Privacy
The Entoma app has no accounts, no ads and no tracking. What you save, the journal you keep and your settings stay on your phone. What does leave it is anonymous and never linked to you: a photo you ask it to identify, an error report you send, the state of a purchase you make through Apple, and simple usage statistics that tell us which parts of the guide are used.
Who is responsible
Entoma is made by Pars Kunt, who is responsible for the data described here. Write to [email protected] with any question or request.
What stays on your phone
The species you save, your journal (dates, places you type, notes and any photos you add), your settings, the place you last stopped reading and how many free identifications you have used this month. None of this is sent to us. Deleting the app deletes it. A journal export is a file you share yourself.
Identifying a photo
When you ask Entoma to identify an insect, the photo is made smaller on your phone and sent to our server, which asks Kindwise insect.id (Kindwise s.r.o., Czech Republic) what it shows. We ask Kindwise to delete its copy as soon as the answer comes back, and our server does not keep the photo.
To stop a single phone from running up the cost, the request carries a random code that the app makes on first use. It is not linked to your name, your Apple account or your device's advertising identifier. The server keeps only that code, the date and a count of identifications for the day.
The camera and photo library are used only when you choose to take or pick a photo for identification or for your journal.
Usage statistics
The app sends simple usage events to PostHog, on its servers in the European Union (eu.posthog.com): for example that a species was opened, that an identification was started and whether it found a match, that the Pro page was shown and whether a purchase went through, or that a journal entry was added. We use them to see which parts of the guide are read and what to improve.
The events carry a random code that the app makes on first use. They never contain your photos, notes, journal text or the places you type, and they are not linked to your name, your Apple account or your device's advertising identifier. Your IP address is discarded and is not used to work out where you are.
You can turn usage statistics off at any time in Settings > More > Usage statistics. Nothing is sent while it is off, and turning it back on starts again from the next event.
Reporting an error
If you report an error on a species page, we receive the species, the kind of error you chose, the note you wrote and the time. We use it only to check and correct the guide. Please do not put personal details in the note.
Purchases
Entoma Pro is bought through Apple. Apple handles payment and never shares your card details with us. We use RevenueCat (RevenueCat, Inc., United States) to confirm purchases and restore them on a new phone. It receives an anonymous app user code and which Pro plan is active, not your name or email.
Guide content
New species, plates and translations are downloaded from our content server, content.entoma.app, hosted by Cloudflare. Like any web server it keeps short technical logs, including IP addresses, for security. Nothing about you is sent with these downloads.
Where the data is kept
Our server runs on Supabase in Frankfurt, Germany. Like any web service it keeps short technical logs of requests, including IP addresses, for security and to fix faults; these are deleted automatically. Error reports and the daily counts are kept until they are no longer needed to maintain the guide, and counts older than 90 days are removed.
What the app does not do
- No advertising in the app, and no data from the app sold or shared for advertising.
- No tracking: nothing from the app is combined with data from other companies' apps or websites.
- No accounts. There is no name, email or password to give.
- No location is collected. A place in your journal is text you type, kept on your phone.
- No contacts, health data or browsing history.
Services we use for the app
- Supabase: our server, in Frankfurt, Germany.
- Kindwise: identification of a photo you choose.
- PostHog: anonymous usage statistics, in the European Union.
- RevenueCat: confirming Entoma Pro purchases.
- Cloudflare: delivering guide content and images.
The website
The guide at entoma.app is free to read and is paid for by advertising. It works differently from the app, and this section covers only the website.
Advertising. Ads are shown by Google AdSense (Google Ireland Limited). Google and its partners may use cookies or similar technology to show ads and to measure them, and, if you agree, to make them personal to you. You can read how Google uses information from sites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Measuring visits. We use Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages are read, so we know what to improve. It records things like the pages you open, the site you came from, your approximate region, your browser and device. IP addresses are not stored by Google Analytics 4. We do not use it to identify you.
Your choice. If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, nothing that is not strictly necessary is stored on your device until you choose in the consent message that appears on your first visit. Without consent, ads that are not personalised may still be shown, and measurement runs without cookies. You can change your choice at any time with "Privacy choices" at the bottom of every page, or refuse personalised ads for all sites at adssettings.google.com.
Legal basis. For cookies and personalised ads, your consent. For the site to work and stay secure, our legitimate interest.
The website is hosted by Cloudflare, which keeps short technical logs, including IP addresses, for security.
Your rights
There is no account, so deleting the app deletes everything it kept on your phone. You can ask to see, correct or delete anything we hold, such as an error report or the usage statistics of your phone, or object to its use, by writing to [email protected]. Because we do not know who you are, tell us roughly when you sent an error report or used the app so we can find it. You may also complain to your local data protection authority.
Children
Entoma is a general audience guide and does not knowingly collect personal data from children.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be published here with a new date.