Privacy Policy

For the Habits app and habits.e-websolutions.de · Last updated 13 September 2026

Who is responsible

The controller for your data under the GDPR is:

Erlebach Web Solutions UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Dornhecke 2
76768 Berg
Germany
Managing Director: Jakob Erlebach
Email: info@e-websolutions.de

The short version

What we store, and why

Only if you create an account:

DataWhy
Email addressIdentifies your account, lets you log in and reset your password
PasswordStored only as a scrypt hash with a random salt — we never see or store the password itself
Display nameShown to your friends — and on the Everyone leaderboard only if you choose to join it
Account IDA random identifier linking your data together
Your habitsNames, icons, colours, schedules, goals, reminder times, and which days you completed — this is the data being synced between your devices
Profile pictureOptional. Only if you choose one
Friends and shared habitsWho you are friends with, and habits you share with them
Notification tokenOptional. An Apple-issued identifier for your app installation, so we can send you a notification when a friend interacts with you

Apple Health

If you set up a Health trigger, Habits reads the metrics you choose — such as steps, water, or mindful minutes — so a habit can complete itself when you reach your target.

The Health data itself never leaves your device. We never receive, store or transmit your step count, water intake, or any other Health value, and your targets are stored only on your device. What is synced to your account is the result and nothing else: whether a habit was completed that day — the same single fact that would be recorded if you had ticked it by hand. We never use Health data for advertising or marketing, and never disclose it to anyone.

Photos

If you set a profile picture, only the single image you pick is used. It is cropped and shrunk to a small square (256 px) on your device before it is uploaded, so the original photo is never sent. We have no access to the rest of your photo library.

What other people can see

Habits is partly social, so some of your data is visible to others by design:

Habits you have not shared are never visible to anyone else.

Who else processes your data

Both act only on our instructions, under a data processing agreement as required by Art. 28 GDPR:

We use no analytics provider, no advertising network, and no other third party.

Where your data is

Your account data is stored on a server operated by IONOS SE in Berlin, Germany, and is not transferred outside the EU.

The one exception is push notifications, which Apple delivers through its own global infrastructure and which may therefore be processed in the United States. Apple Inc. is certified under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, and the Apple Developer Program agreement additionally incorporates the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses — either of which provides the safeguard required by Chapter V GDPR. Only the notification token and the notification text are involved; your habits and account details are not.

You can prevent this entirely by turning off notifications for Habits in iOS Settings.

Legal basis

How long we keep it

Deleting your account

In the app: open your profile, tap the gear for Settings, then Delete Account. It asks for your password, and the deletion is immediate and permanent — your account, habits, profile picture, friendships and notification tokens are removed. There is no recovery period.

One exception, by design: a habit you were sharing with a friend becomes their own personal habit, keeping the days they completed. Their record of their own progress is theirs, and is not deleted with your account. Your own completions in it are removed.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to:

To exercise any of these, write to info@e-websolutions.de.

Automated decision-making

There is none. We do not profile you, and nothing about your account is decided automatically in a way that has legal or similarly significant effects. The leaderboard simply counts completed habit-days; it makes no decisions about you.

Data protection officer

We have not appointed one. Our processing does not meet the thresholds in Art. 37 GDPR or § 38 BDSG that would require it — we are a small company, we do not process personal data on a large scale, and we carry out no systematic monitoring. Data protection enquiries go to info@e-websolutions.de.

Children

Habits is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly create accounts for anyone under 16. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us and we will delete it.

Security

All traffic is encrypted with HTTPS. Passwords are stored as salted scrypt hashes, and session tokens are stored only as hashes, so neither can be read from our database. Access to the server is restricted to the operator.

Changes to this policy

If we change what we collect or why, we will update this page and change the date at the top. Material changes will also be announced in the app.

Contact

Questions about this policy or your data: info@e-websolutions.de.