BeatTheHour Privacy Policy

What BeatTheHour Does

BeatTheHour is an iPhone and Apple Watch app that helps you build each active hour with short movement goals. You configure active hours, reminder timing, active days, movement duration, and step goal on your iPhone. Your Apple Watch receives those settings, sends local reminders, checks your movement during the current hour, and records whether each hour was built.

BeatTheHour does not use a server account, analytics service, advertising service, or third-party tracking SDK.

Data Collected by Igney

BeatTheHour does not collect personal data from you. Your app data stays on your devices and is not sent to Igney or to any third party.

Data Stored on Your Devices

iPhone

BeatTheHour stores your app settings locally on your iPhone, including active hours, active days, reminder timing, step goal, movement duration, and pause state.

Your iPhone also stores synced BeatTheHour results from your Apple Watch so the iPhone Today screen and history views can display your built hours.

These settings and results are synced only between your own iPhone and paired Apple Watch using Apple's WatchConnectivity framework.

Apple Watch

BeatTheHour stores your settings, reminder schedule, and built-hour history locally on your Apple Watch. The Watch app uses this information to decide when to remind you and whether the current hour has already been built.

BeatTheHour also stores a small local status snapshot for the Watch complication so the watch face can show a simple status such as Move, Built, Off, or Open. This snapshot stays on your Apple Watch and is shared only between the BeatTheHour Watch app and its complication using Apple's App Group storage.

HealthKit

BeatTheHour uses HealthKit on iPhone only.

iPhone - Daily Step Totals

BeatTheHour reads your step count from Apple Health for these purposes:

• Today's steps: your step total for the current day is shown on the Today screen.
• Recent days: recent step totals may be shown in history views.

Step totals are read on demand. BeatTheHour does not track your steps continuously in the background.

You will be asked for Health permission before BeatTheHour reads step totals from Apple Health. You can grant or deny this permission without affecting the Apple Watch hourly movement check.

Apple Watch

BeatTheHour does not use HealthKit on Apple Watch.

BeatTheHour does not start workout sessions, does not save workouts, and does not write step data, workouts, or any other health data to Apple Health.

Motion and Fitness

BeatTheHour uses the Apple Watch motion sensor through Apple's Core Motion framework to evaluate movement for the current hour. The Watch app checks whether your step goal was reached within your configured movement duration during the current active hour.

BeatTheHour does not silently monitor your movement all day. The Watch app checks movement when you open the app, respond to a reminder, or when the Watch app is otherwise active.

Motion data is used only to determine BeatTheHour results on your Apple Watch. BeatTheHour does not use Motion and Fitness data for advertising, marketing, analytics, or third-party sharing.

You can manage Motion and Fitness permission in iOS Settings under Privacy & Security.

Notifications

BeatTheHour requests permission to send local notifications on Apple Watch. These notifications are hourly reminders during your configured active hours.

No notifications are sent from a server. All BeatTheHour reminders are generated locally on your Apple Watch.

You can manage notification permissions in Apple Watch notification settings or in iPhone Settings.

Watch Complication

BeatTheHour includes an Apple Watch complication. The complication is a launcher and simple status glance. It may show whether the current hour is ready to move, built, off, or not yet available.

The complication does not count live steps, does not show total daily steps, does not run movement detection, and does not send data anywhere.

Data Sharing

BeatTheHour does not share your data with any third party. There are no analytics SDKs, advertising SDKs, crash reporting services, or backend services embedded in BeatTheHour.

Data Sale

BeatTheHour does not sell your personal data or your health data.

Third-Party Services

BeatTheHour does not use third-party services, frameworks, or SDKs beyond Apple's own system frameworks, such as SwiftUI, HealthKit, Core Motion, UserNotifications, WatchConnectivity, and WidgetKit.

Data Retention and Deletion

All BeatTheHour app data is stored locally on your devices.

To delete your BeatTheHour data, delete the BeatTheHour app from your iPhone and Apple Watch.

If you granted Health permission, you can manage or revoke that permission at any time in Apple Health or iOS Settings.

Children's Privacy

BeatTheHour is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data from children.

Changes to This Policy

If this policy changes materially, the updated policy will be posted on the BeatTheHour privacy policy page before the change takes effect.

Contact

Questions about this privacy policy:

Email: [email protected]
Website: igney.com