Legal
Four documents. Three of them you accept before the social features switch on; the privacy notice you are simply told. All four are readable without an account, on purpose — as is the note below them on deleting your account, which is the page you are most likely to need when you cannot sign in.
All four are in English only, wherever you are reading them. The app is translated; these documents are not.
New versions, in effect from 26 October 2026
Terms of use, Privacy notice, Community rules. The versions below are the new ones, published ahead of that date so they can be read first. Before it, the earlier versions apply, and each document says at its head which one that is and how to get a copy.
- The documents now cover every country Magpeye does: the United States, Canada, Mexico, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt as well as Europe.
- Terms: Magpeye is not for children under 13 in the United States, or for anybody under 14 in Quebec. From 26 October 2026 the app stops an account whose date of birth and home region say so from logging sightings or starting walks.
- Terms: wherever you live, you keep the consumer protections of your own country and can go to its courts.
- Community rules: the wildlife law of the place you are standing in applies to you, and British law is now labelled as British.
- Privacy notice: your data is kept in Sweden wherever you live, your rights are the same in every country, and there is a section for readers outside the UK and the EU.
- Privacy notice and terms: deleting your account is described as it works, which is at once.
- All four documents are in English only, and now say so.
- Terms of useWhat Magpeye is, what it costs, and the rules of holding an account.Version 2026-10-10 · in effect from 26 October 2026 · accepted before social features
- Privacy noticeWhat is collected, why, and how location is handled.Version 2026-10-10 · in effect from 26 October 2026 · a notice
- Community rulesHow people treat each other here, and how birds are protected.Version 2026-10-10 · in effect from 26 October 2026 · accepted before social features
- Trading rulesCards are not money and cannot be bought, sold or cashed out.Version 2026-08-07 · accepted before social features
Why there are four
The terms are the contract: who can have an account, what is free, what premium buys, and the fact that cards are not money.
The privacy notice is the one worth reading even if you read nothing else, because the section on location explains what actually happens to a coordinate when it leaves your account. It does not leave unchanged.
The community rules lead with wildlife rather than with harassment, because on a service that shares bird locations the rules that matter most are the ones about birds. In Britain, disturbing a Schedule 1 bird at the nest is a criminal offence, and it can be committed by publishing a location without going anywhere near it. The rules say what we know of the law elsewhere, and that the law of the place you are standing in is the one that applies to you.
The trading rules are separate from the terms deliberately. They are the document that says there is no money, no resale value and no cash-out, and they are the first thing an app store reviewer asks for.