Privacy Policy
PawHunters · last updated: September 2026
In short. We keep your cards so you do not lose them with your phone. Nothing else.
- Photos never leave your phone. Only the cut-out animal, without its background, goes to the server.
- We do not store your name, email or profile picture from Google.
- No location, no contacts, no microphone, no advertising, no behaviour tracking.
- Without signing in nothing leaves the phone at all: you can play that way.
- Deleting everything is one button in the app. No letters, no explanations.
1. Who processes your data
The controller is Aleksey A., the author of PawHunters.
Any question about this data: antujira@gmail.com.
This document covers the PawHunters mobile app for Android and the server behind it.
2. You can send us nothing at all
Signing in is optional. Until you do, the app works entirely on your phone: the shot, the cut-out, the breed, the rarity and the stats are all computed there, the cards live in the phone's storage, and our server knows nothing about you.
Signing in does one thing: it lets your collection survive a lost phone, a reinstall or a new device. Everything below applies only after you sign in.
3. What we store and why
| Data | Why | How long |
|---|---|---|
| The permanent identifier of your Google account (a string of digits, not your email) | To recognise you at the next sign-in and hand back your collection rather than somebody else's | While the account exists |
| A nickname. The app makes it up; you can change it | To show you in the app without asking for your real name | While the account exists |
| The sign-in session. The database holds a one-way fingerprint of the key, not the key | So you are not asked to sign in on every launch | A year without use, then it expires by itself |
| Cards: title, rarity, frame score, stats, favourite mark, time of the catch, rules version | To restore the collection on another phone | While the account exists, or until you delete the card |
| Numbers about the frame and the silhouette: size, sharpness, light, pose; the breed and the confidence in it; the labels the model returned; how many milliseconds the cut-out took | The card is built from them. Labels and timing let us work out why a cat was called a dog | With the card |
| The cut-out image of the animal — the background-free picture on the card | To show the card on another phone | With the card |
There is nothing else in the database. This is the full list, not a summary.
4. What we do not collect
- Original photos. The shot stays on the phone and is never sent to the server. The phone itself cuts the animal out, and only the cut-out travels — no room, no street, no people in the frame.
- Your name, email and profile picture from Google. Google sends them along with the sign-in confirmation, and we discard them without writing them down. That is why you go by a nickname.
- Location. The app never asks for the permission.
- Contacts, calls, messages, microphone, files on the phone.
- Advertising identifiers. There is no advertising in the app and no advertising network in it either.
- Behaviour tracking. No analytics, no counters, no crash reports. We do not know which screens you opened.
- Payment data. The app is free and has no purchases.
5. Camera and gallery
The camera exists for one action: catching the animal in front of you. There is no gallery import — that is a rule of the game, not a limitation. The app never asks for access to your photos.
6. Who else receives the data
Nobody. We do not sell data, do not pass it to advertising networks and do not share it with other players. There are exactly two outside parties, and both are part of how the app works:
- Google — sign-in only. The app asks Google to confirm that you are you and passes that confirmation to us. How Google handles your account is described in its own policy.
- Hosting and object storage — the server and the files with cut-out animals sit on servers in Russia. Only our own server can reach them.
Data crosses borders only as far as Google itself does when it verifies the sign-in.
7. The legal basis
We process this data with your consent, which you give by signing in, and only as far as the thing you signed in for requires: a backup of your collection. You can withdraw that consent at any moment by deleting your account; no separate request is needed.
Processing follows Russian Federal Law 152-FZ on personal data. The databases are located in the Russian Federation.
8. How to delete it
- One card. Open it in the collection and press Delete. It disappears from the phone and from the server, image and all.
- Everything at once. In the collection, in the account row, there is Delete account. It asks for confirmation and wipes everything from the server: cards, images, catches, sessions and the record of you.
Rows leave the database immediately, files with the same action. Database backups are overwritten in a cycle, so deleted data disappears from them within two weeks. Details are on the account deletion page.
Cards stored on the phone itself stay with you: we have no right to wipe somebody else's device. Uninstalling the app removes them.
9. How the data is protected
- All traffic to the server goes over an encrypted connection.
- Your session key is not stored — only a one-way fingerprint of it. A leaked copy of the database lets nobody sign in as anybody.
- The image storage is private. A picture is served through a link that lives for an hour and is issued to you personally.
- The database does not face the internet: only our server talks to it.
10. Children
The app is not intended for children under 13 and does not knowingly collect their data. If such data has reached us, write to antujira@gmail.com and we will delete it.
11. Your rights
You may find out what data of yours we hold, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, and withdraw your consent. The nickname is edited in the app, deletion is a button in the same place. For anything else write to antujira@gmail.com: we answer within thirty days.
12. Changes
If something changes, we will amend this document and put a new date at the top. If a change is significant, the app will say so directly.