Privacy Policy

What we collect

• Account information — your email address and sign-in identity. Used to authenticate you and scope your data to your account.
• Trail-camera photos — the image files you import, plus the derived thumbnail and preview versions we generate so the app is fast on a phone.
• Photo metadata — capture timestamps, image dimensions, file names, and EXIF fields we read to place a photo in time. When a camera burns the timestamp into the image instead of writing EXIF, we read that stamp from the image.
• Property and camera records — property names, camera names, camera coordinates, facing direction, install history, and any boundary you draw or upload. We treat precise coordinates and boundaries as sensitive.
• Wildlife records — encounters, animal observations, AI classifications, confidence values, and the corrections you make during review.
• Derived intelligence — property facts and findings, terrain and landscape results, camera exposure and correlation data, all computed from the above.
• Operational records — import batches, processing jobs, audit entries, support messages and feedback you send us, and error diagnostics used to fix failures.

Where it is stored

Application records live in a managed PostgreSQL database with row-level security, so a query can only return rows owned by the signed-in account. Photos live in private storage buckets keyed to your account; they are not publicly listable and are served through short-lived signed links to your session only.

AI processing

When BuckPattern identifies wildlife, an image derivative — a resized frame and, for antler checks, a cropped region — is sent to an AI vision provider through our server. Location coordinates and property boundaries are not sent with the image. The provider returns a species and deer-class judgment with confidence values, which we store alongside the encounter. Your corrections are stored as training examples inside your own account and are used to improve BuckPattern's own thresholds and prompts. We do not sell your photos, and we do not enable provider-side model training where that setting is under our control.

Third-party geographic services

Terrain and landscape intelligence query public mapping services (elevation, land cover, hydrology, and open mapping data) using coordinates within your monitored area. No photos, account identifiers or wildlife records are sent to those services.

Retention and deletion

Your records are kept while your account exists. You can delete individual photos, encounters, cameras, properties and boundaries at any time from inside the app. Deleting your account permanently removes your account, your owner-scoped records and your stored image files, including derived thumbnails and previews. A minimal, de-identified audit record of the deletion itself is retained for operational integrity. See account deletion.

Sharing

We do not sell your information and we do not share your photos, coordinates or boundaries with advertisers. Information is disclosed only to the infrastructure and AI providers described above, or where required by law.

Contact

Questions about this policy or your data: use Support.