Privacy policy
In short
- Your profile, goals, step history, game progress and health data are stored on your phone.
- Data from Health Connect (Android), Apple Health (iPhone) and from watches never leaves your phone.
- If you turn on GPS walks, your location is used to measure walks (on Android also when a walk is detected while the app is closed; on iPhone only during walks you start), and your routes stay on your phone unless you choose to put one in a picture you share.
- Medicines, doctor appointments, blood pressure and blood sugar readings, meals and calories, sleep, mood check-ins, personal challenges, water, weight and day notes you log stay on your phone (and in your own Google sync backup if you turn it on).
- If you scan a meal in the calorie tracker, that one photo is sent to an AI service (Claude, by Anthropic) to recognise the food. It is not stored by us and never used for ads.
- Online features (Together: friends, clubs, races, challenges, leaderboards) are optional. If you use them, a small set of data is stored on Google Firebase servers in the United States.
- The free Android version shows a banner ad on the Play tab (personalised only if you agree); the iPhone app shows no ads. We do not sell your data and never use health data for advertising.
- Usage statistics (which screens you open and which buttons you tap) are only collected if you choose to allow them, and can be turned off any time.
- You can export and delete your data in the app at any time.
- Sync is optional: if you sign in with Google (or, on iPhone, with Apple), a backup of your Accurate Step Counter with Cal data (never photos, walk routes, Health Connect or Apple Health data) is kept online so you can restore it on another phone.
This policy explains what the Accurate Step Counter with Cal apps for Android and iPhone (“Accurate Step Counter with Cal”, “we”, “us”) do with your information. Where the two differ, the policy says so. If you have questions, write to dealskhazanacontact@gmail.com.
1. Data that stays on your phone
Accurate Step Counter with Cal stores the following only on your phone. It is not sent to us or to anyone else.
- Profile: year of birth, sex, height and weight, used to estimate distance, calories and stride length.
- Steps: steps counted by your phone’s step sensor, per minute and per day, plus active minutes.
- Progress photos you take or choose: saved only inside the app’s private storage on your phone (not in your gallery, not in backups), never uploaded or shared. Accurate Step Counter with Cal uses your phone’s camera app and the system photo picker, so it doesn’t need camera or photo-library permission.
- Goals, streaks, settings and game progress (XP, ranks, Sprout items, quests, badges).
- Health Connect data, if you allow it: steps, heart rate, resting heart rate, sleep, weight, blood pressure and blood glucose. Accurate Step Counter with Cal only reads this data (it never writes to Health Connect) and does not keep its own copy.
- Activity recognition: if you turn on “Pause while driving”, Android’s activity recognition tells the app on your phone when you are in a vehicle so those steps can be removed. Accurate Step Counter with Cal does not store or send this.
- Walk routes (GPS), only if you turn it on: during a walk, Accurate Step Counter with Cal uses your phone’s precise location to measure the walk’s distance and pace. If you allow location “all the time”, the app also starts measuring by itself when it notices you walking (about 150 steps in 2 minutes), even while the app is closed, shows a notification while it does, and stops after 3 minutes without moving. Location is also used to learn your stride length, to pause counting while you are in a vehicle and to notice steps taken without moving. The route points are stored only on your phone, are deleted automatically after 90 days (or at any time in Me → Advanced settings → Delete all routes) and are never uploaded, shared, included in Google sync or used for advertising. The only effect online: steps from a walk where GPS saw almost no movement are left out of the daily total sent to leaderboards.
- On iPhone: steps come from the iPhone’s own motion sensor (Motion & Fitness permission). GPS walks use “While Using the App” location and only run during walks you start; the app never asks for location “Always” and has no automatic GPS walks. Route maps are drawn with Apple Maps, which receives only requests for map images of the area shown (never your route).
- Sharing a walk with its route (optional): when you share a walk as a picture and tick “Include my route and location”, the picture contains the map of that walk and the name of the area (town or district). To find the area name, the start point of the walk is looked up with your phone’s built-in geocoder (Google on Android, Apple on iPhone). Nothing is sent to us; the picture goes only where you choose to send it. Without the tick, shared pictures never contain your route or location.
- Reminder settings for local notifications. Reminders are created on your phone.
- Medicines and doctor appointments you add: medicine names, doses, times, pill counts, an optional photo of the box, which doses you marked taken or skipped, and appointments (doctor or clinic, date, place, phone, notes). Medicine and appointment reminders are scheduled on your phone. “Add to calendar” opens your phone’s calendar app; Accurate Step Counter with Cal has no calendar permission.
- Sleep nights you log (bedtime, wake-up time, how well you slept, your mood, notes) and your sleep goal and bedtime reminder.
- Mood check-ins you log (how you feel from 1 to 5, the feelings you pick, an optional note) and your check-in reminder.
- Water, weight and day notes you log (for example a note that you were sick on a day).
- Meals and calories you log in the calorie tracker: the foods, grams, calories and nutrients, which meal and when.
Exception, only if you choose it: with sync on (Google, or Apple on iPhone), a backup copy of your profile, goals, settings, step history, game progress, weight log, medicines, appointments, blood pressure and blood sugar readings you typed in, meals, sleep log, mood check-ins and day notes is kept online for you (see “Google sync” in section 3). Photos, walk routes, Health Connect and Apple Health data are never included.
Meal photo scan (calorie tracker, optional)
When you tap “Take a photo” or “Choose a photo” in the calorie tracker (and agree the first time), Accurate Step Counter with Cal makes a small copy of that one photo on your phone and sends it, over an encrypted connection, through our server (Google Firebase, United States) to Claude, an AI service from Anthropic, which lists the foods it sees with estimated amounts, calories and nutrients (such as fibre and vitamins). Anthropic processes the photo for us as a service provider to return that list; under its terms for business customers it does not use the photo to train its models. We do not store the photo: it is not saved on our server or in backups, and it is never used for advertising. On your phone, only a small copy is kept as the meal’s picture in your meal list, in app storage that is excluded from backups; it is deleted when you delete the meal or your local data. The list comes back to your phone, and nothing is saved until you check it and tap Save. Our server only counts how many scans each account and phone made today (to keep a daily limit), using your Firebase user ID and the same one-way hash of the Android ID used for the free trial. Calories are estimates for everyday logging, not medical or diet advice. If you tap “Report a wrong result”, the food list and your comment (not the photo) are sent to us like a feature request (see section 3).
Packaged food. “Scan barcode” uses Google’s code scanner (inside Google Play services, so the app needs no camera permission) and sends only the barcode number through our server to Open Food Facts, the open food database, to look up the product and its nutrition values; nothing about you is sent to Open Food Facts, and we only count lookups per account per day. “Read the label” photographs a nutrition table and reads its text on your phone with on-device text recognition (Google’s on Android, Apple’s on iPhone): that photo never leaves your phone and is not saved. Product data comes from Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org) under the Open Database License.
Accurate Step Counter with Cal does not collect your location (GPS walk routes stay on your phone, see above), contacts or photos (except a meal photo you choose to scan, see above). The advertising ID is used only by the ad SDK on Android (section 6), and a one-way hash of your phone’s Android ID (on iPhone, of a random ID the app keeps in the iPhone’s Keychain) is used only for the free trial (section 5).
App lock (optional)
If you turn on App lock (Me → Advanced settings), Accurate Step Counter with Cal stores on your phone only: a salted hash of your 4-digit PIN, the recovery email you enter, and a master key that is encrypted with your phone's Android Keystore (on iPhone: kept in the iPhone’s Keychain, only on this device, never in iCloud). On iPhone you can also unlock with Face ID; the app never sees your face data. None of this is sent anywhere while you use the app.
Only if you tap Forgot PIN and enter that same recovery email, Accurate Step Counter with Cal sends us your recovery email, your master key and basic details to identify the request (your anonymous app ID, your Together nickname and friend code if you have a profile, app version, phone model and language). Our team uses them only to send the master key back to that email by hand. The request is deleted after 30 days, or when you delete your account. After you unlock with the master key, the app creates a new master key, so the one you were sent stops working.
Usage statistics (optional)
After setup Accurate Step Counter with Cal asks once whether you want to share anonymous usage statistics. Nothing is collected unless you tap Allow, and you can change your choice at any time in Me → Privacy and data.
If you allow it, Accurate Step Counter with Cal uses Google Analytics for Firebase (Google LLC) to collect:
- which screens you open, how long you spend on them, and a short list of button taps (for example Start walk, Hear your day, opening the leaderboard);
- basic device and app details that the Firebase SDK adds: phone model, Android or iOS version, app version, language, an app-instance ID created for analytics, and approximate country or city that Google derives from your IP address (Google does not give us your IP address).
It never includes your steps, distance, calories, weight, heart rate, sleep, Health Connect data, location or walk routes, progress photos, nickname or anything you type. Accurate Step Counter with Cal turns off the advertising ID, ad storage and ad personalisation signals, and the statistics are never used for advertising or linked to Google Ads. We use them only to understand which features people use and to improve the app. Google keeps this data for up to 14 months under the retention setting we choose. See Google's privacy policy.
2. Health Connect
Accurate Step Counter with Cal’s use of information received from Health Connect adheres to the Health Connect Permissions policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Health Connect data is used only to show you your own health and activity charts and insights inside the app, for example your steps, resting heart rate, weight trend and, in the sleep tracker, each night’s sleep and sleep stages from your watch or another app, and in the blood pressure and blood sugar trackers, readings from your monitor’s, glucose meter’s or CGM app (each only after you tap Connect or Sync). It is never sent to our servers, never shared with friends, clubs or leaderboards, never sold, and never used for advertising or to decide credit or insurance. Step totals shared online (section 3) come only from your phone’s own step sensor, never from Health Connect or a watch.
Apple Health (iPhone)
On iPhone, Accurate Step Counter with Cal can read, only after you allow it in the Apple Health permission screen: steps, heart rate, resting heart rate, sleep, weight, blood pressure and blood glucose. It only reads (it never writes to Apple Health) and does not keep its own copy. The same rules as for Health Connect apply: Apple Health data is used only to show you your own charts and insights in the app, is never sent to our servers or to any other company, never shared with friends, clubs or leaderboards, never included in sync backups or iCloud, never sold, and never used for advertising, marketing, analytics or to decide credit or insurance. You can change what the app may read at any time in the Health app → Sharing → Apps.
3. Data stored online (only if you join Together)
Nothing is stored online until you open Together, choose a nickname and accept the community rules. Then Accurate Step Counter with Cal creates an anonymous account (a random user ID; no email address, phone number or real name) and stores:
| Data | Why | Who can see it |
|---|---|---|
| Nickname, avatar (chosen from preset pictures), country | To show you to friends, clubs and on leaderboards | People you connect with; also strangers on Country and Global boards if you turn that on |
| Year of birth | To check you are at least 13 and to place you in an age-group board (other people see only the age group) | Not shown to others |
| Friend code, sharing choices, the date you accepted the community rules | To run your account | You choose who to give your friend code to |
| Daily step totals from your phone’s step sensor (the last 7 days, updated while the app is open), only while “Share my daily steps” is on | Friends, clubs, duels, weekly leagues and leaderboards; days over 60,000 steps are flagged as unusual | Friends, club members and, if you turn it on, Country and Global boards |
| Your game XP (sent with your step totals, only while “Share my daily steps” is on) | To show your rank icon next to your nickname on boards and in friends lists; it can only grow by a limited amount each day | The same people who see your steps |
| How many game badges you earned (sent with your step totals, only while “Share my daily steps” is on), and whether you have a paid Premium subscription (from the check described in section 5) | To show the badge count when someone taps you on a board, and a “Supporter” tag next to paying supporters | The same people who see your steps |
| Live race progress: steps counted by your phone’s sensor since a race you joined started | To run the race | The other people in that race |
| Online challenges you create or join (Play → Challenges): the type, dates and preset name, your daily step totals on the challenge’s days, how you placed and the challenge badges you win | To run the challenges, rank everyone and give badges | Everyone in that challenge. Official and public challenges can be seen by anyone in the app; there, if your profile isn’t public, others see “Private walker” instead of your nickname. A public challenge you create shows your nickname as its creator. |
| Friends and friend requests, clubs (including club names you create), races, duels, Hot Potato games, league groups, cheers (preset only, no messages), blocks and reports | To run these features and keep the community safe | The people involved; reports are seen only by the Accurate Step Counter with Cal team |
You can turn off step sharing and public boards at any time in Me → Account and sharing. When sharing is off, no step totals are sent.
Messages you send with “Request a feature”
If you send a message from Me → Request a feature (you don’t need to join Together for this; the app creates the same kind of anonymous account if you don’t have one), we store: the type you picked, the title and details you typed, your email address only if you choose to add one, the app version, your phone’s system (Android) and the app language, with your anonymous user ID and the time. No step counts, health data, weight or photos are sent. Only the Accurate Step Counter with Cal team reads these messages, to improve the app and, if you added your email, to reply to you. They are never shown publicly, sold or used for advertising. They are deleted when you delete your account; otherwise we keep them for as long as they are useful for improving Accurate Step Counter with Cal, up to two years.
Sync: sign in with Google or Apple, backup and restore
Google sync (Me → Google sync) is optional. If you sign in with Google, Accurate Step Counter with Cal receives your Google account’s email address, name and a Google account ID from Google. They are used only to sign you in, show which account you are using and let you get your data back on another phone (account management). Your existing Accurate Step Counter with Cal online account (friends, clubs) is linked to your Google account. Accurate Step Counter with Cal gets nothing else from your Google account (no contacts, Drive files or other data).
While you are signed in, Accurate Step Counter with Cal keeps one backup for you, made when you tap “Back up now” and automatically about every 6 hours when you use the app. The backup contains your profile (year of birth, sex, height, weight), goals and goal history, settings and reminder settings, step corrections, daily step totals and active minutes for the last 400 days, game progress, walk-game progress, your weight and water logs, day notes, medicines with their dose history and doctor appointments, your sleep log and your mood check-ins. It never contains progress or medicine photos, walk routes, Health Connect, Apple Health or watch data (heart rate, watch sleep and others) or your purchase status. The backup is encrypted in transit, stored on Google Firebase servers in the United States and can only be read by your own signed-in account through Accurate Step Counter with Cal’s server; it is never shown to other people, sold or used for advertising. Delete it at any time in Me → Google sync → Delete backup; deleting your account deletes it too. Signing out keeps your data on the phone and the backup online until you delete it.
Sign in with Apple (iPhone). On iPhone you can sign in with Apple instead of Google. Apple gives us a user ID for your Apple account and, only the first time and only if you agree, your name and an email address (you can choose Apple’s “Hide My Email” relay address). They are used only to sign you in and get your data back, exactly like Google sign-in above. When you delete your account, the app also asks Apple to remove Accurate Step Counter with Cal’s access to your Apple account.
4. Service provider: Google Firebase
Online data is stored and processed by Google Firebase (Firebase Authentication, Cloud Firestore and Cloud Functions), operated by Google LLC, in the United States. To block fake apps, Firebase App Check asks Google Play Integrity (Android) or Apple App Attest (iPhone) to confirm that requests come from the real app; this sends no personal data beyond a technical check of the app and device. Google acts as our data processor (service provider) and handles the data only on our behalf. Like any internet service, Google’s servers receive your IP address and basic technical request information to deliver the service; we do not use them to track you. Data is encrypted in transit (HTTPS). Apart from the optional usage statistics above and the ads in section 6, Accurate Step Counter with Cal uses no tracking tools.
5. Premium subscription
If you subscribe to Accurate Step Counter with Cal Premium, the payment is handled entirely by Google Play (Android) or the Apple App Store (iPhone). We never receive your payment details. To give Premium perks that run on our server (the higher daily meal scan limit and the “Supporter” tag), the app sends your subscription’s Google Play purchase token (on iPhone, the App Store subscription’s transaction ID) to our server, which asks Google Play (or Apple) whether it is paid and until when. We keep only the end date, the plan and a one-way fingerprint of the token, linked to your account, and delete them when you delete your account. Premium removes ads and adds cosmetic extras; it never changes rankings or rewards.
Free 3-day Premium trial
You can try Premium free for 3 days without any payment details, once per phone. Only when you tap “Start my free trial” (or open the offer), the app sends our server a one-way hash of your phone’s Android ID (on iPhone, of a random ID the app keeps in the Keychain; never the ID itself) with your anonymous user ID. The server keeps the start and end of your trial so that it can’t be started again after reinstalling. This is used only to prevent abuse (fraud prevention), never for advertising, and is deleted when you delete your account. Nothing is charged when the trial ends; Premium simply turns off.
6. Ads (free version) and no selling
The iPhone app shows no ads and contains no ad SDK. On Android, the free version shows a banner ad on the Play tab using Google AdMob (Google LLC). Before any ad is shown, Google’s consent form asks for your choice where the law requires it; ads are personalised only if you agree, and you can change your choice in Me → Privacy and data → Ad privacy choices. To show and measure ads and prevent ad fraud, the AdMob SDK on your phone collects your advertising ID, app-set ID, IP address (and the rough location Google derives from it), ad views and taps, and basic device and diagnostic information, and sends them to Google. See how Google uses information from apps that use its services. Premium users see no ads.
The ad SDK never receives your steps, health data, sleep, mood, medicines, weight, walk routes, photos or nickname. We do not sell, rent or trade your personal data, and we never use health or activity data for advertising.
7. Wellness, not medical
Accurate Step Counter with Cal is a wellness app, not a medical device. Steps, distance, calories, active minutes and other numbers are estimates to help you stay active. They are not medical advice and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease or condition. Talk to a doctor before starting a new exercise programme. Medicine reminders are a reminder tool only: always follow your doctor’s instructions; the app never suggests doses. The sleep tracker is a wellness record, not a medical device. The mood tracker is a personal wellness diary: it does not diagnose or treat any condition and is not a substitute for professional help.
8. Children
Accurate Step Counter with Cal is not for children under 13. The app asks for your year of birth during setup and does not let anyone under 13 continue, and the online features check the age again. If you believe a child under 13 has given us data, write to dealskhazanacontact@gmail.com and we will delete it.
9. How long we keep data
- On your phone: until you delete it in the app (Me → Privacy and data → Delete data on this phone), clear the app’s storage or uninstall the app.
- Online: as long as your account exists. When you delete your account, your profile, step totals, friends, club memberships, duels, cheers, blocks, your reports, league and leaderboard entries are deleted right away. Finished races keep their results without your name or ID.
- Reports that other people made about your nickname or club may be kept for as long as needed to handle them.
- Google sync backup: one backup, replaced each time you back up, kept until you delete it (Me → Google sync → Delete backup) or delete your account. Your Google email address is kept with your account until you delete it.
- Feature requests and feedback you sent are deleted with your account; otherwise they are kept for up to two years.
10. Your choices and rights
- Export: Me → Privacy and data → Export my data creates a file with everything Accurate Step Counter with Cal stores on your phone, and Me → Export data saves your walks, daily totals, medicines, sleep and mood as CSV files where you choose.
- Correct: change your profile in Me, and your nickname and avatar in Me → Account and sharing.
- Stop sharing: turn off “Share my daily steps” or public boards in Me → Account and sharing.
- Ads: change your ad consent in Me → Privacy and data → Ad privacy choices, or reset or delete your advertising ID in Android settings.
- Delete your online account: Me → Account and sharing → Delete my account. If you no longer have the app, see Delete account.
- Google sync: sign out or delete your backup in Me → Google sync at any time. You can also remove Accurate Step Counter with Cal’s access in your Google Account settings (Security → Your connections to third-party apps and services).
- Delete data on your phone: Me → Privacy and data → Delete data on this phone, or uninstall the app.
- Permissions: you can withdraw Health Connect, physical activity, location and notification permissions at any time in Android settings; on iPhone, Apple Health access in the Health app and Motion & Fitness, location, notifications, camera and Face ID in the iPhone’s Settings app.
Depending on where you live (for example the EU, UK or California), you may have further rights, such as to access a copy of your online data, object to processing or complain to a data protection authority. Write to dealskhazanacontact@gmail.com and we will answer within 30 days.
11. Security
Online data is sent over encrypted connections. Our database rules block direct access to other people’s data; every request goes through our server code, which checks it. No system is perfectly secure, but we keep the data we hold to a minimum.
12. Changes
If we change this policy, we will update the effective date above and, for important changes, tell you in the app before they take effect.