Effective Date: September 2, 2026 Last Updated: September 5, 2026
Simply Inspired Nutrition (“we”, “us”, “the App”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information the App (Homeostasis) collects, how we use it, who we share it with, how long we keep it, and how you can have it deleted.
1. Information We Collect
a. Account Information
When you create an account we collect your email address and an authentication identifier. Authentication is handled by Google Firebase Authentication. We do not see or store your password.
b. Health and Wellness Data
The App collects, stores, and processes health and fitness information. This is the core purpose of the App, and all of it is information you either enter yourself or explicitly authorize us to read.
Health data you enter into the App:
- Nutrition and food logs — meals eaten, calories, protein, fiber, sugar, healthy fats, complex carbohydrates, fermented foods, and micronutrients including iron, calcium, sodium, potassium, magnesium, and vitamins A, C and D
- Meal plans and recipes you build or apply
- Body measurement goals — weight goal and height
- Nutrition targets — daily calorie, protein, fiber and step goals
- Hydration — glasses of water logged per day
- Physical activity — workouts you record, including type and duration
- Daily wellness habits — including sleep, movement, mindfulness, breathing, screen-time and fasting-window habits you mark as complete
- Journal and reflection entries — free-text notes you write in the Mindfulness section, which may contain personal reflections about how you feel
Health data read from Health Connect (optional):
If you choose to connect Health Connect, the App reads two record types from it:
- Steps (StepsRecord)
- Exercise sessions (ExerciseSessionRecord) — activity type and duration
This access is read-only. The App never writes to, modifies, or deletes anything in Health Connect. It is requested only after you grant permission on the Health Connect permission screen, and you can revoke it at any time in Android Settings → Health Connect → App permissions, or from within the App. If you decline or revoke, every other feature continues to work; only automatic step and workout import stops.
How we use health data. Health data is used solely to operate features you can see: displaying your daily nutrition and activity totals, tracking progress toward goals you set, maintaining streaks, and powering the in-app wellness companion and garden features that respond to your logged activity.
How we do not use health data. We do not use health or fitness data for advertising, marketing, or targeting of any kind. We do not sell it. We do not share it with data brokers, insurers, employers, or advertising networks. We do not use it to train machine learning or AI models. Data read from Health Connect is never transferred to any third party for advertising purposes, in accordance with the Health Connect Terms of Service and Google Play’s Health Apps policy.
c. Usage and Diagnostic Data
We collect app usage statistics and crash diagnostics through Google Firebase Analytics and Firebase Crashlytics, including device model, operating system version, app version, and crash stack traces. This data is used to fix bugs and improve reliability. It is not linked to your health data.
d. Purchases
Subscriptions and one-time purchases are processed by Google Play Billing. We receive confirmation of purchase status. We never receive or store your payment card details.
2. Where Your Data Is Stored
- On your device. All of your logs, plans, journal entries and progress are stored locally on your device in the App’s private storage.
- In the cloud (only if you are signed in). If you are signed in, a copy of your data is synchronized to Google Firebase (Cloud Firestore) so you can restore it on a new device or after reinstalling. This includes your habits, food logs, workouts, journal entries, meal plans, goals and progress.
- Food database lookups. When you search for a food, the search term is sent to the U.S. Department of Agriculture FoodData Central API to return nutrition information. No account information or health history is sent with that request.
3. Information Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal or health information. We share data only with the service providers required to operate the App:
| Provider | Purpose | Data involved |
|---|---|---|
| Google Firebase (Authentication, Cloud Firestore) | Sign-in and cloud backup | Email, all synced app data |
| Google Firebase (Crashlytics, Analytics) | Crash reports and usage statistics | Device and diagnostic data |
| Google Play Billing | Subscription processing | Purchase status |
| USDA FoodData Central | Food nutrition lookup | Food search terms only |
We may also disclose information if required to do so by law or in response to a valid legal process.
4. Data Retention
We retain your information for as long as your account is active and you continue to use the App.
- Data on your device is kept until you delete it in the App or uninstall the App. Uninstalling removes all locally stored data from your device.
- Cloud-synced data is retained in Firebase for as long as your account exists. If you request deletion, your account and all associated health, nutrition, activity and journal data are permanently deleted from our systems within 30 days.
- Crash and diagnostic data is retained by Firebase Crashlytics for up to 90 days and by Firebase Analytics for up to 14 months, in line with Google’s default retention periods, after which it is automatically deleted.
- Purchase records are retained for as long as required by tax and accounting law.
- Health Connect data is not retained separately. It is read on demand to display your activity and is stored only within your own App data described above, and is deleted with it.
We do not retain data from deleted accounts for any purpose other than complying with a legal obligation.
5. Your Rights and Choices
- Access your data. Everything the App holds about you is visible inside the App.
- Delete your data. You can delete individual entries at any time in the App. To delete your account and all associated cloud data, email loripolk@simplyinspirednutrition.com with the subject “Delete My Account” from the email address associated with your account. We will confirm and complete deletion within 30 days.
- Withdraw Health Connect access. Revoke permission at any time in Android Settings → Health Connect. This stops all further reading of your steps and exercise data.
- Turn off cloud sync. Sign out of the App to stop synchronizing new data to the cloud.
Depending on where you live, you may also have rights under the GDPR or the CCPA, including the right to access, correct, port, or erase your personal information, and the right not to be discriminated against for exercising those rights. Contact us at the address below to exercise them.
6. Data Security
We use appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your information, including encrypted transmission (HTTPS/TLS) for all network traffic and authenticated, per-user access controls on cloud-stored data so that your records are readable only by your own account.
7. Children’s Privacy
The App is not directed to children and does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
8. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected in the “Last Updated” date above, and where the change is significant we will notify you in the App.
9. Contact Us
Questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or your data:
