Privacy Policy
Effective date: 2026-10-14
Paws & Pantry puts your and your pet’s privacy first. Everything you type and every photo you take is stored on your own phone. A copy goes to your own cloud account only if you turn on cloud sync, or if your phone’s system backup (such as iCloud Backup or Google backup) is on. We can’t see or touch any of it. This page explains how the app and this website handle your data.
In-app data
We collect no personal data
App data stays on your phone by default and is never sent, uploaded, or synced to us. We have no servers of our own and no accounts, so your data simply never reaches us. You don’t register or create an account, and we never ask for your name, email, or phone.
Data scope
The app may store the following on your device locally:
- Your pets: name, species, breed, sex, birthday and weight
- Daily check-ins and health records: food, toilet, mood, vaccines, medication and grooming
- Fridge contents and use-by dates, shopping lists, grocery spending, meal lists and recipe preferences, along with album photos, walk logs, vet, boarding and groomer contacts, and pet costs, plus your pet food stock (name, amount, which pets eat it and how much a day, opening date)
- Your reminder times for check-ins, health due dates, expiring food and pet food, and whether Premium is unlocked
By default all of it stays on your device (if your phone’s system backup is on, it’s also backed up to your own account). Reading a use-by date from packaging also happens on the device, and those photos never leave it; recognition works offline, because everything it needs is built into Paws & Pantry. The recognition component itself does send some technical information to Google — see “Photo recognition uses a Google component” below. If you turn on cloud sync, a backup copy also goes to your own cloud storage (see “Cloud backup” below). If you delete Paws & Pantry from your phone, the data on this phone goes with it (if your phone’s system backup is on, a copy may still be kept there).
Permissions
The app requests these permissions only when needed:
Taking album and check-in photos of your pets, and photographing packaging to read use-by dates — only the shot you take
Letting you pick one photo from your library; we never read the library itself, and photos stay on your phone unless you turn on cloud sync or export a backup file (if your phone’s system backup is on, the system also backs them up to your own account); also used to save the monthly report card or draw result to your photo library when you choose “Save Image” (it only adds the picture and never reads your photos)
Reminders for daily check-ins, vaccine, deworming and grooming due dates, medication times, food about to expire, and pet food running low or about to expire after opening, shown by your phone at the times you set — created on the device, no server involved
Not requested. Walk logs are typed in by hand; there is no GPS and no location tracking
Photo recognition uses a Google component
Photo recognition for fridge items and in “Can my pet eat this?” runs on this phone using Google’s recognition component (ML Kit), and your photos are never sent anywhere.
The component itself does send some technical information back to Google, such as an identifier for this installation, your device and Paws & Pantry versions, performance data and error codes, so Google can diagnose and improve it. This information doesn’t include your photos or any of your records, and it isn’t used to track you.
Cloud backup (only when you turn it on)
Paws & Pantry does not connect to any cloud by default. Only after you turn on cloud sync in Settings does the backup — your records and photos — start uploading into your own iCloud or Google Drive, visible only to devices signed in to the same account. We don’t have your account or any servers, so we can’t see what’s in it. Turn it off in Settings and the cloud copy stops updating.
Cloud sync and exporting / importing backup files are Premium features; Paws & Pantry itself has no other way to move your data. Separately, phone system backups such as iPhone’s iCloud Backup and Android’s Google backup save the data of the apps on your phone (including Paws & Pantry) to your account and restore it when you reinstall or switch to a phone of the same platform; how much comes back is up to the system. Whether they’re on is set in your phone’s system settings, not in Paws & Pantry.
Outbound connections
The app is on-device first. Unless you turn on cloud sync yourself, your pet’s data, photos, and records are never sent to any cloud or server; photo reading works offline — everything it needs is built into Paws & Pantry, and your photos are never uploaded, though the recognition component itself (Google ML Kit) does send some technical information to Google — see “Photo recognition uses a Google component” above. When you create a PDF vet report and the phone doesn't have the fonts it needs yet — for a Chinese, Japanese or Korean report, or when the report contains characters the built-in fonts lack — Paws & Pantry downloads them once from Google's public font service and keeps them on the phone; the download only fetches the fonts and never sends any of your records. There are no ads and no analytics or tracking tools (no Google Analytics, Firebase, or Meta tracking). The app never reads your phone’s contacts — the “Vets” and “Contacts” entries are typed in by you; tapping call or navigate simply hands off to your Phone or Maps app. Apple App Store / Google Play payment systems process the Premium one-time purchase; card details are handled by the platform, and the app only receives a “paid” receipt and never touches your payment data.
Deleting data
You can delete a pet at any time in pet management (which removes all of its records), delete a single record on any page, or delete the whole app from your phone (the data on this phone disappears with it). If you’ve used cloud sync, delete the backup in your own cloud storage there; if your phone’s system backup is on, you can manage or delete it in your phone’s system settings. Since we hold none of your data, there’s no need to write to us to request deletion.
Website inquiry form
When you fill in the inquiry form on this site, we receive your name, email, subject, message, IP, and browser info, used only to reply to your question. We don’t use it for marketing or pass it to third parties.
Website third-party services
This site's connection and security protection are provided by Cloudflare, and notification emails from the contact form are sent through Postmark / Resend. These services only handle what is needed to show the site and send mail, and never touch the data the app keeps on your device.
Your rights
You can email buy.weimi@gmail.com at any time to access, correct, or delete your inquiry records.
Children’s privacy
The app is suitable for the whole family caring for a pet, including children helping with check-ins. Because we collect no user data, the check-ins and records children add are never sent to us.
Checking for updates
To let you know when a new version is out, Paws & Pantry checks App Store or Google Play for the latest version and reads the version notice on the Paws & Pantry website when it opens. Like opening a web page, these checks only fetch public version information and never send any of your data or records in Paws & Pantry.
Policy changes
If this privacy notice changes in the future (for example, if we ever add a feature that needs a network connection), we’ll update the effective date on this page with the next app release so you know what’s different.
Contact
For any questions about this privacy policy, email buy.weimi@gmail.com.