1. Information used by the app
To provide personalized hydration tracking, SipPal Water may use information you choose to enter and information created as you use the app, including:
- Profile information: age, gender selection, weight, preferred name, and your penguin’s name.
- Routine and lifestyle information: wake time, bedtime, activity level, sweating, habits, barriers, motivations, and relevant environment selections.
- Hydration information: daily goals, water intake records, cup size, reminders, progress history, and achievements.
- Health-limitation selection: whether a healthcare professional has asked you to limit fluids, and a clinician-set goal if you choose that path.
2. How SipPal Water uses this information
SipPal Water uses this information on your device to estimate a general daily hydration goal, show daily and weekly progress, schedule reminders, personalize encouragement, and calculate achievement progress.
Hydration estimates are general wellness guidance. They are not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
3. Storage, Apple Health, Photos and ratings
Your profile, routine, hydration records, goals, reminders, achievements and pet progress are stored locally. SipPal Water does not send these data to our servers or an app-managed cloud database.
Apple Health sync is optional and off by default. With your permission, SipPal Water writes plain-water records and reads Water records from Apple Health for totals, reminders, widgets and habit progress. Health Water records can include drinks other than plain water. Health data are not used for advertising. Turning off sync keeps existing records. Manage imported records and permissions in Health. Apple may sync Health data across your devices according to your Apple settings; Apple controls this independently.
Your operating system may include app data in a system-level device backup according to your backup settings. SipPal Water does not control those backups.
Version 1.20 does not offer iCloud Settings Sync. Previously enabled settings sync is stopped, without changing your local language or units. Historical copies of those two preferences in iCloud are not automatically deleted. Core features do not require an account.
When you choose Save Image, SipPal Water requests permission to add the generated sharing card to Photos; it does not read your photo library. Sharing uses the iOS share sheet, and you choose the destination and what to send. The destination service handles shared content under its own privacy practices.
SipPal Water records goal-day milestones and whether an automatic rating request has been made locally to avoid repeated prompts. Apple controls whether its system rating prompt appears and handles ratings and reviews. SipPal Water cannot see whether you dismiss the prompt or what rating you choose.
4. Notifications
If you allow notifications, SipPal Water schedules hydration reminders using your selected waking hours, interval, and profile preferences. Notification permission can be changed at any time in your device settings.
5. Advertising, analytics, and third parties
The current version of SipPal Water does not use third-party advertising or analytics services to receive your profile, lifestyle, or hydration records. SipPal Water does not sell this information. Apple Health, Photos, App Store and sharing destinations operate as described above under their providers’ privacy practices.
If you email support, your email address and the information you include are transmitted through your email provider and our email service provider. We use support messages only to respond, troubleshoot, protect the service, and retain necessary correspondence.
6. This website
This website does not set advertising cookies or use behavioral analytics. Hosting infrastructure may process standard technical request data—such as IP address, user agent, and request time—to deliver and secure the website.
7. Children’s privacy
SipPal Water is intended for users aged 16 and older. We do not knowingly request personal information from children under 16. If you believe a child has sent information to us through support, contact us so we can take appropriate action.
8. Security and retention
We take reasonable measures to protect information we control, but no electronic storage or transmission method is completely secure. Core app data remains on your device until you delete individual records, reset SipPal Water, remove the app, or your operating system handles it through a device backup.
9. Your choices and rights
You can edit profile and preference information in SipPal Water, remove individual hydration records, disable notifications, manage Health and Photos permissions, or reset all local SipPal Water data from Data Management. Depending on your location, you may also have legal rights regarding support communications or other information we hold.
10. Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy as SipPal Water changes or legal requirements evolve. We will revise the effective date on this page when we make changes.
11. Contact and operator
SipPal Water is operated by chen quan. For privacy questions or requests, contact carsonstudio.apps@gmail.com.