Privacy Policy

👋 In short

We collect as little as possible. What we do need, we use for one thing: getting stray animals helped faster. We never sell your data and we don't share it with advertisers or other companies that want to profit from it. Full stop.

📍 Your location (GPS)

When you report an animal, we ask for access to your location. We do this for one purpose only: to place a pin in the right spot on the map, so another animal lover nearby can find the animal too.

• We use GPS only when you post a report or view the map, not to track you throughout the day.
• We do not build a profile of where you come from or live.
• You can always turn off location access in your phone settings. The app will keep working; you just won't be able to place a pin yourself.

📷 Your camera

We ask for access to your camera so you can take a photo of the animal you're reporting. That photo helps others recognize which animal it is and what condition it's in.

• You use the camera only yourself: for a photo with a place, a post or your profile picture.
• We never open your camera in the background and don't make recordings outside of your reports.
• We have no access to your entire photo library; you choose or take the photo you share yourself.

🔐 Your account information

To participate, you create an account. For that, we store a few details, such as your email address and your chosen username.

• Your information is stored securely and encrypted and is protected from unauthorized access.
• Other users never see your email address, only the name you choose.
• We don't store your password in readable form; it's encrypted so even we can't view it.
• Your places, posts and chat messages are stored on our server. Other users see places and posts; a chat message only you and the recipient.

🧩 Services the app uses

For a few parts the app works with other services. Only what that part needs is passed on.

• Signing in with Google, Facebook or Apple goes through Google’s Firebase. We then keep your name, an e-mail address that service has confirmed and an identifier of your account there. We never see your password for that service.
• Push notifications go through Firebase Cloud Messaging. For this we keep a code of your device. You turn notifications off in your profile.
• Translating: when you tap Translate on a post, we send the text of that post to Anthropic (Claude) to translate it. We keep the translation for 180 days, so the same text does not have to be sent again.
• Searching for an address on the map goes through our server to Google. Google gets the search text, not your account.
• Donating goes through Stripe. You enter your card details with Stripe; we neither see nor keep them. We only keep the amount and the reference of the payment.
• E-mail from us, such as your verification code or a link to reset your password, is sent through Resend.

🚫 What we never do

There are some things we fundamentally don't do, no matter how commercially tempting:

• We do not sell your data to third parties: not to advertisers, not to data brokers and not to anyone else.
• We don't rent or trade your data either.
• We don't show ads based on your personal behavior.

⚖️ Your rights

It remains your data. You may at any time:

• View what data we have about you.
• Have your data corrected if something is wrong.
• Have your account and its data deleted completely. You can also do this yourself, in the app from your profile.

Want to make use of this or have a question about your privacy? Contact us through the app or email info@feedstrayanimals.com.

🔄 Changes

As the app grows, this policy may sometimes need an update. If we change something important, we'll clearly announce it in the app. At the top of this page you'll always see when we last updated the policy.

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