Privacy Policy

Woogie is a pet care app for iOS and Android, made by Joel Jaimon. This policy explains what happens to your information when you use it.

The short version: your pet data stays on your phone. Woogie has no account system, no server and no cloud database, so there is nothing for us to look at. The only thing that leaves your device is anonymous crash and usage data, and you can switch that off. The rest of this policy sets out the detail.

What stays on your device

Everything you record in Woogie is written to storage owned by the app on your phone. That covers your pets' names, species, breeds and birthdays, their photos, your reminders and routines, walks and the GPS routes recorded during them, photo memories and their captions, weights, health diary entries, vet records and supplies. None of it is uploaded. We hold no copy of it and have no way to reach it.

What leaves your device

Woogie sends anonymous crash reports through Firebase Crashlytics and anonymous usage counts through Firebase Analytics. Nothing else is transmitted.

Those reports carry counts, fixed values from a closed list such as a screen name or a reminder type, and true or false flags. Pet names, breeds, captions, notes, article titles, filenames and file paths cannot appear in them. The code that builds these payloads accepts numbers, booleans and fixed values only, and error messages are stripped of file paths and addresses before anything is sent.

Woogie carries no advertising and does no tracking. It never asks for App Tracking Transparency permission, never reads an advertising identifier, and the Android advertising ID permission is removed from the build.

If you would rather send nothing at all, both Apple and Google let you opt out of sharing app analytics with developers from your device's own settings.

The data on your device is what runs the app. It shows you what is due today, reminds you at the right time, draws a walk route and its distance, holds your photos and records, and keeps the home screen widget current.

The anonymous crash and usage data is used to find crashes and fix them, and to see which parts of the app people actually use. It is not used to build a profile of you and it is not used for advertising. It carries no identifying content, so it cannot be traced back to you or your pet.

Woogie asks for four things, and uses each one only for the purpose given here.

Location, while in use and in the background. Recording a walk needs your position while the walk is running. That is how the route and the distance are worked out. Background access keeps the recording accurate when your screen is off or you are in another app. You can also switch on one optional reminder that fires when you get home. Routes are saved on your phone and never uploaded.

Photo library. To attach photos to a pet profile or a memory. A photo you pick is copied into the app's own storage on the device.

Camera. To take a photo of your pet without leaving the app.

Notifications. Reminders are scheduled on the device by the app itself. There is no push server behind Woogie, and no push token is ever generated or sent.

You can refuse or withdraw any of these in your system settings. Refusing one disables the feature that needs it and nothing else.

Woogie uses two, both from Google, and both only for diagnostics:

• Firebase Crashlytics for crash reports.
• Firebase Analytics for anonymous usage counts.

Google's privacy policy covers both: https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy

Woogie does not use Cloud Firestore, Firebase Authentication, Firebase Storage or Firebase Cloud Messaging. There is no advertising network, no analytics vendor other than the two named above, and no other service of any kind receiving data from the app.

Apple and Google also handle the sale and distribution of the app itself through the App Store and Google Play, under their own privacy policies.

We do not sell, rent or trade your information. Apart from the anonymous diagnostics described above, none of it reaches us in the first place.

Your data sits in the app's private storage on your device, protected by the operating system's sandboxing and by whatever passcode or biometric lock you use. It does not travel anywhere, so there is no transfer for anyone to intercept.

Because we hold no copy, we also cannot restore anything. If you lose the phone, reset it or delete the app, your records go with it unless you exported a backup first. Settings has an export option that writes a full backup file and hands it to you through the system share sheet. Keep that file somewhere you trust.

Woogie keeps records and sends reminders. It is not a veterinary service and it gives no veterinary, medical or diagnostic advice.

The care articles bundled with the app are general educational writing about enrichment, behaviour, training, comfort, husbandry and bonding. They carry no medical, first aid, emergency or symptom content, and that is deliberate. The app never suggests a diagnosis, never rates how urgent something is, and never works out a calorie or dosage figure.

Speak to a qualified veterinarian about anything to do with your animal's health. In an emergency, contact a vet immediately instead of opening the app.

Woogie is rated 4+ on the App Store and Everyone on Google Play. It has no accounts, no way for users to contact one another, nothing shared or published anywhere, no advertising and no in-app purchases. The app does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, children included. If you believe a child has provided personal information through the app, write to us and we will look into it.

Laws such as the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights of access, correction, deletion and portability over personal data a company holds about you. In Woogie's case there is almost nothing for those rights to act on, because we hold nothing.

What you can do, and can do straight away, is this:

• Export everything. Settings has a full backup export, delivered as a file through the share sheet.
• Delete everything. Settings has a delete-all option, and uninstalling the app removes your data with it.
• Stop the diagnostics at the source. Both stores let you opt out of sharing analytics with developers: on iOS under Settings, Privacy & Security, Analytics & Improvements, and on Android under Settings, Google, Ads.

If you send us an access or deletion request anyway, we will answer quickly and honestly, and the answer will be that we have no record of you to hand over or erase. The anonymous Firebase diagnostics are not linked to you and cannot be looked up by person.

If the app changes in a way that affects this policy, we will update this page and change the effective date at the top. Any change that makes Woogie collect more than it does today will be described here in plain words rather than buried. Using the app after a change means you accept the updated policy.

Questions about this policy, or about what Woogie does with anything:

Developer: Joel Jaimon

Email: joel.jaimon99@gmail.com