Operator policy
Privacy Policy
The short version: your data lives on your phone. There are no accounts, no emails, no advertising, no analytics SDKs, and no tracking. The server decodes what you send it and forgets it – with one exception you must explicitly opt into (training donations).
1 What stays on your device
Dog profiles, the logbook (decoded transmissions), per-dog teachings (audio fingerprints used to personalize mood reads), field-recorder tapes, and collected specimen photographs are stored only in the app's storage on your phone. They ride your phone's own backups (iCloud / Google) under your platform account; we never see them. Deleting the app deletes them.
2 What is sent to our server, and what happens to it
Bark clips (Tuner decodes, on-grid): sent over HTTPS, analyzed in memory to produce a mood read and a playful translation, then discarded. Not written to disk, not used for training, not shared – except the translation step below.
Dog photos (Field Guide): sent over HTTPS, analyzed in memory to identify the breed, then discarded.
Processing partner: translations and photo identification use Google's Gemini API; clips' acoustic measurements and photos are submitted to it for processing under Google's paid-tier API terms (which exclude using customer prompts or responses to train or improve Google's models).
Offline mode: the app has a fully offline mode in which nothing leaves the phone at all.
3 Training donations – opt-in only
If (and only if) you switch transmission mode to ON GRID + DONATE and confirm the consent dialog, each bark reading you verify is donated to the training reels: the audio clip, its mood label, your optional field note, and your dog's registered breed. Donations are stored under a pseudonymous device hash – we cannot connect them to you, your dog, or any identity. They are used solely to improve the bark-reading models that ship in future app versions. Because they are pseudonymous and may be folded into trained models, donations are practically irrevocable – donate only what you would share. To request deletion of your device's donation shelf, contact [email protected] from within the consent period with your request; include the date range of your donations.
4 The anonymous device token
The app generates a random token on first run. It is not your identity: it exists so the server can apply fair-use rate limits and group donation shelves. It contains no personal data and is never linked to any account.
5 Third-party content
The Field Guide's reference entries fetch public summaries and images from Wikipedia (Wikimedia Foundation) when you open a registry plate. That request goes directly to Wikimedia and is subject to their privacy policy.
6 What we never collect
No names, emails, accounts, contacts, location, advertising identifiers, usage analytics, or crash dumps containing your content. The microphone is only active while you hold the dial or run a scanner sweep you started; the camera only when you open the field camera.
7 Children
The app is suitable for general audiences and collects no personal information from anyone, children included.
8 Changes
If this policy changes, the new version is posted at this address with a new effective date, and consequential changes (anything affecting donations) re-prompt consent in the app with a new consent version.
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