Privacy Policy

Who we are

This policy explains how the Leashnote app for iPhone and iPad ("Leashnote", "the app") and the website at leashnote.app handle information. Leashnote is made by Dylan McCaffrey ("we", "us"), an independent developer. For privacy law purposes, you are the controller of the information you put into Leashnote. We never receive it.

Information you enter

Guides can hold details about your pets (names, photos, feeding and medication schedules, quirks, allergies, microchip and insurance numbers, vaccine dates), contacts (your vet, neighbours, sitters, and you), emergency information such as a spending limit, and house details such as Wi-Fi and door codes. Settings holds your name and phone number if you enter them.

All of this is saved on your device, in the app's own storage. It is included in your device backups if you have those turned on. We do not receive any of it.

Sharing through iCloud

When you tap Send to your sitter, the app saves a copy of that guide, including pet photos, to a private area of your iCloud account using Apple's CloudKit and creates a share link. Only people who open the link you send, and accept it in Leashnote, can read the guide. Once as many people as you named as sitters have joined, the link locks and admits no one else unless you unlock it.

Check-ins your sitter sends, including photos, notes, mood, and finished tasks, and medication doses they mark as given, are saved to the same private area of your iCloud.

Your saved pets in My Pets are backed up to a separate private area of your iCloud that is never shared with anyone.

This data is stored by Apple under Apple's Privacy Policy and Apple's iCloud terms. We, as the developer, cannot read it, and there is no Leashnote server in between. When you tap Stop sharing or delete a shared guide, the shared copy and its check-ins and photos are deleted from iCloud and the sitter loses access.

iCloud shows you the names of people who have opened your link, taken from their Apple Account. Leashnote displays this list to you. It doesn't send it anywhere.

If you're a sitter

When you open a guide, the owner can see that you have joined, under the name on your Apple Account. The name and phone you enter in Leashnote's Settings appear on check-ins you send. Everything you send, including photos and notes, is stored in the owner's iCloud and is visible to them and to anyone else they shared the guide with.

Leashnote does not use your location. Ticking off tasks stays on your device unless you include them in a check-in. The app tells you which actions notify the owner before you take them.

Notifications

With your permission, Leashnote sends notifications. Check-in alerts to the owner are delivered by Apple through an iCloud subscription, and the notification itself carries the check-in summary (mood, sitter's name, photo count, and note), which passes through Apple's push service like any notification. Task reminders, dose alerts, the daily recap, and trip-ended notices are scheduled locally on the device that shows them. None of these pass through us.

Leashnote also uses background refresh to check your iCloud for new check-ins when a push doesn't arrive.

Photos

You choose photos with the system photo picker, which gives the app only the pictures you select. Leashnote doesn't request access to your photo library or camera. Photos are resized before they're saved, and location data is not included in check-in photos or guide photos.

Widgets, Live Activity, calendar, translation

• Widgets and Live Activity. The Home Screen widget and the sitter's Lock Screen activity read a small summary that the app writes to shared storage on the same device. Nothing leaves the device.
• Calendar. If you tap Add to Calendar, Leashnote asks for write-only calendar access and adds events. It can't read your existing calendar.
• Translation. If a sitter translates a guide, the owner's notes are translated on the sitter's device using Apple's Translation framework. The first use of a language may download a language pack from Apple. Text is not sent to us. Apple's handling of on-device translation is described in Apple's privacy documentation.

PDFs and flyers

PDF guides and lost pet flyers are created on your device. They go only where you send them, such as Messages, AirDrop, Mail, or a printer. Door and alarm codes are left out of PDFs unless you choose to include them.

Purchases

Leashnote Plus is sold through the App Store. Apple processes the payment and tells the app whether you own it. We don't receive your payment details, your Apple Account, or any purchase history. The app remembers your purchase on the device so paid features work offline.

Analytics, ads, and tracking

None. Leashnote contains no analytics, advertising, or third-party SDKs, and doesn't track you across apps or websites. It makes no network connections except to Apple's iCloud, App Store, push, and translation services. If you've chosen to share diagnostics with developers in your device settings, Apple may provide us with anonymised crash reports.

Retention and deletion

• Guides stay on your device until you delete them or the app.
• Shared copies, check-ins, and photos stay in your iCloud until you stop sharing or delete the guide. Leashnote also removes shared links and the sitter's copy automatically 30 days after a trip ends.
• The My Pets backup stays in your iCloud until you remove it. You can manage it in the Settings app under your name, then iCloud, then Manage Account Storage.
• Deleting the app removes everything stored on the device.

Security

Data in iCloud is protected by Apple's encryption in transit and at rest. On the sitter's device, door and alarm codes are hidden until tapped, shown only around the trip dates, and hidden again after a screenshot or during screen recording. These are safeguards, not guarantees. A PDF you send can't be recalled, and no software can stop someone writing a code down, so we recommend changing codes after each sit.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or export personal data, and to object to or restrict its processing. Because Leashnote keeps no copy of your data, you can exercise all of these directly: everything is on your device and in your iCloud, and the app lets you view, edit, export (as PDF), and delete it. For data stored in iCloud, Apple's own privacy tools at privacy.apple.com also apply. If you have a question or complaint, email us and we'll respond. You may also contact your local data protection authority.

We do not sell personal information and have not done so in the past, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising.

Children

Leashnote is a general-audience app, not directed to children under 13, and it collects no personal information from anyone. If you believe a child has entered personal information into a shared guide, the owner of that guide can delete it at any time.

This website

leashnote.app is a static site hosted on Cloudflare Pages. It sets no cookies and runs no analytics or scripts. Cloudflare may log visitor IP addresses and request details for security and to operate the service, as described in Cloudflare's privacy policy. We don't have access to anything that identifies you.

Links to the App Store take you to Apple, whose policies apply there.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top. If a change would mean Leashnote starts collecting data it doesn't today, the app will tell you before it does so.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email 33.savings-voyager@icloud.com.