Tally

Privacy Policy

Effective date:

This policy covers the Tally app for iPhone, made by Little Planet Labs ("we", "us").

Summary

  • Tally has no account, no server of its own, no ads and no tracking.
  • What you log is written to Apple Health and kept in storage on your iPhone. We never receive it.
  • The only data Tally sends off your iPhone is a location, to Apple: to get the UV index from Apple's weather service, and, once visit prompts are available and if you turn them on, to look up nearby places in Apple Maps.
  • Features that use your location in the background are off until you turn them on.

Data Tally handles and where it lives

  • Drinks you log. Tally writes them to Apple Health: water, a count of alcoholic drinks, and caffeine, sodium, potassium and magnesium in milligrams. Each entry Tally writes is tagged with an identifier so Tally can find it again to undo or delete it.
  • Your log history and presets. Stored in a database on your iPhone. Tally doesn't sync them to iCloud or anywhere else.
  • Your settings. Stored on your iPhone.
  • A short location trail, only while Log UV Index is on. See Location.
  • Place memory, only if you use visit prompts: which places you logged which drinks at, and which places you've muted. Stored on your iPhone.

Like other app data, what Tally stores on your iPhone is included in your iPhone's backups (iCloud Backup or a backup to a computer) if you make them.

Apple Health

Tally asks for permission to write water, caffeine, alcoholic drinks, sodium, potassium and magnesium to Apple Health, and the UV index if you turn on Log UV Index. You choose what to allow, and you can change it at any time in the Health app.

Tally reads Apple Health only to show today's totals for the things it logs (which include what other apps have logged) and to find the entries it wrote itself. It doesn't read any other Health data.

Health data never leaves your iPhone through Tally. We never see it, and it's never used for advertising or shared with anyone.

Location

Tally uses your location for three things. Each one asks for permission first.

The UV index on the Today screen

While you're using the app, Tally uses your approximate location to get the current UV index from Apple's weather service (WeatherKit).

Log UV Index (optional, off by default)

If you turn on Log UV Index, Tally writes the hourly UV index to Apple Health. To do this in the background it needs location access set to Always, and it uses iOS's significant location changes and background refresh.

While Log UV Index is on, Tally keeps a short location trail on your iPhone so that each past hour uses the UV index for where you actually were. The trail holds the last 24 hours of locations plus the most recent one before that, and never more than 200 points. It's never sent anywhere except as the coordinates in a UV request to Apple's weather service. Turning Log UV Index off deletes the trail.

Visit prompts (coming soon, off by default)

Visit prompts are in development and not in the app yet. When they arrive, and only if you turn them on with location access set to Always, iOS will tell Tally when you arrive at or leave a place. Tally then sends the coordinates to Apple Maps to look up what's nearby, so it can recognize breweries, wineries, distilleries, bars and other nightlife, and cafes. If you're at one, Tally can send a notification with buttons for your presets (see Notifications). Which places you logged drinks at, and which places you've muted, stays on your iPhone.

In Apple's App Store privacy terms, Tally collects location for app functionality only. It isn't linked to your identity and isn't used for tracking.

Notifications

Tally sends notifications only for visit prompts, once that feature is available and only if you turn it on. By default, you get a nudge after you've been somewhere for 45 minutes, and a prompt when you leave a place you stayed at for 20 minutes or more. You can change these timings. The notifications are created on your iPhone; there's no notification server. Nothing is logged unless you tap a button in the notification.

What leaves your iPhone

Only these, and only to Apple:

  • Apple's weather service (WeatherKit). The coordinates Tally asks about, to get the current or hourly UV index.
  • Apple Maps place lookup, for visit prompts once available and if you turn them on. The coordinates of where you are, to find nearby places.

Apple handles these requests under its own privacy policy. Nothing else leaves your iPhone through Tally: not your drinks, your Health data, your presets or history, your location trail, your place memory or your settings. None of it is ever sent to us.

No accounts, ads, tracking or analytics

  • There's no Tally account and no sign-in.
  • There are no ads.
  • Tally doesn't track you across apps or websites.
  • The app contains no analytics, no crash reporting service and no third-party code.

Keeping and deleting your data

We don't hold any of your data, so there's nothing for us to delete. You control all of it on your iPhone:

  • Delete the app to remove everything Tally stores on your iPhone: log history, presets, settings, the location trail and place memory. Backups you made earlier keep their copy until you delete those backups.
  • Turn off Log UV Index to stop background UV logging and delete the location trail.
  • Use the Health app to see or delete what Tally wrote, or to turn off Tally's access. Deleting the app doesn't remove entries it already wrote to Apple Health.
  • Use iOS Settings to change or turn off Tally's access to your location and notifications at any time.

Changes to this policy

If the way Tally handles data changes, for example when visit prompts ship in a way that differs from what's described here, we'll update this page and its effective date.

Contact

Questions about privacy or this policy? Email tally@littleplanetlabs.com. Little Planet Labs makes Tally.

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