Privacy
Privacy
Animal Protech uses data submitted through the website, the AnimalProtech Android app, and authenticated areas to operate the map, review animal-rescue suggestions, keep public pages accurate, and protect account and administration access.
Data you send
Suggestions, contributions, and messages may include an animal rescuer or organization name, location, public links, additional context, and authenticated account data such as user ID and email. This information is used to review, approve, reject, or correct directory records.
Contributor profile and ranking
You may choose a display name and upload an optional profile photo. The photo is cropped, compressed, stripped of metadata and stored in Supabase. Your name, photo and published suggestion count appear in the ranking for signed-in users only if you enable participation in your profile. You can disable it or remove your photo. Deleting your account removes your profile and photo; your previous public count may remain as Deleted user.
App sign-in
The AnimalProtech app uses Google sign-in or an emailed sign-in code through Supabase Auth. When you sign in, we process the data required to keep the session active, identify the user, and associate app suggestions with the authenticated account.
Activity and notifications
When a suggestion is approved or not approved, we record the update in your private account Activity area. On Android, you can opt in to alerts for these decisions. If enabled, we associate your device's push token with your account and send it to Expo, which uses Google's notification service to deliver the alert. The alert does not include the rescuer's name. You can turn alerts off in Activity; deleting your account removes its activity and associated device records.
Technical data
We may process technical access information such as IP address, request times, browser, device, operating system, API responses, logs, and usage limits. This data helps maintain security, stability, abuse prevention, and map functionality.
Services used
Platform operation may involve services such as Google for sign-in, Supabase for authentication and database, transactional email providers, hosting services, and OpenStreetMap for map display. These services may receive technical data required to perform their functions.
Publication
Only information suitable for public lookup should appear on animal-rescuer, rescue-organization, and shelter pages. Account data, internal review information, and access control remain restricted to authenticated areas.
Account deletion
Authenticated users can start deletion in the app from Menu, Account, Delete account, or in the web dashboard from Account, Delete my account. When the account is deleted, your name, email, photo and account links are removed. Suggestions and review history remain in administrative records without identifying their submitter. Published profiles may remain in the directory.
For the full step-by-step flow, visit the account deletion page.
Contact
To request correction or removal of a public page, use the contribution form on the related animal-rescue profile or email animalprotech.org@gmail.com.