Privacy policy

Ready for Dog? · Effective 3 November 2026

Ready for Dog? helps you rehearse a dog-care routine with a virtual companion. This policy explains what the iPhone and iPad app processes, what stays on your device, and the optional services it uses. The developer is Yevhenii Svistunov. Contact: evhenii.svistunov@gmail.com.

Your routine and journal

The app stores your dog choice, coat, name, sex and equipped collar, schedule, care history, journal reflections, household plans, budget estimates, preferences and activity progress on your device. The app does not operate a developer account or upload your journal to a developer server. Device or iCloud backups managed by Apple may include routine records and routes, according to your backup settings. Saved AR map and reference-photo archives are marked to be excluded from backups, as explained below. A report leaves the app only when you choose to share it through the system share sheet.

Walks and location

If you grant location permission and start a walk, the app records the route, distance and timing on your device. Recording may continue in the background during that active walk, including when the screen is locked. Pause or finish the walk to stop recording. You can change permission in system Settings. The app does not send your precise route to the developer, advertising providers or family members. The advertising SDK is configured not to access the location granted to the app.

Camera and augmented reality

The camera is used when you open an augmented-reality activity, such as placing a bowl or collecting virtual fur. AR room maps, placement anchors and reference photos are saved locally to help recognize the place again. After a successful recovery, the app can save another room view for the current lighting. These archives are marked to be excluded from device backups. The app does not upload room maps or camera images, record camera video or record microphone audio. Removing a saved place removes its local room archive; local-data erasure removes all of these archives. Copies in older backups are not retroactively erased.

Optional room weather

Room lighting can follow local time without location access. If you enable local weather and allow location access, the app requests a foreground location fix and rounds it to an approximately 3 km grid before sending it to Apple Weather to retrieve local conditions. It does not start continuous background weather-location recording. The app does not save weather coordinates or a location history, send them to the developer, or share them with advertising or family boards. Weather readings and derived daylight times are held temporarily in memory; only the enabled preference is saved. Turning weather off or erasing local data cancels requests and clears that temporary state.

Apple processes weather requests under its privacy policy. Apple states that WeatherKit uses location to provide weather, without associating it with personally identifiable information or tracking it between requests. Weather effects are an artistic interpretation of reported conditions, not a live view or an emergency warning service.

Optional family sharing

If you choose to create or join a family board, Apple CloudKit stores and shares the board through your iCloud account. Invited participants can access the dog name and breed, trial dates, task schedule and targets, helper names, assignments and completion records. Your GPS route, AR maps and reference photos, weather location, private diary reflections, budget and absence plans are not included. This is a private invited group, not a public feed. Apple processes account and cloud-service data under its privacy policy.

Use the Family screen to manage access or delete an owned board. Removing local app data does not delete a cloud board or revoke other participants' access. Facts already imported into another participant's journal may remain on their device; each participant controls their own local data.

Advertising and choices

The free app can display Google AdMob banners on the home, journal, walk and play screens. Google may process IP address (which can indicate approximate location), device/app identifiers, advertising interactions and diagnostic or performance information to deliver and measure ads, prevent fraud and maintain its services. The app requests non-personalized ads, disables publisher first-party ID and advertising location collection, and does not request cross-app tracking permission. Non-personalized advertising can still require consent for storage and measurement; it does not mean that no data is processed.

Where required, Google's User Messaging Platform presents privacy choices before ads are requested. You can reopen available advertising privacy choices in Settings → Remove ads. When consent or an ad is unavailable, the app remains usable without that banner. See Google's privacy policy and how Google uses information from apps. Ad requests stop when the app is backgrounded. A verified Remove Ads purchase prevents further ad requests from the app; it does not erase information already held by Google.

Purchases

Remove Ads and eight optional cosmetic collars are separate one-time, non-consumable App Store purchases. Two collars are free; there is no subscription. Apple handles payment and account information. The app uses StoreKit to verify purchases, restore access and respond to refunds or revocations. The developer does not receive your card details. Restoration requires the Apple Account used for the purchase. Deleting local app data resets the local equipped style but does not cancel or erase an App Store purchase.

Notifications and play sessions

With permission, the app schedules local reminders on your device. You can disable them in system Settings. While the play screen is open, on-device motion sensors detect whether the device is moving or still. Movement pauses the timer and stillness resumes it; the app saves the session timing, not raw motion samples. Raw sensor readings are processed temporarily on the device and are not uploaded or shared with advertising. A running timer continues when the screen is locked; a paused timer remains paused. Movement is not checked in the background. The app does not inspect other apps, browser activity or overall device use.

Retention and deletion

Local records remain until you remove them, erase local data in Settings → Privacy and data, or remove the app and its data. Erasing local data stops the app's active local activities and removes its saved journal, route drafts, AR placements, room maps/reference photos and local family cache, and disables weather while clearing its temporary state. It does not erase copies in Apple backups, shared cloud boards or other people's devices. Manage cloud-board access separately before erasing local data if you want to remove shared information. Apple manages transaction retention; Google manages advertising records under its policies.

Your choices and requests

You can use system Settings to control camera, location and notification access, manage iCloud backups, and uninstall the app. Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct or delete personal information, object to processing, withdraw consent or contact a privacy authority. Contact the developer using the address above for help with data the developer controls; contact Apple or Google for account, payment or advertising data held by them. Do not send private GPS routes or room images unless you deliberately choose to include them in a support request.

Children and changes

The app is intended for a general audience considering the responsibilities of dog ownership and is not designed as a child-directed service. Contact us if you believe a child has provided personal information to the developer. We may update this policy when the app or its services change; the effective date appears above.