Privacy policy
Effective October 12, 2026. Earlier versions are kept in the public history of this page.
In short
Furcard keeps your pets' information on your iPhone. The developer never receives it. There is no account, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking.
Who is responsible
Furcard is made by Patryk Grabowski, an individual developer in Poland. Write to p.grabowski.kontakt@gmail.com.
What Furcard keeps, and where
Everything you enter stays on your iPhone, inside Furcard's storage:
- your pets' details;
- medicines and the doses given;
- visits, vaccinations, weights and allergies;
- your vets' contact details;
- insurance policy numbers and microchip numbers;
- concerns, with their photos, videos and notes.
A photo or video you import keeps whatever its file holds, which can include where it was taken. Furcard does not read your location.
Your iCloud
- Daily copies. Once a day Furcard keeps a copy of your pets' details — no photos or videos. It goes in iCloud Drive › Furcard when your iCloud Drive is on, and stays on the iPhone when it is off. Apple stores it under your agreement with Apple, and the developer cannot see it. With Advanced Data Protection, it is end-to-end encrypted.
- Sync between devices is not in this version. When a later version adds it, this policy changes first.
- What a deletion leaves behind. A deleted pet stays in the daily copies for up to seven days, and in up to three copies kept before a restore. Copies in iCloud Drive stay after Furcard is deleted, until you delete them in Files.
Backups and what you send
- A full backup is one file with everything, microchip numbers and vets' details included. It is not encrypted: keep it somewhere private.
- Sending. "Send to vet" and Share go through your own Mail or the share sheet, to the people you choose. Videos are sent without their location.
Permissions — asked only when you use what needs them
- Camera: pets' photos, scanning a vaccination booklet, and photos and videos for the vet.
- Microphone: the sound in videos, asked the first time you record one.
- Photos: Furcard never reads your library. The system's picker gives Furcard only what you choose. "Add only" is used when you choose Save in the share sheet.
- Notifications: dose reminders and quiet seasonal tips, all scheduled on the iPhone. If you hide previews on a locked phone, a reminder says only that a dose is due.
- Alarms: only for the medicines you mark.
- Contacts: the system's picker gives Furcard the one contact you choose.
- Maps: a search for a clinic goes to Apple Maps. Furcard never asks for your location.
- Calendar: a visit is added through the system's event editor. Furcard asks for no access.
Siri, Shortcuts, Spotlight, widgets and Live Activities
- Siri. What you ask Siri is handled by Apple, under Apple's terms. Furcard receives only the action.
- Spotlight. Its index of your pets' names stays on the iPhone.
- Widgets and Visit today show on the Lock Screen. Medicine names follow your iPhone's setting for Lock Screen details.
What reaches the developer
- An email you send. Your message and your address, kept to answer you and for 12 months after. Google hosts the mailbox, in the United States.
- Crash reports and App Store statistics come from Apple, and only if you allowed "Share With App Developers" (Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements). Apple says they do not identify you.
- This website. GitHub, its host, logs visitors' IP addresses for security. There are no cookies and no analytics.
Your rights
Under the GDPR and the UK GDPR you can ask to see, correct or delete anything the developer holds about you (in practice, only an email you sent), and to object or restrict. Write to p.grabowski.kontakt@gmail.com.
The data in the app is yours to delete:
- delete a pet in Furcard;
- delete Furcard itself;
- delete the Furcard folder in iCloud Drive;
- delete your backups.
You can complain to Poland's data-protection authority (UODO), to your own authority, or, in the United Kingdom, to the ICO.
Children
Furcard is not made for children. It collects nothing from anyone. An email from a child is deleted.
California
Furcard sells and shares no personal information. It does not track you, so a "Do Not Track" signal changes nothing. Changes to this policy are dated at the top.
Changes
The date at the top changes with any change to this policy. A material change is also said in the app's What's New.