Your data stays on your phone.

Who makes Step Buddy

Step Buddy is published by Dwi Randy Herdinanto, an individual developer based in Indonesia. You can reach the publisher at dwirandyherdinanto@gmail.com.

What is stored on your phone

Step Buddy keeps these on your phone, in the app's private storage:

• Steps, distance and your daily goal
• Your age, height and weight, used to estimate distance and calories
• Reminders
• Water and weight logs
• Heart-rate readings
• Journey progress, such as your buddy, level, streak and stickers

The app does not ask for your location, contacts, or any other personal identifiers.

What can leave your phone

There is no Step Buddy server. The publisher does not collect, receive, sell or share your steps, heart rate, weight or any other data.

• Backup, if you turn it on. The backup file is saved to the private app-data folder of your own Google Drive. Google sign-in is used only for this, and only with access to that app-data folder. Google's privacy policy applies to data in your Google account.
• Purchases. If you buy Premium, the purchase is handled by Google Play. Step Buddy only learns whether your Premium pass is active.
• Health Connect, if you allow it. Step Buddy writes steps and distance to Health Connect on your phone so other apps you choose can read them. It does not read any data from Health Connect and does not write other data there.

Permissions

Step Buddy can ask for these, each for one job:

• Physical activity to count your steps.
• Notifications for reminders and the step counter notification.
• Health foreground service so counting keeps going while the app is closed.
• Camera only while you measure your heart rate. No photo or video is saved.
• Start after restart so counting can resume when your phone turns back on.
• Health Connect: write steps and distance, only if you allow it.
• Network access for Google Play purchases and Google Drive backup.

Ads and accounts

Step Buddy does not include an advertising or analytics SDK and does not show ads. There is no Step Buddy account.

Heart rate

Heart-rate readings are taken with your camera and a fingertip when you choose to measure. The camera frames are processed on your phone and discarded right away; only the resulting number is saved. Readings are for general wellness and are not medical readings.

Deleting your data

• On your phone: uninstall Step Buddy, or open Android Settings → Apps → Step Buddy → Storage → Clear storage. This removes everything the app stored.
• Drive backup: open Google Drive on the web, go to Settings → Manage apps, find Step Buddy and choose Delete hidden app data.
• Health Connect: steps and distance already written there can be removed from the Health Connect app.

Because the publisher holds no copy of your data, there is nothing to delete on our side.

Children

Step Buddy is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data from them. Since no data is sent to the publisher, no child's data is held by us.

Changes to this policy

If the app starts handling data differently, for example by adding ads, this page will be updated before that version is released, and the effective date above will change.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email dwirandyherdinanto@gmail.com.