Privacy

Last updated 28 July 2026

The short version

PupBooker is an appointment book for dog groomers that runs on the groomer's own phone. Their business data stays on that phone. There is no PupBooker account and no PupBooker server holding client records. If they turn on backup, the copy goes to their own Google Drive, not to us.

What PupBooker stores, and where

The app stores:

• client names, phone numbers and email addresses;
• dog names, breeds, ages, grooming notes and rabies dates;
• appointments;
• takings and expenses.

All of this is written to the phone's own storage and stays there. We cannot see any of it. If the company went away tomorrow, the app would keep working because nothing depends on a server of ours.

Signing in with Google

The app asks for three Google scopes: openid, email and profile. This only confirms which Google account the backup belongs to. We receive the email address and name, and we use them only to label the backup. They are not used for a mailing list, profiling, or anything else.

Backup, and the drive.appdata scope

The app requests https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.appdata. That scope gives the app a private folder of its own inside the user's Google Drive. The app can only see files it put there. It cannot read the user's documents, photos, or any other Drive file, because the scope does not allow it.

Backups are written to that private folder nightly when the phone is charging and on unmetered wifi. We keep the seven most recent backups and delete older ones. The user can delete backups from inside the app. They can also revoke the app's access at any time from their Google account permissions page at https://myaccount.google.com/permissions.

What is not in the app

• no advertising identifier;
• no analytics library;
• no third party tracker;
• no location access;
• no sale of data;
• no sharing of data.

The app requests internet access for exactly one purpose: writing those backups.

Sending email and calendar entries

These features are planned and not built. If they ship, the app would use gmail.send to send appointment reminders as the groomer, from the groomer's own address. It would use calendar.app.created to put appointments on a calendar it creates itself. That calendar scope only lets the app see and manage the calendar it creates, not the groomer's existing calendars.

This page will be updated before either feature ships. Nothing is being collected for them today.

The dogs' owners

The groomer types their clients' details into the app. Those clients' data lives on the groomer's phone under the groomer's control. The groomer is responsible for what they collect and for telling their clients about it. We never receive it.

Deleting everything

Uninstalling the app removes the local data. Backups sit in the user's own Drive and can be deleted in the app, or in Drive under the hidden app data area, or by revoking access. Nothing needs to be requested from us because we hold nothing.

Children

The app is a tool for a business, not aimed at children, and collects nothing from them.

Changes to this page

If what the app does with data changes, this page changes first, and the date at the top moves.

Contact

Email hello@pupbooker.com.