Three Count privacy policy

Effective date: 10/15/2026

Three Count is a workout tracker for iPhone and Apple Watch, made by Chris Hickey. This policy explains what the app does with your information. The short answer is that I collect nothing. Your workouts are kept on your phone and, while iCloud sync is on, in your own iCloud account, where I cannot read them.

What the app collects

Nothing. Three Count does not collect, sell or share any personal information or usage data.

The app sends nothing to me or to anyone I work with. It has no accounts of its own, no ads, no analytics, no crash-reporting service and no in-app purchases. It includes no third-party SDK. It does not ask for your location, contacts, photos, camera or microphone.

Two things do leave your phone, and both go to Apple under your own Apple Account: the iCloud copy of your data, and the workouts the watch saves to Health. Both are described below.

What the app stores on your phone

Three Count saves what it needs to plan and log your training in the app’s own storage on your iPhone:

• your name, if you type one in
• the equipment you say you own, how heavy it goes, and whether you train with a partner
• your plan: the exercises for each day, their sets, rep ranges and rest times, and any exercises you add yourself
• your history: the date and time of each workout, and the weight, reps and tempo of each set
• a workout you are in the middle of
• your settings

iCloud

Sync with iCloud is on when you first open the app. While it is on, your history, plan and settings are copied to the private part of your own iCloud account, in encrypted form, so a new or replaced phone gets them back.

I cannot see that copy. It is not on a server of mine, and no key to it comes to me. Apple stores it under your Apple Account and its own privacy policy. A workout takes a few kilobytes of your iCloud storage.

A workout you are in the middle of stays on your phone until you finish it.

To stop the copying, turn off Sync with iCloud in the app’s Settings. That leaves the copy already in iCloud where it is. “Deleting your data” below says how to remove it.

Health

The Apple Watch app asks for access to Health the first time you use it. With your permission it:

• reads your heart rate and active calories during a workout, and shows your heart rate on the watch
• saves each workout you finish to Health as strength training, with that heart rate and those calories

Those readings stay in Health on your devices. Three Count does not write them to its own storage, does not copy them to iCloud and does not send them to me. It does not use them for advertising or anything else.

The iPhone app does not read or write Health data. It uses Health for one thing, which is opening the watch app when you start a workout.

You can change or remove the app’s access at any time in the Health app: tap your picture, then Apps. If you decline, the watch still works as a remote for your phone. It shows no heart rate and saves nothing to Health.

Your phone and your watch

During a workout the iPhone app and the watch app send each other the workout in progress: the exercise, the set, the weight, the reps and the rest timer. That goes directly between your two devices.

Notifications

If you allow notifications, the app alerts you when a rest ends. The alert is created on your phone. Nothing is sent to a server to make it happen.

Exporting your data

Settings → Export my data makes a file holding everything the app has stored. You choose where it goes. The app does not send it anywhere on its own.

Deleting your data

You can erase your data at any time:

• One workout. Swipe it away in History. It leaves the phone and the iCloud copy. The copy the watch saved to Health stays there until you delete it in the Health or Fitness app.
• Everything on the phone. Delete the app.
• The iCloud copy. In your iPhone’s Settings, tap your name, then iCloud, then Storage or Manage Account Storage, then Three Count, then Delete Data from iCloud. The app notices, keeps what is on the phone and turns sync off.
• Workouts in Health. Delete them in the Health or Fitness app.

Because I hold no copy of your data, there is nothing for me to delete on request and nothing for me to export.

Crash reports from Apple

If you have turned on Share With App Developers in your iPhone’s Analytics & Improvements settings, Apple may send me crash reports and diagnostics when the app crashes. Apple collects these, not Three Count, and Apple states they do not identify you. You can turn this off at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements. See Apple’s privacy policy at https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/ for details.

Links that leave the app

An exercise guide has a link that opens a YouTube search for that exercise. Settings has links to this policy, to the support page and to Blue Encore. Tapping one opens your web browser or the YouTube app. What happens after that is governed by the site you are visiting, not by Three Count.

Children

Three Count is not aimed at children. Because the app collects no personal information from anyone, it collects none from children under 13 or any other age.

Not medical advice

Three Count is a training log. Its exercise guides are general information and not medical advice. Check with a doctor before you start a new exercise program, and stop if something hurts.

Changes to this policy

If a future version of Three Count changes what it collects, I will update this page and the effective date above before that version is released. The App Privacy section on the App Store listing will change at the same time.

Contact

Questions about this policy: chris@blueencore.dev