Privacy observation · current app behavior
A field record of what the app keeps—and what it never asks you to mark.
This notebook covers the Wild Neighbor Android app and this two-page field-folio website. It describes the exact local note structure, available controls, and boundary between the installed experience and the web page.
01 · Scope
Two surfaces, one clear boundary
This policy applies to the Wild Neighbor Android application and the Wild Neighbor introduction and privacy pages. A resource you choose beyond these pages follows its own terms and practices.
02 · Audience
Observers at the shared edge
Wild Neighbor is a general-audience educational tool for residents, families, pet guardians, gardeners, educators, and curious observers. It does not require membership, credentials, or identity verification.
03 · Purpose
A reasoning tool, not a sighting registry
The app presents built-in wildlife context cards and lets you assemble a four-part response from Trace, Context, Boundary, and Response. The website explains the same observational rhythm.
04 · Inputs
Built-in plates, chosen by tap
The Android app accepts selections from its built-in cards and controls. It has no text entry, location entry, map pin, form, image picker, camera input, microphone input, or upload field. The website has no submission form.
05 · Local records
Four card identifiers and a time
If you choose to keep a response, the app writes a timestamp and four selected card identifiers to private Android preferences. Up to twenty-four response records are retained, and no sighting address or coordinate is part of a record.
06 · Sensitive details
Keep exact locations off the plate
There is nowhere to enter a person’s name, home address, wildlife den location, or personal narrative. Avoid placing sensitive details into screenshots or messages you create with another tool after leaving the app.
07 · Permissions
No device sensor request
The current Android manifest declares no runtime permissions. Wild Neighbor does not request access to location, camera, microphone, contacts, nearby devices, notifications, calendars, or files.
08 · Accounts
Open the folio without a profile
The app has no sign-in, account, email field, phone field, social identity, or user identifier. A locally kept response is not attached to a named person within Wild Neighbor.
09 · Ads and analytics
No attention trail is assembled
The app contains no advertising, analytics, tracking, attribution, or behavioral profiling component. The site script only changes visible folio states, such as the active reasoning lens or current index entry.
10 · App and site traffic
The pocket and the web page behave differently
The Android package does not declare Internet access, so card choices and kept responses stay within its local storage. Opening this website sends an ordinary page request to the web host, which may process request details under its own terms.
11 · Sharing
No reporting channel inside the app
Wild Neighbor has no built-in upload, export, messaging, public feed, sighting submission, or data-sale route. A screenshot or message shared with another tool is a separate action governed by that destination.
12 · Retention
Erase one note or empty the pocket
A kept response remains until removed or pushed beyond the twenty-four-record limit. The app provides remove-one and confirmed erase-all controls. Clearing application storage or uninstalling also removes local records, and backup is disabled for the app.
13 · Family use
Observe together without recording a child
The app does not knowingly collect personal information from children or anyone else. Caregivers can help younger observers keep distance from wildlife, leave exact locations unshared, and decide whether a local response should remain saved.
14 · Device care
A shared device is a shared viewing surface
Android private storage limits ordinary access by other apps, but a person who can unlock and use your device may be able to open the field pocket. Use the device lock and remove notes that should not remain visible to another device user.
15 · Controls
You decide what stays in the field pocket
You can finish a response without saving it, revisit kept cards, remove one record, confirm a full erase, clear app storage through Android settings, or uninstall. Website lens choices disappear when the page is closed or reloaded.
16 · Outside limits
Field prompts are not emergency response
Wild Neighbor does not identify animals with certainty or replace wildlife rehabilitation, animal control, veterinary, public-health, emergency, or legal guidance. Use current local channels when an animal or person is injured, trapped, acting unusually, or in immediate danger.
17 · Changes
When the behavior record changes
This page may be revised when the app, website, or their data handling changes. The effective date at the top identifies the current edition. Review the current page if a later app release introduces a new control or surface.
18 · Questions
Ask through the current support route
Use the support route attached to the app’s current store listing for a privacy question. Do not include passwords, identification documents, exact wildlife den locations, medical details, or another person’s private information in a support message.
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