No audio. No zoom. Nothing that is not ours.
Four rules, written before the first bracket went up rather than after somebody complained. They are not negotiable and no membership tier changes any of them.
The four rules, and why each one exists.
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No audio, on any camera, ever.
None of these cameras has a microphone fitted. Not muted in software — not fitted.
A farm is a workplace. The people in shot are working, and a conversation between two people in a yard is not content. Recording it would also drag the whole system into a different and far heavier part of data protection law for no benefit anybody has ever asked for.
The silence is not a limitation of the rig. It is the point of it.
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No pan, tilt or zoom for anybody outside the farm office.
Every camera here is fixed on a bracket. There is no joystick, no preset tour and no queue for control at any membership tier.
A camera that a member of the public can move is a camera that will, eventually, be pointed at something it should not be pointed at. The fixed bracket removes that possibility entirely rather than managing it with a moderation policy.
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No camera points at a public footpath, a neighbour’s land or the highway.
Every angle was checked against the boundary and the definitive map before the bracket went on. The gate camera stops short of the public road. No camera covers the two rights of way that cross this holding.
People walking a public footpath have not consented to being on a website, and a neighbour has not consented to their yard being part of ours. Getting this wrong once would be worse than not having the cameras at all.
A right of way is a right. It is not a set.
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Continuous footage is kept for seven days, then overwritten.
The farm office recorder holds seven days of continuous footage for operational reasons — livestock, security, and the occasional argument about who left a gate open. After seven days it is overwritten and gone.
What is kept permanently is stills: one an hour on the time-lapse cameras, and the harvest and lambing records. Those are published in the archive. Everything else disappears.
The rules, as a table.
What the cameras do not do
- Audio
- NeverNo microphone is fitted to any camera.
- Public PTZ
- NeverAt any tier, for any payment.
- Footpaths
- Never in frameChecked against the definitive map.
- Neighbouring land
- Never in frameChecked against the boundary.
- Public highway
- Never in frameThe gate camera stops short of the road.
- Number plates
- Not legibleVerified at the gate camera’s working distance.
What is kept
- Continuous footage
- 7 daysHeld on the farm office recorder, then overwritten.
- Hourly stills
- KeptPublished in the archive as time-lapses.
- Harvest record
- KeptWeights and dates, published after each season.
- Faces
- Not indexedNo recognition, matching or tagging of any kind.
- Viewer data
- None hereThis build stores nothing that leaves your browser.
This is a plain-English account of how the build behaves. It is not legal advice and it has not been reviewed by a solicitor.
Two public footpaths cross this land
They are rights of way and they are on the definitive map. Walking them is your right, not our permission, and no camera on this estate covers either of them. What you cannot do is leave them for the working fields, which is a different matter entirely and is set out in Trespassing.
The questions this page gets.
No. There is no mechanism for it, at any tier, and the reason is that a moveable camera is a decision somebody has to make afresh every day.
In the yard and near the gate, yes, along with everybody else, and there is signage saying so. No faces are indexed, matched or tagged, and continuous footage is overwritten after seven days.
Yes, within the seven days it exists. After that there is nothing to give you, which is the honest answer rather than a refusal.
Because a farm is a workplace and the people in shot are working. Their conversations are not part of the offer.
The four rules, short.
No microphones
Not fitted, not muted.
No public control
Fixed brackets, permanently.
No rights of way
Neither footpath is in any frame.
Seven days
Then the continuous footage is gone.
How the whole build handles your data.
Which in this demonstration is very close to not at all, and the privacy page says exactly how.
Pestering, at your invitation
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