Rounds works on your phone. It has no account, no sign-in and no server of its own, and it never sends your workouts anywhere. Nothing you do in this app reaches us.
Rounds is free and pays for itself with ads, which are served by Google AdMob. Serving an ad involves your device, not your workouts — the section on ads below says exactly what that means.
Three things are saved on your device so the app can work between sessions: your settings, your challenge progress, and a log of the rounds you have finished — the date, which circuit, the difficulty, how long it took and how many exercises you completed.
That is the whole list. Rounds does not ask for your name, your email, your age, your weight or any other detail about you, and there is nowhere in the app to enter them.
It does not create an account or profile. It does not use analytics or crash reporting. It does not read your contacts, photos, files, location, microphone or camera, and it requests no permissions to do so.
Your workout record is never shared. It stays on your device and is not sent to us, to Google, or to any advertiser — an ad request carries nothing about what you did in the app.
Rounds never estimates calories or heart rate, and shows no body-measurement fields, because it cannot measure any of it and a made-up number about your health is worse than no number.
Rounds shows a banner on most screens, a full-screen ad after every second finished round, and a full-screen ad when you open the app, at most every second time you open it in a day. They are served by Google AdMob, and they are the only reason the app needs an internet connection.
To serve and measure an ad, Google receives your device’s advertising ID together with technical information such as your device model, operating system version, rough location derived from your IP address, and which app requested the ad. Google uses this to choose an ad, to stop showing you the same one repeatedly, to detect fraud and to count views. What Google does with it is governed by its own policies, at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, Rounds asks for your choice about this before it requests a single ad, using Google’s own consent form. You can change that answer at any time in Settings → Ad privacy choices — that row appears only where the choice applies.
Wherever you are, your phone gives you control over the advertising ID itself: on Android, Settings → Privacy → Ads lets you reset or delete it, and on iOS, Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking controls it. Deleting it does not stop ads, but it stops them being tied to your device over time.
If voice announcements are on, the app asks your phone to read out the name of the current exercise. It uses whichever text-to-speech service your phone already has, and only ever sends it the exercise name — never anything about you. How that service handles the request is covered by your device maker’s own privacy policy. You can turn this off in Settings at any time.
Rounds is a general-audience fitness app and is not directed at children. It has no account and asks for nothing about you, so using it does not create a record of any user, whatever their age.
Because the app is ad-supported, it is not intended for children under 13. If you believe a child has used it on your device, deleting the advertising ID in your phone’s settings removes the identifier the ads relied on, and Reset app data clears everything Rounds itself kept.
Settings → Your data → Reset app data erases your history, your streak and all challenge progress, and returns every setting to its default. Uninstalling Rounds removes the same thing.
Both are immediate and final. There is no copy on a server for us to delete on your behalf, and no way for us to recover anything once it is gone.
Neither one reaches Google’s ad systems, because nothing from your workout record was ever sent there. To act on the advertising ID, use your phone’s own settings as described under Ads.
If a future version of Rounds collects or shares anything new, this policy will be updated before that version ships, and the date below will change.
This version is such a change: earlier releases of Rounds showed no ads and made no network requests at all. Ads arrived in this version, and the Ads section above describes exactly what that added.
Questions about this policy can go to greysonmiller67@gmail.com.