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Privacy Policy
Last updated: April 2026 · Effective: April 2026
Bee Happy Hive
Operated by Apiary Records Ltd, Company No. NI739315, Northern Ireland.
Data controller contact: privacy@beehappyhoney.uk
Data controller contact: privacy@beehappyhoney.uk
1. What data we collect
When you create an account we collect your full name and email address.
When you use the app you may enter: apiary name and location (town/area only — no GPS coordinates), hive names and types, inspection records, treatment records, task notes, and varroa counts.
We do not collect: precise GPS location, financial information, health data, or any data about anyone other than you and your bees.
When you use the app you may enter: apiary name and location (town/area only — no GPS coordinates), hive names and types, inspection records, treatment records, task notes, and varroa counts.
We do not collect: precise GPS location, financial information, health data, or any data about anyone other than you and your bees.
2. How your data is stored
Cloud storage: Your beekeeping records are stored securely in Supabase cloud storage, hosted within the EU/EEA, under your personal account. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest. Only you can access your records. Using "Delete all my data" in Settings will permanently and irreversibly remove all your data from our servers.
A local cache of your data is also kept in your browser's localStorage to allow the app to work offline and load quickly.
A local cache of your data is also kept in your browser's localStorage to allow the app to work offline and load quickly.
3. Why we collect it
Your name and email: to identify your account and allow account recovery.
Your beekeeping records: to provide you with the hive record-keeping service, reminders, and compliance tools required by DAERA (Northern Ireland) and the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013.
Legal basis: Contract — processing is necessary to deliver the service you have requested.
Your beekeeping records: to provide you with the hive record-keeping service, reminders, and compliance tools required by DAERA (Northern Ireland) and the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013.
Legal basis: Contract — processing is necessary to deliver the service you have requested.
4. Who we share data with
Nobody. We do not sell, rent, or share your personal data with any third party.
If you optionally choose to share anonymised data for research (toggled off by default in Settings), only colony-level health summaries — with no personal identifiers — would be shared with participating UK university research programmes. You can withdraw this consent at any time.
If you optionally choose to share anonymised data for research (toggled off by default in Settings), only colony-level health summaries — with no personal identifiers — would be shared with participating UK university research programmes. You can withdraw this consent at any time.
5. How long we keep it
Free tier: data exists only on your device for as long as you choose to keep it.
Treatment records: the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013 require you (as the keeper) to retain treatment records for 5 years. We recommend exporting these as a PDF before deleting your account.
Treatment records: the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013 require you (as the keeper) to retain treatment records for 5 years. We recommend exporting these as a PDF before deleting your account.
6. Your rights under UK GDPR
You have the right to:
• Access — request a copy of all data we hold about you
• Rectification — correct inaccurate data
• Erasure — delete your account and all associated data ("right to be forgotten")
• Portability — receive your data in a machine-readable format (CSV/PDF export)
• Objection — object to any processing you did not consent to
To exercise any right: email privacy@beehappyhoney.uk. We will respond within 30 days. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.
• Access — request a copy of all data we hold about you
• Rectification — correct inaccurate data
• Erasure — delete your account and all associated data ("right to be forgotten")
• Portability — receive your data in a machine-readable format (CSV/PDF export)
• Objection — object to any processing you did not consent to
To exercise any right: email privacy@beehappyhoney.uk. We will respond within 30 days. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.
7. Children
This app is intended for beekeepers aged 13 and over. Users under 13 must have a parent or guardian create and manage the account on their behalf.
8. Changes to this policy
If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you within the app before the changes take effect. Continued use of the app after notification constitutes acceptance.
Questions?
Contact us at privacy@beehappyhoney.uk
Apiary Records Ltd · NI739315 · Northern Ireland
Apiary Records Ltd · NI739315 · Northern Ireland
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Welcome to Bee Happy Hive! Once you register a hive, you'll unlock full record-keeping. For now, explore the app and the NI beekeeping calendar.
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NI Beekeeping Calendar
What's happening in the hive this month
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Mar: Spring build-up
Apr: First inspection
May: Swarm season begins
What you can do now
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Browse the calendar
Monthly NI beekeeping tasks and tips
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Add your apiary name and location
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Northern Ireland
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Light rain
Light rain
Friday, 27 March 2026
Good morning
Morning check-in complete for all 21 hives
Going to an apiary?
One tap before gloves go on
Start visit
Urgent · Hive 5
Stores critically low. Feed needed before the weekend cold snap.
Home Farm · Portglenone
Worth a look · Hive 3
Pre-swarm signs. Weight plateau and temperature spike.
Slemish Hill · Broughshane
Worth a look · Hive 3
Sensor offline for 7 hours. Check battery next visit.
Randalstown Road
Your Apiaries
Home Farm
1 alert
Hive 1
National · AMM · Sensor
All well
Hive 2
National · Buckfast · Sensor
All well
Hive 3
Langstroth · Hybrid · Sensor
All well
Hive 4
National · AMM · Sensor
All well
Hive 5
National · Buckfast · Sensor
Feed now
Hive 6
Warre · Unknown · Sensor
All well
Hive 7
National · No sensor · Estimated
Estimated
Hive 8
National · No sensor · Estimated
Estimated
Slemish Hill
1 alert
Hive 1
National · AMM · Sensor
All well
Hive 2
National · Buckfast · Sensor
All well
Hive 3
National · AMM · Sensor
Pre-swarm signs — check for queen cells soon
Look soon
Hive 4
Langstroth · Hybrid · Sensor
All well
Hive 5
National · No sensor · Estimated
Estimated
Hive 6
National · No sensor · Estimated
Estimated
Hive 7
National · No sensor · Estimated
Estimated
Randalstown Road
1 alert
Hive 1
National · AMM · Sensor
All well
Hive 2
National · Buckfast · Sensor
All well
Hive 3
National · AMM · Sensor offline
No reading for 7 hours
Sensor
Hive 4
National · No sensor · Estimated
Estimated
Hive 5
National · No sensor · Estimated
Estimated
Hive 6
Warre · No sensor · Estimated
Estimated
Near You This Week
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Home Farm
Portglenone · 8 hives
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Slemish Hill
Broughshane · 7 hives
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Randalstown Road
Randalstown · 6 hives
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While you're visiting
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All alerts paused — no false alarms from hive activity
✓
Weight changes during inspection excluded from your baseline
✓
Quick hive status tap when you're done — 30 seconds for all 8 hives
✓
Auto-closes after 3 hours if you forget to tap End
Visit in progress
00:12
Home Farm
Portglenone · 8 hives · alerts paused
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Alerts paused — phone stays in pocket
💊 Treatment due today
Record now →
Apiguard 2nd tray — Hive 3
28 days since first application · VMR 2013 record required
🎙️
Voice log a hive
Gloves on? Just talk. We fill in the form.
e.g. "Hive 1, queen seen, solid brood, good stores"
Quick actions
🍯
Feed a hive
Record & suppress alerts
🪣
Harvest honey
Auto weight record
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Record treatment
Scan label · VMR 2013
📦
Add / remove super
Update hive config
Auto-closes in 2 hrs 48 mins if you forget
How did it go?
One tap per hive. No typing needed. Takes about 30 seconds.
🎙️
Voice log a hive
Gloves on? Just talk. We'll fill in the form.
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Home Farm
Hive 1
National · AMM
Hive 2
National · Buckfast
Hive 3
Langstroth · Hybrid
Hive 4
National · AMM
Hive 5
National · Buckfast · ⚠️ URGENT
Hive 6
Warre · Unknown
Hive 7
National · No sensor
Hive 8
National · No sensor
Hive 1
National · Sensor active · Last reading 07:30
All well today
Weight · Last 7 days
43.1 kg today
Gaining steadily — good sign of an early spring flow
Temperature
35.4 °C
Just right for this time of year. The colony is raising brood well.
Good
Humidity
61%
Ventilation is working well. No concerns.
Fine
Sensor power
87% battery
Good. Estimated 3–4 months remaining at current usage.
Good
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Not charging
Battery mode
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No solar
Optional add-on
Where is the cluster?
Still learning this hive
Corner weight readings — heavier corners show where the weight is sitting. As we collect more data, we'll learn what's normal for this hive.
The rear corners are reading heavier than the front. This could mean the cluster has moved up through their stores — or this might just be how Hive 1 normally sits. We're still learning what's normal for this hive. Check your frames on your next visit and it will help us understand.
Why we think this
3 weeks of data
📈 Total weight up 400g this week
↗️ Rear corners heavier than front — pattern new for this hive
🌡️ Upper temp rising — queen laying well
📋 You recorded: 3 frames of stores (3 days ago)
🌦️ No forage flow forecast this week
We've only been watching this hive for 3 weeks. Does this pattern seem unusual to you?
Super space
1 super on
~72% full
At the current flow rate, this super could fill within 8–10 days. Worth considering whether to add another soon.
🌸
Flow detected
Your bees have put on 1.4 kg in the last 24 hours
A flow is on. This is consistent with what nearby beekeepers are seeing this week — likely blackthorn and early willow. Good time to make sure they have space.
Last Inspection
3 days ago
Queen seen · Brood solid · Stores good · Temper calm
Record keeping
Inspection Log
Tap a hive to record today's visit
Download all inspection records
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Quick voice note
Select a hive after tapping
March 2026
Northern Ireland · Standard plan
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Compliance
Routine
Done
March · What your colony is doing
Queen expanding brood nest as days lengthen. Colony at its smallest population but building fast. First new bees emerge late March. Stores consumption is accelerating — brood rearing uses more food than a resting winter cluster.
Today · 27 March
Coming up
Apiguard 2nd tray — Hive 3
28 Mar
Monthly heft check — all hives
31 Mar
Weekly swarm inspections begin
1 Apr
Apiguard withdrawal ends — Hive 3
12 Apr
Subscription
Commercial Plan
21 hives · 13 sensors · Renews 5 April 2026
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Approved medicines
Apiguard, Api-Bioxal, MAQS · Mite count monitoring
Active
Mite drop alert threshold
Alert me when daily drop exceeds
Mites counted on sticky board per day
6
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20
Recommended: 6+/day in autumn, 10+/day in summer. Above these levels, treatment is usually needed.
Treatment window reminders
🍂 Autumn broodless window
Remind me to treat when brood ceases (usually Oct–Nov in Northern Ireland)
🌱 Spring mite count reminder
Remind me to do a natural mite drop count in early spring
Photo counting
📷 Automatic photo counting
Count mites on your sticky board using your phone camera — coming soon
Soon
Records
Treatment records (VMR 2013)
Manage medicine records on the web dashboard
Open →
Sensor pattern alerts
Sensors measure temperature, humidity, and weight only. They cannot diagnose disease — but they can spot unusual patterns and remind you to go look.
⚠️ Unusual temperature or weight drop
Flags a pattern worth investigating — could be many things. Sensor reminds you to inspect, not a diagnosis.
🍄 Nosema risk period reminder
Calendar reminder (Feb–Apr) to check for dysentery signs during your next inspection — not sensor-based
🐛 Unusual activity drop
Weight and temperature both low in warm weather — worth a look. Report what you find in the inspection log.
Inspection reminders
Overdue inspection reminder
Alert if a hive hasn't been inspected in more than 10 days during active season
Nuc monitoring
📦 Nuc winter alerts
Nucleus colonies need more frequent checks — alert every 2 days if weight loss is accelerating. Nucs are fragile in winter.
Disease records
View disease history
Managed on the web dashboard
Open →
My feeding setup
Feed types I use
Supplements & additives
Leave empty if you don't use any
These options appear when you tap "Feed a hive". Your labels, not ours.
Feeding alerts
Low stores warning
Alert me when hive weight suggests stores are running low
🌱 Spring starvation risk
Increase alert sensitivity Feb–Apr when colonies use stores fastest
Location
📍 what3words apiary location
3-metre precision — weather fetched for your exact apiary. Set your what3words address in Apiary settings.
On
Weather sources
Open-Meteo
1 km resolution · Covers all of Ireland · Historical & 7-day forecast
Primary
Met Office DataHub
2 km UKV model · Northern Ireland fallback · Government accuracy
Fallback
Weather data is cached 3 hours per apiary. No personal data is ever sent to weather providers.
Weather alerts
🌧️ Rain before inspection
Warn me if heavy rain is forecast on an inspection day
💨 High wind warning
Alert if sustained winds above 40 km/h forecast — hive stability risk
❄️ Hard frost warning
Alert if temperature forecast below −5°C — check hive insulation
🌸 Nectar flow forecast
Notify me when conditions look good for a flow starting
Sensor status
Live readings from all your paired sensors. Tap a sensor to change its hive assignment.
Hub & charging station
Hive calibration
Your scale subtracts your empty hive weight to show stores weight only. Set once — the app remembers it for each hive.
💡 A cedar National weighs ~12 kg empty. A poly National weighs ~4 kg. The same total reading means very different store levels depending on your hive material.
💡 A cedar National weighs ~12 kg empty. A poly National weighs ~4 kg. The same total reading means very different store levels depending on your hive material.
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Step 1 of 3 — Scan the label
Recording treatment for
Hive 3
Home Farm · 28 March 2026
VMR 2013
📷
Scan medicine label instead
Point camera at the box to fill in automatically
📦 Point at the label that shows:
• Product name (e.g. Apiguard, Oxalic Acid)
• Batch / lot number
• Expiry date
• Batch / lot number
• Expiry date
Release history
What's New
v1.1.0
28 March 2026
Current
📅
Smart Beekeeper's Calendar
Sensor-personalised monthly tasks. Flow alerts, treatment reminders, swarm warnings — all in one place.
🎙️
Voice logging
Log inspections hands-free with gloves on. Just speak — the app fills in the form.
📍
what3words apiary location
3-metre precision. No more GPS confusion between hives in the same field.
🕐
Incomplete visit recovery
If you left a visit unfinished, the home screen reminds you to complete it.
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Web dashboard
View all your hives from any desktop browser at beehappyhive.uk/dashboard.
v1.0.0
5 February 2026
Initial release
Hive status dashboard, morning notifications, VMR 2013 inspection logging, treatment records, varroa tracking, weight trend graphs. Free, Standard and Pro tiers.
Voice Log
Which hive?
🎙️
Tap to talk
Big enough for gloved thumbs
Just say things like…
"5 frames of brood, queen not seen, lots of new eggs, not worried"
"Saw queen, calm colony, 3 frames honey, no disease signs"
"Signs of swarming — charged queen cells on frame 4, needs splitting"
Say "open camera" to attach a photo to this entry