Privacy policy

Last updated: 19 October 2026

The short version

What you record stays on your phone. It is never uploaded.
Four things can leave the app: your email address, a user ID, a device ID and your purchase history — used for subscriptions and push notifications, and nothing else.
Fuel prices are shared only if you turn it on. Fuel price share, in Car Portfolio only, is the one feature that shares anything with other people, and it is off until you switch it on. Then the forecourt prices you add — the station, where it is and its prices — go to our server for other Car Portfolio users to see, and nothing about you does. Leave it off, or add no prices, and nothing is shared.
Dictation is turned into text on the phone where it can be. Where the phone cannot do it itself, the phone’s own speech service does — Apple’s on an iPhone or iPad, Google’s on most Android phones — never us.
No adverts, no analytics, no tracking. Nothing about you goes to any third party.
Push notifications are yours to turn off, in the app’s settings.
Ask and your address is deleted — and if you stop using the app, with no subscription running, it goes on its own after twelve months, with two weeks’ notice by email.

What stays on your phone

Everything a Howarth Games app records is kept in its own storage on your device and is never uploaded: your dogs and horses and their records, your vehicles and their documents, the drivers and their licences, your walks, rides and trips and the routes they took, your recordings and videos, your dictations and the text made from them, your timetable, your photographs and your notes. Deleting the app deletes all of it. We have no copy and no way to obtain one, which also means we cannot recover it for you.

What leaves the app, and the only things it is used for

Four things can be sent to our own server. Each is used for subscriptions and push notifications, and nothing else — that is not a summary of a longer list, it is the whole list of what can be linked to you. The one other thing an app can send is not about you at all, and is described below: only in Car Portfolio, and only if you turn Fuel price share on, the forecourt fuel prices you add.

Your email address — asked for only if you take out a subscription, because a subscription has to belong to someone. Used to allocate and keep your subscription, and to reply to you about it.
A user ID — a random identifier our server creates for your subscription. It is not your name and not your Apple or Google Account. The app uses it to check your subscription, and a purchase carries it so that the purchase reaches the right subscription.
A device ID — on an iPhone or iPad, the identifier Apple gives our apps for your phone, and the token Apple issues so that a notification can reach it; on Android, an identifier the app creates for itself when it is installed. With it go the device’s model, its iOS or Android version, the app’s version, and your language and time zone. Used for subscriptions and push notifications only. It is not the advertising identifier, and it means nothing to any other company’s app.
Your purchase history — what Apple or Google tells our server when you subscribe, renew, cancel or are refunded: which subscription, when, its state, and which store it was bought in. On Google Play, the app also passes our server the purchase’s token so the server can ask Google whether it is genuine and still running. Used only to keep your subscription right.

And for all four:

Never used for tracking. There is no advertising, analytics or crash-reporting code in the app, and no advertising identifier is read — so you will never see the App Tracking Transparency prompt.
Never shared. Not sold, rented or passed on, and never joined to data from any other company. No profile is built from any of it, and none of it is used for marketing. Apple or Google is involved only because they take the payment, and Apple delivers the notifications.
Not linked to anything you record. None of that reaches us, so there is nothing on our side to tie it to. These identify a subscription and a phone to notify, not what you did with the app.

Push notifications are optional. Turn them off in the app’s settings and our server marks your phone as off and sends nothing more to it — or turn them off for the app in the phone’s own Settings. With notifications off, the device ID is used only for your subscription.

Reminders are not push notifications. The reminders you can switch on in the apps — a planned walk or ride, a birthday, something coming due, a drink on a long walk, a daily reminder to record, a reminder set on a recording’s notes — are scheduled by the phone itself, from what is already stored on it. Nothing is sent to us or anybody else to set one up, and no device ID is involved. Every one is off until you switch it on.

Giving your email address is a choice, not a condition of use. Decline and the parts that need a subscription may not be available; everything else carries on, and nothing on the device is lost either way. Payment is handled entirely by Apple or Google — we never see your card details, billing address, or the Apple or Google Account you pay with.

What the phone is asked for, and why

These are the permissions any of this software may ask for. Each is requested at the moment the feature that needs it is first used, so which prompts you actually see depends on the app and on what you do with it.

Location — to follow a route while you are walking or riding it, and to work out where you are when you ask. The route is drawn and stored on the phone.
Camera and photo library — to take or attach a photograph, to record a video (in Recorder, Dog Walker, Horse Rider and Peaks and Paths), and to save one out if you choose to. Videos stay on the device.
Notifications — to show the news we send, if you turn that on, and the reminders you switch on, which the phone schedules itself.
Microphone — to record audio or the sound with a video, or to dictate a note. Recordings stay on the device.
Speech recognition — to turn what you dictate into text, in every app that has dictation (all six: Recorder, Dog Walker, Horse Rider, Peaks and Paths, Physio Student and Kinesiology). Where your phone can recognise speech itself, it does, and what you say never leaves it. On a phone or in a language it cannot do on the device, the phone sends the audio of what you are dictating to its own speech recognition service, which sends back the text: Apple’s on an iPhone or iPad, under Apple’s privacy terms, and on Android the phone’s speech service (usually Google’s), under its provider’s terms. It is never sent to us, and the text is stored only on the phone.

Refusing one costs you that feature and nothing else, and you can change your mind at any time in the phone’s own Settings. Nothing here asks for your contacts, calendar, reminders, health data, Bluetooth or the local network. Nothing captured through any of these permissions is ever uploaded to us — not a photograph, not a video, not a recording, not a dictation, and never your exact position. Speech you dictate leaves the phone only to the phone’s own speech service (Apple’s, or on Android usually Google’s), and only where the phone cannot recognise it itself, as described above. A position leaves the phone in only two ways, both described below: the address and postcode lookups you ask for — on the compass in Peaks and Paths, Dog Walker and Horse Rider, and on Car Portfolio’s breakdown and fuel price screens — which go to the phone’s maps service, Apple’s on an iPhone, Google’s on Android, and not to us; and, only if you turn Fuel price share on in Car Portfolio, the position of a station whose prices you add, and a rough area, about 1 km across, when you ask for prices near you.

Fuel price share (Car Portfolio only). This is an opt-in feature: it is off, and not on the app’s dashboard, until you turn it on in the app’s Settings, and turning it on is a requirement for using it at all. The app says what is shared before you turn it on. While it is off, nothing about fuel prices leaves the phone. Turned on:

What is shared: the forecourt prices you add — the station’s name, brand, address and position (rounded to about 10 m), the price of each fuel, what is there (a car wash, toilets and so on) and when you saw them. They go to our server and are shown to other people using Car Portfolio. Only fuel price information is shared: no trips or routes, nothing else. No other Howarth Games app sends or receives fuel prices.
Prices near you: asking for them sends your position rounded to about 1 km. Our server uses it for that search and does not store or record it.
What is never shared: anything about you — no name, email address, user ID, device ID or account, and nothing about your vehicles, your fill-ups or anything else you record. Our server does not record who sent a price or which phone it came from, so a price cannot be traced back to you. Like any request over the internet, it arrives from your connection’s internet address; the server uses that only in a short-lived counter that stops too many requests a minute, and never stores it with a price.
Opting out: leave it off, or turn it off in Settings at any time; or simply add no prices, and nothing is shared. Prices already shared are about a forecourt, not about you, and are removed from our server once they are out of date, 90 days after they were seen.

A few things worth saying about particular apps

Peaks and Paths works out your British National Grid reference on the phone, with no network call — your position is not sent anywhere to convert it. The compass can also show the nearest postcode, and you choose in Settings when: only when you tap Find (the starting setting), every time the compass is open, or never. Each lookup sends your position to the phone’s maps service — Apple’s on an iPhone, Google’s on Android — which answers with the postcode. It is not sent to us, and the app keeps the answer only while the screen is open. The people named on your safety screen are stored on the device only: the app can dial a number you entered, but it notifies nobody automatically and has no connection to the emergency services or mountain rescue.
Dog Walker and Horse Rider have the same compass: the grid reference is worked out on the phone, and the nearest postcode is looked up only as you choose in Settings (when you tap Find, every time the compass is open, or never), each lookup sending your position to the phone’s maps service (Apple’s on an iPhone, Google’s on Android) and not to us. Sunrise and sunset are calculated on the phone.
Car Portfolio keeps your vehicles, their documents and scans, the drivers and their licence details on the phone only. Reading a scanned licence or logbook happens on the phone, with no network call. On the breakdown screen it works out your British National Grid reference on the phone; the road and postcode beside it come from the phone’s maps service (Apple’s on an iPhone, Google’s on Android), only when you tap Find me, and not from us. The only thing it can share is fuel price information, and only if you turn Fuel price share on, as described above.
Physio Student and Kinesiology store what you write in a database encrypted at rest. Please set a PIN — these can hold notes about patients, and a student’s phone gets handed round a ward office.
Clinical notes you record about a patient may make you a data controller in your own right. Your university’s and your placement provider’s policies, not this notice, govern what you may record about somebody in your care.

No analytics, no adverts, no third parties

There is no analytics on the website or in the app — not Google’s, not anybody’s. Nothing counts which pages you visit, which screens you open, how long you stay or roughly where you are. The cost of that is worth stating: we do not know how many people use any of this, or which features matter. We would rather not know than have you measured for it.

There are no adverts, no advertising network, no crash reporter, no social media integration and no third-party sign-in. The only other parties involved at all are Apple and Google, who take the payment for a subscription bought through their store and tell the app and our server whether one is active.

First aid and reference information

The first aid libraries in these apps are reference, not advice, and not a substitute for calling 999 or a vet. Physio Student and Kinesiology are study aids and not clinical tools — neither is a medical device, neither diagnoses anything, and neither replaces your university’s teaching, your practice educator or your own judgement. Nothing in either should be used to decide a real patient’s care.

The website

This website sets no cookies at all and collects nothing. You are not asked to create an account, and no name, address, phone number, payment detail or message is stored.

How long it is kept, and your rights

Your email address and user ID are kept while you use the app or have a subscription, and removed whenever you ask.

They are also deleted automatically if they go unused. If the app has not been opened while signed in with your address for twelve months, and no subscription is running on it, our system deletes it — you do not have to ask, and nobody has to remember. Both have to be true: someone who opens the app is never deleted for not paying, and a subscription that is still running is never deleted for going quiet.

Two weeks before that happens we email you to say so. Opening the app in those two weeks cancels it and starts the twelve months again; doing nothing lets it go. What is deleted is your email address, your user ID and your sign-in sessions. Nothing on your phone is touched, and if you come back later you can sign in again with the same address.

Your device ID is kept while the app is registered for notifications on that phone. Your purchase history is the store’s record of what you bought, and is kept as the record of your subscription; once your address has been deleted it is no longer linked to you.

You may ask what we hold — the four things above — and ask for any of it to be corrected or deleted at any time. If you have never given us your email address, the most we hold is the device ID, and only if you allowed notifications. Everything on your phone is kept until you delete it or the app.

Children

Nothing here knowingly collects information from children. A subscription is bought through an Apple or Google Account, and nothing is collected beyond the four things above.

Changes to this notice

If what the app does with your information changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top will say when. If a future version ever describes collecting more than the four things above, it will say so plainly rather than quietly.

Who is responsible, and how to reach us

These apps and this website are made by Howarth Games — one person writing software, which is why the answers above are as short as they are. Questions about this notice, or a request to delete your email address: martin@howarthgames.co.uk.