PawJournal - Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 20, 2026

Overview

PawJournal ("the App") is a pet care tracking application that helps you manage your pets' health records, medications, vaccinations, vet visits, and weight history. Your privacy is important to us. This policy explains what data the App collects and how it is used.

Data Collection

PawJournal does not collect, transmit, or share any personal data with the developer or any third party.

• No analytics - We use no analytics service. The AdMob SDK performs ad tracking as described under Third-Party Services.
• No network requests - The app connects to the internet only to load ads. The data it stores for you is not transmitted.
• No accounts - No sign-up or login is required.
• No advertising - This app is ad-supported and displays ads from Google AdMob (see Third-Party Services below).
• No cloud storage - All data stays on your device.

Data Stored on Your Device

The App stores the following data locally on your device using AsyncStorage:

• Pet profiles - Name, species, breed, birthday, color, weight, microchip ID, and notes you enter.
• Medication records - Medication names, dosages, frequencies, start/end dates, and active/inactive status.
• Vaccination records - Vaccine names, dates administered, next-due dates, veterinarian names, and batch numbers.
• Vet visit records - Visit dates, reasons, diagnoses, clinic names, costs, and notes.
• Weight history - Weight entries with dates and units (pounds or kilograms).
• App preferences - Theme mode, currency, weight unit, and haptic feedback settings.

This data is stored exclusively on your device and never leaves it unless you explicitly choose to export it using the in-app export feature.

Permissions

PawJournal asks for these permissions only when you use the feature that needs them:

• Camera - Taking a photo of a document or vaccination record.
• Photos - Picking an existing picture for a pet profile, document or vaccination record. The picture is copied into the app's storage on your device.
• Location - Tracking a walk you start, while the walk is in progress. The walk's route and distance are saved on your device only.
• Notifications - Reminders and notices such as vaccine reminders and pet birthdays, scheduled locally on your device.

None of these photos, routes or reminders is uploaded to any server.

Third-Party Services

This app displays advertising supplied by Google AdMob. To serve ads, the AdMob SDK collects information from your device — typically your advertising identifier, device and app information, coarse location inferred from your IP address, and interactions with the ads shown. That data is handled by Google under its own privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy . We do not send your personal records to AdMob or to any advertiser — the data this app stores for you stays on your device. You can limit ad personalisation in your device settings (Android: Settings → Google → Ads). Apart from Google AdMob and Google Play Billing (Apple's App Store on iPhone and iPad), no other third-party service, SDK or API is integrated.

Ads on iPhone and iPad. On iOS the ads are also served by Google AdMob, under Google's privacy policy. Before the first ad is requested, the app runs Google's consent step, which presents Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt asking whether the app may track you. If you do not allow tracking, or the prompt is not shown, iOS does not give the app or Google your device's advertising identifier (IDFA), and ads are not personalised using it. You can change your choice at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.

In-app purchases. Any purchase inside the app (such as the upgrade that removes ads) is handled by Google Play Billing on Android and by the Apple App Store on iPhone and iPad. Google or Apple processes the payment and keeps the record (Apple under Apple's Privacy Policy); the app only learns whether the purchase is active. We never see your payment details. Restoring a purchase checks your Google Play or App Store account.

Children's Privacy

The App does not knowingly collect any information from children under 13. Note that the AdMob SDK collects device and advertising identifiers from all users, as described under Third-Party Services.

Data Deletion

All data is stored locally on your device. To delete all App data:

• Use the "Clear All Data" option in the App's Settings screen, or
• Clear the App data in your device's application settings, or
• Uninstall the App.

Changes to This Policy

If we update this privacy policy, the changes will be posted on this page with an updated date.

Contact

If you have questions about this privacy policy, contact us at:

Griswold Labs
7965 State Road 50, Suite 1000-166
Groveland, FL 34736
[email protected]