Privacy Policy

1. Who is responsible for your data

PirPeek is developed and provided by Furkan Eren, an individual developer, who is the data controller.

For any question or request about your personal data, write to info@pirpeek.com.

2. What data we process

We only process the data needed to provide the service. While you use the app, we process:

Account data: your email address, display name, profile photo link if you sign in with Google or Apple, your sign-in method and the account ID assigned to you.
Bird records: your birds' name, species, sex, colours, date of birth and traits; weight, mood, care log, moulting, clutch and egg records, and the notes you add to them.
Photos: the bird and egg photos you add, with their notes and dates. Photos are stored on your phone first; if cloud backup is on (it is on by default and can be turned off in settings), photos up to your plan's quota are backed up to our servers.
Smart perch data: the perch's device ID (derived from its network hardware address), the name you give it, its firmware version, Wi-Fi signal strength and last connection time; the weight, temperature, humidity, light and sound levels it measures, and the perching time calculated from them.
Subscription data: your plan, subscription status, start and end dates, the store's (Google Play or App Store) purchase token and product ID, and a random billing ID sent to the store that contains no personal information. Your card and payment details never reach us; the store processes payments.
Support requests: the subject, category and messages of your requests, together with the email address and display name attached to them.
Rewards: your in-app points, login streak and badges.
Technical logs: our servers keep technical records such as the time, path and result of requests for a few days, for security and debugging.

3. What stays on your phone and what we never collect

Reminders, notification settings, game scores, theme and language preferences and perch pairing details are kept only on your phone and are not sent to our servers. They are removed when you uninstall the app.

We do not collect your location, contacts or advertising ID. The app has no ads, analytics or user-tracking tools. pirpeek.com does not use cookies; only your theme preference is kept in your browser's local storage.

4. Why we process data and on what legal basis

Your data is processed on the legal grounds listed in Article 5 of the KVKK, for these purposes:

Creating your account, showing your bird records, charts and reports, linking your perch to your account and backing up your photos: performance of a contract (KVKK Art. 5/2-c).
Verifying your subscription with the store and unlocking your plan's features: performance of a contract (Art. 5/2-c).
Answering your support requests: performance of a contract (Art. 5/2-c).
Keeping the service secure, preventing abuse and fraud, and fixing errors: our legitimate interest (Art. 5/2-f).
Keeping records for the periods required by law and responding to requests from authorities: legal obligation (Art. 5/2-ç).

We do not sell your data or share it with anyone for advertising. To run the service we only use these infrastructure providers, which process data on our behalf:

Google: Firebase Authentication (sign-in), Cloud Firestore (bird records, support requests and points), Sign in with Google and Google Play billing.
Apple: Sign in with Apple; on iOS, subscriptions will be purchased through the App Store.
Cloudflare: the app's server, the database that holds perch measurements and subscription records, and the storage for photo backups.

6. International transfers

Our providers' servers are located outside Turkey: our database and photo storage are in data centres in Western Europe, and Google's services run in Google's global data centres. Your data is therefore transferred abroad.

Transfers rely on the appropriate safeguards provided for in Article 9 of the KVKK and are made only for the purposes described in this policy.

7. How long we keep data

Account data, bird records, photo backups, points and support requests: until you delete your account. You can also delete them one by one in the app.
Raw perch measurements: between 1 and 28 days depending on your plan. Hourly summaries are kept for up to 2 years and daily summaries until your account is deleted.
Photos you remove from the cloud: permanently removed from storage no later than 7 days after removal.
Subscription and purchase records: even after your account is deleted, for the statutory retention periods required for financial and legal obligations and possible disputes, for up to 10 years.
Technical logs: a few days.

8. Your rights

Under Article 11 of the KVKK, you can ask the data controller to:

tell you whether your personal data is processed and, if so, give you information about it,
tell you the purpose of the processing and whether the data is used accordingly,
tell you the third parties in Turkey or abroad to whom it is transferred,
correct it if it is incomplete or inaccurate,
delete or destroy it under the conditions of Article 7 of the KVKK,
notify third parties to whom the data was transferred of any correction or deletion,
object to a result against you that arises solely from automated analysis,
compensate you for damage caused by unlawful processing.

9. How to make a request

Send your request from your account's email address to info@pirpeek.com. We may ask for additional information to verify your identity. We will resolve your request free of charge within 30 days.

The steps to delete your account and data are on the Account and Data Deletion page: https://pirpeek.com/en/account-deletion/

If you are not satisfied with the outcome, you can lodge a complaint with the Turkish Personal Data Protection Board.

10. Security

All connections between the app and our servers are encrypted (HTTPS). Each user can only access their own records and photos, and these access rules are enforced on the server. The perch's secret key is never stored in plain text on the server, only as a one-way hash.

11. Children

PirPeek is not intended for children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them. If you become aware of such a case, write to us and we will delete the account and its data.

12. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the service or the law changes. The current version is always on this page, and we announce significant changes in the app as well.