This policy describes how SipSheep handles information when you use its iPhone and Apple Watch apps, widgets, and Live Activities. You can use manual drink tracking without creating a SipSheep account.
Drink records and settings
SipSheep stores the drinks you log, their amounts and times, your hydration goal, reminder schedule, app preferences, and progress such as streaks and medals. These records support your history, reminders, trends, and progress views. The app may share the necessary data with its own widgets and Live Activities using an Apple App Group and with your paired Apple Watch using Apple’s device-to-device services.
If you enable iCloud sync, a copy of your hydration records, goals, and related progress or deletion information may be stored in your iCloud account. You can manage iCloud sync under Settings → Data & privacy in SipSheep. Turning off sync stops future backups through that setting. It does not by itself erase a copy already stored in iCloud.
Apple Health and Watch detection
If you connect Apple Health, SipSheep may read water intake to check sync status. With your permission, SipSheep can write logged water intake and, if separately enabled, estimated caffeine and dietary energy. Apple Health permissions are managed in the Health app or iOS Settings.
If you enable automatic detection on Apple Watch, the app uses motion information to identify possible drinking gestures. If authorized, it may check recent sleep information to avoid detecting drinks while you appear to be asleep. SipSheep does not use HealthKit or motion data for advertising, and does not sell it or send it to Firebase Analytics.
Weather and reminders
If you grant location permission, SipSheep sends the coordinates supplied by iOS to OpenWeather to fetch local weather. SipSheep requests approximate location accuracy, and the precision available to the app depends on your iOS settings. Weather can be cached on the device. Weather conditions, such as temperature, may be attached to a drink record. You can revoke location permission in iOS Settings and continue to log drinks manually.
Apple notification services and Firebase Cloud Messaging support reminders and app notifications. Firebase services may process a registration token, a randomly generated installation identifier, and registration or notification status needed for delivery and troubleshooting. You can disable notifications in iOS Settings.
Optional analytics and crash reports
In versions that have the “Share analytics and crash reports” setting, sharing is off by default. If you turn it on under Settings → Data & privacy, Firebase Analytics and Crashlytics may process app and device information, app interactions, crash diagnostics, and associated service identifiers to help improve SipSheep. You can turn sharing off at any time.
Current versions with this setting do not send hydration amounts, daily goals, coordinates, or drink records as custom analytics parameters. Older versions may have sent usage events and diagnostics automatically and may have uploaded hydration records and timestamps, settings, and sync information to Firebase Firestore. Updating or turning off sharing does not automatically remove data previously received. Firebase Remote Config, App Check, and notification services support separate app functions.
Data sharing, retention, and deletion
SipSheep does not sell personal information or use hydration records for targeted advertising. Information shared with Apple, Cloudflare, Google Firebase, or OpenWeather is used to provide the functions described here. Service providers are expected to protect information shared for those functions under their applicable service terms and privacy policies. Cloudflare hosts these legal pages and may process standard request information to serve and secure them.
Local records remain on your device until you edit or delete them, clear data, or remove the app. Use Settings → Data & privacy to export your records or clear drink history and progress. A separate copy may remain in Apple Health, iCloud, a device backup, or a CSV file you exported. Manage those copies through the corresponding Apple service or file location. Firebase and other providers may retain information previously received under their service settings and retention policies.
Email support to ask about access to or deletion of data managed by SipSheep or to withdraw consent. Include enough context for us to identify the relevant app installation or request. Please avoid including health records or other sensitive details in the first email.
Children and updates
SipSheep is a general wellness app. Parents and guardians should supervise children’s use as appropriate. We do not knowingly collect children’s personal information for targeted advertising.
We may update this policy as features or data practices change. We will show the revision date on this page. To ask a privacy question, contact SipSheep support.