Privacy

Wild By Nick is a personal wildlife photography website. It has no accounts, no advertising and no tracking cookies. This page explains, in plain terms, what information the site uses when you browse it or plan an outing.

Field Planner place search

When you search for a destination or a starting point, the place name you type is sent to OpenStreetMap's search service (Nominatim) to find matching places. The search runs only when you press Search or Enter — nothing is sent while you type. The website receives the name and coordinates of the place you choose. No account is required.

“Use my current location”

Sharing your location is optional. It happens only after you press the location button and grant permission in your browser. The coordinates are used in your browser to plan the outing — for example to estimate travel time. They are not stored on any server.

Saved Field Planner data

Saved Field Planner plans and checklist progress are stored in your browser using local storage. They never leave your device. You can remove a saved plan with the “Remove saved plan” button and clear the checklist with “Reset checklist”; clearing your browser's site data removes them too.

Weather

The coordinates of your chosen destination are used to retrieve the weather forecast from Open-Meteo, a free weather service.

Google Maps

Google Maps is opened only when you choose the route link in the Field Planner. Until you follow that link, Google receives nothing from this website.

Site preferences

Your language choice, your position in the Wildlife Encyclopedia list and the last three species pages you viewed (shown as “Recently viewed” on the homepage, with a Clear button) are kept in your browser's storage so the site remembers them on your next visit. These stay on your device and are never sent to a server.

External services

The website currently uses the following external services:

• OpenStreetMap / Nominatim — place search in the Field Planner
• Open-Meteo — weather forecasts in the Field Planner
• Google Maps — only when you open the route link
• Google Fonts — loads the typefaces used on the site
• Wikimedia Commons — source of the reference photographs in the Wildlife Encyclopedia. Most are served by this website; a small number are still loaded directly from Wikimedia's servers

Each of these providers operates under its own privacy policy, which applies when your browser contacts their servers.

Ask Nick form

If you send a question through the Ask Nick form, your name, email address and message are delivered by email to Nick so he can reply. They are not published and not used for newsletters or marketing.

Contact

For any question about privacy on this website, write to nick.usor.peter@gmail.com.

Your data protection rights (GDPR)

Controller

Nick Ungureanu, Romania — nick.usor.peter@gmail.com.

Purposes and legal basis

Delivering the website securely and running the Field Planner features you choose to use (legitimate interest and your request, Art. 6(1)(f) and (b) GDPR); replying to messages you send (your request and legitimate interest); location sharing only with your browser permission (consent, Art. 6(1)(a)), which you can withdraw at any time in your browser settings.

Retention

Place searches and weather lookups are passed on to the providers and not stored by this website. Data in your browser's storage stays until you remove it. Messages and emails are kept only as long as needed to answer them and follow up the conversation.

Your rights

You can ask for access to, correction or deletion of your data, restriction of or objection to its processing, and data portability, by writing to the address above. You also have the right to complain to the Romanian data protection authority (ANSPDCP, dataprotection.ro) or the authority in your country.