SmolToes Privacy Policy
Last updated 18 October 2026
SmolToes helps you keep up with your dog's or cat's care. This policy explains what the app keeps, what leaves your phone, and the choices you have.
Who we are
SmolToes is made by UnHired Coder, based in India, who decides how your data is used and is responsible for it. Questions, requests and complaints: smoltoes.help@gmail.com.
Without an account
You can use SmolToes without signing in. Your pets, reminders, records, photos, documents and sounds stay on your phone. Android may include the app's data in your phone's Google backup; record photos, documents and recordings are left out of it.
Two things still leave the phone:
- Usage and crash reports, if turned on (see below).
- Technical identifiers that let notifications and security checks work: a Firebase installation ID, a push token and an app integrity check from Google Play.
When you sign in with Google
Signing in backs up your pets and lets you share their care. We receive your name, email address and Google profile photo, and store with your account:
- your pets and their details, including microchip and insurance numbers you add;
- reminders, care records, notes and vet contacts;
- pet photos, record photos and documents;
- sound recordings you make (kept to your own phones);
- the phones you're signed in on, so we can send notifications.
Sounds you import from files never leave your phone.
Sharing with your household
When you invite family or a sitter, they see the pets you share, their records, your first name and your profile photo. What they log shows their first name. A sitter's access ends on the date you choose. You can remove anyone at any time.
Usage and crash reports
With Settings → Usage and crash reports on, the app sends Google Firebase Analytics events about how features are used (for example, that a reminder was completed) and Crashlytics reports when the app crashes. These never include names, emails, notes, record contents or your account ID. Analytics uses a random app ID and works out your country from your IP address.
The switch starts off in the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland, and on elsewhere. You can change it at any time.
What we never do
- Sell or rent your data.
- Show ads, or collect your advertising ID.
- Track you across other apps or websites.
- Use your pets' records for anything other than running SmolToes for you.
Service providers
| Provider | Does | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Supabase | Accounts, stored data and files | India (Mumbai); service logs in the EU |
| Google Firebase | Notifications, Analytics, Crashlytics, app settings, app integrity checks, web pages | Google's data centres worldwide |
| Sign-in with your Google account | Google's data centres worldwide |
They process data only to provide their service to us, under their data processing terms. Where data moves between countries, it is protected by those terms.
How long we keep it
| Data | Kept |
|---|---|
| On your phone | Until you delete it or uninstall the app |
| Your account and pets' data | Until you delete it or your account; gone from our backups within 30 days |
| Analytics events | 2 months |
| Crash reports | 90 days |
| Service logs (including IP address) | 1 day |
| Unused invite links | Deleted once they expire, 7 days after they're made |
Deleting your data
Delete records, photos, documents and recordings in the app at any time. To delete your account, go to Me → Account & sync → Delete account, or visit smoltoes.falsegpt.com/delete-account. This deletes your account, your household, your pets and every record on them, your files and recordings, and your place in other households. People you share with lose access at once. Care you logged for someone else's pet stays on their pet as "Former member", without your name or photo.
Your rights
You can ask to see, correct, export or delete your data, or object to how we use it, by emailing smoltoes.help@gmail.com. We reply within 30 days. You can also complain to your local data protection authority; in India, the Data Protection Board of India.
Children
SmolToes is meant for adults. We don't knowingly collect data from anyone under 18. If you think a child has given us data, email us and we'll delete it.
Security
Data is encrypted in transit. Your account's data and files are in private storage that only you and your household can reach, and every request is checked by the server.
Our web pages
The invite and delete-account pages use Google reCAPTCHA to stop automated abuse. Google's Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply to it.
Shopping links
"Give a treat" and "Gift a toy" open an Amazon search in your browser. We send Amazon nothing about you or your pet, and earn nothing from purchases. Amazon's own privacy policy applies there.
Changes
If this policy changes, we update the date above and tell you in the app before the change takes effect.