01Who we are
Chick – Habit tracker ("Chick", "the app", "we", "us" or "our") is an app for iPhone and iPad that helps you build habits over 30-day sprints. This policy covers the Chick app and the Chick website you are reading now.
Chick is made by a small, independent group. We don't see your data, and we never give, sell or rent it to anyone, whether that's advertisers, data brokers or any other company. We have no investors or partners who get access to it either.
If you have any question about this policy or your information, email us at habit30support@gmail.com.
02What we don't collect
Chick doesn't have servers that receive your information, and the app contains no code that sends what you enter to us or to anyone else. Specifically, Chick does not:
- ask you to create an account, sign in or give us an email address;
- collect your location, contacts, photos, camera, microphone or health data;
- use the advertising identifier, show ads or work with ad networks;
- include analytics, crash-reporting or marketing SDKs from other companies;
- track you across apps and websites owned by other companies, which is why the app never shows Apple's tracking permission prompt;
- sell, rent or share your information with anyone.
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
03What the app stores on your device
To work, Chick keeps the things you create in the app's private storage on your iPhone or iPad. Other apps can't read it, and it never leaves your device unless you export it yourself or back up your device.
| What | Examples | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Habits and check-ins | Habit names, icons, colours, schedules, targets, reminder times and the value you log each day | To show your progress rings, streaks and calendars |
| Sprint days | Whether you called a day a success or a failure, energy and mood ratings, and any note you write | To build your sprint calendar, recap and insights |
| Projects, tasks and events | Project names, tasks, priorities, due dates, countdowns and repeats | To organise your to-dos and countdowns |
| Focus history | Session length, rounds, the project you focused on and the soundscape you picked | To run the timer and show focus stats |
| Weekly focus and reviews | Your focus for the week and what you wrote in your review | To show them on Today and in past weeks |
| Rewards | Seeds earned, items bought and what Chick is wearing | To run the shop and Chick's closet |
| Settings | Theme, appearance, sounds, haptics, reminder preferences and the first name you choose to enter for the greeting | To remember how you like the app |
The name in Settings is optional. It's only used to say good morning, and you can leave it blank or use a nickname.
Like any app, Chick's storage is included in the device backups you make with iCloud Backup or a computer, according to your own backup settings. The app also keeps a second copy in its own storage on your device so that an update or a crash can't wipe your history.
04iCloud sync (coming soon)
iCloud sync isn't available yet. Today, everything you log stays on the device you log it on.
A future update will add optional iCloud sync, so your habits can follow you between your iPhone and iPad. When it arrives:
- it will be a setting you can turn on or off at any time in Chick's Settings;
- your data will be stored in iCloud storage that belongs to your Apple Account, never on servers of ours. iCloud is run by Apple under Apple's Privacy Policy, and we have no way to view it;
- erasing everything in Chick while sync is on will clear the synced copy too.
We'll update this policy before iCloud sync is released.
05Notifications and other permissions
Notifications. If you turn on the daily log reminder or habit reminders, Chick asks for permission to show notifications. Reminders are scheduled on your device by iOS and iPadOS. Nothing is sent from a server, and no push token is created or stored. You can change this any time in Chick's Settings or in the Settings app.
Sound. Focus soundscapes and chimes are recordings bundled inside the app. They play through your speaker or headphones, even with the silent switch on, and you can mute them in Settings. Chick never uses the microphone.
Haptics. Gentle taps when you check things off. You can turn these off in Settings.
Chick does not ask for access to your location, contacts, photos, camera, microphone, calendars, Health or Bluetooth.
06Widgets and Live Activities
Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, and the focus timer in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen, show a small summary of your day, such as how many habits are done or how long is left in a session. To do this, the app shares that summary with its own widget through a container on your device that only Chick can read. Widgets and Live Activities can be seen by anyone who can see your screen, so remove them if that matters to you.
08Information Apple may provide
Apple runs the App Store. When you download Chick, Apple processes your purchase and download under its own privacy policy, and we don't receive your name or Apple Account details.
If you buy Chick Premium (a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase), Apple handles the payment through the App Store. We never see your card or payment details. Chick asks Apple, on your device, which purchases are active so it can unlock Premium, and that check doesn't send us anything. You can manage or cancel a subscription in Settings › your name › Subscriptions.
If you have chosen to Share With App Developers in Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements, Apple may give us crash reports and app usage statistics. Apple collects these, they aren't linked to you, and we only use them to find and fix bugs. You can turn this off at any time in the same place.
09When you contact us
If you email us, we receive your email address and whatever you choose to include in your message. We use this only to reply to you, to help with your question. We don't add you to a mailing list, and we don't share your message. We delete support emails when they're no longer needed to help you, and within 12 months at the latest.
Please don't send sensitive personal information by email. We will never ask for your password.
10This website
The Chick website uses no cookies, no analytics and no advertising or social media scripts. Fonts and images are served from the site itself, so your browser doesn't contact other companies when you visit. The theme you choose and anything you try on the page stay in your browser and disappear when you close it.
Like any website, the server that delivers these pages may keep standard technical logs, such as IP address, browser type and the time of the request, to keep the site running and secure. We don't use these logs to identify you.
11Children
Chick is a general-audience app and isn't directed at children under 13. Because the app doesn't collect personal information from anyone, it doesn't knowingly collect information from children. If you believe a child has sent us personal information by email, contact us and we'll delete it.
12Security
Your Chick data is protected by the security of your device: the app sandbox, your passcode and Face ID or Touch ID, and iOS data protection. When iCloud sync becomes available, Apple will encrypt your synced data in transit and on its servers. Keeping your device locked with a passcode is the best way to keep your habits private.
13Keeping and deleting your data
Your data stays on your device for as long as you keep the app. You can delete it at any time:
- Erase everything: in Chick, go to Settings › Your data › Erase everything. This deletes all habits, logs, projects, events and focus history. It can't be undone.
- Delete the app: removing Chick from your device removes the data stored on that device.
Because we don't hold your app data, we can't recover it for you, and there's nothing for us to delete on our side.
14Your rights
Depending on where you live, privacy laws such as Canada's PIPEDA and provincial laws, the EU and UK GDPR, and US state laws including the California Consumer Privacy Act give you rights to access, correct, delete or move your personal information, and to object to how it's used.
Since your app data stays on your device, you can use these rights directly: view and edit everything in the app, export it as CSV, or erase it. For anything we do hold, which is only email you've sent us, write to habit30support@gmail.com and we'll respond within 30 days. You also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.
We don't sell or share personal information as those terms are defined under California law, and we don't use it for targeted advertising.
15Changes to this policy
If we change how Chick handles information, we'll update this page and the "Last updated" date at the top. If a change is significant, such as the arrival of iCloud sync or any future feature that sends data off your device, we'll explain it in the app before it takes effect and ask for your permission where required. We'll also update the App Store privacy label to match.
16Contact
Questions, requests or feedback about privacy are welcome.