Privacy Policy — Beach Book

App: Beach Book (com.ziehro.mybeachbook). Publisher: ZIEHRO / Driftwest, Strathmore, Alberta, Canada. Last updated: 6 November 2026.

The short version: Beach Book is a community map of beaches. You sign in with Google to add to it. What you log (notes, photos, where you were) goes into the shared beach database. We don't sell your data and the app shows no ads.

What we collect

Account: when you sign in with Google we receive your name, email address and a Google account ID.
Location: with your permission, your phone's location, to show nearby beaches and to place a beach or a contribution on the map. We don't track you in the background.
Photos: photos you take or pick for a contribution or for the species scanner.
Contributions: what you log about a beach (conditions, notes, ratings, species, shells, birds), with your account ID and email so moderators can review it.
Suggestions and feedback: new beaches, name changes and problem reports you send.
Report orders: if you buy a satellite beach report, your email and the beach go to our report service at nimpact.ca. Card payments are handled by Stripe; we never see your card number.

How it's used

To run the app: show beaches and their logs, moderate submissions, identify species in your photos, and email you reports you've paid for. Approved contributions are visible to other Beach Book users. Your email is shown only to moderators, never to other users.

Who handles it

Google Firebase stores accounts, contributions and photos (encrypted in transit).
Species identification: photos you ask the app to identify are sent to Google Gemini or Anthropic Claude, either directly or through our own server, only to get the identification back.
Google Maps draws the map.
Stripe handles report payments.

These companies process data for us under their own terms. We don't sell personal data or share it for advertising.

Children

Beach Book isn't directed at children under 13.

Keeping and deleting

We keep your account and contributions until you ask us to delete them. See Account & Data Deletion for how.

Changes

We may update this policy. The current version is always at this address, with its date at the top.

Your rights (EU, UK and elsewhere)

My Beach Book is made by ZIEHRO, an independent developer in Strathmore, Alberta, Canada, who is responsible for your data (the "controller" under EU and UK law).

We use your data to run the features you choose: your account, the beaches and finds you log, and the photos you ask the app to identify. My Beach Book has no ads.

Your account and logs are stored by Google Firebase, so your data may be processed in Canada, the United States or other countries. Google protects EU and UK data it transfers with the EU Standard Contractual Clauses and the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

Wherever you live, you can ask for a copy of what we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, ask for it in a portable form, and object to how we use it. In the EU, EEA and UK the GDPR gives you these rights, and you can also complain to your local data protection authority. Email beachbookca@gmail.com and we'll reply within 30 days.

Contact

Questions? Email beachbookca@gmail.com.