Privacy Policy

Cadence never leaves the handset. There is no account, no cloud, no advertising and no analytics, and the habits you add — along with every day you tick off — are written to the phone and to nowhere else.

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  Who publishes it

  Cadence comes from Bis Consulting AS, Hammarslandgrenda 59, 5252 Søreidgrend, Norway, with Dag Tønder Breistein answering for it. Norway applies the GDPR through personopplysningsloven, and under it that company is the controller for anything personal described here. One address for all of it: dag@consulting.makeup.

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  What the app writes down

  • the habits you add: the name you typed, the colour, the icon and which weekdays it is due;
  • every day you have ticked off, which is what the grid and the streaks are drawn from;
  • settings: accent colour, week start, language.

  All of it sits in the app's own private storage on the device. No account exists to attach it to and no server of ours could receive it, so nothing is uploaded. If Android's backup is switched on, that file may travel into the backup Google keeps under your account, on Google's terms rather than ours.

  On the device only
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  Why a habit list is worth protecting

  A habit name is free text, and people write real things in it: medication, prayer, therapy exercises, days without a drink, physiotherapy after an injury. A year of ticks beside such a name is a health record in all but name, and a gap in it is even more telling than a run.

  That is the reason Cadence has no account and no sync rather than an optional one. Nothing we do not collect can leak, be subpoenaed, be sold with a company, or be read by anyone who gets into a server, because there is no server.

  The reason for the design
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  What it asks the phone for

  Nothing. No notification permission, because the reminders live inside the app and wait for you to open it rather than interrupting your day. No location, no camera, no microphone, no contacts, no file access and no network connection in either direction. The small buzz when you tick something off uses the phone's own vibration motor, which Android grants without a prompt and which carries no data.

  No permissions
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  What we learn about you

  Nothing at all. No sign-in, no advertising identifier, no analytics library, no crash reporter of ours and no profiling. Which habits people keep, how long their streaks run, whether the app has been opened since the day it was installed: none of it is visible to us, by construction rather than by promise.

  No analytics
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  Google Play's part

  Distribution is Google Play's job, under terms Google writes and not ours. A handset set to share usage and diagnostics with Google contributes to a pooled fault tally that our Play Console shows: counts of installs affected, and roughly which hardware. No person, phone or habit appears in it; we open it to find out what broke.

  One third party
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  Children

  Nothing is collected from users of any age, and there is no chat, no link out and nothing to buy, so the app is safe to hand to a child. A parent setting it up for one might keep the habit names plain, since whoever picks up the phone can read them.

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  A counter, not a doctor and not a judge

  Cadence counts days. It cannot tell whether a habit is good for you, whether you are doing enough of it, or whether today is a day to rest. It is not a medical device, not a therapy tool and not a diet or fitness programme, and nothing in it should be read as advice.

  If what you are tracking touches eating, exercise, sleep, alcohol, drugs or medication, the person to discuss it with is a doctor or a therapist. And if a broken streak starts to feel worse than the missed day itself — if the grid begins to punish rather than encourage — that is a good moment to delete the habit, not to try harder. In Norway: 113 for an ambulance, 116 117 for out-of-hours medical help, and Mental Helse on 116 123, free and around the clock.

  Read this one
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  If you write to us

  An email is the only way anything about you reaches us at all: an address, and whatever you chose to put in the message. It serves two purposes, answering you and fixing the app, on the legitimate-interest ground in Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Twelve months after our last reply the thread is deleted, unless a law says to keep it. Please do not paste your habit list into it.

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  Rights, and where to complain

  Access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and portability all apply, though correspondence is realistically the only file that could exist on our side. Requests are answered within a month. If the answer falls short, Norway's supervisory authority is Datatilsynet at datatilsynet.no, and anyone living elsewhere in the EEA may go to their own national authority instead.

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  Clearing the year, and revisions

  Open Cadence in Android's app settings, go to its storage and clear the data: the habits, every tick, the streaks and the preferences leave in one movement, exactly as they do when the app is removed. Nothing was copied elsewhere, so a cleared year cannot be recovered — worth a thought before you tap, if the grid means something to you. This page is rewritten ahead of any release that changes what the app does with data, and carries its date on the plate above.