Last updated: 16 September 2026
Purrsist keeps everything on your phone. It has no accounts, no servers, and no analytics. It doesn't track you, doesn't show ads, and doesn't send your cat's information anywhere.
The only time I receive anything from you is if you choose to email me about a problem. That's it.
Purrsist is made by Callum Fry, an individual developer based in the United Kingdom. If you need to contact me about anything in this policy, write to support@purrsist.app.
Everything you put into the app stays in the app's own storage on your device:
None of this is sent anywhere. I cannot see any of it. There is no account to sign into because there is no server to sign into.
If you delete Purrsist, all of it goes with the app. You can also erase it yourself at any time from Settings → Erase everything.
Purrsist makes no network requests. It contains no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising, and no third-party tracking of any kind. This isn't a promise about how I intend to behave; the app has no code capable of sending your information anywhere.
If you add a photo of your cat, Purrsist asks permission to open your photo library. The picture you choose is resized and copied into the app's own private storage on your phone. It is not uploaded anywhere, and the app cannot see any other photo in your library.
If you turn reminders on, Purrsist asks permission to send notifications. These are scheduled and delivered entirely by your phone. Nothing is sent to me or through any server to produce them, and I have no way of knowing whether a reminder fired or what it said.
Settings → Import from a backup reads a file you choose from your own phone and replaces what's in the app with what's in it. The file is read on your device; it isn't uploaded, checked against anything, or seen by me.
Settings → Export your data builds a single file containing everything Purrsist has stored, including your cat's photo, and hands it to your phone's share sheet. Where that file goes is entirely your choice — saved to Files, sent to yourself, AirDropped to another device. It is never sent to me, and Purrsist has no involvement in it after your phone takes over.
Settings → Report a problem opens your own email app with a message addressed to support@purrsist.app. It pre-fills the app's version number and which version of iOS you're running, because those are the first two things I'd otherwise have to ask for. You can see and edit the whole message before it sends, and nothing is sent unless you send it.
This is the only situation where I receive personal information from you. If you email me, I will have:
I use this only to understand and fix the problem you're reporting, and to reply to you. The lawful basis is legitimate interests — I can't answer a support request without reading it. I keep support emails for up to 12 months after our last message to each other, then delete them. I don't add you to any mailing list, because I don't have one.
Who else handles your email. Getting a message to me involves ordinary email services: a forwarding service on the purrsist.app domain, and the provider that hosts my own mailbox. Both handle your message only in the course of delivering and storing it, exactly as they would any other email. Some email providers keep mail on servers outside the UK, and where that happens the provider's own safeguards for international transfers apply. I don't pass what you write to anyone else, and there is no other recipient — no support desk, no ticketing system, no contractors.
Nothing here is automated. I read support emails myself and reply myself. Purrsist makes no automated decisions about you and does no profiling.
Purrsist is distributed through the App Store, and your relationship with Apple is separate from your relationship with me. Apple may collect information about your download and, if you have chosen to share analytics with developers, may give me anonymous, aggregated statistics — things like how many people opened the app, or an anonymised crash report. This never identifies you, and I never receive your name, email or Apple ID through it. Apple's own privacy policy covers this.
Purrsist isn't designed for or aimed at children, and it collects nothing from anyone regardless of age.
Under UK data protection law you have the right to ask what personal data I hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to object to how I use it, to ask me to restrict its use, and to receive a copy of it.
In practice this only ever concerns support emails, since everything else stays on your phone where I have no access to it. Write to support@purrsist.app and I'll deal with it.
If you think I've handled your information badly, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.
If Purrsist ever changes what it does with your information, I'll update this page and change the date at the top. If a future version of the app ever collects anything, it will say so plainly and ask first.