If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at admin@magpiealert.com.

At www.magpiealert.com we consider the privacy of our visitors to be extremely important. This privacy policy document describes in detail the types of personal information is collected and recorded by www.magpiealert.com and how we use it.

Like many other Web sites, www.magpiealert.com makes use of log files. These files merely logs visitors to the site - usually a standard procedure for hosting companies and a part of hosting services's analytics. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

www.magpiealert.com uses cookies to store information about visitors' preferences, to record user-specific information on which pages the site visitor accesses or visits, and to personalize or customize our web page content based upon visitors' browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.

  • Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on www.magpiealert.com.
  • Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our site's visitors based upon their visit to www.magpiealert.com and other sites on the Internet.
  • Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL - http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Google our advertising partner may use cookies and web beacons on our website. Google has their own Privacy Policy for their site, an updated and hyperlinked resource is maintained here: Google Privacy Policy.

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology in their respective advertisements and links that appear on www.magpiealert.com and which are sent directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by our site's third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on the site.

www.magpiealert.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. www.magpiealert.com's privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites. You may find a comprehensive listing of these privacy policies and their links here: Privacy Policy Links.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers' respective websites. What Are Cookies?

While using Our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information collected by our service:

  • Email address
  • First name and last name

While using Our Service we may ask you to provide magpie swooping data, stories and tips. The data we collect is:

  • Magpie Swooping Data - latitude & longitude (map coordinates) of magpie swoops, estimated address of swoops (system generated from coordinates), date & time of the swoop, activity taking place (e.g. cycling, walking etc.) and whether a swoop resulted in injury.
  • Stories & Tips - Free text Title and Description.
  • Swooping & Story Comments - Free text comments submitted by our visitors.
  • Usage Data - Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service. Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

    When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

    We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

MagpieAlert uses Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our service, including to monitor the usage of our service.
  • To manage your account: to manage your registration as a user of the service. The Personal Data you provide can give you access to different functionalities of the service that are available to you as a registered user.
  • To contact you: To contact You by email when necessary or reasonable (e.g daily magpie swoop emails, password reset etc).
  • To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
  • For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
  • For other purposes: We may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our website and to evaluate and improve our Service and your experience.

We believe it is important to provide added protection for children online. We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children to observe, participate in and/or monitor and guide their online activity. www.magpiealert.com does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If a parent or guardian believes that www.magpiealert.com has in its database the personally-identifiable information of a child under the age of 13, please contact us immediately (using the contact in the first paragraph) and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

  • To update your first and last name then please sign-in, then navigate to the "my account" page where you can change your details directly.
  • If you would like to deactivate your account and have your personal details removed then please email admin@magpiealert.com.

This privacy policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website and regarding information shared and/or collected there. This policy does not apply to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

By using our website, you hereby consent to our privacy policy and agree to its terms.

This Privacy Policy was last updated on: Sunday, October 3rd, 2021. Should we update, amend or make any changes to our privacy policy, those changes will be posted here.