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PAWHAVEN

Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 10, 2026

PAWHAVEN is operated by an individual developer based in the Republic of Korea. Questions about this policy: [email protected].

What you add stays on your device

Everything you make on PAWHAVEN is stored in your own browser and is never sent to us or to anyone else:

  • Pets (name, age, appearance, questionnaire answers, garden settings), in the browser's IndexedDB storage.
  • Photos, saved garden scenes, letters and memories, in the same storage. Photos are opened, measured and resized inside your browser.
  • Which pet is open, in localStorage. The name typed into the home page form is held in sessionStorage until the next screen reads it.

There is no account and no server copy, so we cannot see, recover or delete this data. You can download all of it as a ZIP file or delete all of it from the My pets page. Clearing your browser's site data also removes it.

What the site receives when you visit

The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes your IP address, browser type and the pages requested in order to deliver the site and protect it from abuse. We do not combine this with anything else.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 to learn which pages and features are used. It records pages viewed, approximate location (country and city, from your IP address, which Google does not store), device and browser type, and these events with coarse values only:

  • A pet was created (species, drawing style, garden name, number of photos).
  • A garden action was used (which action, and the species).
  • A scene was saved, an album item was added (its kind), data was downloaded or deleted.

Events never contain a pet's name, photos, letters or anything else you type. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, analytics storage is denied by default (Google Consent Mode v2) and no analytics cookies are set unless you agree.

Advertising

The garden, the character maker and the album never show ads. Guide articles load Google AdSense so that ads can be shown there once the site is approved; Google and its partners may then use cookies to show and measure ads. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, ad storage and personalisation are denied by default until you give consent. You can manage ad personalisation at adssettings.google.com.

Children

PAWHAVEN is a general-audience site and does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children.

Your rights

Because your content never leaves your device, you already control it. For anything Google holds, use the controls Google provides. For any other request under GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA or the Korean Personal Information Protection Act, write to [email protected].

Changes

If what the site collects changes, this page changes first and the date above is updated.