Access to data for sensitive and obscured observations

Yes, see Clarifying geoprivacy & reasons for obscured coordinates; user-to-user trust and Your Relationships: https://www.inaturalist.org/relationships (available in your account settings).

If you find something out of date or poorly explained in the help/about/etc pages, you can bring it to the attention of the site staff. Some of them monitor this forum to some extent, but emailing help@inaturalist.org is more direct.

See also: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/network

All observations from users affiliated with a gateway [like iNaturalist.ca or iNaturalistNZ] are shared with the Network Member, meaning they are responsible for stewarding the sensitive location data for coordinates obscured from public view for either user privacy or protected species.

Whether or not this information on the Network page is outdated is unknown by me. I assume those who affiliate directly with iNaturalist.org rather than one of the gateways do not share their obscured/private data with anyone beyond trusted project curators/trusted users/iNat staff at this time, but that’s just an assumption. @carrieseltzer?

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