This is the privacy policy for Budgie Diet, an app written and provided by Joseph Baldwin, a private individual and a resident of the United Kingdom.

Summary

By design, Budgie Diet does not collect any personal data about you. Period. You do not need to set up an account with any service to use Budgie Diet, provide any contact information or even your name to use any and all of its functionality.

Any information you input in the app is held entirely locally and can be deleted completely by uninstalling Budgie Diet. Your Apple Health data is not stored by Budgie but is instead pulled directly from Apple Health whenever queried. Your data is not used for any kind of wider statistical analysis or aggregated into any wider data sets.

You will need to let Budgie Diet have some basic personal information about yourself as part of its normal functioning. It will be irrevocably deleted if you choose to delete Budgie from your device.

Budgie Diet does not and will never have ads or tracking of any kind.

Personal information

Budgie Diet asks you for the following information as part of its setup process:

  • Your year of birth
  • Your sex
  • Your height
  • Your weight
  • Your usual level of physical activity, as assessed by you
  • Your current weight loss, gain or maintenance goal

It uses these to calculate:

  • An estimate of your daily resting calories (also known as your “basal metabolic rate” or “BMR”); and
  • Your total energy consumption per day (also known as your “total daily energy expenditure” or “TDEE”).

This information is used solely to set calorie budgets in the absence of sufficient data from Apple Health to do so normally, or if you explicitly tell Budgie Diet to ignore Apple Health data. You can amend or revise this information at any time in Settings.

Budgie Diet stores these pieces of information locally in a database on your device. They are not transmitted to the developer or any other party, nor are they backed up to iCloud, and you do not need to save them to any kind of account. To delete them, you can simply uninstall Budgie Diet and they will be deleted irrevocably.

Apple Health information

Budgie Diet requests permission to, and reads, the following information about you using the Apple Health API (also known as HealthKit):

  • Your actual basal metabolic rate measurements
  • Your actual active calorie burn measurements
  • Calories eaten that have been input via other apps
  • Your Move goal (if you turn on the option to use this in Settings)

Budgie Diet does not store this information, but instead draws it from HealthKit whenever needed (e.g. when displaying a graph of your previous activity, or when calculating your budget.) Budgie also does not transmit this information anywhere or store it on any servers.

Other information

If you use Budgie Diet’s food logging feature, the app will collect details of the food you eat and the time you ate it. This information is also held in a local database and is not transmitted or backed up to any other person, server or device. To delete it, you can delete your entries as input, or uninstall Budgie. Either will delete them permanently.

Version 1.1 - dated 3rd January 2025