This privacy policy applies to the app The Path of the Paws in both its iOS version (App Store) and its Android version (Google Play). Last updated: 18 September 2026.
1. The short version
The Path of the Paws is built to need as little of your data as possible. There is no user account and no sign-up. Everything you write and everything the app remembers about you stays on your phone. The only personal data that leaves your device is what a purchase requires, plus the IP address that any device has to reveal in order to load images, sounds and articles from the internet, and, only if you choose to, your email address for the Spirit Animal Guide (section 5). We run no analytics, no advertising networks and no tracking SDKs in the app.
2. Who is responsible
The controller responsible for data processing in this app is:
VIBE & VIRAL, UNIPESSOAL LDA
Rua Hermano Neves 18, piso 2, escritório 4
1600-477 Lisbon
Portugal
Email: info@shamanism.one
Please use info@shamanism.one for anything to do with the app, including requests to delete your data.
3. No account, and your entries stay on your device
The app asks you for no registration, no email address and no password. There is nothing to log in to. It asks you once whether you would like the Spirit Animal Guide by email. This is voluntary, see section 5.
Your journal entries, the name you type in, your birth date, birth time and birth place, the animals you draw, your mood entries and all your settings are stored on your device only, in the app’s local storage. They are never sent to us and we cannot read them. If you uninstall the app, this data goes with it, so please export or back up anything you want to keep before you delete the app.
On Android, the system backup feature may include the app’s local data in your own device backup with Google, depending on your device settings. That backup belongs to your Google account, not to us, and we have no access to it. You can switch it off in your Android system settings.
4. Content loaded from the internet
Not everything ships inside the app. Two kinds of content are fetched while you use it:
- Animal images, meditations and ambient sounds are loaded from Google Cloud Storage, a service of Google Ireland Ltd. / Google LLC. Audio is streamed and cached on your device after the first play.
- Articles in the Discover area are loaded from our own websites shamanism.one and carolinmallmann.de through their public content interface.
Every one of these requests goes over an encrypted https connection, and none of them carries cookies or login credentials. Your IP address is transmitted to the server in question for technical reasons, because otherwise the server could not send anything back to your device. Where our own servers are concerned, the IP address is used to deliver the content and appears in ordinary server logs, which are kept only as long as needed for security and troubleshooting.
The legal basis is our legitimate interest in delivering the content you asked for (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). Google may process this data on servers outside the EU, including in the USA, on the basis of the EU standard contractual clauses.
The fonts used in the app are built into the app itself. No font is loaded from an external server.
5. Spirit Animal Guide and newsletter (voluntary)
Description: After your first view of the day, the app offers once to send you the Spirit Animal Guide by email. This is voluntary. If you tap “Not now”, you can keep using the app exactly as before and lose no feature. If you enter an address, only that address together with your selected language is transmitted to our server at carolinmallmann.de and stored in our email system FluentCRM. Your journal entries, birth data and drawn cards are not transmitted.
Confirmation: You first receive an email with a confirmation link (double opt-in). Only after you click it do you receive the guide and, after that, our newsletter with impulses around spirit animals and shamanic work.
Purpose and legal basis: Sending the guide and the newsletter. The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR), which you can withdraw at any time.
Storage and withdrawal: Your address is stored until you unsubscribe. Every email contains an unsubscribe link at the bottom, one click is enough. The address is then deleted.
6. Purchases and subscriptions
The app offers optional subscriptions and a one-time lifetime purchase. Which company handles your payment depends on where you got the app:
- On iOS, the payment is handled by Apple through the App Store.
- On Android, the payment is handled by Google through Google Play Billing.
We never see your card details, your bank details or your billing address. Apple and Google are the controllers for that part of the process, and their own privacy policies apply to it.
To keep track of whether a purchase is active, we use RevenueCat, Inc. (USA) as a processor on our behalf. When you buy or restore a purchase, RevenueCat receives a record of that purchase together with an anonymous identifier that the software generates for your installation. It does not receive your name, your Apple ID or your Google account. If you have voluntarily entered your email address for the Spirit Animal Guide (section 5), we additionally store it with RevenueCat as an attribute of that anonymous identifier, so that after a purchase we can stop sending you emails about the paid features. We use this only to unlock the features you have paid for and to see how many subscriptions are running. Data may be processed outside the EU on the basis of the EU standard contractual clauses.
7. Purchase history and possible sharing with third parties
Purchase history is the one category of personal data the app actually collects, and we want to be plain about it.
We may in future run advertising campaigns for the app, and campaigns of that kind can involve passing purchase information to an advertising or measurement partner so that the campaign can be evaluated. This is why our Google Play data safety declaration states that purchase history is collected and shared. At the time of this update no such advertising partner is connected, and no purchase data is being passed to anyone beyond RevenueCat and the store that processed your payment. We have declared the sharing in advance rather than after the fact, because we would rather state the wider case than the narrower one. If and when a partner is actually connected, we will name it here and update the purposes in the data safety form.
8. Advertising ID and tracking
The app does not currently request or use the Android advertising ID, and it does not use Apple’s advertising identifier. We have checked the app’s code and its components for this. There is no advertising network in the app, no analytics service such as Google Analytics or Firebase, no crash reporting service and no other third-party tracking SDK. No profile of your behaviour is built.
We are describing how the app works today, not making a promise for all time. If a later version does use an advertising identifier, we will say so in this policy and in the store declaration before that version is released.
9. Notifications
Reminders and notices about sky events are optional. You decide whether to allow them and at what time they arrive, and you can turn them off again at any point in the app’s settings or in your device settings. These notifications are scheduled locally on your device. Nothing is sent through a push server, and we do not learn whether you have switched them on.
10. Permissions the app asks for
The Android version asks for internet access, permission to show notifications, and permission to keep audio playing while the screen is off. That is all. The app requests no access to your location, your camera, your microphone, your contacts, your photos or your files.
11. Deleting your data
Because there is no account, there is nothing to delete in the usual sense. Everything you have written lives on your phone and disappears when you delete the app or clear its data.
You delete your email address from the Spirit Animal Guide yourself: every email has an unsubscribe link at the bottom, one click is enough, and the address is deleted. Or write to info@shamanism.one.
For the purchase record held by RevenueCat, a plain email to info@shamanism.one is enough. No form and no account are needed. Please include your store order number so that we can find the right entry. We will then delete the corresponding customer record at RevenueCat.
One limit is worth naming honestly: we cannot delete the payment records held by Apple or Google. Invoices and payment data sit with the store that processed your purchase and are subject to their retention and tax obligations. For those, please contact Apple or Google directly.
Deleting the RevenueCat record also removes the app’s knowledge of your purchase, so a running subscription may no longer be recognised. If you want to cancel a subscription, do that in your App Store or Google Play account settings.
12. Your rights
You have the right to ask us, free of charge, what personal data we hold about you, where it came from and who receives it. You also have the right to have that data corrected, restricted or deleted, and the right to receive it in a portable form. Write to info@shamanism.one and we will answer.
You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority, in Portugal the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados, or to the authority in the country where you live.
13. Changes to this policy
If the app changes in a way that affects your data, we will update this page and change the date at the top. The English version on this page is the one linked from the app stores and is the authoritative version.