Privacy policy

System Think Van LLC publishes HGRS. This policy says what HGRS collects, why, who sees it, how long it is kept, and how to see it or have it deleted.

Last changed 2026-10-23.

What HGRS collects, and why

Your sign-in email address

The address you sign in with, or the one Apple or Google gives us when you sign in with them, so you can sign in. It is never shown to other people.

The name you use in groups

The name the other members of your groups see. You choose it, and you can change it at any time.

The name Apple or Google shares

When you sign in with Apple or Google and they share your name, it is kept with your sign-in and only offered as the first suggestion for your name in groups. It is never shown to other people, and it is deleted with your sign-in.

Step data, only for challenges you join

For each day of a challenge you join: your daily step total from Apple Health, the time you reached the goal, and how many steps each app or device recorded. It keeps score in that challenge. Nothing is sent before you agree on the challenge's consent screen.

Your account id and your device's push token

To keep your account apart from others, and to send you the notifications you allow.

What you write and do

Group names, challenge titles and notes, cheers, the reason an entry was voided, the people you block and any report you make.

Request logs

A line for each request the app makes (when, which route, how it ended, and your account id), to keep the service working.

HGRS does not collect your location, your contacts, your phone number, purchases or payment details, your browsing, or anything for advertising. It shows no ads, contains no tracking and never sells data.

Adults only

HGRS is for adults 18 and over. When you sign up we keep the date you confirmed you are 18 or over and the version of the age check your app ran — never your birth date or your age range. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 18, we delete it.

Your step data and your consent

• HGRS reads Steps from Apple Health and never writes to Apple Health.
• Your step data leaves your iPhone only for a challenge you join, after its consent screen. Consent is per challenge.
• The members of the group see your daily totals, the time you reached the goal, your entry count and when your app last synced. The challenge's organizer also sees how many steps each app or device recorded, and days that were flagged for review.
• Leaving a challenge or the group stops the sharing at once, and your days and entries leave a challenge whose drawing has not run.
• Step data is never used for advertising and is never kept in iCloud.

Reports and blocks

When you report something, we keep your reason and a copy of what you were shown, so we can act on it; the person you reported is never told who reported them. When you block someone, we keep who you blocked and where you met. We may replace text that breaks the Terms with "Removed for breaking the rules".

Who processes it for us

Amazon Web Services stores the data and runs the service, in the United States, including the sign-in service that holds your sign-in email address. Apple's push notification service delivers notifications. Each is bound by its agreement with us to protect the data as this policy does, and to use it only to provide its service to us. We share data with nobody else. The data is encrypted in transit and at rest.

How long it is kept

• Challenge data (daily totals, standings, entries and flags): 400 days after the challenge ends and its late steps stop counting.
• Drawing records, which hold no names: 3 years.
• Group activity and cheers: 90 days.
• Reports: 90 days.
• A join request: until it is answered or withdrawn; one left unanswered stops counting after 30 days and is deleted when the group's owner next opens its requests, when you ask to join again, or with the group or your account. A declined one is remembered 30 days and deleted within 60 days.
• A device's push registration: 60 days after the app last renewed it.
• Request logs: 30 days.
• Backups: deleted data leaves our backups within 35 days.

Your rights

• See your data: write to us from the email address you sign in with, and we send you a copy of everything we hold about you.
• Correct it: change your name in the app; write to us for anything else.
• Withdraw your consent: leave the challenge, or the group, in the app.
• Delete it: delete your account in the app (how), or write to us.

We answer every request within 45 days. Residents of Washington have the rights our Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy describes.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account in the app at any time (how). Your profile, the date you confirmed you are 18 or over, your memberships, requests, blocks, reports and push registrations, and your sign-in are deleted, and your step data leaves every challenge whose drawing has not run. A marker that your account was deleted is kept 90 days, so your other devices learn it. Reports other people made about you are kept until they expire, 90 days after they were made. Blocks other people made of you, which name only your former account id, are kept until the person who made one opens their list of blocked people or deletes their account.

Consumer health data

Step data can be consumer health data under Washington's My Health My Data Act. Our Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy says how we handle it and how to use your rights.

Changes

When this policy changes, the new version is posted here with its date.

Contact

System Think Van LLC: support@systemthinkvan.com.