Sniff is a free app for recording your dog's activities and walks. It is 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 activity stays on your device. No account needed. If you turn on local weather, your approximate location is sent to a weather service. If you choose to receive the Android launch notification, your email address is handled separately through Brevo.

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 is no account and no sign-up needed to use the app. Sniff does not send your logs to us, and we never receive, see or store them.

This storage is essential for the app to work, because it is where your logs are kept. Sniff does not use cookies.

What the app does not 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.

Email launch notification (optional)

If you leave your email address on the site, we'll send you a confirmation email. Once you confirm, we'll email you when Sniff is available to download on Android. Signing up is optional and does not create an app account.

Your consent is the legal basis for using your email address for this purpose. You can withdraw it at any time using the unsubscribe link in an email or by contacting hello@getsniff.app. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that took place before you withdrew it.

We use Brevo to manage the mailing list and send these emails on our behalf. This involves your email address, subscription and confirmation records, and technical information such as IP addresses and email delivery records. Brevo may also record email opens and link clicks, depending on the email tracking settings. Your activity logs are not sent to Brevo or linked to your email address. More information is available in Brevo's privacy policy.

Your address will only be used for the confirmation and launch notification, not an ongoing newsletter or unrelated marketing. Any future newsletter would require a separate sign-up.

We will delete the launch mailing list within 30 days of sending the launch notification, or within 30 days of cancelling the launch. We may retain a limited record where necessary to demonstrate consent or honour an unsubscribe request, for as long as it is needed for that purpose.

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.

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 and app files are served by 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 do not include your activity logs.

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 does not delete backup files you have saved elsewhere or remove your address from the separate launch notification mailing list. To leave that list, unsubscribe or email hello@getsniff.app.

Children

Sniff is made for adult dog owners and isn't aimed at children. The launch notification mailing list is also intended for adults.

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 cannot 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