For the Hydration Break app on iPhone and iPad, including its Siri and Shortcuts actions.
Effective 10 September 2026Last updated 10 September 2026
The short version: Hydration Break has no account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking and no servers of its own. Everything you log stays on your device, and we never see any of it.
There is exactly one thing that can leave your device, and only if you switch it on: when you enable the weather-adjusted goal, an approximate location is sent to Apple’s WeatherKit to look up today’s temperature and humidity. That feature is off until you turn it on, and it is used for nothing else.
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We do not collect, receive, transmit, sell or share any personal information. The app has no server to send it to. Specifically, it never asks for or accesses:
There is no sign-up and no login, because there is nothing to sign in to.
Everything Hydration Break records lives in a private database inside the app on your device:
This data is never uploaded, and it is not synced between your devices by us — the app has no iCloud sync. Deleting the app deletes all of it. You can also delete any individual drink entry at any time inside the app.
If your device backs up to iCloud or to a computer, the app’s data may be included in that backup. Those backups are created and secured by Apple under Apple’s privacy policy, not by us, and we cannot read them.
Hydration Break can connect to Apple Health. This is optional, and it is handled entirely by Apple’s HealthKit on your own device. With your permission, the app:
Health data is read and written on your device only. It is never transmitted to us or to anyone else, is not included in the weather lookup, and is never used for advertising or marketing, sold, or shared with third parties. We have no way to see it.
Health access is optional. If you decline it, everything else in the app still works — logging, goals, reminders, streaks, charts and Siri are all unaffected; drinks simply are not mirrored to Health, and your goal is not raised for activity. You can grant or revoke each permission at any time in the Health app under Sharing › Apps, or in Settings › Health › Data Access & Devices. Revoking write access leaves any water entries already saved in Health; you can delete those in the Health app.
Hydration Break has one optional feature that uses location: the weather-adjusted goal, which raises your target on hot or humid days. It is found in Settings › Weather & Climate and is off until you turn it on.
When you turn it on, the app asks for When In Use location access and then:
The app requests no background location access, does no continuous or significant-change location monitoring, and never writes your location to its database. A fix is held in memory for at most fifteen minutes to avoid asking for a new one on every launch, and is discarded when the app closes. Turning the toggle off stops location use immediately and returns your goal to its base value.
The weather lookup is performed by Apple. Your location is sent to Apple for that purpose and is handled under Apple’s privacy policy and the Apple Weather attribution terms. We receive no copy of it and have no access to the request. Nothing about your drinks, your goals or your health data is sent with it.
If you decline the location prompt, the toggle simply switches back off and the rest of the app is unaffected. Because this approximate location is transmitted off your device, it is the one item declared in the app’s App Store privacy label, as Coarse Location, used for app functionality and not linked to your identity.
Hydration Break schedules local notifications — alerts created on your device by your device — to remind you to drink, either on a fixed schedule or after a period of inactivity. They respect the quiet hours you set.
There is no push notification server. No notification token, device token or message content is ever sent to us or to anyone else. You can turn reminders off in the app’s settings, or in Settings › Notifications › Hydration Break.
The app’s “Log Drink” and “Check Hydration” actions run on your device and read and write the same local database as the app. Voice requests to Siri are handled by Apple under Apple’s privacy policy; the app itself receives only the resulting action and sends nothing anywhere.
The only network request the app makes is the Apple WeatherKit lookup described under “Location and weather” above, and only while the weather adjustment is switched on. There is no remote configuration, no crash-reporting service, no content download and no telemetry. With that feature off, the app works identically in Airplane Mode.
Hydration Break does not track you. It shows no advertisements, contains no advertising SDK, does not use the advertising identifier, and never asks for permission to track across apps or websites, because it has nothing to track you with. We do not sell or share personal information, as those terms are defined under the CCPA/CPRA, and we never have.
The app includes no third-party SDKs, frameworks or analytics libraries. It is built entirely on Apple’s own frameworks, and all of its own code ships inside the app. Apple Health, WeatherKit, Siri and notifications are Apple services, governed by Apple’s privacy policy.
Separately from the app, Apple may provide us with aggregated App Store reports — such as download counts, and crash reports and usage statistics from users who have chosen to share analytics with developers in Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements. That information reaches us only through Apple, already aggregated or anonymized, and we cannot use it to identify you. The app itself sends us nothing.
Hydration Break collects no data from anyone, including children under 13 (or the equivalent age in your country). It contains no advertising, no user-generated content shared with others and no chat.
Privacy laws such as the GDPR (EU/UK), the CCPA/CPRA (California) and similar regulations give you rights to access, correct, export or delete the personal data a company holds about you.
We hold no personal data about you. There is nothing for us to look up, export, correct or delete, and no request you need to make. You have direct and complete control at all times: you can edit or delete any entry inside the app, revoke Health and location access in iOS Settings, and deleting the app removes its data from your device.
Because we receive no data, we retain none. The data you create stays on your device for as long as you keep it there.
Hydration Break is a general wellness app. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment, and its goals and adjustments are informational estimates only. Talk to a healthcare professional about the right fluid intake for you, particularly if you have a heart, kidney or liver condition, or are pregnant.
If this policy changes — for example, if a future version of the app adds a feature that needs data — we will update this page and change the “Last updated” date above before that version is released. Material changes will also be noted in the app’s release notes on the App Store.
Questions about this policy or about privacy in Hydration Break:
Mehedi Khan