Pet Keeper Privacy

What Pet Keeper keeps

Only what it needs to keep your pets' pages for you:

• Your email address, so you can sign in. Your password is stored scrambled — nobody, not even Mary, can read it.
• Your pets: their names, kind of pet, birthdays, weights, and any notes you add.
• Their records: shots and when the next one is due, vet visits, medicines, and other dated records you save.
• Your vet's name, clinic, and phone number — only if you save them.
• Photos you choose to use with the receipt reader, and photos you choose to send to Mary for help (more on photos below).
• Notes you send through the "Tell Mary" door in the app.

Pet Keeper does not ask for your home address, and it never sees your bank or card numbers — payments are handled by Stripe (see Payments below).

Why it keeps it

So your pets' shots, visits, and due dates are in one place, on every device you sign in with — and so Pet Keeper can show you what's coming due. That's the whole job. Your information is never sold, and it is never handed to advertisers.

Who can see your pets

Only you. Every account is walled off from every other account: when you sign in, you see your pets and nobody else's. Mary cannot open your pet pages and read them.

Mary sees only two things, both because you sent them:

• A photo you tap "Send this photo to Mary" on, when a receipt won't read.
• A note you write through the "Tell Mary" door.

Mary can also see a simple count — how many pets an account keeps — and nothing inside the pages.

Photos and the receipt reader

When you tap "Read a vet receipt" and pick a photo, the photo is sent to Google's Gemini reader, which reads the words on the paper — the shots, the dates, the vet — and hands them back to the app. The app shows you everything it read before anything is saved, and nothing is filed until you check it and tap Save.

• The reader never hands back home addresses, account numbers, or card numbers from the paper — even if they're printed on it.
• The photo itself is not kept by the reader. The app keeps a fingerprint of the photo and the words that were read, so reading the same photo again is free instead of costing another read.
• There is a limit of 60 new photo reads a day per account, to keep the reading costs sane.

Sending a photo to Mary is always your choice, tap by tap. A photo is never sent on its own. If you do send one, it is kept in a private folder Mary can open, and she gets an email with a link to it that stops working after 7 days.

Payments

Joining Pet Keeper costs $3.99 a month or $29.99 a year. Checkout is handled by Stripe, a large payments company. Your card number goes to Stripe, not to Pet Keeper — Pet Keeper never sees it or stores it. Stripe tells Pet Keeper that you paid, and that is what opens your account.

The helpers Pet Keeper runs on

Pet Keeper is a small, hand-run place, and it stands on a few bigger services. Each one only gets what it needs to do its one job:

• Supabase — keeps your account and your pets' pages in its database, behind your sign-in.
• Google Gemini — reads the words off receipt photos you ask it to read.
• Stripe — takes payments, so card numbers never touch Pet Keeper.
• Resend — sends the emails, like your welcome note and the photo links Mary gets when you send her a photo.
• GitHub Pages — serves the Pet Keeper pages themselves.

What stays on your device

Pet Keeper keeps a few small things in your own browser, on your own device:

• Your sign-in, so you don't have to type your password every time you open it.
• Your screen-lock code, scrambled, if you turn the optional screen lock on. The lock is off unless you turn it on, and it only locks that one device.

Your pets themselves do not live on the device — they live in your account. That's why an empty phone screen can never wipe out a full account, and why your list looks the same on your phone, tablet, and computer.

How long things are kept

Your pets and records are kept for as long as your account is open — that's the point of the place. If you delete your account (next section), your pets, records, saved reads, and sent photos are deleted with it. One honest exception: emails that were already sent — like a photo you sent Mary — can still sit in an inbox afterwards, the same way any email you send stays in the other person's mailbox.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account yourself, any time, right inside Pet Keeper:

• Open Settings and look for Delete my account.
• It asks you twice, on purpose, and you type your email to be sure.
• Deleting removes your pets, records, saved reads, sent photos, and your sign-in, for good. It can't be undone.

One thing deleting does not do: it does not by itself cancel a paid subscription. To stop being charged, cancel the subscription too — the receipt Stripe emailed you when you joined has the cancel / manage link in it, or tap "Tell Mary" in the app and Mary will help you cancel.

If you'd rather not use the button, tap "Tell Mary" and ask — Mary will delete your account for you.

If this page changes

If the way Pet Keeper handles your information ever changes, this page will be updated and the date at the top will change with it. Big changes will be told plainly, in the app or by email — not slipped in quietly.

Questions

Pet Keeper is built and run by Mary Davis (Mary Beth's Finds), a real person in Tennessee who answers these herself.

• The fastest way: tap 💬 Tell Mary inside Pet Keeper.
• Or email marybeth.davis28@gmail.com — the same address your Pet Keeper emails come from.