HiveHabits Privacy Policy

Last updated: 28 October 2026

HiveHabits is a habit tracker and life planner made by HiveThoughts Technologies Private Limited, a company incorporated in India, of Madurai, Tamil Nadu ("HiveThoughts", "we", "us" below). This policy explains what happens to your information when you use HiveHabits on Android or iPhone.

The short version: your habits, goals, tasks, notes, health measurements and everything else you enter stay on your phone. HiveHabits has no account and no sign-in, and contains no analytics or crash-reporting tools. The free version shows ads from Google after your first 30 days; Premium never does. The few things that leave your phone are listed in section 3.

1. Who is responsible

HiveThoughts is responsible for HiveHabits and for the information described in section 3 that comes to us. For advertising in the free version, Google is responsible for what its ads service collects (section 3.1). Contact us at admin@hivethoughts.in for anything in this policy, including the requests in section 7.

2. What stays on your phone

Everything you enter is stored only in HiveHabits' private storage on your phone. We never receive it. This includes:

• habits, the days you ticked them, rest days, amounts and notes;
• goals for the year, month and week, daily tasks, your journey and notes;
• your daily log: sleep, water, mood and reflections;
• health measurements you choose to record, such as weight, height, body fat, blood pressure and blood sugar;
• meal plans, month-end reviews, wealth figures, your vision board and lists;
• your name, settings, LifeScore priorities and reminders;
• the app lock PIN, stored only as a salted one-way hash, never as the number you type.

Photos you add to your vision board are chosen by you through your phone's photo picker. HiveHabits copies only the photo you pick into its own storage; it never reads the rest of your library and never uploads anything.

Fingerprint and Face ID / face unlock are handled by your phone's operating system. HiveHabits only learns whether the check passed.

Reminders are scheduled on your phone. No server sends them.

Backups and the PDF planner are files you create and send where you choose, using your phone's share sheet. We never see them. A backup holds your records but not your photos. Your phone's own system backup (Google or iCloud), if turned on, may include HiveHabits' data; that is between you and Google or Apple.

Because we never receive this information, we cannot recover it if you lose your phone without a backup, and we cannot see it even if you ask us to.

3. What leaves your phone, and why

3.1 Ads in the free version (Google AdMob)

For your first 30 days HiveHabits shows no ads, and the ads service is not even started. After that, the free version shows full-screen ads between screens, and from day 60 offers an optional short video to open some extras for the day. These ads come from Google AdMob. When the ads service runs, Google's software in the app collects information to show and measure ads, such as your device's advertising identifier (on Android), IP address, device and app information, and how you interact with ads. Google's use of this is described at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

• Nothing you enter in HiveHabits is passed to Google — no habit, goal, note, health figure or name. Ad requests carry no information from your records.
• Where the law requires consent (for example in the EEA, the UK and some US states), Google's consent form asks you first, and Settings → Ad privacy choices lets you change your answer later.
• On iPhone, HiveHabits does not ask for permission to track you, so Apple's advertising identifier is not available to the ads service.
• On Android you can reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's settings.
• With Premium, the ads service is never started.

3.2 Your referral code

HiveHabits does not make your own referral code and sends nothing to get one. You get your code by signing up on the Hive Rewards website (section 5), which Settings → Referral program opens in your browser. HiveHabits reads no identifier from your phone for the referral program.

3.3 Checking a referral code someone gave you

When you apply a referral code on the Premium screen, HiveHabits asks Hive Rewards — the HiveThoughts service that runs our referral program, hosted on Supabase in its Mumbai, India region — whether the code exists. Only the code is sent, and the answer never says whose code it is.

3.4 Purchases

HiveHabits Premium is bought through Google Play or the App Store. Google or Apple handle the payment under their own privacy policies; we never receive your card, UPI or bank details. We receive what the store tells developers about a purchase, such as which product was bought and whether it is valid. If you used a referral code, it is attached to the purchase as a coded token, which the store reports to Hive Rewards so the person who referred you can be rewarded. The token holds only the code.

3.5 Where you installed from (Android)

When HiveHabits first opens after being installed from a friend's invite link, it asks the Google Play app on your phone which link it was installed from, so it can fill in your friend's referral code. This happens on your phone; nothing is sent to us.

3.6 Links you tap

Some buttons open a page in your browser or store app: the Hive Rewards website, our products page, and our other apps' store pages. Your browser or the store then works as it normally does, including seeing your IP address. HiveHabits itself sends nothing else.

3.7 What every server sees

Any server HiveHabits contacts (section 3.3) sees your IP address, as all internet services do. We do not use it to identify you and do not keep it beyond short-lived security logs.

4. What we never do

• No account, sign-up or sign-in.
• No analytics, tracking or crash-reporting tools of our own.
• No selling of your information.
• No sending of anything you enter in the app — habits, goals, notes, health measurements, photos or your name — to us or to anyone else.
• No reading of your contacts, messages, location, microphone or camera.

5. Hive Rewards

To get your own referral code and see your rewards you sign up or sign in on the Hive Rewards website, which is separate from the app and has its own terms and privacy notice. Using the app, and applying a friend's code in it, never needs an account.

6. How long we keep things

• Information on your phone stays until you delete it in the app or uninstall HiveHabits.
• Google keeps advertising information under its own policies.
• Purchase records are kept by Google or Apple under their policies, and by us as long as the law requires for accounting.

7. Your choices and rights

• Your records: all of it is in the app, under your control. Delete items in the app, or uninstall HiveHabits to remove everything from your phone.
• Ads: buy Premium to turn ads off entirely; use Settings → Ad privacy choices where shown; reset your advertising ID in your phone's settings.
• What Hive Rewards holds: your account there is covered by its own privacy notice; email admin@hivethoughts.in with any request.
• Depending on where you live, laws such as India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 or the EU/UK GDPR give you rights to access, correct, delete or object to the use of your information, and to complain to a data protection authority. Write to us and we will reply within 30 days.

Grievance Officer (India): write to admin@hivethoughts.in with "Grievance" in the subject; the Grievance Officer of HiveThoughts Technologies Private Limited will reply within 30 days.

8. Children

HiveHabits is meant for adults aged 18 and over and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly receive information from children. If you believe a child has used a feature in section 3, contact us and we will delete what we hold.

9. Security

Your records are kept in HiveHabits' private storage, protected by your phone's own security. You can add HiveHabits' app lock (a PIN, fingerprint or face); it keeps others out of the app on your phone, but it does not encrypt your records. Everything HiveHabits sends travels over encrypted connections (HTTPS). Keep your phone locked and your backups somewhere private.

10. Changes

If this policy changes, we will update the date at the top and, for important changes, say so in the app or on our website before they apply.

11. Contact

HiveThoughts · admin@hivethoughts.in · https://hivethoughts.in