Coverts
Privacy Policy
Bird identification by sound · Last updated July 29, 2026
The short version
Identification runs on your device, and precise location is never stored.
Coverts does not send us, or any server we operate, your personal data. There is no account, developer-operated analytics, advertising or third-party tracker. We do not sell or share your app content.
Apple-provided services and actions you deliberately take can involve limited data leaving the app. Those cases are identified below, including what leaves the app and who processes it.
What this app does
- Sound identification runs on-device. Your recordings are never uploaded, and there is no server of ours to upload them to.
- Coverts identifies by sound only. Photographs are records you attach to an encounter you identified yourself — the app makes no identification claim about them.
- Location, if you grant it, is used only while an identification is in progress — to rule out species outside their range or season.
- Saved sightings record a coarse region only, never precise coordinates. This protects your privacy and also avoids disclosing sensitive nesting sites.
- Photographs you attach are re-encoded from their pixels and all embedded metadata is discarded — including the exact GPS coordinates cameras normally write into a photo. A stored image carries no location, no timestamp and no device identifier.
- Your life list is stored on your device.
What the app sends us
Nothing. We run no server that receives your content, we neither require nor offer an account, and we embed no analytics or advertising SDKs. We cannot see your app content because it is not sent to us. The app-specific notes above identify the limited cases in which an Apple service or a destination you choose processes data.
Purchases
Purchases are processed by Apple through StoreKit. StoreKit uses network access to load products, complete purchases, check entitlement status and restore purchases. This transaction traffic is separate from your app content: the app does not add your journal, notes, photos, prayer activity, chart data or other in-app content to StoreKit requests. We never see your payment-card details.
You can manage or cancel a subscription at any time in Settings → your name → Subscriptions on your device. That is entirely within your control and never requires contacting us.
Diagnostics
If your device is configured to share analytics with app developers, Apple may make crash and diagnostic information available to us through its developer tools. The app contains no analytics SDK and does not deliberately log or attach your app content to those reports. You control Apple's sharing setting under Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements.
Children
This app is not directed at children under 13 and sends us no personal data. If you believe a child has included personal information in an email to us, write to the address below and ask us to delete that correspondence.
Your rights
Laws including the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights to access, correct, export and delete personal data held about you. We hold no personal data received from the app, so there is nothing from the app for us to produce or erase. If you contact us by email, you can ask us to provide or delete your support correspondence.
Use the app's deletion controls where available. Deleting the app removes its local data from that device, but may not remove copies in an Apple-operated private iCloud service or device backup, or files you previously exported or shared. Manage those copies in the relevant Apple service or destination. We have never sold personal information and never will.
Changes
If this app's behaviour ever changes in a way that affects this policy, this page is updated before that change ships, and the date above changes with it.
Contact
Questions about privacy, or anything else: hello@opsibyte.com
If you email us, we receive your email address and whatever you put in the message. We use that correspondence to respond to you, not for advertising or app analytics. Your email provider and ours process the message under their own privacy terms.