Privacy policy

Last updated: 12 November 2026

Desktop Pet is a 3D pet for Windows and Android. It runs on your own device. This page explains what it keeps, and the little it sends over the internet.

What stays on your device

Your pet, its progress and your settings are kept on your device: on Windows in a folder of your own (%APPDATA%\desktop-pet), on Android in the app's own storage. Models you import stay where you keep them. Nothing of this is sent to us. There is no account, and the app has no analytics, advertising or tracking.

On Android, the app allows Android's own backup, so if you have backup turned on, Android may copy the app's settings to your Google account, under Google's terms. We can't see that copy.

What it sends over the internet

• Withdrawn licence keys: the paid edition downloads the public list of withdrawn keys from our small update server (hosted by Cloudflare) at start-up, when you open the settings, and at most hourly. That request sends nothing about you.
• Updates (licensed copies): a few times a day the app asks the same server for a newer version. So that only buyers get updates, that request shows your licence key, which holds the name you gave when you bought it and your device's code, not your device's identity. The server doesn't store it. On Windows an update installs when the app quits or when you choose to restart it; on Android, Android asks you before installing it.

Like any website, the server's host may keep short-lived technical logs such as your internet address.

Buying a licence

The paid edition shows a short device code (for example 7RTW-KR85), made from a one-way scramble of your device's ID, so the ID itself can't be worked out from it. We keep the details below only to make your licence key, to help you with it later, and to withdraw a key that was shared or refunded. They're used for nothing else, and never shared or sold. To have them removed, email us.

• On the payment page: payments are handled by Razorpay. Your card, UPI or bank details go to Razorpay, under Razorpay's own privacy policy; we never see them. The page asks for your name, email, phone number, device code and whether it's for Windows or Android. Razorpay passes those, with the amount, how you paid and the payment's reference, to our small order server (run on Cloudflare), so we can make your key.
• Paying by UPI directly: you send us your device code with your name, your contact (WhatsApp or email) and your payment reference. The payment goes through your own UPI app.

Children

Desktop Pet isn't aimed at children under 13 and doesn't knowingly collect anything from them.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version is published on this page with a new date. Questions, or a request to remove your purchase details: kogantiaditya1990@gmail.com.