Effective October 16, 2026

NeighborHound is a neighborhood dog-walking game: walk to claim turf, flag sidewalk hazards, and compete on a weekly leaderboard. This page explains what NeighborHound collects, who can see it, and how to delete it. NeighborHound has no ads and does not sell or share your data for advertising. We use one anonymous analytics tool to see which features get used (details below), and we never use it to track you across other apps or websites.

What we collect

• Account. You sign in with Apple. Apple gives us a user identifier and, if you choose to share it, your email (which may be an Apple private relay address). We never see your Apple password.
• Your dog's profile. Dog name, avatar emoji, temperament, turf color, and optionally breed, neighborhood and a photo.
  • Dog photo. If you add one, you pick it from your photo library. The app crops it and saves it as a new image before uploading, so it carries no location or camera data.
  • Neighborhood. You can type it in, or let the app suggest one from your current location. The suggestion uses your phone's built-in address lookup (Apple). Only the neighborhood name is saved, not the location.
• Location.
  • While the map is open, your location centers the map. This is not stored.
  • When you report a hazard, the hazard's location is stored.
  • During a walk you start, your GPS route (points with timestamps) is recorded, including in the background while the walk is running, and stored with that walk. Tracking stops when you end the walk. If you turn on Hide walk ends, the start and end of each walk claim no turf, so your turf doesn't point to your front door.
  • Live presence (optional, off unless you turn it on). If you choose to show your pup on the map while you walk, your phone sends your position during walks. The server snaps it to a grid of roughly 55 m and keeps only your current and previous grid point, removing them when your walk ends or within about 30 minutes otherwise.
• Game activity. Walks, points, streaks, badges, turf you claim, hazards you report, your confirm/clear votes, paw-ups you give and get, and your invite code and who joined with it.
• Push notification token, if you allow notifications, so we can tell you when your turf is taken, when a pup is nearby during a walk (only if you've turned on live presence), or when a neighbor gives your dog a paw-up.
• Feedback you send from the app, along with the app version.
• Anonymous usage analytics. The app records which features are used (for example "walk started", "hazard reported", screens viewed) under a random ID created for this install. It is never linked to your account and never includes your location (not even an IP-based city), routes, neighborhood, dog name or photo.

Who can see what

• Only you: your walk routes and times, your walk history, your activity log and alerts, your live presence and alert settings, who you invited, your feedback, and your push token.
• Other players:
  • Your dog page: dog name, avatar or photo, breed, temperament, neighborhood, total walks and miles, points, streak, turf and badges. It shows totals only, never walk times or routes.
  • Your weekly points on the leaderboard, and the turf hexes you currently hold (roughly 50 m cells, shown for a few days after you walk them).
  • When you give a paw-up, that dog's owner sees your dog's name.
  • If you turn on live presence: other players who also share and are within about 1 km see your dog on the map at grid precision. You appear only after about 3 minutes of walking and once you're more than 150 m from where you started, so the map doesn't show where you live.
• Dog photos are stored at a public web address so they can be shown in the app. Anyone with that address can view the photo.
• Hazards: the type and location are public on the map. Who reported a hazard is not shown to anyone.

Service providers

• Supabase hosts NeighborHound's database, photos and servers.
• Expo delivers push notifications to your device.
• PostHog receives the anonymous usage analytics described above.
• Apple handles Sign in with Apple, the neighborhood suggestion, and app delivery (TestFlight / App Store).