⚠️ v0.1 DRAFT — under review, not yet final.
BarkBook Privacy Policy
Draft v0.1 · plain-language summary of how BarkBook handles data, with extra care for kids under 13.
The short version
BarkBook is a game where you collect the dog breeds you meet in real life. By default everything lives only on your device. If you make an account and turn on cloud backup, we store your collection so it's safe and can move to a new phone. We don't sell your data, we don't show ads, and we never use children's photos to train AI.
What we collect
- Account: your email address and birthdate (used to know whether you're under 13).
- Parent email (kids under 13 only): collected solely to ask a parent/guardian for consent. If consent isn't given, we delete the parent email after 14 days and store nothing else.
- Your collection (only if you turn on cloud backup): the dog breeds you've logged, your progress and notes, and any dog photos you chose to save. Photos are private to your account, never public, never sold, and never used to train AI for accounts belonging to children under 13.
Scan photos
When you scan a dog, the photo is sent to our AI provider (Anthropic) only to identify the breed, and is processed transiently for that request — it isn't retained for training on your behalf.
What we never do
No selling data. No advertising trackers. No making your collection or photos public. No sharing with third parties except the infrastructure needed to run the app (our database/host and the AI breed-identifier).
How long we keep things
- Delete your account and its data any time on request.
- Unconfirmed parent emails: deleted after 14 days.
- Inactive children's accounts (no activity for 18 months) are deleted.
Parents' rights (COPPA)
If you're the parent/guardian of a BarkBook user under 13, you can review the information we've collected from your child, revoke your consent, and have their cloud data deleted — just email privacy@barkbookapp.com. Revoking consent turns cloud backup off; the app keeps working on the device.
Contact
Questions or requests: privacy@barkbookapp.com.
This is a working draft and will be finalized before public launch.