Privacy Policy

1. The short version

Everything below is the longer version of these five points.

• PupCal has no accounts. You never sign in and we never learn who you are.
• Your days, dates and settings are stored only on your device.
• There are no ads, no trackers and no analytics in the app or on the website.
• Payments go through Apple or Google. Purchases are verified with an anonymous identifier.
• The website sets a single cookie, and only if you choose a language.

2. What the app stores on your device

PupCal keeps the days you create (their names, dates and kind), the puppy and pose you choose for each, your reminder settings, your language, week start and countdown preferences, and your widget choices. All of this is kept in the app's private storage on your device. It is never sent to us, and we have no server that could receive it.

Your operating system may include PupCal's data in its own device backups, such as iCloud Backup or Google's Android backup, according to the settings you have chosen on your device. Those backups are governed by Apple's or Google's privacy policies.

3. What we do not collect

PupCal does not collect your name, email address, location, contacts or photos. It does not read your system calendar. It contains no advertising, no analytics service and no crash-reporting service of ours. If you have opted in at the operating-system level, Apple or Google may share anonymised crash and usage statistics with us; these contain no countdown content.

4. Backups you export

You can export your days as a backup file from Settings. The file contains the names and dates of your days and your settings, and it goes wherever you send it through your phone's share sheet, such as a file provider or a messaging app. Please treat it as private, since it can reveal personal dates.

5. Purchases

Optional puppy companions are sold as one-time purchases through the App Store or Google Play. Apple or Google process the payment; we never see your payment details.

To verify and restore purchases, the app uses RevenueCat, a purchase-verification service. RevenueCat receives an anonymous identifier generated by the app, the store's transaction and receipt information, and basic device details such as the app version and platform. The names and dates of your days are never sent to RevenueCat. RevenueCat's own privacy policy is available at https://www.revenuecat.com/privacy.

6. Reminders

Reminders are scheduled locally by your phone's notification system. There is no push server and the app never asks for a push token. PupCal asks for notification permission only when you turn a reminder on, and you can withdraw it at any time in your device settings.

7. The website

The website at https://pupcal.app is hosted on Vercel. Like any web host, Vercel receives your IP address, browser type and the pages you request in order to serve the site and protect it from abuse, and keeps standard server logs for a short period under its own privacy policy.

The site uses the country derived from your IP address to pick English or Japanese by default. We do not store your IP address or your country. If you choose a language with the globe menu, the site sets one functional cookie named pupcal_lang, kept for one year, so that your choice is remembered. There are no analytics or advertising cookies. Fonts are served from our own domain, so no request is made to Google Fonts when you visit.

Links to the App Store and Google Play take you to Apple's and Google's sites, where their privacy policies apply.

8. Children

PupCal is not directed at children under 13, and because it collects no personal information, it does not knowingly collect any from children. If you are a parent and have a concern, please write to us.

9. Your rights and choices

Because your data stays on your device, you are in control of it. You can edit or delete any day in the app, export everything as a backup, or remove all of it by deleting the app. Purchase records are held by Apple or Google and can be reviewed in your store account.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights of access, correction, deletion or portability under laws such as the GDPR or Japan's Act on the Protection of Personal Information. Since we hold no personal data about you, there is usually nothing for us to provide or delete, but you are welcome to contact us and we will help where we can.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy when PupCal changes. The date at the top shows the latest revision. If a change is material, we will point it out in the app or on the website.

11. Contact

Questions about privacy are welcome at support@pupcal.app.