Effective 2026-11-14
Speed Climbing Studio ("the app", "we") is a training log and video timing app for speed climbers, made by Simon Tran, British Columbia, Canada. This policy says what happens to your information when you use it.
In short: your training data and videos stay on your phone. We have no account system, no server for your data, no ads and no analytics. We don't sell, rent or share personal information, and we can't see yours.
Everything you put in the app is stored only on your phone, in the app's own folder:
We never receive this information. Uninstalling the app deletes it.
The app doesn't use your camera, microphone, location or contacts.
Only in these cases, each one run by a company with its own privacy policy:
App updates (Expo). The app checks for updates with Expo's update service (EAS Update, by 650 Industries, Inc., United States) when it opens. That request carries your IP address (as any internet request does), your platform (Android), the app's version and update channel, and a random identifier the update library makes for this install. It carries none of your training data or videos. See Expo's privacy policy.
GitHub backup (optional, off until you turn it on). If you connect GitHub in Settings, Backup, GitHub, the app saves your training log (sessions, runs, times, notes, marks, route sections and your videos' file names, not the videos themselves) as a file in a GitHub repository you choose and own, each time you finish a session and about once a day. The sign-in key GitHub gives the app is stored in your phone's secure storage (the Android Keystore), never in a backup. The data goes from your phone to GitHub (GitHub, Inc., United States) directly; we don't see it. The GitHub app the app signs in with can only read and write the files of the repositories you pick when you install it, and we keep no key that would let us open them. To stop, tap Disconnect GitHub: the sign-in key is deleted from your phone, and backups already in the repository stay there until you delete the repository on GitHub. To remove the app's access on GitHub too, open GitHub's Settings, Applications: uninstall it under Installed GitHub Apps and revoke it under Authorized GitHub Apps. See GitHub's privacy statement.
Google Drive sync (optional, off until you turn it on). If you
connect Google Drive in Settings, Backup, Google Drive, the app keeps your
training log (sessions, runs, times, notes, marks, stitches, route
sections, favorites) and your videos in a "Speed Climbing Studio" folder
in your own Google Drive, so your phones share them. It syncs when you
open the app, a few minutes after a change, and every few minutes while
the app is open. Videos move only on Wi-Fi unless you turn on "Use mobile
data for videos". The app asks Google only for access to the files it
creates (the drive.file permission), not the rest of your Drive, and
reads your Google account's email address to show which account is
connected. Google gives the app a short-lived access key each time; the
app keeps no password or long-lived key. The data goes from your phone to
Google (Google LLC, United States) directly; we don't see it. A video you
delete in the app goes to your Drive's trash, which Google empties after
30 days. To stop, tap Disconnect: the app stops syncing on that phone and
Google removes its access, and what's already in your Drive stays there
until you delete it. Google's policy applies, see
Google's privacy policy.
Your phone's own backup. If backup is on in your phone's settings, Android may back up the app's training log and settings (not the videos) to Google Drive under your Google account. Google's policy applies.
Things you choose to share or export. When you share a video, a picture of a chart or your times, or export a backup, the file goes where you send it (the app or folder you pick). We don't receive a copy.
Emails you send us. Mail to support@speedclimbingstudio.com passes through Cloudflare (Cloudflare, Inc., United States), which forwards it, and is kept in our Gmail inbox (Google LLC, United States). We use your address and message only to answer you, and delete them on request.
Rating the app. Now and then, after a session where you beat your best time, the app may ask Google Play to show its rating window. Google Play runs that window itself, under your Google account: the app sends it nothing, and never learns whether you rated it or what you wrote. A rating or review you post is handled under Google's privacy policy.
Links you open. Some buttons open a web page (for example GitHub's sign-in page) in your browser; that site's policy applies there.
Under the GDPR, for users in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom: the update check is needed to provide the app you installed and keep it working and secure (contract, and our legitimate interest in fixing bugs and security problems); GitHub backup and Google Drive sync run only when you turn them on (your request, contract).
Under Canadian law (PIPEDA, British Columbia's PIPA and Quebec's Law 25), we collect only what these features need, for the purposes above, and with your consent, which you give by using the feature and can withdraw by turning it off or uninstalling the app.
Expo, GitHub, Cloudflare and Google process information in the United States, and Google may store phone backups and your synced Google Drive files there. Their laws may differ from yours, and authorities there may be able to access it. These companies use safeguards such as the EU's standard contractual clauses for transfers from Europe.
Depending on where you live, you have the right to know what personal information is held about you, to get a copy, to correct it, to delete it, to object to or restrict its use, to take it elsewhere (portability) and to withdraw consent.
Since your data is on your phone, you can do most of this yourself: Export backup gives you a full copy (Settings, Backup), you can edit or delete anything in the app, and uninstalling deletes it all. We hold no copy to give you or delete.
For anything else, write to support@speedclimbingstudio.com. We answer within 30 days. You can also complain to a privacy authority: the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, the Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec, or your local data protection authority in Europe.
The app is not directed at children under 13 (under 16 in some EU countries) and we don't knowingly collect their information. As we receive no personal data from the app, there is none to delete; a parent with a question can write to support@speedclimbingstudio.com.
Your data is protected by your phone's own security (its lock screen and storage encryption). The GitHub sign-in key is kept in secure storage. Everything that leaves the phone goes over encrypted connections (HTTPS).
If this policy changes, the new version is posted at https://speedclimbingstudio.com/privacy with a new effective date. If a change means more information leaves your phone, the app will tell you before it happens.
Person in charge of the protection of personal information: Simon Tran, support@speedclimbingstudio.com.