Privacy Policy for ScoopLog
Last updated: 21 October 2026
The short version
ScoopLog is a diary of your dog's stools, meals and medicine, kept on your iPhone and synced through your own iCloud. There are no ScoopLog servers, no accounts of ours, no analytics and no ads. The developer cannot see anything you record.
If you share your dogs with family, they see and add to the same diary through iCloud sharing, which you control. Tips are optional and handled by Apple.
What ScoopLog stores
- Your dogs: name, and the date each was added
- Scoops: the time, the 1–7 score and any note
- Food: the foods you add (name, kind, ingredients you typed or read from a label), a photo of the bag or label if you add one, and the days a food started, stopped or was switched
- Meals and medicine: when a meal or a dose was logged, the medicines you set up and how often they are given, meal times, and reminder times
- Other events: "ate something off the ground" and similar
- Your name in the household: the name you choose in Settings, written on what you log so the family can see who fed the dog
Where it is kept: your iPhone and your iCloud
Everything is saved on your iPhone first. ScoopLog then syncs it through Apple's iCloud (CloudKit) so your other devices — and family you invite — have the same diary.
- Your diary lives in your iCloud account's private storage and counts towards your iCloud storage. Apple stores it under Apple's Privacy Policy. The developer has no access to it.
- If you are not signed in to iCloud, ScoopLog still works on the iPhone; it just doesn't sync.
Sharing with family
Settings → Family → Share with Family invites people with iCloud sharing. You choose whom to invite, by Messages, Mail or a link.
- Everyone you invite can see and add to the diary of all your dogs, including dogs you add later. What they log is stored in your iCloud.
- Settings → Family shows who takes part — the names, email addresses or phone numbers that iCloud sharing gives for their Apple Accounts — and the Today tab shows their initials. ScoopLog reads this list from iCloud and keeps the last copy on your iPhone so it can show it offline; it is not sent anywhere else.
- You can remove someone or stop sharing at any time with Manage Family Sharing on the same page. When you do, the dogs disappear from their devices.
- If someone shares their dogs with you, those dogs live in their iCloud. Leave This Family on the Family page (or the owner stopping sharing) removes them from your iPhone without touching their diary or anything else on your iPhone.
Photos and reading labels
You can add a photo of a food's bag or label by taking one with the camera or choosing one with the standard iOS photo picker, which hands ScoopLog only the picture you pick. iOS asks before ScoopLog first uses the camera.
Read ingredients from this photo reads the label on your iPhone, using Apple's on-device text recognition and, where available, Apple's on-device language model. The photo is not sent anywhere to be read. The photo itself is saved with the food and synced through your iCloud like the rest of the diary.
Reminders
If you turn on Remind Me on This iPhone, ScoopLog schedules notifications on your iPhone for meal and medicine times — up to three for a meal nobody has logged, and for a medicine that is due. They are created and withdrawn on the device; there is no notification server of ours. iOS asks for permission the first time.
Siri and Shortcuts
You can log by speaking to Siri or with the Shortcuts app and the Action Button. Siri handles the speech under Apple's Privacy Policy; what Siri hands to ScoopLog is stored like anything you tap.
Tips
Settings has a Support ScoopLog section with optional tips. A tip unlocks nothing; every feature is free with or without one.
- When that section is shown, ScoopLog asks the App Store for the tips' names and prices in your currency.
- A tip is paid through Apple's In-App Purchase and handled entirely by Apple. The developer never sees your name, email address or payment details — only the aggregated sales figures Apple reports to every developer.
- ScoopLog keeps, on your iPhone only, how many times you have tipped and the IDs of those purchases (so one is never counted twice).
What ScoopLog does not do
- No accounts or sign-in of ours, no email address collected
- No analytics, crash reporting or usage tracking
- No advertising and no advertising identifiers
- No third-party software libraries
- No selling or sharing of data — the developer holds none to sell
Deleting your data
- Settings → Dogs, swipe left: deletes one dog and everything logged for it, on every device and for everyone in the household.
- Settings → Erase All Data: deletes your dogs and everything logged for them on this iPhone, in your iCloud, on your other devices and for anyone you shared them with; and leaves any household someone shared with you.
- Deleting the app removes the copy on that iPhone, but not what is in your iCloud. Use Erase All Data first, or remove it later in iOS Settings → your name → iCloud → Manage Storage → ScoopLog.
Children
ScoopLog is not directed at children and collects nothing about who you are. Tips follow the purchase settings of the Apple Account on the device, including Ask to Buy.
Changes to this policy
If a future version changes what ScoopLog stores or where anything goes, this page is updated and the date at the top changes with it.
Contact
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