Privacy policy

Quest.Dog (quest.dog) is an app for walks and quests to enjoy with your dog. This page describes what data is collected, why, and what you can do with it.

What data?

• Account: your email address and your password (stored only as a hash — unreadable, even to us).
• Dog profile: name and, if you provide them, breed, date of birth and photo.
• Activity: completed quests, heart/no-heart ratings, places you create.
• Quest proofs: photos you send, and GPS traces of the walk — these traces are automatically deleted after 30 days.
• Exploration map (fog): the areas you have walked through, stored as a grid of about 50 m cells, with no track and no timestamps — the precise trace of your walk never leaves your phone. Plus a per-walk summary (duration, distance). Kept until you delete your account.
• Walk trail: the precise route of your walk is drawn on the map so you can find your way back to your starting point. It is stored on your phone only, never sent to us, and each point erases itself 24 hours after you walked past it.
• Nickname: the public name you choose. It appears next to your place notes. Your email address is never shown to other users.
• Place notes: the text of the dated notes you write in a place's log. They are publicly visible, signed with your nickname.
• Beta sign-up: if you leave your address on quest.dog/beta, it is kept along with the platform you picked (iOS or Android) for the sole purpose of sending you the invitation. Write to us to be removed from that list.
• Technical: server logs (IP addresses), kept briefly for security and troubleshooting.
• Apple Health (iPhone, if you allow it): at the end of a walk the app writes a walking workout — dates and distance, nothing else. It never READS from Health, and none of this is sent to our servers: the data stays on your device.

What for?

Only to run the app. No advertising, no profiling, and your data is neither sold nor shared for commercial purposes.

Where is it hosted?

On Infomaniak servers, in Switzerland — including the map background (tiles.quest.dog) and the route and loop computation: when you ask for a route, your start and end points never leave our infrastructure, and no third-party service sees them. The map data itself remains © OpenStreetMap and OpenMapTiles. Emails (account confirmation) are sent via Infomaniak too.

Third-party services

• Open-Meteo (weather): to adapt activities to the weather and suggest a shaded loop on hot days, our server queries the Open-Meteo service with the coordinates of the area concerned. The request goes out from our server — never from your phone: Open-Meteo sees neither your IP address nor your identity.

For how long?

As long as your account exists. The photos you add (dog photo, quest proofs) are kept until you delete them yourself or delete your account — they are never deleted automatically. GPS traces are purged after 30 days; server backups are kept for 14 days.

Your rights

You can view and edit your data directly in the app. You can delete your account yourself (Profile → Delete my account): all your personal data — profile, dogs, history, photos — is deleted immediately, and disappears from backups within 14 days. The places you created stay on the map but are no longer linked to anyone (anonymized community content). Your nickname and place notes, however, are deleted with your account — they are free text, not map objects. If you no longer have the app, you can also delete your account at quest.dog/delete-account.

For any question: noreply@quest.dog.

Cookies

No third-party cookies, no trackers. The app only keeps your login token in your device's local storage.