Cat Care Privacy Policy

Effective date: July 24, 2026
App: Cat Care (com.carecompanion.catcare) for Android and iOS
Developer: Care Companion
Privacy contact: privacy@mkit.ai

Summary

Cat Care is an on-device companion for cat profiles, routine care records, health-check timelines, reminders, and clinic-ready exports.

The developer does not collect or receive the cat profiles, medical details, contacts, photos, notes, or other working information you enter into Cat Care. The app has no account system, care-data server, or cloud sync. Cat Care does not sell personal information.

Your working data remains in the app's private storage on your device unless you deliberately copy, export, or share something through a system feature or another app.

The platform versions differ:

• Android uses Firebase Remote Config and Google's consent platform. If you opt in, it also uses Firebase Analytics. The free Android app may show limited Google-served ads after Google's consent requirements are satisfied.
• iOS remains local-only and contains no analytics, advertising, remote configuration, or app-owned network data path.

Information Cat Care accesses and stores on your device

Cat Care may handle the following information when you choose to enter or attach it:

• Cat profile and identification: name, profile photo, date of birth, sex, breed, coat or markings, weight, microchip number, neuter status, and feline blood type.
• Pet health and care information: allergies, conditions, symptoms, temperature, medications and directions, vaccination information, food, water, litter activity, notes, care tasks, due dates, and health-check history.
• Clinic and coverage information: veterinarian and emergency-clinic names, phone numbers and addresses, insurance provider, policy number, and insurer phone number.
• Caregiver information: names and phone numbers that you choose to enter. Only add another person's information if you have permission to store and share it.
• Photos: images you choose through the system photo picker or, where available, capture through a camera app. Cat Care stores an app-private copy for the feature you selected.
• Reminders and app settings: owner-created reminder labels and timing, scheduling identifiers, and limited local preferences such as the selected cat where the platform saves it.
• Generated content: emergency vet cards, reports, images, and plain-text summaries created from the information above.

This working information is used only to provide the app features you request. Cat Care does not send it to Firebase or Google Mobile Ads and does not use it for advertising, analytics, profiling, automated diagnosis, or sale.

Where information is stored

Cat Care stores its working data in the app's private sandbox on your device.

• Android: records are stored in a private Room database; selected photos are stored in private app files; generated reports are stored in private cache. Android cloud backup and device-to-device transfer are disabled for Cat Care app data.
• iOS: records are stored with SwiftData in private app storage. Cat Care disables CloudKit and asks iOS to exclude its working-data folder from device backups.

Cat Care does not provide cloud recovery or cross-device sync. If the app, its data, or a profile is deleted, the only in-app copy may be lost.

Android online services

Cat Care for Android can connect to the following Google services. These service paths are separate from the app's private care database and never include cat names or IDs, medical or care values, contact details, photos, notes, filenames, database identifiers, search terms, or other free text. Cat Care does not set a Firebase user ID.

Firebase Analytics — optional

Firebase Analytics is off by default. It begins only if you make an explicit choice to allow Analytics during onboarding or later in Privacy settings. Cat Care does not queue events before you opt in. Turning Analytics off stops future Analytics collection from the app, although information already processed by Google may remain subject to Google's retention rules.

When enabled, Firebase Analytics may process:

• An app-instance or installation identifier.
• App version, device model, operating-system information, language, and similar app/device metadata.
• App lifecycle signals and bounded events such as an onboarding step viewed, feature-action category and result, health-check duration or entry-count bucket, and ad lifecycle or paid-value event.
• Approximate location derived from the device's IP address and diagnostics generated by the service.

The developer may view Analytics reports to understand onboarding completion, feature reliability, general feature use, and advertising performance. These reports are not joined to a Cat Care account, cat profile, or health record.

Firebase Remote Config

Firebase Remote Config provides non-sensitive settings such as feature and ad kill switches, eligible placements, timing, and frequency limits. To fetch these settings, Firebase may process an installation identifier and app/device metadata. Remote Config values are not used to upload or retrieve cat records.

Google Mobile Ads and User Messaging Platform

The free Android app may show a limited banner on eligible calm main screens. It does not show ads during onboarding, the first 24 hours, an active health check, Emergency, data-entry or edit flows, photo/camera use, permission prompts, privacy controls, exports, PDFs, sharing, external handoffs, on tablets, or while the app is in the background. Cat Care does not enable interstitial or app-open ads.

Google's User Messaging Platform obtains and records privacy choices where required. Cat Care requests an ad only when Google's consent status permits it. Google Mobile Ads and the User Messaging Platform may process device or advertising identifiers, IP-derived approximate location, app and ad interactions, diagnostics, fraud-prevention signals, and consent choices to provide ads, measure delivery and performance, prevent abuse, and meet privacy requirements.

Google processes this service information under its own terms and policies. See Google's Privacy & Terms and How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

Your Android privacy choices

• Analytics: Use Cat Care's Privacy settings to allow or stop future Firebase Analytics collection at any time.
• Advertising and consent: When Google indicates that privacy options are required, use Privacy choices in Cat Care to reopen Google's choices. Available choices depend on your region and Google's requirements.
• Device controls: Android and your Google settings may offer controls to delete or reset the advertising identifier and manage ad personalization.
• Resetting app state: Clearing Cat Care's storage or uninstalling the app removes its local preferences and working data. It does not remove a report, message, or other copy that you already shared, and it may not delete service information that Google already processed under its retention obligations.

iOS online-services boundary

Cat Care for iOS has no Analytics, advertising, attribution, tracking, remote configuration, developer-operated crash upload, app account, backend, cloud database, cloud-storage service, app-owned network path, or CloudKit data path.

Actions that can send information outside Cat Care

Information leaves Cat Care only when you take a clear action involving a system service or another app.

Photo picker and camera app

The system photo picker gives Cat Care access only to the image you select. The picker may show photos from a cloud photo provider that you configured, such as iCloud Photos or an Android cloud-media provider; that provider applies its own privacy practices.

On Android, Take photo opens a compatible camera app and gives it a private location for the resulting image. Cat Care does not request direct camera permission. The selected or captured image is processed locally and copied into app-private storage.

On iOS, choosing Take photo asks for camera permission and opens the system camera interface. Cat Care accesses the camera only after you choose that feature. The captured image is processed locally and stored in private app storage.

Notifications

If you create a health-check reminder and allow notifications, Cat Care schedules it on the device. A notification may display the reminder label and cat name, including on the lock screen depending on your operating-system settings. You can disable Cat Care notifications or hide lock-screen content in device settings.

Cat Care does not use remote push notifications and creates no remote notification token.

Clipboard and dialer

When you tap a Copy action, Cat Care places the selected emergency-card text or phone number on the system clipboard. The operating system and other apps may handle clipboard content according to their own rules, so clear sensitive clipboard content when it is no longer needed.

When you tap a phone action, Cat Care passes the selected number to the system dialer. Cat Care does not place the call automatically. Your phone service and dialer apply their own practices.

PDF, image, and text sharing

Cat Care creates reports and vet cards on your device. Nothing is sent when a file is generated or previewed.

When you tap Share or Export, the operating system shows available destinations. Only the destination you select receives the chosen item. On Android, the selected app receives temporary read access to the file. The developer does not receive the file or learn which destination you chose.

A receiving app, cloud service, email provider, messaging service, veterinarian, or other recipient may upload, retain, forward, or otherwise process its copy under its own privacy policy. Deleting information in Cat Care does not delete copies already saved or shared elsewhere.

App stores and operating systems

Google Play and Apple's App Store may independently process installation, update, security, or diagnostic information under their own terms. Cat Care does not upload your cat profiles, care records, photos, notes, or generated vet cards to an app store, Firebase, or Google Mobile Ads. The operating system necessarily handles the selected information used for local notifications, the clipboard, the dialer, and the share sheet as described above.

Retention and deletion

Working data remains on your device until you delete an entry or profile, clear the app's storage, or uninstall the app.

• Deleting a profile removes its related local records, reminders, and app-private photos.
• Clearing app storage or uninstalling Cat Care removes app-sandbox data according to the operating system's behavior.
• Generated share files are held in private temporary or cache storage and may remain until Cat Care or the operating system removes them, the cache is cleared, or the app is uninstalled.
• A file or message already shared to another destination is controlled by that destination and is not removed when you delete the Cat Care copy.

Because the developer has no Cat Care account or server-side care database, the developer cannot view, recover, export, or remotely delete your on-device records. You control those records through the app and device settings. Technical information processed by Google's Android services is retained under Google's service settings and policies rather than with your local Cat Care records.

Security

Cat Care uses the application sandbox, private databases and files, and operating-system security controls. On Android, files are disclosed to a selected share destination through a temporary, read-only permission. Android backup and device transfer are disabled; iOS CloudKit is disabled and backup exclusion is requested. Android service communications are handled by the integrated Google SDKs; they are not a substitute for protecting your device and local records.

Cat Care does not add separate app-level encryption to its local database or photo files. Protect your device with a passcode or biometric lock, keep its operating system current, review generated documents before sharing, and choose recipients carefully. No storage method can be guaranteed completely secure.

Children

Cat Care is intended for cat owners and caregivers and is not directed to children. The app does not ask users to create an account or provide their age, and the developer does not knowingly collect children's personal information through the app.

Pet health and veterinary disclaimer

Cat Care is a recordkeeping and communication tool. It is not a medical device, veterinary service, or emergency service, and it does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition. Always consult a licensed veterinarian for medical advice, diagnosis, and treatment. Contact a veterinarian or emergency clinic directly when a cat may need urgent care.

App support

For help with Cat Care, email privacy@mkit.ai and include your device type, operating-system version, and a short description of what happened.

Before writing, try these local checks:

• Confirm Cat Care has camera or notification access in device settings if the related feature is not working.
• Use the system share sheet to save or send an exported report; Cat Care cannot control which destination apps are installed or how they handle a copy.
• Remember that Cat Care has no account, cloud sync, or remote recovery. Removing the app or clearing its storage can permanently remove its local records.

Do not email cat medical records, insurance identifiers, private contact details, photos, or other sensitive content. Cat Care has no diagnostic or emergency service; contact a veterinarian directly for medical help.

Contacting us

For questions about this Privacy Policy or Cat Care's data practices, email privacy@mkit.ai.

If you email us, we receive the email address, message, and any information you choose to include. We use it to respond to your inquiry and address related security or legal issues. Support correspondence is retained only as long as reasonably needed for those purposes or to meet legal obligations. You may request access to or deletion of support correspondence by emailing the same address; we may retain information where applicable law requires it or where reasonably necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims. Your email provider and ours apply their own security and retention practices. Do not send cat medical records, insurance identifiers, private contact details, or other sensitive content unless it is necessary for your request.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when Cat Care's features, platform access, or data practices change. The effective date at the top identifies the current version. Material changes to data handling will be reflected in the app and store disclosures before the changed behavior is released.