What we know about you.
Effective 22 August 2026 · KRC Designs LLC, Sarasota, Florida
Almost nothing, and that is on purpose. This page is short because there is not much to describe.
The one-paragraph version
If you use the free tier, we never learn who you are — no account, no sign-up, nothing sent to us. If you buy a tier, we store your email address and which tier you bought, and nothing else. Your field log stays in your own browser and is never transmitted. There is no analytics, no advertising, no tracking pixel and no cookie on this site. We do not sell anything about you, and we do not publish your locations.
What we collect, and only if you buy
| What | Why | Where it lives |
|---|---|---|
| Your email address | It is the key that restores your purchase on a new phone or computer. Without it a paid tier could not follow you off the device you bought it on. | Cloudflare D1, our database. Stored with a one-way hash of the address as the record key. |
| Your tier and expiry | To know whether to open the paid features. | Same place. |
| A Stripe customer reference | So a renewal or cancellation in Stripe updates your access. | Same place. |
That is the complete list. We do not collect your name, address, phone number, age, photographs, camera data, or the places you go.
Card details never reach us. Payment is handled entirely by Stripe on Stripe's own checkout page. We never see, store or transmit a card number. Stripe's handling of your payment information is governed by Stripe's privacy policy.
What stays on your device and never leaves it
NatureFlare keeps a few things in your browser's local storage. None of it is uploaded, and we cannot read it:
- natureflare_log_v1 — your field log: what you saw, where, and in what light.
- natureflare_entitlement_v1 — a local copy of which tier you have, so the app works offline.
- natureflare_identity_v1 — the email you bought with, so restoring access does not mean typing it every time.
Your field log is genuinely yours. It is not backed up by us and we could not recover it if you lost it. Clearing your browser's site data for natureflare.app erases all of the above permanently. If a season of sightings matters to you, export or copy it somewhere safe.
Cookies and analytics
None. NatureFlare sets no cookies, runs no analytics package, embeds no advertising or social tracking script, and assigns you no identifier. We do not know how many pages you viewed or how long you stayed. Aggregate request counts visible to us through Cloudflare's hosting dashboard are the extent of it.
Who else your browser talks to
Some parts of the app are fetched live. Those services see a request from your device, which necessarily includes your IP address. We do not control what they log.
| Service | When | What it can see |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare (hosting) | Every page and image | IP address, browser, requested URL — standard server logs |
| Stripe | Only at checkout | Payment details, email, IP address |
| Open-Meteo | When you load weather for a park | The park's coordinates and your IP address — never your own location |
| OpenStreetMap | When a map draws | Which map tiles you requested, and your IP address |
| unpkg (map library) | When a map loads | Your IP address |
| Google Fonts | Page load | Your IP address |
NatureFlare does not ask for or use your device's GPS location. Weather and light are computed for the park you selected, not for where you are standing.
What we will never do
- Sell, rent or share your email address with anyone for marketing.
- Publish, aggregate or sell location data — yours or anyone's. The reason many photographers guard their spots is that tools like this one historically have not.
- Email you anything other than a receipt, a licence-related notice, or a reply to something you sent us. There is no newsletter you were opted into.
How long we keep it
Your email and tier are kept for as long as you have access, plus a reasonable period afterwards for accounting and tax records — Stripe transaction records are retained as long as US tax law requires. Ask us to delete your record and we will, subject to those obligations.
Your rights
Wherever you live, you can ask us what we hold about you, ask for a copy, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. If you are in the EU or UK, that includes your GDPR rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection; our lawful basis is performance of a contract for purchase records, and legitimate interest for keeping the service running. If you are in California, we do not sell or share personal information as the CCPA defines those terms, and we will not discriminate against you for exercising any right.
Write to [email protected]. We will answer within 30 days.
Children
NatureFlare is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child has given us an email address, tell us and we will remove it.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version and its effective date appear on this page. If a change materially affects what we collect, we will say so plainly at the top rather than quietly editing a paragraph.
Contact
KRC Designs LLC · Sarasota, Florida, USA
[email protected]