Best Dad
Privacy Policy
Your baby's details and everything you ask stay on your phone. A small, allowlisted set of product analytics is described below.
- Last updated
- Applies to
- Best Dad for iOS
This policy covers Best Dad. It sits alongside our general Privacy Policy. Where the two differ for this app, this policy applies.
Who is responsible
The data controller for Best Dad is the developer behind Leap Studio, named on the entity details page.
Contact: contact@leapstudio.dev. We respond within 30 days.
Summary
Your baby's details and everything you ask stay on your phone. A small, allowlisted set of product analytics is described below.
There is no account, no sign-up and no login. What does leave your device is listed below.
What leaves your device
This is the complete list. Anything not in this table is not transmitted.
| What | Who receives it | Where | Why | Trigger |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allowlisted product interactions and feature-performance timings, with an Amplitude-generated pseudonymous device identifier — never names, dates, photos, SOS use, Coach text or other free text | Amplitude | United States | Understanding which features are useful and improving reliability | Always |
Notes
- Information about your baby's feeding, sleep and development is health information. It is never included in analytics or otherwise transmitted to Leap Studio.
- Best Dad does not request App Tracking Transparency permission, access IDFA, use cross-app tracking or embed Meta, TikTok or Google advertising SDKs. Apple's aggregate attribution may report campaign performance without exposing private app content.
- When you choose an image, Apple's PhotosPicker provides only that image. Apple Vision extracts text on the device; neither the image nor extracted text is uploaded.
- The AI coach runs on Apple's on-device model. On devices that cannot run it, the app falls back to the written guidance rather than sending anything away.
- Notifications are scheduled locally by the app. There is no push server.
- Best Dad is guidance, not medical advice. It does not diagnose, and every serious section points you to a clinician.
What stays on your device
Baby and family details, exact dates, progress, settings, Coach questions and answers, notification content, selected photos, extracted text and widget data are stored on your device. There is no account, cloud sync or server-side copy of that content.
This content does not reach us and we hold no copy of it. Uninstalling the app or erasing your device destroys your content permanently. Use your own device backup if you want it kept.
All model inference happens on your device. Prompts and documents are not transmitted.
Permissions this app asks for
Each can be refused or revoked in Settings. Refusing a permission disables only the feature that requires it.
- Notifications
- Optional morning updates, stage reminders and safety reminders. They are scheduled locally and can be turned off.
Analytics, advertising and tracking
Amplitude product analytics begin by default after you tap Get started. Events are limited to allowlisted app actions and performance timings. The SDK is configured not to collect IDFV, IP address, location, carrier, language, region, device model or manufacturer. Autocapture, session replay, remote configuration and diagnostics are disabled.
There is no advertising, no advertising identifier, no data broker, no cross-app or cross-site tracking, and no App Tracking Transparency prompt. We do not sell or share personal information, including as those terms are defined by California and other US state privacy laws.
Children
This app is used by a parent. It is about a child but is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. Information you enter about your child is held on your device. See our Children's Privacy notice.
Legal bases (EU and UK)
- Contract — processing a purchase or subscription.
- Consent — optional features you switch on that send data off the device. Withdraw by switching the feature off.
- Legitimate interests — keeping the app working and secure. You may object at any time.
- Legal obligation — tax and consumer-law records.
Health information
What you record about your baby's feeding, sleep and development is health information — sensitive information under Australian Privacy Principle 3, and a special category of personal data under Article 9 of the GDPR. It is not transmitted and we have no means of receiving it.
International transfers
We are in Australia. The service providers named above are in the United States. Transfers of personal data from the EEA are made under the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, and from the UK under the International Data Transfer Addendum. Under Australian Privacy Principle 8 we take reasonable steps to ensure overseas recipients handle personal information consistently with the Australian Privacy Principles. The full list is on our Subprocessors page.
Retention
Content you create in the app is held on your device until you delete it or remove the app. We do not hold it. Purchase records are retained for seven years as required by Australian tax law. Analytics events, where collected, are retained by the provider on a rolling basis and are not linked to an account.
Your rights
You may have some or all of the following rights depending on where you live. We honour them for everyone.
- Access
- Ask what personal information we hold about you and get a copy of it.
- Correction
- Ask us to fix anything inaccurate, out of date or incomplete.
- Erasure
- Ask us to delete personal information we hold. In this app, uninstalling it deletes your content directly, because we never had a copy.
- Restriction and objection
- Ask us to stop or limit a particular use, including any use based on our legitimate interests.
- Portability
- Receive the personal information you gave us in a structured, machine-readable format.
- Withdraw consent
- Where we rely on consent, withdraw it at any time. This does not affect anything done before you withdrew it.
- Complain
- Take the matter to a privacy regulator without going through us first.
Requests are free of charge and we will not discriminate against you for making one. Write to contact@leapstudio.dev.
We hold no directly identifying information about app users and are often unable to locate records relating to a specific individual.
Data breaches
Where a breach is likely to result in serious harm we will notify you and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner under the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme. Where the GDPR applies we will notify the relevant supervisory authority within 72 hours of becoming aware.
Report a security problem to contact@leapstudio.dev. See our Security overview.
Complaints
Contact us at contact@leapstudio.dev. We respond within 30 days. You may also complain to a regulator at any time:
- Australia — Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC)
- European Union — Your national data protection authority
- United Kingdom — Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
Changes to this policy
Updates are published here with a new date. Material changes are notified in the app before they take effect.