Punch Champ Privacy Policy
Punch Champ ("the App") is a boxing fitness game published by Pudgefinds LLC, a Texas limited liability company ("we", "us"). This policy explains what information the App uses, why, where it is kept, who it is shared with and for how long, and the choices and rights you have.
Short version
1. Data inventory
| What | Why | Where it is stored | Shared with | How long |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camera frames | Track punches, slips, ducks and guard | Processed in memory on your phone only, never saved | No one | Discarded frame by frame |
| Body pose points (derived from the camera) | Game actions, form tips | In memory during a session | No one | Discarded at the end of the session |
| Fight clips (screen recordings) | Let you save and share your fights | Your phone (temporary folder) | Only people and apps you choose via the share sheet or Save to Photos | Until you delete them, the app deletes temporary files, or you use Delete my data |
| Body weight | Calorie estimates only | Your phone | No one; never in Game Center saved games | Until you change it or delete your data |
| Age, sex, max heart rate (optional, Settings > Heart rate) | Heart rate zones, calorie estimates, the "Take a breather" threshold | Your phone | No one; never in saved games | Until you change it or delete your data |
| Live heart rate (Apple Watch, Bluetooth strap, WHOOP broadcast) | Live display, zones, calorie estimates, breather reminder | Your phone and watch during a session; a per-fight summary in your local history | No one; never in Game Center saved games | Local history until you delete your data |
| Workouts written to Apple Health (optional) | Save fights as Boxing workouts with estimated energy and monitor heart rate | Apple Health on your devices (managed by Apple) | Apple Health only. Never used for ads. Never stored in iCloud by the App | Until you delete them in the Health app |
| Game progress and session history (level, records, unlocks, coins, gems, items, dates, scores, punches, active time, calorie estimates) | Run the game, show progress | Your phone; and, if you use Game Center, Game Center saved games in your iCloud (managed by Apple) | Apple (Game Center) | Until you delete your data or the saved game |
| Game Center name, scores, career points, lifetime calories and punches | Leaderboards | Game Center (Apple) | Apple, and other players who see leaderboards | Under your Game Center settings |
| Purchases and subscriptions | Unlock what you bought | Apple; the App checks entitlements on your phone | Apple (we receive anonymous sales reports) | Under Apple's policies |
| Fighter name | Shown on versus cards, results, clips and challenge links | Your phone and Game Center saved games | People you send clips or challenge links to | Until you change it or delete your data |
| Challenge links (score, fight timing, fighter name) | Let friends race your fight | Inside the link you send | The people you send it to; no server of ours | As long as the recipient keeps the link |
| Consent record (document versions, date and time, app version, "13+ confirmed") | Prove what you agreed to | Your phone | No one | Until you delete your data |
| Usage statistics (events like "fight started", with a random ID made on your phone) | Improve the App | Your phone only today | No one today (see Section 10) | Rotated files; deleted when you turn statistics off |
| Crash, freeze and performance reports (Apple MetricKit) | Fix bugs | Your phone (last 20) | Only where you choose to send them with "Send diagnostics" | Until replaced or deleted |
| Notification schedule | Daily Fight reminders | Your phone (local notifications) | No one | Until you turn reminders off |
| Ad data (planned, Section 9) | Show rewarded ads, measure and pay for them, prevent fraud | The ad network's servers | [AD NETWORK NAME] and its partners | Under [AD NETWORK NAME]'s policy |
We do not ask for your name, email, phone number, contacts, location, microphone or photo library access. The App never records audio from the microphone.
2. Camera and body tracking
The App uses the front camera to see your punches, slips, ducks and guard. Each video frame is turned into body points (like "left wrist") on your phone with Apple's Vision framework and then discarded. Camera video is never uploaded, saved by the App, or seen by us, and camera data is never used for advertising, marketing or data mining. We do not use the camera to identify you, recognize faces, or estimate any health measurement.
3. Fight clips and screen recording
If "Record my fights" is on, the App records its own screen and game sound with Apple's ReplayKit (never the microphone). iOS shows its own prompt and recording indicator. The fight screen includes a small view of your camera, so clips can show you and your surroundings. Clips stay on your phone unless you share them or save them to Photos (add-only access; the App cannot see your library).
4. Apple Health (HealthKit)
If you turn on "Save to Apple Health", each fight or guided workout is saved as a Boxing workout with the estimated active energy and, if a monitor was connected, heart rate samples. The iPhone App writes to Health and does not read it. The optional Apple Watch App reads your heart rate and active energy only during a workout, to show them live.
Following Apple's rules, data from HealthKit is never used for advertising, marketing or data mining, never sold, never shared with ad networks or data brokers, never used for anything other than providing the App's fitness features, and never stored in iCloud (including Game Center saved games) by the App.
5. Heart rate monitors and Bluetooth
If you connect a Bluetooth heart rate monitor (for example a chest strap, or WHOOP in heart rate broadcast mode), the App uses Bluetooth only to receive heart rate readings. Readings stay on your devices and are used for the live display, zones, calorie estimates and the "Take a breather" reminder. They are never uploaded and never put in Game Center saved games. The App asks for Bluetooth only when you choose to connect a monitor.
6. Body weight, age and other settings
Body weight is used only to estimate calories. Age, sex and max heart rate (all optional) are used only for heart rate zones, calorie estimates and the breather threshold. They stay on your phone.
The age question on the agreement screen is different: it asks your birth year (and month or day only if needed) once, to check you are 13 or older. The answer is not saved. Only "13+ confirmed" is kept.
7. Game Center and iCloud
If you are signed in to Game Center, scores and some totals go to Game Center leaderboards, and your progress is saved as a Game Center saved game, which Apple stores in your iCloud, so you can restore it on a new phone. Saved games hold game progress and the App's own session history, including calorie estimates. They never hold heart rate, heart rate zones, body weight, age or anything from Apple Health. Cloud save is off until the App's publisher account supports it. Game Center is run by Apple under Apple's privacy policy; other players can see your Game Center name and leaderboard scores.
8. Purchases
Purchases and subscriptions go through Apple's App Store. We never see your payment details or Apple Account. Apple gives us anonymous, aggregated sales reports.
9. Advertising (PLANNED, SECTION TO FINALIZE WHEN THE AD NETWORK IS CHOSEN)
Punch Champ will offer optional rewarded video ads: you can choose to watch an ad to earn coins. Ads are never required to play and never shown during a fight.
When ads are added, they will be provided by [AD NETWORK NAME] ([AD NETWORK PRIVACY URL]). When you watch or are offered an ad, the ad network's software in the App may collect: device and app information (model, OS version, language, app version), IP address and approximate location derived from it, ad interactions (impressions, clicks, completions), performance and fraud prevention signals, and, only if you allow it, your device's advertising identifier (IDFA).
10. Usage statistics
The App keeps a small log of events like "fight started" or "store opened", with the fighter, mode and difficulty, a random ID made on your phone, and the app and iOS versions. It never contains your fighter name, video, voice, weight, age, health or heart rate data. Today this log stays on your phone.
Turn it off any time in Settings > Support and privacy > Share anonymous usage. Turning it off deletes the log and the random ID.
11. Crash and freeze reports
iOS can give the App anonymous crash, freeze and performance reports (MetricKit). The App keeps the last 20 on your phone. They are sent only if you tap "Send diagnostics" and choose where to send them. They contain technical data (app and iOS version, phone model, code location), not personal data.
12. Children
Punch Champ is for people 13 and older. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, COPPA). The App asks a neutral birth year question before anything else; if the answer is under 13, the App does not let the user in and saves nothing about them except a flag that blocks entry. If you believe a child under 13 has used the App, contact hi@pudgefinds.com and tell them to use Settings > Legal > Delete my data, or delete the App. Teens 13 to 17 need a parent or guardian's permission.
13. Your privacy rights
Everyone
Because the App keeps your data on your phone and in your own Apple services, you control it directly:
US state privacy laws (California CCPA/CPRA, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Utah, Texas, Oregon, and others)
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to know what personal information we collect, use and disclose; to access, correct and delete it; to get a portable copy; to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information and of targeted advertising and profiling; to limit the use of sensitive personal information; and to appeal our decision. We do not sell personal information today. When ads are added, you can opt out of sale, sharing and targeted advertising by choosing "Ask App Not to Track" and [TO FINALIZE: an in-app "Do not sell or share" switch, and honoring Global Privacy Control where it applies]. We use sensitive information (health data) only to provide the features you asked for. To appeal a decision, email hi@pudgefinds.com with "Appeal" in the subject; if you are not satisfied, you may contact your state attorney general. California residents: categories collected are listed in Section 1; we have not sold or shared personal information in the past 12 months.
Consumer health data: Washington My Health My Data Act and Nevada SB 370
Heart rate, body weight, calorie estimates and workout data can be "consumer health data" under Washington's My Health My Data Act and Nevada's consumer health data law (NRS 603A, SB 370), and similar laws (for example Connecticut's). For these laws:
EU, EEA and UK users (GDPR and UK GDPR)
If the App is offered in the EU, EEA or UK, Pudgefinds LLC is the controller for the limited data it processes. Most processing happens only on your device. Legal bases: performance of a contract (running the game you downloaded), explicit consent for health data (Article 9(2)(a)), such as heart rate and Apple Health, which you give by turning those features on and can withdraw at any time, consent for optional usage statistics and, when added, personalized ads, and legitimate interests in security and fixing bugs from reports you choose to send. You have the rights to access, rectify, erase, restrict, object, data portability, withdraw consent, and to complain to your local data protection authority (in the UK, the ICO).
14. Security
Data stays on your device, protected by iOS sandboxing and your device passcode and encryption. Health data is managed by Apple's HealthKit, and Game Center data by Apple. Challenge links and shared clips go only where you send them. No method of storage or transfer is perfectly secure, so keep your device locked and up to date.
15. International transfers
We do not run servers today. Apple services (Game Center, iCloud, App Store) and, when added, the ad network may process data in the United States and other countries under their own safeguards, such as Standard Contractual Clauses or the EU-US Data Privacy Framework where applicable.
16. Retention
Data on your phone is kept until you delete it, use Delete my data, or delete the App. Data held by Apple or the ad network follows their retention policies. We do not keep copies on servers of our own.
17. Changes
If we change this policy, we will update the version and effective date. For material changes, the App will ask you to review and agree again before you continue. Earlier versions are available on request.
18. Contact
Pudgefinds LLC
Privacy requests: hi@pudgefinds.com
Support: hi@pudgefinds.com