HabitHops ("we", "us", "the app") is a habit-tracking app that parents and guardians use to help their children build routines. Protecting your family's privacy is central to how the app is built: it is local-first, shows no behavioral advertising, uses no third-party tracking SDKs, and never sells your data.
This policy explains what we collect, how we use it, and the choices and rights you have, including parent controls for child profile information.
HabitHops is operated by a parent or guardian (18+), who creates the account and sets up profiles for their child(ren). A parent account is required to use the app, so the parent always sets it up first. Children do not create accounts or provide information directly to us; a parent enters and controls all data.
We collect the minimum needed to run the app:
We do not collect location, contacts, advertising identifiers, proof photo files, proof audio files, or behavioral analytics about children.
We do not sell personal information, and we do not use it for behavioral advertising.
HabitHops is designed to be set up and managed by a parent or guardian. Child profiles are created and managed through the parent/grown-up experience. Because the app is used in family settings:
If you believe a child has provided us information without parental consent, contact us and we will delete it.
We use Google Firebase (including Authentication, Cloud Firestore, Crashlytics, App Check, and Firebase service-operation tooling) to provide sign-in, cloud sync, crash reporting, security, and reliability. Firebase App Check helps us verify that sensitive requests are coming from legitimate instances of the app and helps prevent abuse.
We also rely on Apple for App Store purchases on iOS and on Apple or other platform speech-recognition services where you choose to use speech recognition. These providers process information under their own terms and policies. We do not use advertising processors, and we do not sell personal information.
Completion "proof" photos are stored only on your device — they are never uploaded to our servers, never analyzed, and never shared by HabitHops.
HabitHops can also record short voice/audio proof clips. Those audio recordings are stored locally on your device and are not uploaded to Firebase or the HabitHops backend.
Separately, optional speech recognition may use operating-system or platform speech-recognition services to turn speech into text or confirm a short check-in phrase. On Apple devices this may involve Apple's Speech services. That processing is subject to the platform or service behavior. HabitHops does not store speech-recognition audio on our servers.
HabitHops requires a parent account to use. Your progress data (kid profiles, habits, routines, completion records, points/rewards, reminders, and settings) is synced to your private Firebase account so it can be restored if you switch or replace a device. This sync excludes proof photo files and proof audio files, which stay on your device (see §6). No personal information is collected until a parent has created the account and accepted this policy.
HabitHops offers Premium through monthly and annual auto-renewable subscriptions, a lifetime one-time purchase, and a Family Lifetime one-time purchase.
On iOS, purchases are processed through Apple's App Store. Apple handles payment and payment-card information; HabitHops does not receive or store full payment-card details. HabitHops receives and processes transaction information needed to verify purchases and maintain your Premium entitlement. Our backend may communicate with Apple's App Store Server API for authoritative purchase verification. Subscription billing, renewal, cancellation, and applicable refunds are governed and processed through Apple as appropriate.
We keep account and synced app data while your account is active. Deleting your account removes the associated synced app-state records from our servers and deletes the Firebase Authentication account. Local proof photos, local proof audio clips, and other local app data on that device are removed by the app's account-deletion/reset flow, or when you delete the app.
Some limited records may be retained where needed for purchase and transaction verification, fraud or abuse prevention, security, legal or accounting obligations, or backup and recovery processes.
We use industry-standard measures (encrypted transport, access controls via Firebase). No system is perfectly secure, but we limit collection to reduce risk.
Data processed by Firebase, Apple, and other platform services may be stored and processed on infrastructure in the countries or regions where those providers operate. We do not promise India-only storage or a specific data-residency region.
If we make material changes we will update the version above and prompt parents to review and re-consent on next use.
Questions or privacy/COPPA requests: privacy@habithops.com
Data controller: HabitHops.