Abby Habits privacy policy

Effective 22 October 2026

Abby Habits has no sign-up and no in-app ads. Your habits, notes and history stay on your devices and in your own iCloud, where I can’t see them. Apple Health data is read on your iPhone and never saved. Limited pseudonymous information supports purchases, usage analytics and measurement of Abby Habits’ own Apple Ads campaigns. If you choose to send a bug report or feedback, your message and any technical details you include go to my feedback service. Abby Habits does not sell your data.

The short version

• No sign-up, no password, no profile.
• Your habits, check-ins, notes and settings stay on your devices and in your private iCloud.
• Apple Health numbers are read when needed and never saved, synced or backed up.
• What leaves your devices for anyone other than Apple: purchase and entitlement information, pseudonymous usage analytics, and an Apple Ads attribution token with the campaign information Apple returns. If you tap Send in a feedback form, your message, any optional technical details and proof that you own a copy of the app also leave your device.
• No in-app ads, no IDFA collection, no tracking across other companies’ apps and websites, and no data sales. Apple Ads measurement is described below.

What stays on your devices and in your iCloud

Abby Habits keeps the following on your iPhone, and syncs it through your private iCloud database:

• Your habits, their goals, recipes, reminders and celebrations.
• Every check-in, rest day, rough day and note.
• Habits you’re quitting, including their plans and any slips you log.
• Your settings.

iCloud sync uses Apple’s CloudKit, and your records live in your own private iCloud database. I have no access to it. Apple’s privacy policy governs iCloud. If iCloud isn’t available, your habits stay on your iPhone. Abby Habits receives silent notifications from iCloud so changes made on another device arrive.

Your Apple Watch, Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Control Center controls and Siri read the same habits on your devices. A habit you mark as private is kept off the Watch, widgets, controls and Siri, and shows only inside the app. If you use Siri, Apple processes your request under its own privacy policy.

Apple Health

Abby Habits only reads Apple Health, and only for habits you choose to fill from it, after you give permission. It can read steps, walking and running distance, time in daylight, exercise minutes, mindful sessions and workouts. It never writes to Apple Health.

Health’s numbers are read into memory on your iPhone to show your progress, and are never saved, synced, backed up or sent anywhere. When Apple Health shows a habit’s goal was met on a day, Abby Habits records only that the habit was done that day, as if you had checked in yourself. That record syncs with your other habits through your private iCloud. Health data is never used for analytics or advertising.

You can change what Abby Habits may read at any time in the Health app: tap your profile, then Apps, then Abby Habits.

Backups, export and sharing

Each day, Abby Habits keeps a copy of your habits inside the app on your iPhone, the last seven at most. They can’t be read while your iPhone is locked and are left out of your iPhone’s own backups. Export saves a file of your habits that you choose where to keep or send. Your year’s card and video are made on your iPhone and only go where you share them.

Reminders

Reminders are scheduled on your iPhone. Abby Habits never sends marketing notifications.

What leaves your devices

Pseudonymous information can still be linked to an app, installation, device or purchase identifier. For that reason, the App Store privacy label describes the relevant purchases, identifiers, usage, diagnostics and customer support data as “linked to you”, even though Abby Habits has no named account.

Purchase and access status

Purchases are made through Apple, and Apple handles all payment details; I never see your card details or Apple Account. Apple’s own privacy policy governs the purchase itself.

Abby Habits uses RevenueCat to check purchases and unlock Abby Habits Pro. RevenueCat receives an automatically generated pseudonymous customer identifier, Apple purchase, receipt and entitlement information, and app and device information such as the app version, iOS version and store country. Abby Habits does not supply your name, email, location, health information or Apple advertising identifier (IDFA). This information is used for purchase verification, access to Pro, fraud prevention, understanding sales and measuring Abby Habits’ own advertising. See RevenueCat’s privacy policy.

Apple Ads attribution

Abby Habits uses Apple’s AdServices framework to obtain a standard attribution token and sends it to RevenueCat. RevenueCat uses it to ask Apple whether an install came from an Abby Habits Apple Ads campaign. When Apple makes it available, the response can include campaign, ad group and keyword identifiers or names, country or region and whether an ad click or impression led to the install. Apple controls which attribution details are returned.

RevenueCat associates this advertising data with the pseudonymous customer and purchase record so I can measure campaign installs, trials, purchases and revenue. This is analytics and measurement of Abby Habits’ own advertising. Abby Habits uses standard attribution, does not request tracking permission or collect IDFA, and does not send this information to third-party ad networks for retargeting across other companies’ apps or websites. This does not add advertisements to the app. See RevenueCat’s Apple Ads documentation and Apple’s privacy policy.

Pseudonymous usage analytics

Abby Habits uses TelemetryDeck to understand onboarding, purchases and which features are used, so the app can get better. Signals include a hashed installation identifier, app and device context such as the app version, iOS version and device type, and a short list of events such as finishing onboarding, seeing the paywall, starting a trial or a first check-in. TelemetryDeck doesn’t store IP addresses.

Analytics never include your habits’ names, notes, Apple Health data, anything about habits you’re quitting, or anything you type. See TelemetryDeck’s privacy policy.

Bug reports, feedback and support

In Settings → Help & feedback, you can choose Report a bug or Send feedback. Nothing is sent by these forms until you tap Send. The report contains your message, whether a bug happens every time or sometimes, the app it came from and the time it was received. Technical details are included unless you switch them off before sending: the app version and build, iOS version, device type (such as iPhone), region and language settings. These details help reproduce problems and improve the app.

The forms do not ask for your name or email, attach files or automatically include habits, notes or Apple Health data. Your message contains whatever you choose to type, so please leave out sensitive personal information. The forms cannot receive a reply; email me if you need one. If you contact me by email, I receive your email address, message and any files you choose to send so I can help with your request.

Reports are sent to StudioFeedbackService, my shared feedback service hosted on Google Cloud in London, United Kingdom. To prevent abuse, the app sends Apple-signed proof that you own a copy of Abby Habits. The service verifies it and stores a protected, app-specific identifier with your report. That can link reports from the same app ownership record without asking for your Apple Account details. No active Pro plan is required, and RevenueCat is not used for this check. Reports are used for support and fixing or improving the app, not for advertising.

Google Cloud processes the reports and technical information needed to host and protect the service; connection and security logs may include an IP address and request time. See Google Cloud’s privacy notice.

Links you choose to open

The quitting guide links to support services and their phone lines. Opening one takes you to that organisation, under its own privacy policy.

What Abby Habits never collects

• Your precise location. Abby Habits doesn’t ask for location permission; Apple Ads may return campaign country or region.
• Your contacts, calendar, photos or clipboard.
• Apple Health data, beyond reading it on your iPhone as described above.
• Apple’s advertising identifier (IDFA). Abby Habits doesn’t track you across other companies’ apps and websites.

Retention and deletion

Your habits remain on your devices and in your private iCloud until you delete them. The app keeps at most seven daily local backups. You control copies you export or share; deleting the app does not remove those copies.

Production bug reports and feedback are normally scheduled for automatic deletion 730 days after receipt. Reports sent from Sandbox or TestFlight installations are scheduled for deletion after 14 days. Automatic cleanup may take additional time. If you request earlier deletion, there is a seven-day waiting period after deletion is scheduled before the report is permanently removed. Database recovery copies can remain for up to seven days after removal from the live database. Limited security and deletion-audit records can be retained separately from report text to prevent abuse and record how a request was handled.

Purchase and attribution records are retained for restoring and managing access, handling refunds and disputes, preventing fraud and measuring campaign results. Usage analytics are retained to compare app usage and releases over time. These records do not disappear when you delete the app, and their retention also depends on the providers’ service terms, legal obligations and deletion procedures. There is no single deletion period covering all of these services. Apple, RevenueCat and TelemetryDeck explain their practices in the policies linked above. Support emails are kept while needed to resolve your request and handle related follow-up or legal obligations.

Email paul@paulcalver.com to request access or deletion, or to object to processing or withdraw consent where processing relies on it. For an in-app report, include the reference shown after sending so I can find it. I may need enough information to locate a pseudonymous record and verify that the request is yours. I will explain any records that must be retained for a legal obligation or cannot be matched to you. You can stop sending feedback at any time by closing the form without tapping Send.

Children

Abby Habits is not directed at children under 13, and it does not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete or object to the processing of your personal data. Your habits are in your hands: edit or delete them in the app, export them at any time, and to remove them completely, delete the app and then its data from iCloud (in Settings, tap your name, then iCloud, then manage storage, and choose Abby Habits). Deleting the app does not delete feedback, support, purchase, attribution or analytics records held by the services described above. For anything else, email paul@paulcalver.com and it will be handled. If you are in the UK, you can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Changes to this policy

If Abby Habits’ data practices change, this page will be updated and the effective date above changed with it. Material changes will also be noted in the app’s release notes.

Who is responsible for your data

Abby Habits is made by one person. Paul Calver, an independent developer based in the United Kingdom, is the data controller for the limited information described above. Apple, RevenueCat, TelemetryDeck and Google Cloud process information for the purposes described here. Abby Habits measures its own Apple Ads campaigns; data is not sold or shared for cross-company ad targeting.

Contact

For any privacy question, email paul@paulcalver.com and it will reach me directly.