DogoverseYour dog's little world
A private little world.
This page describes the website and the current Dogoverse MVP, including what stays on your phone and what reaches our server.
This website
The interactive park is fictional. It does not request your location, create an account or send your demo choices to us. Choices reset when you reload. Fonts and artwork are served from our own site. We do not load advertising trackers or analytics, and this website does not set cookies.
Like any website, serving a page involves network information such as your IP address. Hosting providers process connection information to deliver and protect the service. Choosing an email link opens your email app; messages you send are handled by our mail provider, home.pl.
Accounts and profiles
If you register, we store your email address, display name, password hash and dog profile, including the name, character, coat colour, introduction and optional photo you choose. We store session records to keep you signed in, and email verification status to protect social features. We don't store your account password in readable form.
Verification and password-reset emails are transactional messages requested through the app. Codes expire after 15 minutes. A successful password reset invalidates existing sessions. Rate-limit and security records help protect accounts from misuse.
Location and your private records
The app uses location permission to record a walk you start. Walks, favourite places and memories are kept in the app's local storage. If you explicitly use private cloud backup, the route coordinates, places and ordinary memory entries selected by that backup reach our server. Private here means they are not shared with other users; it does not mean end-to-end encryption.
Postcard-specific photos, captions, linked places and place-cover choices currently remain on your device and are not included in that cloud backup. Deleting the app or losing a device may lose those additions. The app provides a local JSON data-copy option.
The app's map uses OpenFreeMap tiles, based on OpenStreetMap data. Loading tiles involves requests to that provider and can reveal the approximate map area being viewed and your IP address to it. The fictional map on this website does not use that service.
Sharing with chosen friends
Friends are added through a code. You select which past trace to share and who can see it. Before publishing a route, the server removes sections near its start and finish and configured private zones, then reduces the displayed coordinate precision. Review the preview before sharing: place names, photos, notes and familiar landmarks can still reveal information.
Friends with access can see the shared trace and dog profile and respond to it. A Heading out invitation shares the meeting point, time and invitation responses with its participants. There is no public discovery feed or live friend-location tracking in the current MVP.
We store friendships, shared traces, replies, invitations and blocking/report records to deliver those features. Recipients can remember or screenshot information you share; removing access cannot undo a copy they already made.
Providers and security
Our app backend and database run on an OVHcloud VPS. home.pl provides domain and email services. The app communicates with the API over HTTPS. Access rules separate private records from explicitly shared content. The pilot has no advertising or analytics SDK integration. Apple push delivery is not active in the current pilot.
Keeping and deleting information
Active account records are kept while your account exists, unless you remove supported content sooner. Temporary email jobs expire; expired challenge records are cleaned up after an additional day. Security event records are cleaned up after 30 days. Session records have an expiry. Database backups rotate through the last 14 completed backups, normally daily, so deleted records can remain in an older backup until it rotates out. Backup rotation can take longer if scheduled backups fail.
Deleting your account removes it and associated server records from the active database, and clears that account's local records on the device performing the deletion. It cannot remotely erase copies on another offline device, copies you exported, or content another person saved. See the deletion guide.
Contact and choices
You can limit location permission in iOS Settings, keep walks private, choose recipients, remove shared traces, block people, export device data or delete your account. For access, correction or deletion help, contact paw@dogoverse.cryoss.com from your account address. We may need to verify ownership before handling account-specific requests. Please do not email passwords or one-time codes.
Dogoverse is under active development. We will update this page when data handling changes and make the applicable information available before new features are released.