Privacy

Your yard stays yours.

Birds Heard is metadata-only by default. The box identifies birds on-device and sends the species, time, and box health data needed to build your private atlas. Audio does not leave the box unless you explicitly enable detection clips.

Detection clips

Clips are optional, private to your account, and deleted on the retention schedule you choose. You can also clear your detection history at any time.

Public yards

Publishing is opt-in. Public pages share bird names and activity—never clips or a street address. City sharing uses a finer approximate map point. Region sharing shows an approximate map area snapped to a roughly 10-mile grid. Hidden location sharing shows no map location at all. You can also turn off “Live singing now”; public activity then appears only in coarser daily summaries, without recent detection times.

Questions or deletion requests

Email [email protected]. Account owners can download or permanently delete their data from Privacy settings.