Privacy Policy

Effective date: October 27, 2026

CanMyDog is an app made by Salem Arfaoui ("we", "us"). This policy explains what the app does with your information, in plain words.

The short version

• No account, no ads, no tracking. We never sell your information or use it for marketing.
• Your dog's profile and scan history live on your phone.
• To give you an answer, CanMyDog sends the photos you scan, your dog's profile details and your questions to our server and on to Anthropic's Claude AI — and only after you agree on the consent screen.
• Our servers don't store them. Anthropic deletes them within 30 days and does not use them to train its AI.

1. What stays on your phone

The app saves the following only on your device:

• Your dog's profile(s): name, breed, sex, size, weight (and your kg/lbs choice), height, target weight, spayed/neutered status, age, photo, health conditions and color theme.
• Your history: food scans (kept 7 days), bowl and snack scans (kept 30 days), weekly summaries (last 8 weeks), body condition check-ins (last 3 per dog), your dog's weight log and daily scores.
• Your AI consent choice, and the date you agreed.

Conversations in Can My Dog? (the question section) are not saved — they disappear when you leave that section or close the app.

This information is not sent to us, except as described in section 2. Your phone may include it in your own iCloud or computer backups, according to your Apple settings.

Your backup files: if you save a dog's backup (Settings → Backup), the app puts that dog's profile, history and photos into one file, and you choose where to keep it (for example iCloud Drive, Files or email). That file is yours: it is never sent to us. Anyone who has the file can open it, so keep it somewhere safe. Restore a dog from a backup reads it back on your phone.

You can delete it at any time: erase a dog in Settings (this deletes everything stored about that dog), clear a dog's food history, erase a meal, or delete the app (this deletes everything).

2. What is sent to give you an answer

Nothing is sent until you agree on the consent screen. After that, information is sent only when you use one of these features:

• Scanning a food item, a bowl or a snack: the photo, and your dog's profile details.
• A body condition check-in: the photo, and your dog's profile details (in guest mode, the photo only).
• Asking a question in Can My Dog?: your question, the earlier questions and answers of the current conversation, your dog's profile details, and a summary of this week's logged meals.
• Adding details to a bowl result: the existing result, your note, and your dog's profile details.

"Profile details" means: name, breed, sex, size, weight, target weight, height, age and health conditions. Your dog's profile photo is not sent.

This information travels over an encrypted connection (HTTPS) to our server, which forwards it to Anthropic's Claude AI and sends the answer back to your phone. It is used only to give you that answer.

3. Who receives it, and how long it is kept

• Our server (hosted by Railway) does not store your photos, questions or profile details. Our error logs may record technical error messages, but not your content. Like any web service, our hosting provider processes technical information such as your IP address to deliver requests and protect the service from abuse.
• Anthropic (the maker of Claude) processes the information as our service provider. Anthropic automatically deletes it within 30 days; it may keep it longer only if its automated systems flag it as a violation of its usage policy, or if required by law. Anthropic does not train its models on it. See Anthropic's privacy information.
• Expo delivers app updates. When the app checks for an update, Expo receives technical information such as the app version, your device platform and your IP address.
• Apple: if you ask a question with the microphone, Apple's speech recognition turns your voice into text — on your iPhone when it can, otherwise on Apple's servers — under Apple's privacy policy. When the app reads an answer aloud, it uses your iPhone's built-in voice, on the device.

4. What we don't do

• No account or sign-in
• No advertising, and no tracking across other apps or websites
• No analytics or usage tracking
• No location, contacts or advertising identifier
• No selling or sharing of your information for marketing

5. Your choices and rights

• "Not now": if you don't agree on the consent screen, the app still opens, and nothing is sent. The consent screen appears again the next time you scan or ask a question.
• Withdrawing consent: contact us, or delete the app (which also deletes everything stored on your phone). Information already sent is deleted by Anthropic within 30 days.
• Deleting your information: see section 1. Because our servers don't store your content, there is normally nothing on our side to delete.
• Your rights: depending on where you live (for example in the European Union, the United Kingdom or California), you may have the right to access, correct or delete your personal information, or to object to its use. Contact us and we'll help.

6. Children

CanMyDog is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.

7. About your dog's health

The health information you enter is about your dog. CanMyDog gives natural, ancestral nutrition guidance and is not a substitute for a veterinarian.

8. Security

Information sent from the app travels over an encrypted connection (HTTPS). Information on your phone is protected by your iPhone's own security, such as your passcode.

9. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we'll update this page and its effective date. If a change is significant, we'll let you know in the app.

10. Contact

Questions or requests: support@canmydog.com