Your dog’s story stays yours.
PawChapter is built around a private, local archive. This policy explains what the iOS/iPadOS and Android apps store — including profiles, memories, Preserve progress, Paw Signals and Dog Care Rhythm — what they do not collect remotely, how purchases are handled, and what happens when you choose to export, back up or contact support.
Dog profiles, memories, Preserve progress, Paw Signals, Dog Care Rhythm records and app-owned media are stored in PawChapter’s private on-device storage.
The current app contains no advertising SDK, analytics SDK, tracking domains or PawChapter account system.
Backups, Life Books and Dog Director films leave PawChapter only when you explicitly export or share them; the local archive itself is not uploaded to a PawChapter memory service.
The short version
PawChapter does not operate a cloud account or remote memory service for the current iOS/iPadOS or Android apps. Your dog profiles, memories, Preserve progress, Paw Signals and Dog Care Rhythm history are created and maintained locally on your device. PawChapter does not sell your information, does not use it for targeted advertising, and does not track you across apps or websites.
Information kept in your PawChapter archive
When you create content in PawChapter, the app stores the information necessary to build and display your archive. Depending on what you choose to add, this may include:
- Dog profile information: dog name, birth date (optional), gotcha/family date, memorial date (optional), profile photo, profile creation date and optional details such as sex, breed, coat/markings, activity routine, favorite place, favorite toy, signature sound and personality.
- Memory and Preserve information: memory title, note/story text, date, media type, favorite status, preservation-prompt reference, creation date and Preserve-prompt completion/progress information.
- Paw Signals and Dog Care Rhythm: behavior observations you log (such as signal type, time, intensity, context, note and unusual flag) and care records you add (such as care type, time, optional amount/unit, detail, note and mark-for-review flag).
- Media and local app preferences: photos, videos and audio recordings you choose to preserve are copied into PawChapter’s private app-owned media directory. Functional preferences, such as the last-selected dog and app settings, are also stored locally.
This archive data is used to provide PawChapter’s features on your device. It is not uploaded to a PawChapter memory server by the current app. Paw Signals and Dog Care Rhythm are local factual journals; PawChapter does not use those records to diagnose or treat a health condition.
Photos, videos, camera and microphone
Photo and video library
PawChapter uses the platform’s system photo picker when you choose an existing photo or video (Apple’s system picker on iOS/iPadOS and Android Photo Picker on Android). This lets you select a specific item without PawChapter requesting broad, ongoing access to your entire photo or media library. The selected item is copied into the app’s private archive only after you choose it.
Camera
On iOS/iPadOS, camera access is requested only when you choose to capture a new photo or video from inside PawChapter. On Android, PawChapter uses the system camera capture flow with a temporary app-owned file URI and does not request broad camera access itself. Captured media is used for the memory you are creating and is stored in the app’s private archive.
Microphone
Microphone permission is requested only when you choose to record a sound memory. PawChapter records the audio locally and keeps the accepted recording in the private archive. Failed or cancelled temporary recordings are cleaned up.
In-app purchases and subscriptions
Premium features are purchased through Apple’s StoreKit on iOS/iPadOS and Google Play Billing on Android. PawChapter requests product information from the applicable store and uses verified purchase/entitlement state to decide which premium features are available.
- Apple handles iOS/iPadOS billing: your App Store account, payment method, card details, receipts and billing relationship are handled by Apple. PawChapter does not receive your full payment-card information.
- Google handles Android billing: your Google Play account, payment method, card details, receipts and billing relationship are handled by Google. PawChapter does not receive your full payment-card information.
- Apple entitlement status: on iOS/iPadOS, the app processes StoreKit product identifiers and verified transaction/entitlement state as needed to unlock purchases and restore them.
- Android purchase verification: the Android app processes Google Play product identifiers, purchase tokens and purchase/entitlement state. In production builds configured with PawChapter’s secure billing-verification service, the product identifier and purchase token are sent over HTTPS to that service, which verifies the purchase with the Google Play Developer API. Google Play may also send subscription, purchase and voided-purchase lifecycle notifications to the service. Persistent billing records are stored in Google Cloud Firestore and use a SHA-256 hash of the purchase token together with product and entitlement state; they do not contain your dog archive or full payment-card details.
- Restore / update purchases: when you choose the restore or update action, PawChapter asks the applicable store to synchronize or query your current purchases and entitlements.
Apple’s and Google’s handling of store, account and payment data is governed by their respective privacy practices and terms.
Backups, Dog Director, Life Book and sharing
Standard backups
A standard PawChapter backup is free and created locally. The current format can include dog profiles, memories, Preserve completion/progress, Paw Signals, Dog Care Rhythm records and referenced app-owned media, and is designed to move between compatible PawChapter Android and iOS builds. PawChapter can also restore supported earlier backup generations. A standard backup is not password-encrypted by PawChapter, so treat it as sensitive and store it in a location you trust.
Password-protected backups
If you choose the encrypted-backup feature, PawChapter encrypts the backup locally using AES-256-GCM with a key derived from your password using PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256. PawChapter does not transmit or retain your backup password on a developer server. If you lose that password, PawChapter cannot recover the encrypted backup for you.
Dog Director and Life Book
Dog Director films and Life Book PDFs are rendered locally on your device from memories and information you select. Dog Director can use up to 40 photo/video memories for a film, and Life Book builds its pages from selected archive content. Temporary export files are created in the app cache and are pruned automatically.
When you export or share
PawChapter uses the platform’s system document/share interfaces so that you choose the destination. Once a backup, film, PDF or other exported file is saved to Apple Files/iCloud Drive, an Android document provider, another cloud provider, messaging app, email app or other destination, that copy is controlled by the destination you selected and is subject to that provider’s privacy practices.
Network use, analytics, advertising and tracking
The current PawChapter iOS/iPadOS and Android applications do not include PawChapter-operated analytics, advertising or tracking SDKs and do not contain PawChapter application endpoints that upload your dog archive. The iOS/iPadOS privacy manifest declares tracking disabled and no collected data types. On Android, network access is used for Google Play Billing and, when configured for production purchase verification, the PawChapter billing-verification service described above; that billing flow does not upload dog profiles, memories, Preserve progress, Paw Signals, Dog Care Rhythm records, photos, videos, audio or backups.
| Feature | Current PawChapter behavior | Where data goes |
|---|---|---|
| Dog profiles, memories & Preserve progress | Stored for archive and Preserve functionality | Private on-device app storage |
| Paw Signals & Dog Care Rhythm | Stored as factual behavior/care records and summarized locally | Private on-device app storage |
| Photos, videos & audio | Copied or recorded only when you explicitly select, capture or record them | Private on-device app storage |
| Premium purchases | Verified through StoreKit on iOS/iPadOS or Google Play Billing on Android | Apple App Store or Google Play services; local entitlement state; Android billing-verification service and Google Cloud Firestore when configured |
| Dog Director / Life Book | Rendered locally | On device until you choose to share/export |
| Advertising / cross-app tracking | Not used | Not applicable |
When you contact PawChapter Support
PawChapter is developed by Luke Garrison. The seller is The Spiritual Seek - Personality Tests, located at via Milano - Roma, Italy. The privacy/support contact is lukegarrison.dev@gmail.com.
Contacting support is optional and separate from the private archive inside the app. If you submit the PawChapter support form, the developer receives the information you intentionally provide, such as your name, email address, support category, subject, optional app/device details and message.
That information is used to respond to your request, diagnose the issue, maintain correspondence and protect the support form from abuse. It is not sold or used for advertising.
The support form uses an essential PHP session for CSRF protection and rate limiting. It does not include advertising or analytics trackers. Your hosting/network provider may still generate ordinary technical access/security logs as part of operating the website.
Retention and deletion
- In-app archive: profiles, memories, Preserve progress, Paw Signals, Dog Care Rhythm records and app-owned media stay on your device until you edit/delete them or remove the app.
- Deleting a memory, record or dog: PawChapter removes the corresponding app-owned archive records and media as part of the deletion flow; deleting a dog removes that dog’s associated archive, including its memories, Preserve links/progress, Paw Signals and care records.
- Deleting PawChapter: removes the app’s private local archive through the normal iOS/iPadOS or Android app-removal process, unless you separately exported a backup or other files.
- Exported copies: backups, films, PDFs or other copies you saved outside PawChapter remain wherever you placed them until you delete them there.
- Support correspondence: may be retained as reasonably necessary to respond, troubleshoot, prevent abuse and maintain a record of the support request. You may request deletion where applicable.
- Store purchase records: App Store records are maintained by Apple and Google Play records are maintained by Google according to their respective retention policies and legal obligations.
- Android verification records: when the production billing-verification service is enabled, PawChapter may retain in Google Cloud Firestore a SHA-256 purchase-token hash and related product/entitlement state to reconcile ownership, renewals, refunds, revocations, chargebacks and duplicate use. These server-side billing records are separate from your local dog archive and are not removed merely because the app is uninstalled.
Security
PawChapter uses the iOS/iPadOS or Android application sandbox and app-owned storage for its local archive. The app validates imported media and backups, checks backup integrity, constrains archive extraction, and verifies premium purchase state through StoreKit or Google Play as applicable. Archive Check also verifies database integrity/links and the availability/readability of app-owned media locally without uploading the archive. When Android server verification is configured, the purchase identifier/token exchange uses HTTPS and persistent purchase-token references are stored as SHA-256 hashes. Password-protected backups use modern authenticated encryption as described above.
No storage or security method can guarantee absolute protection. Keep your device protected, maintain trusted backups, and handle exported standard backups carefully because they are outside PawChapter’s private sandbox once exported.
Children’s privacy
PawChapter does not require an in-app account and the current app does not send the local dog archive to a PawChapter server. If a child or parent contacts support, the information intentionally included in that support request is handled as described in the Support section. A parent or guardian may contact the developer to request access to or deletion of support correspondence where applicable.
Your privacy choices and rights
Most PawChapter content is under your direct control because it remains on your device. You can edit or delete memories, Paw Signals and Dog Care Rhythm entries, delete dog profiles, remove the app, or choose whether to create/export backups.
For personal information you voluntarily send to PawChapter Support, applicable privacy laws may give you rights such as access, correction, deletion, restriction or objection. You can make a request using the contact details below. Identity verification may be required before acting on a request.
Changes to this policy
This policy may be updated if PawChapter’s features, data practices or legal requirements change. The effective date at the top of the page will be updated when a material revision is published. If a future version introduces materially different collection or transmission of personal information, the policy and applicable App Store or Google Play privacy disclosures should be updated accordingly.