Breathe Balloon
Privacy policy
Last updated: 28 October 2026 · Deutsche Version
In short. Breathe Balloon collects no data. There is no account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising and no subscription, and the app makes no network connections. Everything happens on your device. Only if you allow it, the app adds your practice time to Apple Health as mindful minutes; it never reads health data. The provider runs no server the app talks to.
Controller
Dominik Peuscher
c/o MDC#1496
Welserstraße 3
87463 Dietmannsried
Germany
Email: business@dpeuscher.de
What stays on your device
- Settings
- Your choices in the app, such as the session length, your custom rhythm, the resonance breathing rate, whether music and signals are switched on, the chosen music track and the appearance (System, Light or Dark), are kept in the app’s settings on your device. They are not synced or uploaded by the app. Like other app data they can be part of your device backup (iCloud or computer) if you have backups switched on. Deleting the app removes them.
- Sessions
- A running session is timed on your device. The app itself keeps no history of your sessions and no statistics about your breathing. If you have connected Apple Health, your practice time is kept there (see below).
- Music and signals
- Music and tones are part of the app and are played on your device. Nothing is streamed or downloaded.
- Lock screen and Control Center
- While a session runs, the app hands the current phase and the time left to iOS so they can be shown on the lock screen and in Control Center. This stays on your device.
Apple Health
Breathe Balloon can save the time you practise as mindful minutes in Apple Health. This is optional; the app works the same without Apple Health.
- Only with your permission: The app only asks when you tap Connect Apple Health in the settings or Save to Apple Health on the completion screen. You give permission in the iOS prompt.
- What is saved: the start and end of the time you practised, as mindful minutes, one entry for each stretch between pauses. Which exercise or rhythm you chose is not saved.
- Write only, never read: The app only asks for permission to write mindful minutes. It reads no health data, not even the entries it added itself.
- No sharing: The entries are kept in Apple Health on your device. The app sends them nowhere, the provider does not receive them, and they are not used for advertising or any other purpose. Whether Apple Health syncs your data between your devices through iCloud is a setting with Apple; Apple’s privacy policy applies to it.
- Withdrawing permission: Open the Health app, tap your profile picture, then Apps › Breathe Balloon, and turn off Mindful Minutes. Entries already saved stay in Health, even if you delete the app; you can view and delete them there.
No network connections
Breathe Balloon works fully offline and makes no network connections of its own. There is no backend, no account and no cloud sync.
No third parties
The app contains no analytics tools, no advertising networks and no third-party crash reporters. There is no tracking in the sense of Apple’s App Tracking Transparency framework.
What Apple collects
Downloads from the App Store and TestFlight go through Apple. Which data Apple processes is determined by Apple; Apple’s privacy policy applies. If you agree to share analytics in your device settings, the provider can see aggregated, non-personal figures about installations and crashes from Apple. They do not allow conclusions about individual people.
This website
This website is separate from the app. It sets no tracking cookies, uses no analytics and loads nothing from other servers – no external fonts, scripts or embedded content. If you pick a language from the menu, it remembers that choice in a cookie called lang for one year. To deliver the pages, the web server processes your IP address and the requested page; this is technically necessary (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
Your rights
The GDPR gives you rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, data portability and objection. Since the provider processes and stores no personal data through this app, there is nothing to provide information about or to delete. Your settings are on your device and disappear completely when you delete the app. You manage entries in Apple Health yourself in the Health app.
For questions or complaints, contact the controller at the address above. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority.
Changes
If something changes in the app that affects this policy, it will be updated here. The date at the top shows the current version.