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Dog GPS: protecting your location data

Your dog’s position is often yours too. What this data reveals, what the GDPR provides for, and the simple steps to protect it.

By Bixar team · updated

A grey cat wears the Bixar Phoenix tracker, sitting in a bright interior

In brief

  1. Your dog’s history reveals your home, your schedule and your habits.
  2. The GDPR gives you rights of access, erasure and portability.
  3. A unique password and limited sharing protect what matters most.
  4. Don’t publish a walk map: it gives away your neighbourhood.

A dog GPS tracker collects data that looks mundane — points on a map. But your dog walks with you: its position history maps out your schedule, your home, your habits.

What this data really says

What a walk history reveals
  • Your homeThe start and end point of every walk.
  • Your scheduleWhen you are at home, when you go out.
  • Your routesRegular journeys and their times.
  • Your placesPark, work, family.

This is precisely why the GDPR strictly regulates location data: linked to a person, it is personal data in its own right.

What you are entitled to expect from a manufacturer

Your rights, in Europe
  • InformationData collected, purposes, retention periods.
  • Access and portabilityObtain your data, take it elsewhere.
  • ErasureHave what is no longer needed deleted.
  • ConsentFor any use not necessary for the service.

The GDPR (cnil.fr) also guarantees you the option of referring a complaint to the CNIL (the French data protection authority) in the event of a dispute. Before buying a tracker, read the privacy policy as you would a product feature: where the data is hosted, for how long, shared with whom.

Simple steps that protect your account

I protect my tracker account

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The CNIL’s recommendations on passwords apply here as they do elsewhere. The email linked to the account is essential: it is what lets you reset the password.

At Bixar

Our privacy policy describes the data processed, its purposes, its retention periods and your rights — and our cookie banner activates no optional tracker without your explicit consent.

To find out what the tracker records day to day, see recording your dog’s walks.

A grey pointer wears the Bixar Phoenix tracker on its green collar, in front of colourful walls

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