Last updated: 3 October 2026
Goal Tracker is a habit and goal tracker. This policy explains what it collects, why, and how to get rid of it.
Your email address, when you create an account or sign in with Google. This is how your data is matched to you across devices. If you sign in with Google, your name and profile picture may also be provided by Google; the app displays your name and stores nothing else from it.
What you record in the app — the habits you create, the goals you set, and which days you marked them done.
A leaderboard name, only if you join. The Ranks screen is optional. If you join it, the display name you choose there, your current streak and your longest streak are published so other players can see them. Your habits, your goals, the days you marked done and your email address are never published.
Problem reports. If you use Account → Report a problem, what you write is stored and read by the developer so it can be answered, together with your email address, the app version and your device model — all of which are shown to you before you send. Replies come back inside the app. This is the only thing in Goal Tracker that another person reads, and it only happens if you choose to write one.
Usage statistics. The app uses Google Analytics for Firebase to count how it is used: which screens are opened, when a session starts and how long it lasts, the app version, your device model, Android version and language, and a rough area (country or region) that Google works out from your IP address. These are tied to a random identifier the app creates when it is installed, not to your name, email or account. They also count when an ad is shown or tapped.
Advertising data. The app shows ads from Google AdMob: a banner, and at times a full-screen ad, or a video you choose to watch to unlock something. To show and measure them, Google's ads software on your phone collects your device's advertising ID, your IP address (from which Google estimates a rough location), how you interact with the ads, and technical details about the device and how the app performs. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland you are asked first, and you can change your choice at any time under Account → Ad privacy.
Announcements. Now and then the app shows a full-screen announcement from the developer, for example a new version or the app's account on X. While you are signed in, the app saves with your account which announcements you have seen and which button you pressed, so the same one is not shown to you twice and you are not asked to follow on X again after tapping Follow. Google Analytics counts how many people saw each announcement and pressed each button, tied to the random install identifier, not to you. Tapping Follow opens X, which has its own privacy policy.
Ad counts, to stop fraud. While you are signed in, the app stores how many ads it showed on your device each day, how many were tapped, which part of the app showed them, your device's time zone, and whether ads were stopped on the device. This is how the developer spots automated or fraudulent tapping, which Google requires publishers to prevent. It contains nothing you record.
Nothing else. No precise location, no contacts, no crash reporting, no device fingerprinting — and nothing you record, no habit, goal or marked day, is ever used to choose ads or made part of the statistics.
Your email identifies your account so your habits reach the right person on a new phone. What you record is stored so it survives losing or replacing your device. Usage statistics are counted so the developer knows how many people use the app and which parts of it, and what to fix or improve. Ads keep the app free, and the ad counts protect it from fraud. There is no other purpose — nothing you record is used to build a picture of you.
In Google Firebase (Authentication and Cloud Firestore), operated by Google LLC. Data is stored in Google's data centres and transmitted over encrypted connections (HTTPS/TLS). Access is restricted by security rules so that an account can read and write only its own data — with one deliberate exception, which is that a problem report you send can also be read by the developer, because otherwise it could not be answered.
A copy is also kept on your own device so the app works offline.
Your habits and goals: nobody. They are not sold, rented, shared with advertisers, or passed to anyone else. Google acts only as the hosting provider for them, through Firebase.
Usage statistics: Google, on the developer's behalf. Google processes them as the provider of Google Analytics for Firebase. They are not sold, and they are set up so they cannot be used to personalise adverts.
Advertising data: Google. The advertising ID, IP address, ad interactions and device details described above go to Google AdMob so it can show, measure and protect ads. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, the ad partners listed in the consent form receive them only if you agree. Google's handling is covered by its own policy at policies.google.com/privacy and at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Announcement answers: nobody. They are stored only so the app knows what to show you; Google acts only as the hosting provider.
Ad counts: the developer, and nobody else. They are read to detect fraud and to stop ads on a device that is being abused. They are not sold or shared.
The leaderboard: other players, and only if you joined it. See the section below for exactly what is on it and how to take it down.
Problem reports: the developer, and nobody else. A report you choose to send is read by the person who makes the app, so that it can be answered. It is not sold, shared with advertisers, or passed to anyone else.
We disclose data only if legally compelled to.
Ads keep Goal Tracker free. Nothing you record is used to choose them. You can limit what they use:
Joining is a choice and the app never joins for you. When you join, you pick a display name of up to twenty characters; it does not have to be your real name and it is not taken from your account.
What other players can see is exactly four things: that name, your current streak, your longest streak, and the date the streak was worked out. Nothing else about you is readable by another player.
Leaving takes it down. Ranks → Leave removes your row. Deleting your account removes it too.
Until you delete it. There is no automatic expiry.
Usage statistics are the exception: Google Analytics deletes the detailed records after at most 14 months.
Ad counts are kept so fraud can still be checked later, and they are not removed automatically. Advertising data held by Google is kept under Google's own policy.
In the app: Account → Delete my account. This removes your account and everything stored under it, on the device and on the server — your habits, your goals, every day you marked done, your leaderboard row if you had one, any problem reports you sent together with the replies to them, and which announcements you have answered. None of that is kept afterwards and there is no retention period. It is immediate and cannot be undone. The one exception, ad counts, is explained below.
Signing out does not delete anything; it only ends the session on that device.
Usage statistics are not linked to your account, so deleting it cannot find them. Uninstalling the app gives it a new identifier that has no connection to the old one.
Ad counts are stored apart from your account so fraud can still be checked, so deleting your account does not remove them. Write to the contact address and yours will be deleted.
You can also request deletion by email at the address below.
You may request a copy of your data, ask for it to be corrected, or ask for it to be deleted, by writing to the contact address. Depending on where you live, you may have further rights under the GDPR or similar laws.
Goal Tracker is not directed at children under 13, and accounts are not knowingly created for them. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us and it will be removed.
Connections use TLS. Access to stored data is enforced by server-side security rules tied to your account. No system is perfectly secure, but the app collects as little as it can, which is the most effective protection available.
If this policy changes materially, the date at the top will change and the new version will be published at the same address.
ankeet818@gmail.com
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