Elevate — Privacy Policy

Who this is from

Elevate is published by Great Basin Software LLC, a Utah limited liability company based in Salt Lake City. Questions about this policy go to contact@gbsoft.dev.

What the app has no ability to do

Elevate does not declare the Android INTERNET permission. An app without that permission cannot open a network connection — not to us, not to anyone. This is not a promise about our intentions; it is a property of the app that Android enforces, and you can verify it yourself by inspecting the app’s permissions.

As a direct consequence, there is no account, no sign-in, no server, no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising identifier, and no tracking of any kind. There is nowhere for data to go.

What the app reads on your watch

• The barometric pressure sensor. This is how the altimeter works. Pressure readings are used to compute your elevation and are not retained beyond what the current reading needs.
• Your location, only when calibrating. If you use GPS calibration, the app requests a location fix in order to read its altitude and correct the barometer against it. The fix is used for that calculation and then discarded. Your coordinates are never stored and never leave the watch.

Permissions the app asks for

Wear OS will prompt you for these two. Both are optional, and the app degrades rather than breaks if you decline either:

• Location — for GPS calibration. Decline it and you calibrate by entering a known elevation by hand instead.
• Notifications — so a running session shows an ongoing notification, which Android requires of any foreground service. Decline it and tracking still works, without the notification.

That is the whole list of prompts. The app does not request access to physical activity, step counts, heart rate, or any body sensor. It reads air pressure, which is a property of the room you are standing in rather than of you.

None of these permissions grant the app the ability to send anything anywhere. It still has no network access.

What is saved on your watch

The app keeps a small amount of state in its own private storage so your calibration survives a restart:

• A calibration anchor — an elevation value and the time it was set
• A sea-level pressure reference, used to correct for weather drift
• Your unit preference, feet or metres
• Two sessions’ worth of totals — the one currently running and the one before it. Each holds elevation gain and descent, the minimum and maximum elevation reached, a count of samples taken, a couple of intermediate values the tracking maths carries between samples, and the times the session started and ended.

That is the complete list. Note what is not in it: no route, no track log, no coordinates, no timestamps of where you were — only how far up and down you went, and when you started and stopped. Nothing in it identifies you, and all of it is deleted when you uninstall the app.

Only the current and previous session are kept. Starting a third overwrites the oldest; there is no history beyond those two.

Other parties

To get a location fix, Elevate asks the fused location provider that is part of Google Play services on your device. The app receives a location from that system component and does not send anything to it beyond the request. Google’s own handling of location on your device is governed by Google’s privacy policy, not this one.

If you installed Elevate from Google Play, your installation is a transaction between you and Google, and is likewise covered by Google’s privacy policy. We receive no personal information from it.

Children

Elevate is not directed at children and collects no personal information from anyone, of any age.

Your rights

Rules such as the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights to access, correct, export, and delete the personal data a company holds about you. We hold none, so there is nothing for us to produce or erase. To remove the app’s local state from your watch, uninstall the app.

Changes

If a future version of the app changes what it accesses — particularly if it ever gains network access — this policy will be updated before that version ships, and the effective date above will change. Material changes will be noted in the app’s release notes as well.