Effective date: July 4, 2026
Pet Cost Helper helps you keep track of what your pets cost. We built it to collect as little about you as possible, and we don't sell your data to anyone. Here's exactly what we collect, why, and what you can do about it.
Pet Cost Helper ("we," "us," the "app") is provided by Dogs Trained Right LLC. Questions about your privacy or this policy? Email [email protected].
The account you create. When you sign up, we collect your email address and a password. Passwords are stored only in secure, hashed form — we never see or store your actual password. We don't collect a name, phone number, or any social login. That's the entire account.
What you put in the app. The pet profiles, expenses, amounts, categories, dates, vendors, and notes you enter. This is the heart of the app, and it's yours.
Receipts you scan. When you photograph a receipt, the image is sent to an AI provider that reads it to pull out the total, the line items, and the categories. After a successful read, the receipt image is stored in your own private, per-user folder in our secure cloud storage so you can view it later, and it stays there until you delete the associated expense or your account. If a scan fails to read (a blurry or unreadable photo), no image is stored at all.
Your subscription status. When you start a trial or subscribe, Apple processes the payment and our subscription tool (RevenueCat) tells the app whether your subscription is active. We never see or store your card number — that stays with Apple. RevenueCat receives an anonymized account identifier plus your App Store purchase and renewal information so it can manage your subscription state.
Basic technical data. We do not use any analytics, advertising, or crash-tracking tools. We don't build profiles, and we don't track your behavior across other apps or websites.
We do not collect your payment card details, and we don't ask for your precise location.
To run the app: store your expenses, read your receipts and split them into categories, show your totals and (in the future) how your costs compare to typical costs, manage your subscription, and answer you when you contact support. That's it. We don't use your data for advertising, and we don't build profiles to sell.
We keep the outside-services list short, and each one only gets what it needs:
We do not sell your personal data, and we don't share it for cross-context advertising.
This is the part people ask about most. When you scan a receipt, the photo is sent from your device to our secure backend, which passes it to an AI model (Anthropic's Claude) that turns it into an expense. On a successful read, the image is saved to your private storage folder so you can view it later; you can delete it by deleting the expense (or your whole account). The extracted numbers land in your expense list, where you can edit or delete them. AI reads receipts well, but it isn't perfect, so it's worth a quick look that the split came out right.
We keep your account and expense data for as long as your account is active. When you delete an individual expense, its receipt image is removed from storage once no other expense still references it. When you delete your account (see below), we permanently delete your account, all your expenses and pets, and all your receipt images. Routine backups age out on our cloud provider's standard schedule.
Depending on where you live, you may have extra rights:
To use any of these, email [email protected] and we'll take care of it.
Pet Cost Helper is a tool for adults managing pet costs. It isn't directed to children, and we don't knowingly collect data from children under 13 (or under 16 where that's the local rule).
We use reasonable measures to protect your data. Your data is transmitted over encrypted connections, stored with a reputable cloud provider, and isolated per account — every account can access only its own data, enforced at the database level. Your receipt images sit in a private storage area that only your account can reach. No app or service can promise perfect security, but we take it seriously.
Your data is stored and processed in the United States. If you use the app from outside the US, you're agreeing to that transfer.
If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top, and for anything important we'll provide notice in the app.
Dogs Trained Right LLC
[email protected]