Privacy and where your data lives
Everything SugarPaws knows — cat profiles and photos, every reading and dose, your settings — is stored in a database inside the app on your device. The app has no account, no sign-in, no server of its own, no cloud sync between devices, and no analytics or crash-reporting library; it makes no network requests of its own. Data leaves the phone only when you share a PDF report or CSV export through the iOS share sheet, and then only to wherever you send it.
What is stored, and where
Section titled “What is stored, and where”| Data | Where |
|---|---|
| Cat profiles (name, target range, created date), glucose readings, insulin doses | A Core Data (SQLite) database in the app’s private container |
| Cat photos | In that same database, as the small square JPEG the Position Photo cropper produced — not a reference to your photo library, so deleting the original photo changes nothing in the app |
| Settings (unit, insulin type, reminder times, appearance, disclaimer agreement, active cat) | The app’s preferences store on the device |
| Exported PDF and CSV files | Written to the app’s temporary folder for the share sheet; the previous export is cleared each time a new one is made |
Because it lives in the app’s container, the data is included in your device’s ordinary iOS backup like any app’s data — but the app itself has no restore feature. The CSV export is the backup you control, and CSV import is how it comes back.
There is one copy of the data, on one iPhone. Two iPhones do not share it, even when they are signed in to the same Apple ID.
Permissions
Section titled “Permissions”| Permission | When it is asked | What for |
|---|---|---|
| Notifications (alerts, sounds, badges) | Only when you switch on Settings › Reminders › Enable Reminders | The four daily reminders — see Reminders. Decline and the toggle stays off |
| Photos | Never as a blanket permission — the app uses the system photo picker, which hands over only the single image you choose | The cat’s profile photo |
The app does not ask for location, camera, contacts, health data, Bluetooth or anything else, and it does not read a glucose meter.
What leaves the phone
Section titled “What leaves the phone”- Sharing a PDF or CSV sends that file — cat name, every reading and dose in the range, notes, target range — to the destination you pick in the share sheet (Mail, Messages, AirDrop, Files, a print queue). SugarPaws does not keep a copy anywhere else and does not know where it went.
- The Support, Privacy Policy and Terms of Service rows in Settings › About open pages on neuralconfig.com in your browser.
Nothing else. Reminders are scheduled locally by iOS; no notification server is involved.
Deleting data
Section titled “Deleting data”| To delete | Do this | Recoverable? |
|---|---|---|
| One reading or dose | Swipe it left in History | Undo for 5 seconds, then no |
| One cat and everything logged for it | Manage Cats › swipe › Delete (Cat profiles) | No |
| Everything, for every cat | Settings › Advanced › Delete All Data, type DELETE (Settings) | No |
| The app and all its data | Delete the app from the home screen | No (unless you kept a CSV) |