Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

MyArk.pet (“the app”) is an iOS app for tracking the care of household pets, published by Gilles VALLEE, sole trader operating under the business name GVA Connect Studio, SIREN 107 647 638, registered with the Rennes Trade and Companies Register. Full contact details are provided in the legal information. For any question about this policy: contact@myark.pet.

2. App data

The app does not transmit any personal logbook data to the publisher. It works without a MyArk account, email address, or password.

The information you enter or generate (pets, meals, walks and their GPS routes, treatments, supplies, household members) is stored:

• locally on your device;
• in your personal iCloud space (via Apple's CloudKit service), to sync your devices and share the logbook with your household.

This data is hosted by Apple as part of your iCloud account, under your exclusive control. The publisher of MyArk.pet cannot access, read, or export it. The app also works offline.

3. Location (walk routes)

The MyArk Complete walk-tracking feature uses your device's location only during a walk you start and end yourself — never outside of it, never as permanent background tracking. The iOS location indicator remains visible for the entire duration of the tracking.

• The route is processed on your device, then stored like the rest of the logbook: locally and in your personal iCloud, visible only to the household members you have invited.
• Your location is never transmitted to the publisher or any third party — we have no technical means of accessing it.
• The permission requested is “While Using the App”. You can withdraw it at any time in iOS Settings > Privacy > Location Services, and delete a route by deleting the corresponding walk in the Journal.

4. Household sharing

If you invite household members, sharing relies on Apple's iCloud sharing mechanism (CKShare). Only the people you explicitly invite can see the shared logbook. You can remove a participant or stop sharing at any time from the app; shared data is then removed from participants' devices.

5. Notifications

Reminders (meals, treatments, supplies) use local notifications and, where applicable, Apple's CloudKit push notifications. They are generated from your own data and never pass through any publisher-operated server. You can disable them at any time in iOS Settings.

6. In-app purchases

Any purchases or subscriptions are processed exclusively by Apple's App Store (StoreKit). We never receive or store any payment data. Billing is governed by Apple's terms and privacy policy.

7. No trackers, no ads, no analytics

• No third-party advertising or analytics SDK is embedded in the app.
• No profiling, no data selling, no sharing with third parties.
• No cookies or trackers in the app.

Apple may provide us with aggregated, anonymous usage statistics (downloads, crashes) if you have enabled sharing analytics with developers in iOS Settings. This data cannot identify you.

8. The MyArk.pet website

The website has no advertising cookie or third-party analytics tool. Its fonts and icons are hosted locally.

• Aggregated first-party counters measure page views and key interactions. When a visit comes from ChatGPT, Copilot or Perplexity, only the normalised source and the “citation, guide, Shop, affiliate click” stages are counted. No full referrer, journey URL or user identifier is recorded. The source is kept only in the browser’s session storage and is removed when the session ends. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track signals disable this measurement.
• The shop may store references to favorited products in your browser’s local storage.
• The Film Library may similarly store the works you add to your favorites.
• The free tools may retain on your device the information you enter: pet name, household members, tasks, budget, checklist, emergency sheet, temporary logbook notes, destination, travel contacts, seasonal prevention profile, reminder dates, and progress.
• This page may store your selected language in the same local browser storage.
• This information remains in your browser, is not sent to MyArk, and can be cleared in your browser settings.
• Film posters and previews are provided remotely by Apple Media Services. Displaying a poster therefore connects to Apple’s servers. Video previews only start at your request.
• When you click an Amazon, Apple, CNIL, or other external link, that service applies its own privacy policy.

9. Waiting list and internal audience measurement

The launch list closed when the app was published on the App Store on September 29, 2026: the website no longer collects new email addresses. For people already registered, MyArk processed the email address on the basis of their consent solely to confirm the registration and announce the app’s availability. As no address was ever confirmed, no announcement was sent and all addresses were deleted on September 30, 2026.

An unconfirmed request is automatically deleted after 30 days. A confirmed subscription is stored on MyArk’s OVH hosting until you unsubscribe and for no longer than three years after the last contact. Unsubscribing immediately stops delivery. The website may also count strictly aggregated events, without cookies or persistent identifiers, to measure use of its main sections. The following are counted, with no link between them: pages viewed (one monthly total per page), the broad origin of the visit (search engine, social network, AI assistant, direct access…, never the exact referring address) requests discarded because they come from bots, terms typed in the Film library search (normalised, 30 characters at most, with only a “result found or not” flag), addresses of pages not found, campaign names carried by tagged links (utm parameters) and page-speed measurements (durations, with no address or identifier). These counters are deleted after 13 months. The only cookie the website may set, “myark_nostats”, is used solely by the publisher to exclude their own visits from this measurement: it is set only at their request and holds no identifier.

To prevent automated submissions and preserve the reliability of these counters, the server temporarily uses a pseudonymized technical fingerprint of the network address. The complete address is not stored in these rate-limiting files; the fingerprint expires with the protection window and is removed during automatic cleanup.

10. Your rights (GDPR)

Your logbook data remains under your control in the app and iCloud. For a waiting-list address, you may request access, correction, portability, restriction, or deletion by writing to contact@myark.pet.

• Access and portability: your data is available in the app, on your device, and in your iCloud.
• Rectification: edit or delete any entry directly in the app.
• Erasure: delete data in the app, or delete the app and its iCloud data from iOS Settings > your name > iCloud > Manage Storage.

For any question or complaint, contact us at contact@myark.pet. You may also lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority (in France, the CNIL — cnil.fr).

11. Children

The app collects no data and is not specifically directed at children. It contains no advertising or inappropriate content.

12. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes (for example with a new feature), the new version will be published on this page with its update date. In the event of a substantial change to data handling, you will be informed in the app.

13. Contact

MyArk.pet — contact@myark.pet