Effective date: September 23, 2026

Gut Buddy ("the app") is a personal digestion diary. This policy explains what information the app handles and where it goes. The short version: everything you enter stays on your iPhone. We do not collect, receive, sell, or share any of your data.

What the app stores

To work, the app saves the following on your device only:

• Bathroom logs: time, stool type (Bristol scale), and optional notes such as urgency, pain level, or whether blood was noticed.
• Daily water intake and fiber rating.
• Your weight, if you choose to enter it, and the daily water goal derived from it.
• App settings: reminder time, language, and tutorial progress.
• The days you opened the app, used only to calculate streaks and reminders.

Where your data lives

All of this is stored in a local database inside the app on your iPhone. The app has no account, no server, and no sign-up. It does not send your data over the internet, and it contains no analytics, advertising, or tracking tools.

The Home Screen widget shows your streak and today's count. The app shares that summary with the widget through storage on your own device; it never leaves your iPhone.

Like other app data, the database may be included in your device backups (iCloud Backup or a backup on your computer), which are handled by Apple under Apple's own privacy policy.

Notifications

If you turn on the daily reminder, the reminder is scheduled on your device. No notification content is sent through any server of ours.

Links to other apps

When the app suggests seeing a doctor, it can open Apple Maps with a general search for "doctor". The app does not send your health data to Maps; what Maps does is covered by Apple's privacy policy.

Deleting your data

You are in control of your data at all times:

• Delete a single entry from the History screen.