Gotta
Privacy Policy
Effective: November 10, 2026 · Last updated: November 10, 2026
This is a translation of the Portuguese original. If there is any conflict, the Portuguese version prevails, except where the law of your country requires otherwise.
Summary
Gotta is a water-tracking app for iPhone and Apple Watch. It was built to keep your data with you:
- Nothing goes to a developer server. Gotta has no account, no sign-up, and no server of its own.
- A single public lookup: when you add a drink it doesn't know, the app may look up just the drink's name in a public food database (section 6).
- No ads, no tracking, and no analytics tools. The app does not use third-party SDKs for analytics, advertising, or tracking, and does not follow you across apps or websites.
- Your data stays on your device, in your iCloud, and, if you allow it, in the Health app. The developer has no access to any of them.
- Voice and Apple Intelligence work on the device itself. The audio of your speech never leaves your iPhone.
That's why Gotta declares "Data Not Collected" on the App Store. Under Apple's definition, collecting means transmitting data off the device in a way that lets the developer or third parties access it, which Gotta does not do.
1. Who is responsible
Gotta is developed by Tiago Silva, an independent developer, who is responsible for this policy. Contact: tiiagoslira@gmail.com. This address is also the channel for any request about your data (Law No. 13,709/2018, Brazil's General Data Protection Law (LGPD), art. 41).
2. What data the app uses
To work, Gotta stores the information you provide or create in the app yourself:
| Data | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Profile: weight, routine hours (the active window), the climate you choose, the daily goal, and the unit (ml or oz) | Calculating the day's goal and the pace across the active window |
| Logs: drink, container, volume, time, and how you logged it (shortcut, Custom, combo, or phrase) | Showing the day, your history, and stats |
| The typed or spoken phrase that created a log, when you log by phrase | Showing in the log's details what you said or wrote |
| Drinks, containers, combos, and shortcuts you create or rearrange | Personalizing logging |
| Progress: streak, reserves, drops, Gô's levels, missions, and achievements | The app's game side, which you can turn off |
| Preferences: reminders, intensity, gamification, Apple Intelligence, Live Activity, and the other options in Settings | Making the app work your way |
Gotta does not ask for or use your name, email, phone number, contacts, photos, location, advertising identifiers, or browsing data. The climate used for the goal is the one you choose in the app; Gotta does not check weather forecasts or your location.
3. Where the data is stored
- On your device. The data is kept in the app's database on your iPhone, in a space shared only with Gotta's own widgets, Live Activity, controls, and watch app.
- In your iCloud. If iCloud is turned on on your iPhone, Gotta syncs the data through the private iCloud database (CloudKit) of your Apple Account, so it reaches your other devices and comes back when you reinstall the app. That database belongs to your account: the developer cannot read its contents. To sync, iCloud may send your device silent notices that new data is available; you don't see them and they carry no marketing content. Data in iCloud is subject to Apple's privacy policy and, if you turn on Advanced Data Protection, to the end-to-end encryption Apple offers.
- On your Apple Watch. The watch app exchanges data directly with your paired iPhone and keeps a copy on the watch itself.
4. Apple Health (water only)
Access to the Health app is optional and is requested by the system itself. Gotta handles only the "Water" data type:
- Write: if you allow it, the water you log in Gotta is saved to the Health app. When you correct or delete a log, Gotta corrects or deletes the same sample in Health.
- Read: if you allow it, Gotta reads water logged in Health by other apps, to include it in your goal and your history. From each log it reads, Gotta stores the volume, the time, and the name of the source app.
Health data is never used for advertising, marketing, or data mining, is never sold, and is never shared with third parties. You can change these permissions at any time in the Health app (Sharing › Apps › Gotta) or in iPhone Settings (Privacy & Security › Health › Gotta).
5. Voice logging, phrases, and Apple Intelligence
- Microphone and speech recognition: Gotta uses the microphone only while you say what you drank. Your speech is turned into text on the iPhone itself, with on-device recognition required; the audio is not recorded and does not leave the device.
- Apple Intelligence: when available and turned on in Gotta's Settings, it understands the phrase and writes Gô's comments and the reminder messages using Apple's model that runs on the device itself. Gotta does not send this text to third-party AI services. Without Apple Intelligence, a phrase reader built into the app does the same job.
- Siri and Shortcuts: when you use Siri or the Shortcuts app to log a drink, the request is handled by Apple under its privacy policy; Gotta receives only the drink and the volume to log.
6. Drinks the app doesn't know
When you add a drink that Gotta doesn't know, it may look it up in FoodData Central, the public food database of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), to estimate how much water the drink contains. The lookup sends only the drink's name (for example, "kombucha"), with none of your data, and the result is saved on the device so the search isn't repeated. Like any website, the USDA service receives technical connection data, such as your IP address, under its own policy. Without internet access, Gotta uses the estimate it already has in the app.
7. Reminders and notifications
Reminders are local notifications: your iPhone itself schedules and shows them, within the active window you set. Gotta does not use remote notifications for reminders or for marketing. You can turn them off in Gotta's Settings or in iPhone Settings.
8. What Gotta doesn't do
- It does not sell, rent, or share your data with anyone.
- It does not show ads and does not track you (it does not use the advertising identifier or the App Tracking Transparency framework, because it doesn't track).
- It does not build profiles of you or try to identify you.
- It does not include third-party SDKs for analytics, advertising, crash reporting, or attribution. The app's only external library draws Gô's animations and collects no data.
The only third parties involved are Apple's own services that you choose to use (iCloud, Health, Siri, Apple Intelligence, and the App Store), each under Apple's privacy policy, and the public USDA lookup described in section 6, which receives only the name of a drink.
9. How long data is kept and how to delete it
Data is kept for as long as you keep it. Because the developer keeps no copy of anything, you control deletion:
- A single log: delete it in the app; the deletion reaches iCloud and, if Health is turned on, the matching water sample.
- Everything on the device: delete the app from your iPhone and Apple Watch.
- Everything in iCloud: in iPhone Settings, tap [your name] › iCloud › Manage Storage (or Account Storage) › Gotta › Delete Data.
- Water in Health: in the Health app, under Water › Data Sources & Access, delete Gotta's data.
- Withdrawing a permission: microphone, speech recognition, Health, and notifications can be turned off at any time in iPhone Settings, without losing the rest of the app.
10. Your rights
The LGPD (art. 18) guarantees you, among other rights, the right to confirm whether processing takes place, and to access, correct, and delete your data and learn with whom it is shared. In Gotta, you exercise these rights directly in the app and in iPhone Settings, as described above, because the data never leaves your control. If you still have a question or a request, write to tiiagoslira@gmail.com; you will get a reply within 15 days. You can also file a complaint with Brazil's National Data Protection Authority (Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados, ANPD).
11. Children
Gotta can be used by people of any age and collects no data from anyone, including children. The water goal is a general estimate; for children, pregnant people, and people with medical advice about fluids, follow the advice of a health professional.
12. This website
Gotta's website does not use cookies, analytics tools, advertising pixels, or forms. Like any website, it is served by a hosting provider, Cloudflare, which may log technical data about the visit (such as your IP address and browser) for security purposes and for a short time, under its own privacy policy. If you write to the support email, your message stays only in the developer's mailbox, is used only to reply to you, and is deleted when you ask.
13. Purchases
Gotta is free and sells nothing within the app. If that changes, this policy will be updated beforehand, stating exactly what changes, and so will the privacy label on the App Store.
United States and Canada
- United States: Gotta does not collect, share, or sell personal data or consumer health data within the meaning of state privacy and health data laws (such as Washington's My Health My Data Act and California's CCPA): your records stay on your device and in your iCloud. The effective date and how changes are announced are at the top and in the changes section of this policy (CalOPPA). Because Gotta does not track anyone, it treats browsers that send a "Do Not Track" signal the same as those that don't. Gotta is not directed to children under 13 and does not collect their data (COPPA).
- Canada: Gotta does not collect personal information (PIPEDA and, in Quebec, Law 25). For any question, use the contact in section 1. This policy and the terms of use are also available in French and Portuguese, using the language switcher at the top of the page.
14. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the new version will be published on this page with the updated date. Changes that affect what the app does with your data will also be announced in the app itself before they take effect.
15. Contact
Tiago Silva · tiiagoslira@gmail.com · Support