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Privacy notice

Last updated [DATE]

This explains what PedVault, run by [OPERATOR NAME], keeps about you, why, and what you can do about it.

What we keep

• Your account: your email address and a securely hashed password. We never see the password itself.
• Your vault: the pedigrees you import, add by hand, plan as test matings, save from someone's shared link or restore from an export; their dogs and photos; and your own notes, tags, flags and edits.
• Your devices: a name for each device you sign in on (such as "iPhone · Safari") and when it last synced, so you can see them and sign them out. The sign-in key on each device is stored with us only in a form that can't be turned back into the key.
• Shared links: their settings, a copy of what each one shows, and how many times it has been opened. We don't record who opened it.
• Technical logs: our server keeps short-lived logs of requests and errors to keep the service running.

Photos

Every photo is re-saved by our server before it's kept. That removes the location and camera details phones store inside photos, so they can't leak through a shared link.

On your devices

The app keeps a copy of your vault on each device you sign in on, so it works offline. Signing out removes that copy, and so does turning a lost device off in Settings: its copy is wiped the next time it connects. On iPhone, add the app to your Home Screen, or Safari may clear it after a week without a visit.

Cookies

PedVault uses no advertising, tracking or analytics cookies, and no third-party scripts on its pages. The app keeps your vault in your device's own storage, as described above. The website's account pages (signing up, confirming your email, resetting your password) use cookies only to protect those forms from forgery and to keep track of where you are in the process.

Shared links and saved copies

• A shared link shows a copy of a pedigree to anyone who has its address. Your notes are never included, and fields you hide (photos, owner, breeder) are left out entirely. Shared pages are hidden from search engines.
• If you allow it on a link (it's a setting on each link), someone who views it can save a copy into their own PedVault vault. Their copy contains only what the link shows. It belongs to them and stays in their vault after your link expires or you turn it off.
• When you save someone else's link, you get a copy of what that link shows, for your own records. Nothing in your vault is shared back.

What we don't do

• We don't sell your data or use it for advertising.
• We don't show your vault to anyone unless you share a link.

Who else handles it

• Email: account emails (confirming your address, resetting your password) are sent through Resend.
• Hosting: PedVault runs on a server provided by [HOSTING PROVIDER] in [SERVER LOCATION].
• Source sites: when you import, our server, not your device, requests the one page you gave it from the source site (pedigreeplatform.com or apbtpedigree.com) or from the Internet Archive (web.archive.org) for archived apbt.online-pedigrees.com pages. The request identifies itself as PedVault; nothing about you is sent with it.

How long we keep it

• Your account and vault: for as long as you have an account.
• Shared links: expired and turned-off links lose their copy of the pedigree a week after they stop working.
• Restore uploads: an export file you upload to restore is deleted once the restore has run, or after a day if you don't confirm it.
• Backups: kept for up to 30 days, then deleted.

Your choices

• See and take it: Settings → Download export gives you everything in your vault in one file, which you can also restore later.
• Correct it: you can edit your own dogs, notes and settings at any time.
• Delete it: Settings → Delete account removes your account and everything in it straight away, and from backups once they roll over. Copies other people saved from links you shared are theirs and aren't removed.
• Ask us: for anything else, write to us; we'll answer within 30 days.

Contact

Questions or requests: hello@pedvault.com.