Briky — privacy policy

Last updated: 29 October 2026 (Briky is now published by Pocket Meadow)

Briky is a pet that lives on your phone (and, if you like, your Mac), made by Pocket Meadow. This says what it knows about you, where that goes, and how to make it go away.

Without an account

Your pet, its history, the names you give your pets, your settings and your saved looks stay on your device, in the app's own storage. Two things leave it:

• A weather lookup, if you turn weather on: the city you type, and then its coordinates, go to the weather service (Open-Meteo) to get the forecast. Briky never reads your device's location.
• Anonymous crash reports and usage counts, on Android, unless you switch them off; see "Crash reports and anonymous usage" below.

Some reactions are switched off until you turn them on, and each reads only what it needs, on the device, without sending it anywhere:

• Calendar — the start time of your next event, so the pet can warn you before it. Not the title, the people or anything else.
• Notifications — that a message arrived and from how many people, so the pet can react. Never the words.
• Usage access — how long you have been in one app, so the pet can nudge you out of a long scroll. Not what you looked at.
• Health Connect (sleep and exercise) — last night's sleep and today's workout, so the pet's mood can follow yours.
• Steps and motion — how much you have walked today.

With an account (optional)

Signing in with Google is optional. If you do:

• What is stored: your Google account's email address and first name; a random ID for each of your devices; each device's copy of your pets (their history, finds and keepsakes) and your Briky settings (the character's look, your saved looks and characters, the names you give your pets, and the weather city if you set one); your friend code, your friends list, the friend groups you make and how often you let each friend's pet visit; and the notes friends send you (which of a fixed set of things — a heart, a wave, a laugh, a tease such as a poke or a snowball, or a gift their pet found — from whom, and when). Notes never carry words.
• Push: so a friend's note can arrive promptly, each of your phones registers a push token (from Firebase Cloud Messaging) with Briky's own server, briky.sutharsha.com, under your account. A push says only "look"; the note itself is fetched from your account.
• Invite links: a link you share contains your friend code and a secret that stops working after 7 days.
• Why: to back your pets up, to bring them back on a new device, to keep the same pet on your phone and your Mac, and to let friends' pets visit.
• Where: Google Firebase (Firestore and Firebase Authentication), in Mumbai (asia-south1), and Briky's own server for push. Encrypted in transit. Only you can read your data; friends can only leave one of the fixed notes, and see only your first name, your pet and your friend code.
• Not: no advertising, no selling, and nothing shared with anyone for their own use. Health, calendar, notification and usage readings are never uploaded.

Crash reports and anonymous usage

To find and fix crashes, and to learn which parts of Briky people actually use, the Android app sends two kinds of anonymous information. Neither is linked to you or your account, and neither is used for advertising.

• Crash reports: when something goes wrong, what failed and where in Briky's own code, with the phone model, Android version and Briky version.
• Usage counts: which features get used — for example that the floating pet was out today, which option was picked on its dial, that a GIF or a sticker pack was shared, that a note was sent (only its kind, such as "heart"), or which pet is out — together with the app version, phone model, Android version, country (worked out from the network, not your location) and how long the app is open.

Never included: your name, email or account; your friends, their names or anything about them; your pets' names; anything from your calendar, notifications, health, usage access or other apps; your location; your advertising ID or your phone's device ID — Briky switches both off.

How it is counted: each installation has a random identifier, so that one person using a feature twice is not counted as two people. It is not tied to you or your account, and a new one is made if you reinstall.

Where: Google Analytics for Firebase and Firebase Crashlytics. Google processes this for Briky as a service provider. Usage counts are kept for 2 months and crash reports for 90 days.

Switching it off: in the app, Customise → More → Help improve Briky. Off, nothing is sent.

On a Mac: no usage counts. When something goes wrong, the Mac app sends a crash report — what failed and where in Briky's code, with the Briky version — to Briky's own server (briky.sutharsha.com), not to Google. It is not shared with anyone. To switch it off: the eyes in the menu bar → Send Crash Reports.

Reports you send

Only when you tap Send a report (Customise → More, beside the version), the Android app sends Briky's own server (pocketmeadowhq.com) what you wrote, and with it what is needed to find the problem:

• the Briky version, phone model and Android version;
• the state of the floating pet, whether notifications are allowed, whether Android is limiting Briky's battery use, and why Briky last stopped;
• a log of what your pet did over the last two days or so, such as "a heart arrived", "a visit waited while the screen was off" or "a wave was sent".

A report carries no account id, yours or a friend's, so it is not linked to you.

Never included: messages (Briky has none), names, your contacts, anything from your calendar, notifications, health or usage access, or your location. Reports are used only to fix problems and are not shared with anyone. To have yours deleted, write to the address under Contact and say roughly when you sent it and what it said.

Purchases

Briky Pro is bought through Google Play. Briky receives only whether a purchase was made, never your payment details.

Deleting your data

In the app: Customise → More → Backup → Delete my account and backups. That deletes every backup, your friends list, your friend code and the account itself. Uninstalling the app deletes everything on the device.

Without the app: email pocketmeadow@googlegroups.com from the Google account you signed in with, asking for your Briky data to be deleted, and it will be — all of it, within 30 days.

Children

Briky is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect their data.

Contact

Questions, or a request to delete your data: pocketmeadow@googlegroups.com

Pet names

You can give your pet a name. Names must be kind: rude, hateful or sexual names are not allowed, including ones spelled around the rules or that only sound rude said aloud. Briky checks names when you choose them and may change a name back to the character's own if it breaks this. A name stays on your device, and in your backup if you sign in; it is not shown to anyone else.