Sniff is a free app for recording your dog's activities and walks, with optional PDF reports as a one-time purchase. It's made by Tony Goff-Yu and operated by Goff & Associates Limited, which is responsible for the personal information described in this policy. This page explains what happens to your information.

The short version: your records stay on your phone. No account needed. If you turn on local weather, your approximate location is sent to a weather service.

What Sniff stores

What you enter, such as your activities, the times you record them, walk details and your settings, is saved in your phone's app storage. There's no account and no sign-up needed to use the app. Sniff doesn't send your logs to us, and we never receive, see or store them.

This storage is essential for the app to work, because it's where your logs are kept. Sniff doesn't use cookies.

What the app doesn't do

• No analytics or tracking of your activity logs.
• No account, name, email or password needed to record activities.
• No adverts.
• No selling of your personal information or sharing of your activity logs.
• No access to your contacts, photos or camera.

Local weather (optional)

If you turn on Local weather in Settings, Sniff asks your phone for your location, rounds it to roughly 10 km and keeps only that rounded position on your phone. It checks your location again the first time you open Sniff each day, so the weather follows you if you travel. Once a day, Sniff sends the rounded position to Open-Meteo, a free weather service, to get the weather for your area. Sniff sends nothing else with it. Open-Meteo's own privacy policy applies to that request. You can turn this off at any time, which deletes the saved position and weather.

Feedback (optional)

If you send feedback through the form on the site, your message, and your email address if you add one, are sent to us by email through Brevo. We use them only to read your feedback and reply to it, and delete them when they are no longer needed.

Reports and purchases (optional)

PDF reports are made on your phone from your records. Nothing is sent anywhere until you choose where to share or save a report.

Unlocking reports is a one-time purchase through Google Play. Google handles the payment under its own terms and privacy policy. Sniff never sees your payment details. The app only learns from Google Play whether reports are unlocked on your Google account.

Backups

Save a backup creates a file on your phone with your logs in it. Where that file goes next is up to you. Restore reads a backup file you choose and replaces what is on the phone.

Hosting

The Sniff site is served by Vercel, our hosting provider, which may process standard technical logs, such as your IP address and the time of a request, outside the UK under standard data protection safeguards. These don't include your activity logs.

We also use Vercel Web Analytics to count visits to getsniff.app. It doesn't use cookies or identify you.

Deleting your data

Settings, then Delete everything, removes your activity records and settings from the phone straight away. Clearing the app's storage in your phone settings also removes them. This doesn't delete backup files you have saved elsewhere.

Children

Sniff is made for adult dog owners and isn't aimed at children.

Your privacy rights

You can contact hello@getsniff.app to request access to, correction of or deletion of the personal information we hold about you. Depending on the circumstances, you can also ask us to restrict its use, object to processing or request a portable copy. We can't access activity records stored only on your device.

If you have concerns, please contact us. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office, the UK's data protection regulator.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date.

Contact

Questions about privacy: hello@getsniff.app