Surveillance Protocols (Privacy Policy)

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Effective Date: February 3, 2026.

1. Agency Identification

Bureau of Beasts ("The Bureau", "Us", "We") operates the website located at https://bureauofbeasts.com. For the purposes of data protection laws, we are the data controller of your personal information.

2. Intelligence Gathering (Data Collection)

While you browse the Archives, the Bureau collects specific data points to ensure operational security and site functionality.

Comments & Reports

When visitors leave comments or "Sighting Reports" on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection (such as the Akismet and other services).

Media Evidence

If you upload images to the website (e.g., for a sighting report), you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Other Agents (visitors) to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website. Please note that as of February 3, 2026, we no longer accept uploads of any kind.

Cookies (Tracking Beacons)

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

We may also use standard third-party cookies (such as Google Analytics) to monitor traffic patterns ("Agent Movements") across the site. This data is anonymized and used solely to improve the Bureau's database.

3. Affiliate & Requisition Disclosure

Bureau of Beasts is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

What this means: Some of the links in our "Field Protocols" and "Dossiers" are "affiliate links." This means if you click on the link and purchase an item, the Bureau will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you.
Impartiality Protocol: All gear recommendations are based on their utility for "Bureau Operations" (Camping/Hiking/Survival) and are not influenced by the manufacturers.

4. Embedded Content from Other Sectors

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos from YouTube, images, maps). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

5. Data Retention Protocols

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

6. Your Rights (Clearance Level)

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

7. Contact the Director

For privacy-specific inquiries or to exercise your data rights, please contact the Bureau at:

Email: director@bureauofbeasts.com
Subject Line: Privacy Inquiry - [Your Name]