Draft, as of November 2026. Please have it checked legally before the public launch. The German version is the authoritative text.
Kevin Finkler (KeeForm), email: kevin.finkler@keeform.io. See also the legal notice.
The map shows animal sightings from public sources (iNaturalist, GBIF) and sightings that users enter here. Submitted sightings are publicly visible, with species, exact location, observation date and note. They do not show who submitted them.
When you open the site, our server processes your IP address and browser details (access log) as technically necessary to deliver the page and to prevent abuse. The data is not merged or used for advertising.
The map tiles and names come from OpenFreeMap, the satellite images (only if you switch on “Satellite”) from Esri. The respective provider learns your IP address.
The search for places goes through our server to the Photon service (Komoot, OpenStreetMap data). Only the search text is sent, not your IP address. If you open the Wikipedia article of a species in our window, your browser loads the page directly from Wikipedia (Wikimedia Foundation), which then learns your IP address. Nothing is loaded from there beforehand. When you open a sighting we show a freely licensed example photo of the species, if one exists. It is loaded directly from Wikimedia Commons, which then also learns your IP address.
When you submit as a guest, we store the sighting and a random device code (as a hash) so that the number of submissions per device can be limited and you can later assign the sightings to an account. A cookie ww_geraet (1 year) remembers this code. To protect against abuse a captcha (Cloudflare Turnstile) may be used, in which case your IP address is sent to Cloudflare. Guest sightings cannot be changed or deleted; write to us if one should be removed.
You only need an account to be able to delete your own sightings later. There are no passwords. You sign in with a link we send you by email, or via Google or Apple. We store your email address (if confirmed by the provider), the name supplied by the provider (if any; never shown), the identifier at the provider and your sightings. You set a display name yourself in the menu only: it is shown publicly with your sightings and can be changed or removed at any time. Without a display name you appear as “Wildpulse user”. After sign-in a session cookie ww_sitzung (30 days) remembers you in the browser. Both cookies are technically necessary; there are no advertising or analytics cookies.
Sign-in emails are sent by the service Brevo (Sendinblue SAS, France). It receives your email address and the content of the email for this.
Deleting: With “Delete account” in the menu you remove your account, email address, sign-in links and sessions immediately and irrevocably. Your display name disappears. Your previous sightings stay on the map but are detached from you and can no longer be linked to you. If you want to remove them first, delete them one by one in the sighting.
Operating the site and preventing abuse: legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Account and sightings: performance of a contract or your consent (Art. 6(1)(b), (a)). Accounts and sightings are kept until you delete them. Expired sign-in links and sessions are removed automatically.
You have the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, data portability and objection, and the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. Write to us at the address in the legal notice.