accesses the internet solely to fetch data from https://vogelwarte.ch, it is possible and also probable that the server (operated by the Swiss Ornithological Institute) collects standard access information similar to one shown below:
- IP address, e.g. 31.165.70.218
- Date / Time, e.g. 2020/07/15 14:19:06 +0200
- Access details, e.g. HTTP/1.0 GET /elements/…/vds-filternames-de.json
- HTTP status / size, e.g. 200 26262
- App Name / OS version, e.g. Swiss-Birds/11 CFNetwork/1126 Darwin/19.5.0
These logs are not personally identifiable and you are not exposing yourself any more than if you were browsing the website directly.
The privacy policy of the Swiss Ornithological Institute can be found here: https://www.vogelwarte.ch/en/vogelwarte/privacy-statement