This page explains how any personal data you submit to the iRecord Butterflies app will be stored and used.
If you choose to create a user account for the app, this will also create an account on the Biological Record Centre's iRecord system: http://www.brc.ac.uk/irecord/. This enables you to log into the iRecord system to see your records and those submitted by other people for all taxa. Your name, as specified in the app, will appear next to your records and will be viewable by other users of iRecord.
Your name forms an important part of the record and will be collated and disseminated with that record.
To create an account you will need to supply your e-mail address, which will be used in order to validate your account. You will be able to delete your iRecord account or opt out of receiving emails from iRecord at any time in the future.
Once you have submitted a butterfly sighting, Butterfly Conservation and County Recorders/Local Co-ordinators may contact you for the purposes of checking your sightings on behalf of the Butterflies for the New Millennium (BNM) recording scheme.
You will receive a Butterfly Conservation email newsletter about butterfly recording and our work. You can opt out on receipt of the first email and at any time after this.
If you are under 16 you may be contacted to verify your butterfly sightings but you will not be contacted about Butterfly Conservation’s other work.
All data collected will be stored indefinitely on a secure server at the Biological Record Centre, a part of the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Records will be made accessible to the Butterflies for the New Millennium recording scheme, including Butterfly Conservation staff and volunteer BNM Local Co-ordinators, and through this to Local Environmental Record Centres, other conservation organisations, scientific researchers and the public.
Your submitted records will be stored indefinitely and used to inform the conservation of butterflies in the future.
Only those directly involved in developing this app and running and promoting the Butterflies for the New Millennium recording scheme will have access to your email address. This includes Butterfly Conservation, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and BNM Local Co-ordinators. Unless required by law, data will not be made available to any third parties unless we have obtained your permission to do so.