Privacy

ShareYourPets is operated by Yarkii LLC, which decides what is collected here and why. Write to [email protected] about anything on this page.

You can browse without an account. Signing in gives us your name, email address and profile picture from Google. Posting a photo uploads the image to our storage, where it is public. We show adverts, supplied by Google, and those set cookies of their own. We count page views, and Google Analytics does so with cookies once you agree to it. We send no marketing email.

• If you only browse: nothing of ours. No account and no analytics — but the adverts set their own cookies, which is its own section below.
• When you sign in with Google: your name, email address and profile picture. We use the picture on your profile and the email address to tell one account from another. Your real name is never shown anywhere on the site.
• Your profile: a username we generate for you (like SuperCat), and a short description if you write one. Both are public.
• Photos you post: the web address of the image, your pet’s name, species, breed and caption. All public.
• Cookies: one to keep you signed in and two short-lived ones during sign-in. Google sets advertising and analytics cookies of its own, but only once you have agreed to them.

No payment details; nothing here costs money. No marketing email, and we will only ever write to you about something you asked us about. No account is needed to look at anything.

Two things are exceptions and both get a section of their own below: the adverts, which are Google’s, and a count of page views.

Two things count visits here, and they are not the same.

Google Analytics. It records which pages you looked at, roughly where you are, and what sort of device you used, and joins those into a visit. Unlike the one below, it can recognise a returning browser — but only once you have agreed to it. Until then it runs without cookies and without recognising anyone, because analytics storage starts denied for everyone. If you never agree, it never sets one.

Cloudflare Web Analytics also counts page views, and it is deliberately the least invasive option we could find. It is worth being precise about what that means:

• It sets no cookie. Nothing is stored in your browser and nothing identifies you between visits.
• It does not follow you to other sites, and builds no profile.
• We see totals — this page was viewed this many times, roughly from where, on roughly what kind of device. Not people.

Both are still measurement, and we would rather say so than claim we count nothing. Refusing the consent message stops Google Analytics storing anything, and blocking static.cloudflareinsights.com stops the Cloudflare one. Neither changes anything else about the site.

This site shows adverts served by Google AdSense, which is how it stays free to use.

• Google and its partners use cookies to choose and measure the adverts you see, including on the basis of your visits to this and other sites.
• That profiling happens across the web and is not something we can see, hold or switch off on your behalf.
• We do not give Google your name, email address or anything else from your account. It sets its own cookies directly in your browser.
• We are paid on advertising performance, not for anything about you.

How to refuse is under Cookies below. You can also see every vendor involved at Google’s partner-sites page. Blocking third-party cookies in your browser also stops it, and the site works exactly the same without them.

• A session cookie that keeps you signed in. It is http-only, so page scripts cannot read it.
• Two sign-in cookies that live ten minutes: one guards against a forged sign-in, the other remembers which page to return you to.

Those three are strictly necessary to sign in and stay signed in. Signing out clears them, as does clearing site data in your browser.

Advertising cookies are separate and are not necessary. They are set by Google rather than by us, and unlike the three above they exist to build a profile of you across sites.

They start denied for everyone, everywhere. The UK requires being asked first; California requires a right to refuse and that browsers’ Global Privacy Control signal be honoured. We apply the stricter of the two to every visitor rather than deciding what you are owed from where you happen to be.

Where Google shows its own consent message — the UK, the EEA and Switzerland — it has three options: Consent, Do not consent, and Manage options. We chose that version deliberately over the two-option one, where refusing is buried a click deeper than agreeing.

That message does not appear everywhere, which would otherwise leave most people denied with no way to change it. So the cookie policy carries the same choice for everyone, in both directions and with refusing exactly as easy as agreeing.

Declining does not remove the adverts, it removes the profiling behind them — you get adverts chosen by the page you are on rather than by your history. You can reopen that question whenever you like on the cookies page. Clearing this site’s data also lets you answer again, and Google My Ad Center changes it everywhere at once.

Four companies necessarily handle some of this on our behalf: Google (sign-in, analytics and adverts), Supabase (the database and account system), Vercel (hosting) and Cloudflare, which sits in front of the site and serves it — so every request reaches Cloudflare first, and it also provides the page counting described above. Those four process it to run the service and not for their own purposes. Google in its advertising role is different: there it acts for itself, which is why it has a section of its own above.

Photos live wherever you uploaded them. When someone views your pet, their browser fetches the picture directly from that host, which means that host can see the request. We have no relationship with it and no control over what it does.

Yarkii LLC is in the United States, and the companies above store and process this data there. If you are somewhere with stronger protections than US law provides — the UK or the EU, for instance — using the site means your information is handled in a country whose rules differ from your own. You can ask us to delete all of it at any time, which is the most direct remedy we can offer.

Your photos and profile stay until you remove them. Deleting a photo removes the record immediately. Ask us to close your account and we delete the account and everything attached to it — profile and every photo — which is not recoverable afterwards.

• A copy of what we hold about you.
• Correction of anything wrong.
• Deletion of your account and everything on it.
• A complaint to your local data protection authority, if we handle this badly.

Write to [email protected] and we will get to it. You can already delete any individual photo yourself, from its own page.

This site is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly keep accounts for them. If you believe a child has signed up, tell us and we will remove the account.

Sign-in is handled by Google — we never see or store a password. The database enforces per-account rules directly, so one member cannot read or change another’s data even if the site had a bug. Everything is served over HTTPS. No system is perfect, and we will not pretend otherwise.

If this changes in a way that matters, we will update the date at the top and say what changed on the about page.