Last updated: 5 November 2026 · App version 2.3.0
This is the same privacy policy you can read inside the halebit app (Settings → Privacy Policy). It describes the Android app, and the website forms are covered at the end of this page.
On your phone
halebit keeps your workouts, routes, steps, sleep, body measurements, settings and training plan in its own app storage on your phone. There are no halebit accounts, no halebit server holding your data, no analytics, no crash reporting and no ads.
Location
halebit uses your location only while you record a GPS workout, and briefly while the Start sheet is open with a GPS sport selected so the signal is ready. A notification shows while a workout is being recorded. Sports without GPS never use location. With the street map on, the map pictures you load while you record show roughly where you are. See Street map (optional).
Health Connect
If you allow it, halebit reads data from Health Connect on your phone: steps, distance, speed, exercise sessions, active and total calories, basal metabolic rate, weight, resting heart rate, HRV, sleep, blood oxygen, breathing rate, skin temperature, VO2 max, body fat and lean mass that your watch or other apps share there. It only reads what you allow, and you can change that in Health Connect at any time.
Heart-rate band
If you pair a Bluetooth heart-rate band, halebit reads your live heart rate from it during workouts. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Google Drive backup
If you turn on Google Drive backup and sign in with Google, halebit uploads a backup file of your halebit data straight from your phone to a hidden app folder in your own Google Drive, over HTTPS. halebit has no server in between and cannot see your Google account. The backup file is not encrypted by halebit beyond Google Drive’s own protection. You can turn this off at any time. Android’s own device backup may include data derived from Health Connect. Halebit’s backup does not include Health Connect data.
Folder backup and export
You can save a backup or export to a folder you choose on your phone. That file contains your halebit data in readable form, so keep it somewhere private. Android’s own device backup may include data derived from Health Connect. Halebit’s backup does not include Health Connect data.
Exports
Export GPX creates a file with the route of one workout on your phone and opens your phone’s share sheet. halebit does not send the file anywhere. It goes only to the app you choose. The file contains the exact route, so share it only with people you trust.
Street map (optional)
The street map is off by default. If you turn it on in Settings, halebit downloads map pictures from OpenFreeMap, a free map service that uses OpenStreetMap data, whenever a map is on screen. Your workouts, routes and health data are not sent. Each request names the part of the map you are viewing, so the service can tell roughly which area you are looking at, and it sees your device’s IP address and the time of the request. halebit adds no account, device identifier or analytics to these requests. OpenFreeMap’s own privacy policy applies to what it receives (openfreemap.org/privacy). If you turn the street map off, halebit makes no map requests.
Android backup
If you turn on Android’s own backup for halebit, Android can keep a copy of halebit’s main data store in your Google account and move it to a new phone. That copy can include workouts, settings, sleep, your plan, and data read from Health Connect (sleep nights, vitals and workouts). You control this in your phone’s backup settings. Turning it off stops new copies. Existing copies stay in your Google account until you delete them.
Notifications
halebit shows notifications on your phone only: the workout in progress, a reminder if a workout seems forgotten, backup status, and a daily summary around 9 pm of your steps and Hale points. They are created on the device. halebit can send one reminder a day: a morning check-in or a usual-workout reminder. Your usual times are worked out on your phone from your own history, and nothing is sent anywhere. You can turn this off in Settings.
Home-screen widget
The widget shows your own step and activity numbers, and can show a small outline of your latest route, drawn on your phone.
Import
If you import activity files, halebit reads them on your phone. Nothing is uploaded. Imported activities stay with your other workouts on your phone.
Monthly recap
Made on your phone from your workouts. It is shared only when you choose to share it.
Athlete profile, fitness and route bests
Stored and calculated only on your phone, using heart-rate readings if a band is connected. Nothing is uploaded.
Diagnostic log
halebit keeps a short diagnostic log on your phone for voice cues and backup, to help find problems. It does not contain your location, routes, health readings or workout results. It never leaves your phone unless you tap Share debug log in Settings, check the text and tap Share.
Network use
halebit connects to the internet only for these things: Google Drive backup, only if you turn it on, which goes straight from your phone to your own Google Drive (signing in to Google for this goes through Google on your phone); Google Play, to buy Halebit Pro and to check your purchase; map pictures from OpenFreeMap, only if you turn on the street map; and links you tap, which open in your browser or in Google Play. halebit has no server that receives your data and sends no analytics, crash reports or ads. Everything else works without internet.
Never sold, never for ads
Your health and fitness data is never sold, never shared for advertising and never used for ads.
Your controls
Export all of your data at any time, or erase everything from the phone, both from Settings → Your Data. Uninstalling halebit removes the data on the phone; backups you made stay where you saved them.
Purchases
halebit may offer optional paid features. If you buy one, the payment is handled entirely by Google Play. halebit never sees or stores your card or payment details. Buying does not change how your data is handled: your health and fitness data stays on your phone unless you turn on Google Drive backup, is never sold and is never used for advertising.
Children
halebit is not directed to children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data from them.
Contact
Questions? Email support@halebit.com.
Using an iPhone?
HALEBIT launches on Android first. An iPhone version is planned, with no release date announced. If you choose iPhone on the waitlist, we store that choice only so we can email you when it is ready. This page describes the Android app; any iPhone version will have its own disclosures before launch.
halebit Insights on this website
If you use the halebit Insights page on halebit.com, the file you choose is read inside your browser only. It is not uploaded, not stored and not sent anywhere, and that page is set to block network requests while it is open.
Android test sign-up (website only)
If you sign up at halebit.com/test, the Google account email you enter, and any name or phone model you choose to add, are stored on the halebit.com website and used only to add you to the Android test and send you the invite. We also send you one confirmation email, and the page may record where you heard about the test. We delete these details when the test ends, and you can ask us to remove them sooner at support@halebit.com. Nothing from your phone is sent with the form, and this does not change anything in the app.
Feedback form (website only)
If you use the feedback form at halebit.com/feedback, the message, your title and details, the type you choose, and any app version, name or email you type are stored on the halebit.com website and emailed to support@halebit.com so we can reply. If you mark “Same here” on a public item, the name and email you type are stored on the website only to count you once. Your email is used only to reply and to count you once. Approved bugs and feature ideas are public, but names and emails are not. If you attach screenshots (up to five images), they are stored privately on the website, are shown only to our team and are emailed to support@halebit.com; please hide anything personal first. They are deleted when we delete your message. You can ask us to remove a message at any time. Nothing from your phone is sent with the form, and this does not change anything in the app.
Website waitlist
If you join the website waitlist, the website collects the email address and platform choice (Android or iPhone) you submit, together with your consent to receive launch updates. We use it only to tell you when the app is ready and to send occasional HALEBIT updates, and we do not sell or share it. This is separate from fitness data stored by the app. Use the unsubscribe link in any email, or write to support@halebit.com, to have your email removed.