PRIVACY POLICY

Rate My Animal is operated by Remo Bührer.

Remo Bührer, Im Kloster 26, 8240 Thayngen, Switzerland

Email: ratemyanimal.support@gmail.com

This person is the controller for the processing described here.

You can only sign in with a Google account. Through that sign-in we receive and store your email address, your user ID, and — if available — your name and Google profile picture.

In your public profile we store a display name and, if you upload one, a profile picture. You can change both at any time.

For each animal you add we store a name, animal type, an optional breed, and an optional profile photo.

Photos you upload are stored together with the AI result for that photo: the question asked, the detected animal, the category scores, the verdict and explanation text, the playful Battle Power value, and whether the post is public and open for ratings.

Public posts and the animals they belong to are visible to anyone using the app, including people who are not signed in.

When you rate an animal we store your user ID, the animal, your score and the time. One rating per person and animal; changing it overwrites the previous value.

When you vote in Battle of the Pets we store your user ID, which animal won and which lost, and the time. Win/loss totals per animal are kept for the leaderboard.

Likes store your user ID and the post. Following stores who follows whom.

In older parts of the app a random device identifier generated in your browser may also be stored with a rating or like. It is not linked to any identity and is kept only to prevent duplicate entries.

Battle notifications are off unless you switch them on in your profile. Your choice is stored with your user ID.

Notification entries contain the type of event (challenge, battle result, new follower), the animal or person involved, and when it was shown. Turning device notifications on or off is handled entirely by your browser; we never receive your device's notification data.

To score a photo and to create a Premium Fantasy Portrait, the photo and the related prompt are sent to the Lovable AI Gateway, which forwards them to the underlying model provider (Google Gemini for the scoring text, OpenAI's image model for portraits).

Generated portraits are stored in our own private storage and shown only to you and, if you select one for Battle of the Pets, to other users in battles and on your animal's profile.

The Premium Fantasy Portrait (CHF 1.99, one-time) is paid through Stripe Checkout. Card details are entered directly in Stripe's payment form — we never see or store your card number.

In our own database we store, per purchase, your user ID, the animal and photo it relates to, the chosen style, the amount and currency, the payment status, the Stripe checkout session and payment identifiers, and which portrait the purchase produced.

Stripe processes your payment data as an independent provider under its own privacy policy.

The app uses no analytics, advertising or tracking services, and sets no advertising or analytics cookies.

Your browser's local storage keeps your login session, a random device identifier, and a locally generated nickname so the app works between visits. Our hosting and backend providers process standard technical connection data such as IP address and browser information for security and operation.

Lovable Cloud (Supabase) — database, authentication, file storage, and app hosting.

Google — sign-in through your Google account.

Lovable AI Gateway, with Google and OpenAI as model providers — photo scoring and image generation.

Stripe — payment processing.

These providers may process data outside Switzerland, including in the EU/EEA and the United States. Where required, transfers rely on the providers' contractual safeguards. The exact hosting region of our database is configured by the platform; if you need it in writing, ask us and we will confirm it.

Posts, animals, ratings, votes, follows and generated images stay stored until you delete them or ask us to delete your account.

Deleting a photo also removes its stored file, its AI result, and any Premium Fantasy Portraits generated from it; deleting an animal's last photo removes the animal.

Purchase records are kept after deletion of the related content where we need them for accounting and to prove a completed payment.

We have not set fixed retention periods beyond this; data is kept as long as your account exists.

You can ask for access to your data, correction of wrong data, deletion, and you can object to processing.

In the app you can already edit your display name and profile picture, delete individual photos, animals and generated portraits, and turn notifications off.

Full account deletion is not yet automated in the app: write to ratemyanimal.support@gmail.com from the email address of your account and we will delete your account and its data.

We may update this policy when the app changes. The date at the top shows the current version.