The Pet Files · Last updated October 2026
The short version: There are no accounts. Your pets, photos, and pet files stay on your device. The only thing that ever leaves your device is the text you type, sent to generate an AI pet file when you use that feature — and an anonymous device ID used to enforce fair-use limits and subscription status. On iPhone, if you installed the app from one of our App Store ads, Apple reports which ad it was, never who you are. There are no ads in the app, and we don't sell data or track you across other apps and websites.
Pet profiles, photos, and every pet file you write are stored locally in the app's own storage — never uploaded, synced, or backed up to any server we run. Uninstalling the app removes this data permanently; there's no account to recover it from.
When you generate an AI-written title and story for a pet file (a Plus feature, plus one free preview), the app sends:
This is sent to our server, which calls Anthropic's Claude API to write the title and story, and runs a basic moderation check on the input and output. The generated text is returned to your device and saved there — we don't keep a copy. Only two things are kept server-side, both keyed by that anonymous ID: a daily count of how many pet files you've generated, used to enforce the daily limit, which expires about 24 hours after it's created; and a flag recording that the one free preview has been used, so it's only given once per install.
Plus subscriptions are purchased and billed entirely through Apple or Google — we never see or store your payment details. We use RevenueCat, a third-party subscription-management service, to check whether your anonymous device ID currently has an active subscription before allowing AI generation. Apple's and Google's own privacy policies govern the purchase itself.
We sometimes advertise The Pet Files in App Store search results through Apple Ads. On iPhone, the app asks Apple's AdServices framework for an attribution token and passes it to RevenueCat along with the anonymous device ID. RevenueCat exchanges the token with Apple to learn whether the install came from one of our ads and, if so, which campaign, ad group and search keyword, the country, and the date of the ad tap. We use this only to see which ads lead to people using and subscribing to the app.
This doesn't use your device's advertising identifier (IDFA), doesn't track you across other companies' apps or websites, and contains nothing that identifies you. If you didn't install from one of our ads, Apple reports nothing beyond that. The Android app doesn't do this.
The Pet Files is a general-audience app and isn't directed at children under 13. We don't knowingly collect personal information from children.
If this policy changes in a meaningful way, we'll update the date at the top of this page.
Questions about this policy or your data: thepetfiles43@gmail.com