Pet Clicker begins with a very small promise: open a page, meet an animal, and send it a little affection. Letting people introduce their own companions makes that promise warmer, but it also turns a simple browser game into a place that has to handle someone else's photo responsibly.
Here is the path a submitted pet photo takes before it can appear in the game.
You choose the public frame first
The publishing form accepts a JPEG, PNG, or WebP image up to 10 MB. Before anything is submitted, you position the photo inside the same round frame other players will see. The crop preview is created in your browser, so you can decide what belongs in the public image before sending it.
A nickname is required and a short introduction is optional. Pet Clicker does not ask you to create an account or public owner profile.
Location is optional and deliberately imprecise
Publishing a pet never requires location. If you choose to add one, the browser rounds the coordinates to a coarse grid before they leave your device. The server resolves that rounded point to a nearby city using a local geographic index. It saves and publishes the city-level label, not precise coordinates.
The live pulses that appear while people are petting animals do not expose a visitor's location at all.
The server makes a new image
The uploaded file is not placed directly into the public gallery. The server first decodes it as an image, checks it, limits its longest edge to 1024 pixels, and encodes a new WebP file. Re-encoding removes embedded camera metadata, including location tags that might have been present in the original file. The original upload is not retained.
The new image goes into private object storage. It is not public while it waits for a decision.
A human reviews every submission
Every current submission goes to a human reviewer before publication. The review checks both the image and the text against the community rules: Pet Clicker is for real animals and is intended to stay friendly for a general audience.
The reviewer receives a private, single-use link that expires after seven days. Approving the submission makes the pet available in the random gallery and creates a shareable page. Rejecting it removes the image instead.
Every public pet also has a report control. A reviewer can remove an approved pet if a later report shows that it should not remain public.
Anonymous ownership stays in one browser
On the first submission, the browser creates a random owner key. The original key stays in that browser; the server stores only its SHA-256 digest. That is enough to let the same browser check the review result, replace the pet, or delete it permanently without creating an account.
There is a trade-off: clearing browser data or losing the device also loses that key, and Pet Clicker cannot recover it through an email address because it never collected one.
Public does not mean permanent
An approved pet remains public for up to 90 days. The owner can delete it sooner, and moderation can remove it when necessary. When a pet is replaced, deleted, removed, or expires, its profile and image are deleted and the old sharing link stops displaying the pet.
The complete details live in the Privacy Policy and the rules for submissions are in the Terms of Use. If that balance feels right for your companion, you can open Pet Clicker and publish a pet.