Privacy Policy for Distance Goal

Distance Goal is published by Bluetorch Consulting Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (Companies House number 14663890). This privacy policy explains how the Distance Goal app for Android handles your information.

If you have any questions about this policy, you can contact us at support@bluetorch.co.uk.

Distance Goal is a simple distance goal tracker. You create a goal with a target distance and deadline, then manually add distance entries for activities such as walking, cycling or running. The app shows your progress towards the goal.

Distance Goal does not require you to create an account. The app is designed for manual distance goal tracking.

The app may store the following information locally on your device:

• Goal name
• Target distance
• Start and end dates
• Manually entered distance entries
• Activity type, such as walking, cycling, running, or other
• Optional notes entered by you
• If you use the optional Health Connect feature: the activity labels you set by hand on auto-tracked distance (a time period and the activity you chose), and the names of any Health Connect source apps you excluded

This information is stored locally on your device. Bluetorch Consulting Ltd does not receive, collect, access, sell, or share your goals or distance entries.

Distance Goal does not:

• Require an account or collect account details
• Collect your name, email address or other personal details
• Collect GPS or location data
• Track your routes or movements
• Use analytics or advertising services
• Send push notifications from a server, or use any push or messaging service
• Include any third-party tracking SDKs
• Send your data to any server — the app has no backend

Everything you enter into Distance Goal is stored locally on your device. It is not uploaded, synchronised or backed up to any service operated by Bluetorch Consulting Ltd.

Because your data lives only on your device, deleting the app or clearing its app data may permanently delete your goals and distance entries. Your device or Google account settings may include general device backup features (such as Android backups) that are controlled by you and Google, not by Bluetorch Consulting Ltd.

Distance Goal never collects GPS location data and never tracks your route. It has no direct integration with Google Fit, Apple Health, Fitbit, Strava, or similar platforms, and it reads nothing from any health or fitness service unless you switch on the optional Health Connect feature described below.

Optional Health Connect auto-tracking (Android). You can choose to turn on auto-tracking in the app's settings. If you do, Distance Goal reads your distance and the activity type of the workouts you tracked — and nothing else — from Google Health Connect, so your goals can update themselves from distance your phone, or a connected watch or fitness app, has already recorded.

• Off by default — nothing is read until you turn the setting on and grant permission in Health Connect.
• Two read-only permissions, and no more. The app never writes anything to Health Connect.
• Read distance — for each distance reading: how far it was, when it started and ended, which app recorded it, and whether that app recorded it automatically in the background or from an activity you started.
• Read exercise — used only to work out whether a stretch of distance was a walk, a ride or a run. Health Connect's distance records don't say, so without it the app can't tell your cycling from your walking, and a cycling goal would count both. From a workout the app reads exactly four things: its start time, end time, activity type, and which app recorded it. It does not read your route or GPS trace, your heart rate, laps, splits or calories, or the workout's title or notes.
• Knowing which app recorded something is what lets the app show you what your total is made of, let you exclude a source you don't trust, and tell two apps apart when they both recorded the same walk. The app cannot see steps, sleep, weight or anything else, and never asks for them.
• What period is read — only the span your auto-tracking goals cover: from the start of the earliest to the end of the latest, plus a few hours either side so a workout running past midnight can still be identified. If two of your goals have a gap between them, that gap falls inside the span and is read too.
• On your device only — everything read is used only to work out your goal progress. It is never sent anywhere and never shared.
• Nothing measured is kept. No distance figure, and no detail of a workout, is copied into the app's own storage — those are re-read from Health Connect every time. The only thing that persists is a label you set yourself.
• Activity labels you set are saved on your device. Many apps record distance without recording a workout, so the app can't always tell what an activity was — you can label those yourself. That label (the exact time period of the distance you were labelling, taken from Health Connect, plus the activity you picked) is saved on your device like any other setting, never leaves it, and can be erased at any time with Settings → Reset activity labels.
• Your source choices are a local setting — if you exclude a source, or turn on “ignore automatic distance”, that preference (including the app id of any excluded source, for example com.sec.android.app.shealth) is saved on your device like any other setting. It never leaves your device.
• Reversible at any time — turn auto-tracking off in the app (reading stops immediately), or revoke either permission in the Health Connect app. Refusing the exercise permission is fine: the app simply can't tell your activities apart, and counts all auto-tracked distance toward every auto-tracking goal.

Auto-tracking supplements manual logging; it never replaces it. The app still makes no network connections, so nothing read from Health Connect ever leaves your device.

You can optionally turn on reminders in the app's settings. When enabled, Distance Goal can show a notification if you haven't logged any distance for a day.

• Off by default — no notification is scheduled until you turn reminders on and grant the notification permission.
• On your device only — reminders are scheduled locally by your phone's operating system. There is no server, no push service and no account, and nothing about your reminders leaves your device.
• Reversible any time — turn reminders off in the app, or turn off notifications for Distance Goal in your phone's settings.

Distance Goal does not use third-party analytics, advertising, crash reporting or tracking services, and does not share any information with third parties.

The app is distributed through Google Play. Google may collect information relating to your download and installation of the app under its own privacy policy, which is separate from this one.

Distance Goal is a general-purpose utility and is not directed at children. The app does not collect personal information from anyone, including children. All data entered into the app remains on the device it was entered on.

Because your data is stored only on your device, you are in full control of deleting it. You can:

• Delete individual goals or distance entries within the app
• Clear the app's data from your device settings (Settings → Apps → Distance Goal → Storage → Clear data)
• Uninstall the app, which removes its locally stored data

Bluetorch Consulting Ltd holds no copy of your data, so there is nothing further for us to delete on our side.

If future versions of Distance Goal add features that change how your information is handled — such as optional cloud sync — this privacy policy will be updated before those features are released, and the "Last updated" date above will be revised. We encourage you to review this page from time to time.

If you have questions about this privacy policy or about how Distance Goal handles your information, please contact: