BackIn Privacy Policy
Effective November 13, 2026
BackIn is a habit app you use with friends: you set habits, check in with a photo or other proof, and the people in your groups see and approve it. This policy explains what BackIn collects, why, who can see it, and how to delete it. BackIn is made by North Tempo ("we").
What we collect
- Account details: your name, username, profile photo, and the email address or Apple or Google account you sign in with.
- What you post: habits, check-ins, photos and videos you take as proof, captions, comments, reactions, votes, chat messages, and group details.
- Sign-up answers: the goals you pick, the time of day that suits you, who you're doing it with, and how you heard about BackIn, so we can suggest habits.
- Friends and groups: who you're friends with, which groups you're in, and anyone you block.
- Saved places: if you make a habit for a place (like the gym or the library), we store that place's location, and the times you arrive at and leave it, so the habit can count. We don't track where you go anywhere else.
- Health and activity summaries: if you connect Apple Health or motion, BackIn saves short summaries to your account so your habits can be checked and shown on your other devices: step totals, the type, length, distance and energy of a workout, and when you fell asleep, woke up and got up in the night. Only you can see these summaries; your friends see only what a check-in shows, such as "8,000 steps" or "slept 7h 40m".
- Tracked walks, runs and rides: the route you record is saved to your account so you can look back at it, and only you can see it. When you post one as a check-in, the people you share it with see a rough map of the route with the first and last 200 meters left off, so where you started and finished stays private.
- Focus sessions and Screen Time limits: how long you focused, and whether you stayed under a Screen Time limit you set for a habit.
- Device: an ID for this app on your phone, so records from two phones don't get mixed up.
- Notifications: a device token so we can send you push notifications, and your notification settings.
- Reports: if you report something, we keep the report and a copy of what you reported so we can review it.
What stays on your phone
- Apple Health and motion data: your Health records themselves (every sample, heart rate, and anything BackIn doesn't use) stay on your phone. Only the summaries above are saved.
- Screen Time: the apps you choose to block or limit stay on your phone and are never sent to us.
- Calendar: BackIn only adds and updates the events it creates for your habits. We don't read or upload your other events.
How we use it
- To run BackIn: show your habits and check-ins, let your groups review them, deliver messages and notifications.
- To keep people safe: review reports, remove content that breaks our rules, and enforce blocks.
- To keep the service working: fix problems and stop abuse such as spam.
We don't sell your information, we don't show ads, and we don't use third-party advertising or analytics trackers.
Who can see what
- Your check-ins and photos are visible to the friends and groups you share each habit with, not to the public.
- People you share a group with can see your name, username and profile photo.
- Chat messages are visible to the people in that chat.
- If you block someone, neither of you sees the other's habits, check-ins or posts.
Services that store data for us
- Supabase hosts our database and sign-in.
- Cloudflare stores and delivers photos and videos.
- Apple delivers push notifications and provides Sign in with Apple.
- Google provides Sign in with Google, if you choose it.
These providers process data only to provide their service to BackIn. Data is stored in the United States.
How long we keep it
- On the free plan, proof photos and videos are deleted 7 days after you post them. The check-in itself stays.
- Everything else is kept while your account exists.
- When you delete your account, your profile, habits, check-ins, photos, messages and group memberships are deleted. Copies may remain in our providers' backups for a short time until those backups expire.
Your choices
- Delete your account in the app: Settings → About BackIn → Delete account.
- Delete any post, comment or message you sent.
- Turn off Health, location, camera, calendar or notification access any time in your iPhone's Settings. The features that need them stop working; the rest of BackIn keeps working.
- Ask us for a copy of your data, or to correct or delete it, by emailing us.
Children
BackIn isn't meant for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child under 13 has an account, email us and we'll delete it.
Security
Data is sent over encrypted connections. Access to each person's data is limited by rules in our database, check-in, chat and story photos are served only through short-lived signed links to people allowed to see them. Profile pictures and group covers are served from long, random addresses that can't be guessed or listed. No system is perfectly secure, so we can't promise absolute security.
Changes
If we change this policy, we'll update the date above and, for important changes, tell you in the app.
Contact
Email northtempo.studio@gmail.com.