Privacy Policy

Kaalmo Connect Limited, registered in Ireland (CRO 812097), 77 Camden Street Lower, Dublin 2, Ireland. For the personal data described here, Kaalmo Connect Limited is the data controller. Email info@kaalmoconnect.com for anything about your data — access, correction, deletion, or a complaint.

• Sign-in and profile: your email address or phone number, and optionally your first name, your main county and your Spotter status.
• Alerts you send: the text or voice note, the transcript, the category, county and area, an optional location, and the time it was posted.
• What you do on alerts: which alerts you confirmed, and which you reported as false with an optional reason.
• County follows: which counties you follow, and whether you want notifications for each one.
• Notifications: the push address your browser gives us, and a record of the last time we notified you about each county.
• Usage data: how the site is used, described in section 7.

We never show your name, email or phone number on an alert. The public alert feed is read through a view that leaves out who reported it, so only our own administrators can see a reporter's first name and trust score.

Recording happens in your browser. When you send the alert, the audio is uploaded to private storage and attached to your alert, and it is not open to the public — it is only played back through a short-lived link when someone taps Listen.

Audio is deleted once the alert has been expired for 90 days. The transcript stays with the alert so the text can be searched and read aloud.

If you press "Transcribe with AI", the recording is sent to an AI service to be turned into text. That only happens when you press the button, never automatically.

While you record, we use your browser's own speech recognition to fill the transcript box. In most browsers that service is run by the browser's maker — in Chrome, the audio is sent to Google for recognition. If you would rather not use it, don't record: type the alert instead.

We only ask for your location if you tap "Use my current location". We then round it to roughly 100 metres so an alert cannot pinpoint your exact spot, and we never collect location in the background or while you browse.

If you follow a county and agree to notifications, your browser gives us a delivery address for that device, which we store so we can send alerts for the counties you follow. We only notify you about Confirmed alerts, the message contains the county and the alert title, and it never contains who reported the alert. You can turn notifications off in Settings, per county, or in your browser's site permissions at any time.

We record which pages people visit, where they came from, their country, browser, operating system and device type, how long they stay, how fast pages load, errors, and which buttons and links are clicked.

This is recorded for every visitor. The site does not show a cookie banner, so there is no choice that holds it back, and your browser's "do not track" style signals are not honoured by it.

This analytics uses no cookies, stores nothing on your device, does not keep your IP address and cannot identify you or recognise you as a returning visitor. Lovable collects this data for us. Lovable's privacy policy explains how it handles it.

Detailed usage data is kept for 90 days; daily summaries (visit and page-view counts, and for each visit the pages seen and where the visitor came from) are kept for a year.

We do not use advertising or tracking cookies. Your sign-in session is kept in your browser's storage so you stay signed in when you come back, and the push-notification subscription lives in your browser too. Clearing site data signs you out and ends notifications on that device.

• Our hosting, database, storage and AI transcription provider, which process it for us under our instructions.
• Apple, Google and Mozilla, which deliver push notifications to your device.
• The Gardaí or other authorities, if we are legally required to.

We do not sell your personal data and we do not share it for advertising.

Alerts stay live for 12 hours (community events until their date), then they are hidden from the feed and the ticker. Voice audio is deleted 90 days after an alert expires. Your profile, follows and notification settings are kept while you have an account, and are removed when you ask us to close it. Usage data is kept as in section 7.

You can ask for a copy of your data, have it corrected, have it deleted, ask us to restrict or stop processing it, or withdraw a consent you gave (for example notifications). Email info@kaalmoconnect.com and we'll handle it. If you are under 16, please don't send alerts or sign up.

The site is served over HTTPS, the alert audio bucket is private, and database access is restricted so users can only read and write their own records — with the public alert feed and the county tiles being the deliberate public exceptions.

Push delivery and some processing may happen on servers outside Ireland and the EU. Where that happens, we rely on the standard legal safeguards those providers put in place.

Tell us first at info@kaalmoconnect.com. If you're not satisfied, you can complain to the Data Protection Commission in Ireland (dataprotection.ie).

We'll update this page when our practices change, and the date at the top will change with it. Our Terms & Conditions set out the rules for using the site.