Privacy Policy
Last updated: 22 July 2026
1. Who We Are
Firework Pet Alert (“we”, “us”, “our”) is a free community service that helps people planning fireworks give advance notice to nearby subscribers who need time to prepare.
This website is operated from the United Kingdom. For any data-protection queries, contact us at [email protected].
2. What We Collect
We collect only the minimum data necessary to run the service:
| Data | Purpose | Lawful Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Email address | Account creation, alert delivery, password resets | Contract / Consent |
| Display name | Community identification (optional) | Consent |
| Subscriber postcode | Matching registered users with nearby displays | Legitimate interest |
| Display location and map pin | Determining which nearby subscribers should receive an alert and, with the organiser’s choice, providing a public display listing | Legitimate interest / Consent |
| Display details | Start and estimated end times, display size, expected noise, occasion, and optional public event information used to improve alerts | Legitimate interest / Consent |
| Who alerts are for | Optional multi-select choices used to understand and improve the relevance of the service | Consent |
| Pet profiles | Personalised guidance & community features | Consent |
| Alert preferences | Notification timing & channel selection | Contract |
| Uploaded images | Pet profile photos & community stories | Consent |
| Optional consultation-survey answers | Aggregate evidence about firework impacts and advance notice. This survey does not request names, contact details, account IDs, IP addresses, postcodes or precise locations | Consent |
| Optional feedback-form answers | Improving the service and deciding what to build next. Answers may include optional personal or health-related context that you choose to provide | Consent |
| Technical, security and engagement records | Securing forms and accounts, diagnosing failures, limiting abuse and counting basic service actions. We restrict this information to what is needed for those purposes | Legitimate interest |
We do not collect payment information or government IDs, and we do not ask for a medical diagnosis. Optional feedback may include health-related context that you choose to provide; we treat those answers as sensitive, encrypt stored responses and limit retention. Location coordinates are used for alert matching. A selected pin location is shown publicly only when the organiser actively chooses the public-listing option.
3. How We Use Your Data
- Sending advance alerts to subscribers within the estimated sound radius.
- Delivering account-related emails (verification, password reset and support replies).
- Sending firework alert emails, web-push alerts and newsletter/marketing messages where enabled.
- Displaying community content you have chosen to share (e.g. pet stories).
- Improving the service through aggregated, anonymised usage analytics.
We never sell, rent, or trade your personal data to third parties.
Answers submitted through the 2026 consultation evidence survey are used only for privacy-safe analysis, service planning and Firework Pet Alert’s organisational evidence. Completing the Firework Pet Alert survey does not submit a response to the UK Government consultation.
4. Locations & Notification Areas
Displays are private by default. Private display locations are used to operate alerts and are not shown publicly.
When a firework display is registered, we use its location to calculate a notification area. Registered subscribers within that area can then receive an alert.
For a public, community, venue or professional display, the organiser can separately choose to publish the selected pin location and event details in Firework Pet Alert’s public display map and directory. Verification email addresses and private contact details are not included in that listing. Subscriber postcodes remain private and are used only for alert matching.
5. Security & Storage
We use appropriate technical and organisational safeguards for personal information. These include encryption, access controls, secure password handling, monitoring and encrypted website connections.
No online service can promise absolute security. We review our safeguards as the service changes and limit access to people and systems that need it to operate Firework Pet Alert.
7. Third-Party Services
The site uses the following external services, each subject to their own privacy policies:
- postcodes.io — The website server uses this service to verify UK postcodes, confirm the country and obtain approximate coordinates for alert matching. Postcode lookups are sent by the server rather than directly from the visitor’s browser.
- OpenStreetMap tile service — Supplies the map images displayed in the location picker. Loading map tiles sends ordinary web-request information, such as the visitor’s IP address and browser details, to the tile service.
- Leaflet.js — Map rendering library loaded from this website’s own files. Leaflet itself does not transmit personal data.
- Cloudflare Turnstile — Helps reduce automated abuse on public forms.
- Cloudflare Web Analytics — Provides aggregate, cookie-free website measurements when enabled.
Cloudflare acts as an external technology provider for these services. Read Cloudflare’s Privacy Policy and Turnstile documentation.
We do not embed social-media tracking widgets or sell analytics data.
8. Your Rights (GDPR)
Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation, you have the right to:
Access
Request a copy of all personal data we hold about you.
Rectification
Correct inaccurate or incomplete data via your dashboard or by contacting us.
Erasure
Request deletion of your account and all associated data (“Right to be Forgotten”).
Restriction
Ask us to limit processing of your data in certain circumstances.
Portability
Receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
Object
Object to processing based on legitimate interest at any time.
To exercise any of these rights, email [email protected]. We will respond within 30 days.
You can use Alert Preferences in your dashboard to turn off email roundups for scheduled firework alerts, and Account management to submit an account deletion request. An email roundup unsubscribe stops scheduled firework alert roundups only; it does not disable web-push alerts, password emails, account-security emails, support replies, or newsletter emails. Newsletter and marketing messages are managed separately through newsletter unsubscribe links and your marketing consent setting.
Account deletion requests are reviewed before completion so we can verify the request and apply any legal, security, fraud-prevention or abuse-prevention retention requirements. The right to erasure is not absolute, but we will remove or anonymise personal data where we are required to do so.
If you are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
9. Data Retention
| Data Type | Retention Period |
|---|---|
| Account data | Until your account is deleted, subject to lawful retention requirements |
| Newsletter/marketing subscription status | Until unsubscribed, then retained only as needed to honour the opt-out |
| Alert email preferences | Until changed in your dashboard or by an unsubscribe link |
| Display submissions | 12 months after the display date, then anonymised |
| Email verification tokens | 24 hours (auto-expired) |
| Password-reset links | 24 hours (auto-expired) |
| Server access logs | 30 days (managed by hosting provider) |
| Internal security, feedback and engagement records | Up to 12 months unless a longer period is needed to investigate security, fraud or abuse, then deleted or aggregated |
| 2026 consultation evidence survey | Reviewed by 31 December 2027, then deleted or irreversibly anonymised |
10. Children’s Privacy
This service is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, please contact us and we will delete it promptly.
11. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be highlighted on this page with an updated “Last updated” date. If a change requires consent, we will ask for it clearly rather than treating continued browsing as consent.
12. Contact Us
For any privacy-related questions, data requests, or concerns: