Privacy Policy

This policy describes how information is handled when you use the Quit SweetAndroid application and this official website. It is written to be read, not to be skimmed past, so it states plainly what happens to what you type in.

• Application: Quit Sweet: Sugar Tracker
• Developer and publisher: Syed Shahbaz Hussain
• Contact: support@syedshahbazhussain.com

By using the app or this website you agree to the handling of information described here. The Terms of Use cover the separate question of how the app itself may be used.

Quit Sweet is a habit tracker, so nearly everything it holds is something you chose to type in. You may voluntarily enter:

Goal preferences

Which goal mode you choose: quit sweets, reduce gradually, or stay within a daily limit.

Baseline and target

Roughly how many sweets you have now, and the target you set yourself.

Sweet logs

The category and serving size of a sweet, with the date and time of the entry.

Estimated sugar and cost

Optional numbers you may add to an entry. Both can be left blank.

Craving records

Craving intensity, an optional trigger, and the outcome you record.

Mood and energy

Optional 1 to 5 ratings attached to a check-in or a sweet entry.

Daily check-ins

One reflection per local calendar day, covering mood, energy and craving level.

Motivation

What matters to you, common triggers, and an optional personal note.

Notes

Free text you may attach to a sweet entry or a craving record.

Reminder preferences

Which reminder categories are enabled and the times you chose.

Currency and spending

An optional weekly spending figure and currency code, used only for the money-saved estimate.

All of this information is stored locally on your device. None of it is required to install or open the app, and any individual field can be left blank.

Quit Sweet does not intentionally transmit your habit-tracking entries to the developer or to any remote server. Your logs, cravings, check-ins and goals are not uploaded, synced or backed up to us.

There is one exception, and it is entirely up to you. If you send a message through the app's Help & Support screen, that request is transmitted to the developer's support service. See Help & Support requests for exactly what it contains. Nothing else about your use of the app is sent, and your habit records are never attached to it.

The app does not require any of the following:

• Account creation, sign-in or a user profile
• Your name, which is an optional field if you contact Help & Support, and nowhere else
• An email address for normal use of the app, since one is needed only to receive a reply to a Help & Support request
• A phone number
• Precise or background location
• Access to your contacts
• An advertising identifier

This statement covers the application itself and what the developer receives. It is not a claim about the Android operating system, your device manufacturer, or Google Play, each of which operates under its own terms and privacy policy and may collect information independently of this app.

Your entries are saved in on-device storage belonging to the app, using a local database on your phone or tablet.

• The data remains until you delete it, clear the application's storage, or uninstall the app.
• Whether a copy is included in a device backup depends on your Android settings and your Google backup configuration. That behaviour is controlled by your device and your Google account, not by this app.
• Because the developer holds no copy, records you delete locally cannot be restored or recovered by us.

Reminders are entirely optional and off until you choose to enable one.

• Android notification permission is requested only when you enable your first reminder.
• Reminders are scheduled locally on your device. Nothing is pushed from a server.
• You can change reminder times, disable individual categories, or turn reminders off completely from within the app.
• You can also revoke notification permission at any time in Android settings.
• Notification permission is not required to use the core tracker, and declining it leaves every other feature working.

The app lets you export your records so that your data remains genuinely yours.

• An export happens only after you directly request one. Nothing is exported automatically or in the background.
• You choose the destination or the receiving application when you export.
• Once an export leaves the app, the copy is handled by whichever application, service or storage location you selected, under that provider's own privacy practices and terms, not under this policy.
• For that reason, please choose a destination you trust, particularly if your notes contain anything personal.

There are two ways to reach support: by email, described here, and the in-app Help & Support form covered in the next section. Both are optional, and the tracker works fully whether or not you ever use either.

Emailing support opens a message in your own email application. Nothing is sent until you send it.

• When you email support, the developer receives whatever you choose to include: your email address, your message, and any optional technical details such as app version, Android version or device model.
• Your habit records are not automatically attached to a support message. If you choose to paste or attach an export yourself, that content becomes part of the email you send.
• Support messages are retained only as reasonably necessary to respond to you, maintain support records, prevent abuse, and comply with legal obligations.

The support page shows exactly what each pre-filled message contains before you send it.

The app includes a Help & Support screen for sending a message to the developer without leaving the app. Using it is your choice, nothing is sent until you submit the form, and every other feature works without it.

When you do submit a request, it contains what you filled in:

Email address

Required. It is the address a reply is sent to, and the only field that must be filled in.

Name

Optional. It can be left blank, and a request without a name is still answered.

Type of request

Which kind of message it is: a support question, a suggestion, a bug report, general feedback, or something that fits none of those.

Subject

A short line summarising what the message is about.

Message

Whatever you write. Please include only what is needed to explain the issue, and see the note below about personal notes.

Screenshot

Optional. One image you pick yourself, as a JPEG, PNG or WebP file.

Unlike the rest of the app, this information does leave your device: the request is sent over an encrypted HTTPS connection to the developer's own support service, so that it can be received, read and answered. A small amount of technical information is added automatically, which the next section lists in full.

Your habit records are not attached to a support request. The app does not read your logs, cravings, check-ins or goals into the form, and there is no option that would. Please also avoid pasting personal notes or exported habit data into the message unless they are genuinely needed to investigate the problem.

The optional screenshot. You may attach one image if a picture explains the problem better than words can. It is optional, and you choose the file yourself. The app never captures a screenshot on its own and never browses your photos for you. Whatever is visible in the image you pick is sent along with the request, so it is worth a look before attaching one, particularly if the screen shows personal notes.

Information from a support request is used to:

• Reply to you and answer your question
• Reproduce, investigate and fix reported bugs
• Troubleshoot technical problems on your device or app version
• Read and consider feature suggestions and general feedback
• Improve the app
• Detect and prevent spam and abuse, and apply reasonable limits on how many requests one installation can send

It is not used for advertising, not used to build a profile of you, and not sold. Support requests may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to answer them, investigate the issues they describe, prevent abuse, maintain necessary support records, and comply with applicable legal obligations.

Uninstalling the app removes the records stored on your device, but it does not automatically remove a support request you already sent. To ask for support information associated with you to be deleted, email support@syedshahbazhussain.com.

A bug report that arrives without the basics usually costs a round of questions before anyone can act on it. So when you submit a Help & Support request, and only then, the app adds a short set of technical details:

• The app version you are running
• The platform and operating-system version, for example the version of Android on your device
• Your device model
• Your language and region setting, so a reply can match the language you use
• A randomly generated installation identifier, described below

That is the complete list. No contact list, phone number, advertising identifier, device serial number, IMEI, hardware address, location or list of your installed apps is collected or sent, not with a support request and not anywhere else in the app.

About the installation identifier. This is a random value the app generates for itself and keeps on your device, then reuses if you send another request. It lets repeat requests from the same installation be recognised, which is what makes it possible to stop abuse and apply sensible request limits. It is not an advertising identifier, not your device's serial number or IMEI, not tied to your Google account, and it is not designed to identify you personally. Clearing the app's storage or uninstalling the app discards it, and a new one is generated if you later send another request.

This website is a small set of static pages. It:

• Does not require an account and has no login
• Does not currently use advertising trackers
• Does not currently use analytics cookies
• Does not ask you to submit any form

That last point is about this website specifically. The Help & Support form described above is part of the Android app, not of these pages. The website's support page only offers email links, which open in your own email application.

Like virtually all hosted websites, the hosting provider may record standard technical server logs when a page is requested. These typically include an IP address, a user agent string, the time of the request and the URL requested. Where such logs exist, they are used for security, reliability and ordinary hosting operations.

We state this rather than claiming that no logs exist at all, because standard server logging is a normal part of web hosting and it would be misleading to imply otherwise.

The app and website interact with a small number of third parties, listed here only because they are genuinely involved:

• Google Play. The app may be downloaded through Google Play. Google Play and the Android operating system are operated by Google under their own terms and privacy policies, and any information they collect is governed by those, not by this policy.
• A destination you choose when exporting. If you share an export through another application or service, that application processes the shared copy independently.
• The website hosting provider. May process basic technical logs as described in the previous section.
• Your email provider. Involved only if you choose to email support.
• The support service. A request sent from the app's Help & Support screen is delivered to a support service operated for the developer. Service providers involved in hosting, delivering, securing or maintaining that service may process a request as part of providing it, and only for that purpose.

No advertising network, analytics provider, crash-reporting service or data broker is integrated into the application. The support service exists to carry support requests and nothing else: it receives no habit records, and it is not used to track your use of the app.

With respect to information controlled by this app and its developer, covering both your habit-tracking information and anything you send through support:

• It is not sold.
• It is not rented or licensed to anyone.
• It is not used for targeted advertising.
• It is not shared with data brokers.

For your habit records this is straightforward to guarantee, and for a simple structural reason: they are stored on your device and are never transmitted to the developer, so there is nothing on our side to sell or share in the first place.

A support request is different, because you deliberately sent it to us. It is used to handle your request and for the purposes listed in section 8, and nothing else. The only parties that may process it are the service providers described in the previous section, acting on the developer's behalf to keep the support service running.

For everything held on your device, you remain in control of how long it exists.

• Locally stored data remains on your device until you remove it.
• The app provides a Delete All Data option, which clears your stored records.
• Clearing the app's storage in Android settings, or uninstalling the app, also removes local records, subject to any device backup you have configured.
• The developer cannot remotely delete the information on your device, because it is not held on any developer server. Deletion is something you perform, and it is final.

Support messages are the exception, since a message you sent us is by definition no longer only on your device.

• A support email, or a request submitted through Help & Support, may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to answer it, investigate the issue it describes, prevent abuse, maintain necessary support records, and comply with applicable legal obligations. No fixed period is stated here, because none is promised.
• Deleting your records in the app, clearing its storage, or uninstalling it does not withdraw a support message you already sent.
• You can ask for support information associated with you to be deleted by emailing support@syedshahbazhussain.com. Mentioning the email address you used, and roughly when you wrote, makes the request easier to locate.

Keeping habit data on the device rather than on a server removes an entire category of risk, since there is no central store of habit records to breach. Reasonable development practices are used in building and maintaining the app.

Support requests do travel over the network, so they are sent over an encrypted HTTPS connection rather than in the clear. Reasonable technical and organisational measures are used to protect information submitted through support.

However, some honest limits apply:

• No method of electronic storage or transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and no such guarantee is made here, including for support requests.
• Anyone with access to your unlocked device may be able to open the app and read your entries, so keeping your device secured with a screen lock matters.
• Data you export is only as protected as the destination you send it to.
• A screenshot you attach to a support request is only as private as its contents, which is why it is worth checking the image before sending it.

Quit Sweet is not designed to knowingly collect personal information from children. Because the core tracking information is stored locally and no account is required, the developer does not knowingly receive children's habit records through the app.

Parents or guardians who believe a child has sent personal information through a support email or a Help & Support request may contact us at support@syedshahbazhussain.com to request its deletion.

Quit Sweet is a habit-tracking and motivational tool. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

• It is not a medical device.
• It does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any condition.
• It does not provide emergency assistance of any kind.
• The craving support flow is a short reflective pause, not therapy or a clinical intervention.

Please consult a qualified professional for personal medical or nutritional guidance. If you need urgent assistance, contact your local emergency services.

This website and the app may be accessed from many countries. Privacy rights and obligations differ between jurisdictions, and the rights available to you depend on where you live.

Because habit data stays on your device, much of what a data-protection request would normally cover is already directly under your control: you can view, export and delete your records yourself, at any time, without asking anyone. For questions about information you have sent us by email, contact the address in the Contact section.

No claim is made here to any specific compliance certification or formal accreditation that has not been independently established.

This policy may be updated as the app changes. Any revised version will be published on this page with an updated date at the top, so the current version is always the one you are reading here.

Material changes to how information is handled will be reflected here before or at the time the change takes effect.

Questions about this policy, or about your information, can be sent to:

Syed Shahbaz Hussain
Email: support@syedshahbazhussain.com

Please allow a reasonable period for a reply. Including the app version and your Android version usually helps resolve a question faster.