Privacy Policy
Effective date: November 2, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how BoduMi (the "Service"), a pet care schedule app operated by Siyoon Jeong, an individual developer based in the Republic of Korea ("we," "us"), collects, uses, and protects your information. By using the Service, you acknowledge this Policy.
1. Information We Collect and Why
- Email address
- Purpose: to identify your account and let you sign in; shown to people you share a pet with only if you have no nickname or display name
- Retention: until you delete your account
- Password (stored encrypted)
- Purpose: email sign-in
- Retention: until you delete your account
- Nickname and profile emoji (required)
- Purpose: the name shown to people you share a pet with, on comments and member lists
- Retention: until you delete your account
- Display name (provided by Google or Apple when you sign in with them)
- Purpose: shown instead of a nickname if you have not set one
- Retention: until you delete your account
- Pet information (name, species, birthday, sex, photo)
- Purpose: to provide the Service
- Retention: until you delete your account
- Schedules and health records (vaccinations, weight, deworming, notes)
- Purpose: schedule management and reminders
- Retention: until you delete your account
- Comments on schedules
- Purpose: communication among people who share a pet
- Retention: until you delete them or your account
- Device notification token
- Purpose: to send reminders. Issued per signed-in device and removed immediately when you sign out on that device.
- Retention: until you uninstall the app or delete your account
- App language setting
- Purpose: to send notifications in your language
- Retention: until you delete your account
- App crash information (device model, operating system version, app version, time and details of the error, and a random identifier created for each app installation)
- Purpose: to find and fix crashes. We do not add your name, email, or pet information to crash reports.
- Retention: 90 days from collection
- App usage data — which screens you open, how often features are used (adding a schedule, adding a pet, writing a health record, sending or accepting a share invitation), the category of the schedules you add, device model, operating system version, app version, country, and a random identifier created for each app installation
- Purpose: to see which features people actually use, so we know what to improve. We do not include your name, email, pet information, or anything you write in schedules and health records, and we do not collect advertising identifiers.
- Retention: 14 months from collection
- Opt out: turn off "Share usage data" under Settings → Other settings in the app. Everything else keeps working.
- Contact form (on our website) — your name (optional), a reply-to email address, and your message
- Purpose: to receive and respond to your inquiry. This is emailed to us and not stored on our servers separately.
- Retention: the sent email stays in our inbox.
- Contact form spam prevention — your IP address, kept only as a SHA-256 hash, never in plain text
- Purpose: to limit each sender to one submission per day
- Retention: deleted automatically after 30 days
We do not sell your personal information, do not "share" it for cross-context behavioral advertising, do not show third-party ads, and do not track you across other companies' apps or websites.
2. Sign in with Google or Apple
If you sign in with Google or Apple, we receive your email address and a unique identifier from that provider. We never receive your Google or Apple password. If you choose "Hide My Email" with Apple, we receive a relay address created by Apple instead of your real email.
3. Sharing a Pet with Others
To invite someone to share a pet, you create a random share link and send it yourself by any method you like. We do not look up the other person's email or other information, and the pet's information and schedules are shared only after they accept the link. When creating a link, the owner chooses whether to share past schedules or only schedules added after the invitation; health records are always fully visible to everyone who shares the pet. Comments are visible to everyone who shares the schedule and show your profile emoji and nickname (or display name, or "User"). A comment can be deleted by its author or by the pet's owner. When a shared schedule is added, changed, or deleted, or a comment is posted, the other members receive a notification that includes the acting member's nickname, the pet's name, and the schedule details (and the comment text for comment notifications).
4. Device Permissions and On-Device Storage
- Photos — accessed only when you add a pet photo, and only the photo you pick. The photo is stored as part of the pet's information.
- Face ID / fingerprint — used only to unlock the app lock. Your device's operating system performs the check; we never receive or store biometric data, only whether it succeeded.
- Notifications — used to send reminders. You can turn them off at any time in your device settings.
- Home screen widgets — to display widgets, your schedules, holidays, and pet names and photos are copied to a storage area shared by the app on your device. This copy does not leave your device, but anyone who can see your home screen or lock screen may see it. It is removed when you remove the widget or the app.
- App settings — theme, app lock, and whether you have seen the intro screens are stored only on your device. Your app language is also stored on our servers to send notifications in that language (see Section 1).
5. Service Providers and International Transfer
We use the service providers below to run the Service. They process information only on our behalf. Pet information, schedules, health records, and comments are stored on servers in the Republic of Korea (Seoul). If you use the Service from the United States or elsewhere, your information is transferred to and processed in Korea, and some information is processed in the United States, where data protection laws may differ from those of your country.
| Provider | What they do | Location |
|---|
Google LLC
(Firebase Cloud Firestore, Cloud Functions) | Storing Service data; running the notification server | Republic of Korea (Seoul) |
Google LLC
(Firebase Authentication) | Account sign-in (email, encrypted password, sign-in identifiers) | United States and other countries |
Google LLC
(Firebase Crashlytics) | Collecting and analyzing crash information | United States and other countries |
Google LLC
(Firebase Analytics) | Collecting and analyzing app usage data | United States and other countries |
Google LLC
(Firebase Cloud Messaging) | Delivering push notifications | United States and other countries |
Apple Inc.
(Apple Push Notification service) | Delivering push notifications to iPhones | United States and other countries |
Cloudflare, Inc.
(Turnstile) | Checking that a contact form submission is from a human, using your IP address | United States and other countries |
Google LLC
(Gmail SMTP) | Sending contact form emails | United States and other countries |
Learn more: Google — policies.google.com/privacy, Apple — apple.com/legal/privacy, Cloudflare — cloudflare.com/privacypolicy. We may also disclose information if required by law, such as in response to a valid legal request.
6. Retention and Deletion
When you delete your account, we delete your personal information without delay, including the comments you wrote on shared schedules. A pet you joined as a member, and its schedules and health records, remains available to the remaining members, but your access is removed. If you own a pet that other members still share, you hand it over to one of them as part of deleting your account; if you choose not to, that pet is deleted along with every schedule, health record, and comment attached to it, including the ones other members wrote. Crash information is not linked to your account and is deleted 90 days after collection regardless of account deletion.
7. Your Choices and Rights
- You can view and edit your information in the app at any time.
- You can delete your account and data in the app under Settings → Account → Delete Account.
- Even without the app, you can email support@bodumiapp.com to request access to, correction of, or deletion of all or part of your information. We will verify your request and respond within a reasonable time (no later than 45 days). We will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights.
- Residents of California and other U.S. states with consumer privacy laws may have additional rights to know, correct, delete, and opt out. We honor these requests from all users regardless of where they live. Because we do not sell or share personal information for targeted advertising, there is nothing to opt out of.
- You can turn off notifications at any time in your device settings.
8. Do Not Track
We do not track users over time or across third-party websites or apps, so we do not respond differently to "Do Not Track" browser signals or similar mechanisms.
9. Children
The Service is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 (or under 14 in Korea). If we learn that a child under 13 has provided personal information to us, we will delete it. If you believe a child has done so, please contact us.
The Service is designed for information about pets. Whether to enter information about a person other than a pet (especially a child) is your decision, and before doing so you are responsible for making sure you have that person's (or, for a child, a parent's or guardian's) permission. Such information is protected in the same way as other information, and that person or their parent or guardian may contact us to request access or deletion as described in Section 7. The Service is not intended to collect health information about people.
10. Security
- Passwords are stored encrypted.
- All data in transit is encrypted with HTTPS.
- Server rules restrict access so that only authorized users can reach their data.
No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, but we work to protect your information.
11. Changes to This Policy
If we change this Policy, we will post the new version with a new effective date in the app or on this page at least 7 days before it takes effect. For material changes, we will also notify you by email or in the app.
- November 2, 2026: added how a shared pet is handed over when you delete your account, and what is deleted if you decline
- October 22, 2026: added app usage data (screens opened, how often features are used), how to opt out of it, Firebase Analytics as a service provider, and the related transfer details
- October 2, 2026: added what our website contact form collects (name, email, message, IP address), Cloudflare and Gmail SMTP as service providers, and related international transfer details
- September 15, 2026: first English version
12. Contact
Siyoon Jeong (privacy contact) — support@bodumiapp.com