Have Toys Will Play

Have Toys Will Play is built on a fact most dog owners already half-know: dogs choose an unfamiliar toy over a familiar one thirty-eight times out of fifty. It is the novelty they are chasing, not the purchase — so instead of posting another parcel, this app turns the toys already in your house into a rotation. You catalogue what you own, one line each: what it is, whether it is soft or firm or hard, whether it squeaks, crinkles, rattles or says nothing. Three of them sit out on the shelf; the rest rest in the basket, each with a Spark meter filling as it goes. Once a week The Swap names exactly which ones come back out and which go away, and it explains every pick with the numbers that produced it — 'Rope has rested eleven days, past Bo's eight-day spark point, and rope-textured toys average 4.3 for him against his 3.6 overall.' That eight-day figure is not a rule from the internet. The published work on toy habituation is about a single session and found the rest interval made no difference at all, so this app refuses to state one: until your log holds six returns from rest across three different toys, it shows seven days clearly labelled as common shelter practice, with a counter for how many observations are still needed, and only then replaces it with your dog's own measured number. Alongside the rotation sits a daily plan that fits the time you actually have. Tell it your slots and where play happens, and it fills them from a library of sixty activities across the five enrichment categories used in shelter and zoo welfare work — social, food and foraging, a job to do, the senses, and the body — filtering out anything needing more room than an apartment has and steering toward whichever category your week is thinnest on. Every card says why it was chosen. Logging takes two taps: done, and how into it they seemed, one to five. That rating is described honestly as your read, never dressed up as a measurement of your dog's happiness, and it is the raw material for everything else — the Trait Read that works out whether your dog is a soft-and-squeaky or a firm-and-silent dog, the Sniff Bank that tracks the one activity with a real published welfare result behind it, and the rest flag that speaks up when the ratings start sliding or the week has run well past the minutes you set. Chew Check runs the thumbnail test, the size-behind-the-molars test and the antler-hoof-and-bone question, and retires a damaged toy on the spot. The whole activity library, the daily plan, Chew Check and The Swap itself are free and always will be — an idea list is findable on Google in seconds. Membership buys only what nobody else can give you: what your own dog's log says.

Privacy Policy

Effective August 7, 2026 · Last updated September 14, 2026

Debra Hawkins ("we", "us") operates the Have Toys Will Play mobile application (the "App"). This policy explains what we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have.

Information we collect

Account information. Your email address, used to create and sign in to your account through our authentication provider.
Information you enter. The details you choose to record in the App. This content is linked to your account and synced so it is available across your devices. It includes:
- Your email address and password, if you choose to create an account
- Your dogs' profiles — name, breed, birth year, size, energy, chew style and temperament you pick
- The toys you add, their details and their rotation history
- Play sessions you log — the date, activity, toy, minutes, your 1-5 rating and any note
- Daily plans, wishlist items and your settings (time budget, home setup, reminders, appearance)
- Your subscription status

What we do not collect

We do not collect your location, contacts, photos or media files, or advertising identifiers, and we do not use any third-party advertising or behavioral-tracking SDKs. We do not track you across other apps or websites.

Reminders & notifications

If you turn on reminders, the App schedules them as local notifications on your device from the reminder settings you choose (such as lead times, reminder time, and quiet hours). These notifications are generated on your device from data already stored in your account — we do not operate a push-notification server, and your reminder content is not transmitted to us in order to deliver them. You can turn notifications off at any time in your device settings.

How we use information

To provide and maintain the App, authenticate you, sync your content to your account, and respond to support requests. We do not use your content for advertising.

Storage, security & processors

Your data is stored with our cloud backend (Supabase), isolated per user with row-level security so that only you can access your own data, and transmitted over encrypted connections (HTTPS/TLS). A copy of your data is also cached on your device so the App stays fast and works offline; removing the App, or clearing its data, deletes that local copy. We share data only with the limited service providers needed to run the App — our cloud hosting and authentication provider, and Apple (for any purchases). To confirm whether a purchase is active we use RevenueCat, which receives an app user identifier (a random one before you sign in, and your account's internal ID after — never your name or email), the purchase details Apple provides, and basic device information such as platform, operating-system version, and country. We do not sell your personal information.

No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, so while we work to protect your information we cannot guarantee absolute security.

International users

Our service providers may process and store information on servers in the United States or other countries, whose data-protection laws may differ from those where you live, under the terms of those providers.

Data retention & deletion

We retain your data while your account is active. You can permanently delete your account and all associated data at any time from within the App (Settings → Delete Account). Deletion removes your account and content from our systems.

Records of purchases are kept by Apple, and subscription status by RevenueCat, under their own policies, because they are needed for billing, entitlement, and tax purposes. Deleting your account does not delete those records, and it does not cancel an active subscription — cancel that in your Apple ID settings.

Children

The App is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Your choices

You can access, correct, or delete your data using the in-app controls, or by contacting us at [email protected].

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or receive a copy of your personal information, to object to or restrict certain processing, and to complain to your local data-protection authority. Most of this you can do with the in-app controls; for anything else, email [email protected] and we will respond as required by applicable law.

These pages

These Privacy, Terms, and Support pages are static: they set no cookies and load no analytics, advertising, or third-party scripts. Our hosting provider may keep standard request logs (such as IP address and browser type) to serve the pages securely and diagnose faults. If you email us, we keep your message and address only to reply and help you.

Changes

We may update this policy from time to time; material changes will be reflected by a new effective date above.

Contact

Questions? Email [email protected].