Privacy Policy — Ninglo

Last updated: 13 October 2026

Ninglo teaches tai chi and qigong. It has no accounts and no sign-in, and everything it knows about your practice stays on your phone. Ninglo is free and shows ads, and the ad provider, Google, collects some data to serve them. This policy says what is stored, what leaves your device, and who to contact. It is written to be accurate rather than reassuring.

What Ninglo keeps, on your phone

Your settings (path, goal, daily time, reminder time, text size, theme and sound choices), your answers to the safety check, the plans you have started and how far you are, the movements you have ticked as known, and a log of when you practised and for how many minutes. It also keeps two small counts used only to space out full-screen ads: how many practices you have completed, and how many times the app has been opened today. All of this is stored only in the app’s own storage on your device. None of it is sent to us, and none of it is given to the ad provider.

Backups

If Android’s backup is turned on for your Google account, Android may include this data in your device backup and put it back when you reinstall Ninglo or set up a new phone. That backup is kept in your Google account, not by us, and you manage it in your device’s backup settings.

Health information

The safety check asks whether a few health situations apply to you, so the app can suggest a gentler path. Your answers never leave your phone: they are not sent to us or to the ad provider, and they are never used to choose ads. Ninglo does not connect to Health Connect, Google Fit, Apple Health or any wearable, and reads no health data from your device. Ninglo offers general guidance on gentle exercise. It is not a medical device and not medical advice.

What Ninglo does not collect

Ninglo does not collect your name, email address, precise location, contacts or photos. It does not use your camera or microphone. It contains no analytics or crash-reporting tool of its own: we receive no reports about how you use the app. The only data that leaves your device is described under Advertising.

Advertising

Ninglo shows ads supplied by Google AdMob: small banners at the end of screens, plus one at the top of a practice screen that you can close; a full-screen ad after every second practice you complete; and a full-screen ad on every third time you open the app in a day. To serve those ads, Google’s advertising software collects and processes your advertising ID and other device identifiers Google uses for ads; your IP address, from which a general, approximate location can be estimated; how you interact with ads and the app, such as the app being opened and an ad being shown or tapped; and diagnostic information about how the app and the ad software perform. Google uses this data for advertising, analytics and fraud prevention, and acts as an independent controller of it. What Google does with it is governed by Google’s own policies: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites and policies.google.com/privacy. Ninglo has no in-app purchases and no paid way to remove the ads.

When the ad software starts

Ninglo starts Google’s advertising software only once the consent step described below is done, never before it, and it holds back the software’s own measurement until then. Until that point nothing is sent to Google for ads apart from the consent check itself.

If you are in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland

Before Ninglo requests any ad, it checks with Google’s consent service. Where your answer is needed, it shows you Google’s consent form, which asks whether ads may use your data, and waits for your answer. Your answer is stored on your device by Google’s consent tool and sent with ad requests, so that Google can honour it. You can change your answer at any time in the app under You, then Ad privacy choices, which reopens the same form.

On iPhone and iPad

Ninglo asks only for non-personalised ads on iPhone and iPad, and it never shows the App Tracking Transparency prompt, so your device’s advertising identifier is not used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites.

Reminders

If you turn on the daily reminder, Ninglo asks your phone for permission to show notifications and schedules them on the phone itself. No server is involved. You can turn the reminder off in You, under Your practice, or in your phone’s settings.

Voice instructions

The spoken instructions use your phone’s own text-to-speech. Ninglo gives it only the instructions to read out, nothing about you, and does not record or send anything you say.

Links out of the app

Where the app offers Rate Ninglo, it opens our page in the store you installed from. Share Ninglo opens your phone’s own share sheet. The link to notification settings opens your phone’s settings. Ninglo sends nothing to those pages.

Permissions

On Android these appear as declared permissions: internet access and network state, for ads; the advertising ID and Android’s ad-related Privacy Sandbox permissions, for ads; keeping the device awake briefly, for the ad software’s background tasks; notifications, asked only if you turn the reminder on, with restoring your reminders after the phone restarts and the app icon’s badge on some launchers; and vibration, for haptic feedback you can turn off in You. Keeping the screen on during a practice needs no permission. Ninglo asks for no location, camera, microphone, contacts or storage access. On iPhone and iPad the app asks only for notifications, and only if you turn the reminder on.

Children

Ninglo is meant for a general audience aged 13 and over. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. Practice with children is led by an adult, on the adult’s device. If you believe a child has provided personal information through the app, contact greysonmiller67@gmail.com and we will act on it.

Erasing what Ninglo keeps

You can erase it yourself, inside the app, at any time. Under You, Delete all my data erases everything Ninglo keeps on your phone at once (your settings and reminder, your safety answers, your practice log, your place in every plan, the movements you marked as known, and the two ad counts) and the app starts again from its welcome screen. Reset progress, in the same place, clears only your practice log, your place in every plan and the movements you marked as known, and keeps your settings and safety answers. Neither can be undone. Neither changes your advertising ID or the answer you gave to the ad consent form: those are kept by your device and by Google’s ad software, and you change them as described under Your rights.

Data we hold about you

None. We operate no servers and have no database. Because the app has no account, there is nothing for us to look up, export or delete: Delete all my data, uninstalling Ninglo, or clearing its storage in your phone’s settings, each delete everything it kept on the device, and a backup, if you use one, is managed in your own account. Requests about data held by Google for advertising must be made to Google, using the links above and your device’s ad settings, because we have no access to it.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete or restrict the use of personal data about you, and to object to it being used for advertising. Since we hold no personal data ourselves, you exercise them like this. For advertising: through the consent form in the app, under You, then Ad privacy choices, where it applies, and through your device’s ad settings, where you can reset or delete your advertising ID. For everything stored in the app: under You, then Delete all my data, or by deleting the app or clearing its storage.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will appear here with a new date.

Contact

Questions about privacy: greysonmiller67@gmail.com