Dolzhenko DevIn short: your pets, your plants and your photos stay on your device. To run the subscription the app works with one service provider, RevenueCat, described below. There is no advertising inside the app and nothing is sold.
What the app does not do
It does not create an account, and does not ask for your name, phone number or email. It does not track you across other companies' apps and websites and does not ask for permission to do so. There are no analytics or advertising networks in it.
Third-party services
The app uses RevenueCat to run subscriptions. RevenueCat receives an anonymous app user ID, technical information about the device and the app, and your purchase and subscription details from the App Store. If the app was installed from an Apple Search Ads ad, Apple's attribution token tells RevenueCat which campaign it was — this is not tracking and needs no permission. We use this information to give you access to what you paid for and to understand which of our ads work.
RevenueCat is required to protect what it receives at least as well as this policy describes. Its own privacy policy: RevenueCat. Payments themselves are handled by Apple under Apple's privacy policy.
If other services appear in the app, this section will be updated before they start working.
The camera and photos
The camera is used only to check a plant. The photo is analysed right on your device by the iPhone's built-in image recognition, is not saved in the app and is not sent anywhere. Without camera permission the rest of the app works as usual, and a plant can be checked by its name.
A photo from your library — of a plant or of your pet — is picked through the system's own window, which hands the app a single image and gives no access to the rest of the library. That is why the app never asks for permission to your photos. A pet's photo is kept in the app's folder on the device and is deleted together with the pet.
What is stored on the device
Your pets — kind, name, your vet's phone number and a photo if you added one; the plants in My Home; recent searches; and how many free photo checks have been used. All of it sits in the app's protected folder, is available only to the app and is not sent anywhere.
Your control
Pets and plants can be removed in the app at any time, and deleting the app erases everything at once. Until then the data simply stays on the device: there is nothing on our side to expire, because we keep no copy. If you would like us to ask RevenueCat to delete what came from your device, write to support@dolzhenkodev.com and we will do it and confirm.
When we have to disclose
What is described above can be disclosed in three cases: when the law requires it — a court order or a similar legal process; when disclosure is needed in good faith to protect someone's rights or safety, to look into fraud, or to answer a request from a government body; and to contractors working on our behalf, who make no independent use of what they receive and are required to follow this policy. There are no other cases.
Security
Your entries sit in the app's own storage, which only the app can reach, and are protected by iOS itself. What goes to RevenueCat travels over an encrypted connection. Nobody can promise complete protection and we will not either: it is worth keeping a passcode on the device.
Children
The app is made for adults who keep pets. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under thirteen and do not market to them. If it turns out that such data reached us anyway, we delete it at once. If you are a parent and believe this has happened, write to support@dolzhenkodev.com.
Changes and consent
This policy may change — along with the app, or when the requirements change. The new text is published here, and the page carries the date of the last change. By continuing to use the app you accept the current version; if it does not suit you, the app can be deleted, and that ends everything described here.
Contact
Send questions about privacy to support@dolzhenkodev.com. Dolzhenko Dev, publisher of Plant ID.