BarkGoals Privacy Policy
Effective date: May 5, 2026
BarkGoals is designed to help you track hydration, food, nutrition, weight, and wellness habits with a dog companion experience. This Privacy Policy explains what information BarkGoals may collect, how it is used, and the choices you have.
Information BarkGoals may collect
- App activity and tracker data: water logs, drink preferences, food logs, calorie and macro entries, weight logs, goals, streaks, reminders, and app settings.
- Dog companion data: your pup's name, preferences, progress, bond state, scenes, and customization choices.
- Health data: if you choose to connect Apple Health/HealthKit, BarkGoals may read or write supported hydration, nutrition, activity, or body measurement data only with your permission.
- Food and barcode lookup data: barcode numbers, food search queries, nutrition label values, and related food metadata used to provide food logging features.
- AI-assisted food submission data: if you use premium AI food or missing-barcode features, photos or text you submit may be processed to identify food and nutrition details. BarkGoals is designed not to retain raw submitted photos after processing unless explicitly stated in-app.
- Subscription data: purchase status, entitlement status, product identifiers, and renewal information handled through RevenueCat and Apple.
- Technical data: device type, app version, diagnostics, crash logs, server request metadata, and similar information used to operate and improve BarkGoals.
How BarkGoals uses information
- To provide hydration, food, macro, weight, and wellness tracking features.
- To personalize the pup companion experience.
- To look up foods, scan barcodes, and help complete nutrition entries.
- To process subscriptions, trials, and premium entitlements.
- To sync or restore information when supported and enabled.
- To diagnose bugs, protect the service, prevent abuse, and improve the app.
HealthKit and sensitive data
BarkGoals only accesses Apple Health data after you grant permission through iOS. Health data is used to provide app features you choose, such as writing water, nutrition, activity, or weight entries. BarkGoals does not use HealthKit data for advertising.
Subscriptions and RevenueCat
BarkGoals uses RevenueCat to manage subscription status and premium access. RevenueCat may receive purchase identifiers, entitlement status, App Store transaction information, app user identifiers, and related technical data needed to validate purchases and manage subscriptions. Apple processes App Store payments.
Third-party services
BarkGoals may use service providers for app hosting, food lookup, AI-assisted food recognition, analytics/diagnostics, and subscription management. These providers are used only to operate and improve BarkGoals features.
Data retention
BarkGoals keeps information only as long as reasonably needed to provide the app, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent abuse, or improve service reliability. Some data may remain in backups or logs for a limited time.
Your choices
- You can change Apple Health permissions in the iOS Health app or Settings.
- You can manage or cancel subscriptions through your Apple ID/App Store settings.
- You can delete or edit logs and settings in BarkGoals where available.
- You may contact us to request help with privacy questions or data deletion.
Children's privacy
BarkGoals is not intended for children under 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without appropriate consent, we will take steps to delete it.
Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy as BarkGoals evolves. The updated version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.
Contact
For privacy questions, contact: support@barkgoals.app