Transparent employee monitoring: BirdsEye privacy and security.
BirdsEye is built so that the people being tracked can see the rules, and so that those rules have hard limits.
What data does BirdsEye record?
| Data | When | Your control |
|---|---|---|
| Application and window title | Each minute while tracking is on. | Recorded whenever tracking is on. |
| Website domain | While a browser tab is active. | Optional. An administrator can switch it off completely. |
| Idle time | When keyboard and mouse are untouched past the threshold. | An administrator sets the threshold. |
| Screenshots | At a random moment between your minimum and maximum interval. | Blur off, light or heavy. Employees can view their own unless you switch that off. |
| Webcam clips | On their own schedule or together with screenshots. | Optional, with a separate blur setting. The employee chooses the camera. |
Nothing is captured outside the configured working hours or on non-working days. That includes captures a manager requests on demand.
What can employees see and control?
- The agent shows each person the hours, intervals, blur level and idle threshold applied to them.
- Employees can open their own day, their activity log and their own screenshots.
- Anyone can pause for a set time or until they resume, and the agent reminds them they are paused.
- The agent warns people before the schedule is about to pause them.
Who can see employee activity?
Access limits are enforced on every request. They are not just hidden in the interface.
Administrator
Sees every person, team and record in the organization, and is the only role that can open the audit log.
Manager
Sees only the teams they manage. An action that names someone outside those teams is refused. A manager with no team sees only their own record.
Employee
Sees only their own activity, their own captures and their own leave requests.
How are accounts and data protected?
- Organization isolation
- Each customer's people, activity, captures and reports are confined to their own organization.
- Passwords
- Password sign-in with strong password hashing.
- Sessions
- Sessions are short-lived and renewed in the background. Signing out ends renewal.
- Sign-in protection
- Repeated sign-in attempts are rate-limited, and both successful and failed sign-ins are logged.
- Password reset
- Self-service reset by email, plus resets started by an administrator.
- Audit log
- Sign-ins, role and settings changes, attendance and leave edits, team and project changes, rule changes and tracking pauses are recorded with who did it and when.
- Encrypted connections
- All traffic between the agent, the mobile app, the dashboard and the service runs over encrypted connections.
How long is monitoring data kept?
You decide, and screenshots and webcam recordings each have their own setting.
- Overall retention
- Set how many days data is kept.
- Screenshots and webcam
- Separate retention for each, on a rolling window or kept indefinitely.
- Purge on demand
- Remove stored media whenever you need to.
- Local copies
- The agent can delete its local copies of captures once they are uploaded.
- Audit log
- Audit entries have their own retention cleanup.
Frequently asked questions
Can a manager take a screenshot outside working hours?
No. Scheduled captures and on-demand capture requests are both refused outside the configured working hours and on non-working days.
Can employees see their own screenshots?
Yes. Employees can view their own screenshots and webcam captures in the desktop agent. A company can switch this off with a single organization setting.
Does BirdsEye track which websites employees visit?
BirdsEye records the domain of the site in the active browser tab, which is enough to tell research from distraction. An administrator can switch website tracking off completely.
Who can see an employee's activity?
Administrators can see everyone in the organization. Managers can see only the teams they manage. Employees can see only their own activity.
How long does BirdsEye keep screenshots?
For as long as the administrator chooses. Screenshots and webcam recordings each have their own retention setting, on a rolling window or kept indefinitely, and media can be purged on demand.
See the monitoring rules your team would see.
Start a free 14-day trial and open the agent's rules screen yourself, or book a demo.