This Privacy Policy describes how the Bye Bye Stress mobile application (the "App") handles information. The App is developed and published by Olena Gotsulyak, an individual developer, nixGames, and is offered as a freemium service for iOS devices. Android devices. By using the App, you agree to the practices described below.
1. Summary
Bye Bye Stress is designed to provide simple relaxation, breathing, grounding, reflection, and stress relief exercises. The App is designed to work primarily on your device. In the current version of the App, your exercise progress, journey progress, saved exercises, selected preferences, notification settings, and optional mood or feeling check-ins are stored locally on your device and are not sent to us by the App.
The App does not require you to create an account. The App does not collect your name, email address, phone number, precise location, contacts, photos, camera data, microphone data, or personal messages. The current version of the App does not use AI features to process your personal content.
The App may integrate third-party services related to analytics, crash reporting, advertising, monetization, infrastructure, or product functionality. These services may automatically collect a limited set of technical, diagnostic, analytics, advertising, or purchase-related data as described below.
2. Information stored only on your device
In the current version of the App, the following information is stored locally on your device and is not transmitted to us by the App:
- Your exercise progress and completed sessions.
- Your journey progress.
- Saved or favorite exercises.
- App preferences, such as selected modes, categories, themes, sounds, or notification settings.
- Optional mood or feeling check-ins, if the App offers this feature and you choose to use it.
- Other local settings needed for the App to function properly.
You may remove this information at any time by deleting the App from your device.
3. Well-being and stress-related content
The App may ask simple questions about how you feel, what kind of pause you want, or whether a short exercise helped you. These questions are intended only to personalize the in-app experience and help you reflect on your current state.
The App is not a medical device, does not provide medical advice, and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, disorder, or medical condition. Any exercises, breathing practices, grounding techniques, relaxation content, journeys, reminders, or reflections provided in the App are for general wellbeing and self-care purposes only.
If you are experiencing a medical emergency, severe distress, a mental health crisis, thoughts of self-harm, or any condition that may require professional help, you should contact emergency services or a qualified health professional.
4. Notifications
The App may offer optional reminders or notifications to help you take short pauses, continue a journey, or return to exercises. Notification settings are controlled by your device operating system. You may enable, disable, or change notification permissions at any time in your device settings.
The App does not use notifications to collect personal information from you.
5. Information automatically collected by third-party services
The App may integrate third-party SDKs that automatically collect a limited set of technical, analytics, advertising, purchase, and diagnostic information to help us understand how the App is used, improve performance, display ads, process purchases, validate premium access, and identify and fix problems. This information may include:
- Device identifiers, such as Identifier for Vendors, Firebase installation ID, advertising-related identifiers where permitted, or similar technical identifiers.
- IP address.
- Device model, operating system, language, and country or region inferred from technical data.
- App version and session data, including screens visited, features used, and time spent.
- Crash logs and diagnostic information when the App encounters an error.
- Advertising performance data, such as ad impressions, clicks, or revenue events.
- Purchase status, subscription status, or entitlement information, without payment card details.
This data may be transmitted directly from your device to Apple, Google, Firebase, AdMob, or other relevant service providers and is handled under their respective privacy terms. We access this data only in aggregated, anonymized, or limited technical form where available.
This data may be transmitted directly from your device to Google, Google Play, Firebase, AdMob, or other relevant service providers and is handled under their respective privacy terms. We access this data only in aggregated, anonymized, or limited technical form where available.
The App does not collect precise location data. The App does not intentionally collect sensitive personal content through analytics events, such as your written notes, private thoughts, detailed mood explanations, or personal messages.
6. Advertising
The App may display ads through third-party advertising services such as Google AdMob. These services may collect and process technical information, advertising identifiers where permitted, approximate location inferred from your IP address, ad interaction data, and other information necessary to provide, limit, measure, and improve advertising.
Depending on your device settings, region, and platform rules, ads may be personalized or non-personalized. You can limit ad personalization through your device privacy or advertising settings.
On iOS, if the App uses tracking that requires permission under Apple's App Tracking Transparency framework, the App will request your permission before doing so. If you do not grant permission, the App will not track you across apps and websites owned by other companies for advertising purposes.
On Android, you can reset or delete your advertising ID and manage ad personalization in your Google settings.
7. In-app purchases
The App may offer optional in-app purchases or subscriptions that unlock additional features, remove ads, or provide access to premium content. All transactions are processed by Apple through the App Store. We do not see, receive, or store your payment card details. Payment information is handled by Apple according to Apple's own privacy policy and payment terms.
The App may offer optional in-app purchases or subscriptions that unlock additional features, remove ads, or provide access to premium content. All transactions are processed by Google through Google Play Billing. We do not see, receive, or store your payment card details. Payment information is handled by Google according to Google's own privacy policy and payment terms.
The App may receive limited purchase status information, such as whether you have an active subscription, lifetime access, or another premium entitlement, so that premium features can be unlocked.
8. Third-party services
The App may use the following third-party services. Each provider has its own privacy policy, terms, or documentation governing how it handles data:
- Apple Privacy Policy
- Apple Media Services Terms
- Google Privacy Policy
- Privacy and Security in Firebase
- Google Analytics for Firebase
- Firebase Crashlytics
- Google AdMob
- Google Privacy Policy
- Google Play Terms of Service
- Privacy and Security in Firebase
- Google Analytics for Firebase
- Firebase Crashlytics
- Google AdMob
- Google Mobile Ads SDK Data Disclosure
9. Artificial intelligence
The current version of the App does not use AI features to process your personal content, generate personalized mental health advice, or analyze your emotional state. If AI-powered functionality is introduced in the future, this Privacy Policy may be updated accordingly.
10. Disclosure of information
We may disclose the limited automatically collected information described above:
- When required by law, such as in response to a subpoena, court order, or similar legal process.
- When we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, your safety, or the safety of others, to investigate fraud, or to respond to a government request.
- To trusted service providers acting on our behalf who are bound by confidentiality obligations and may not use the information for their own unrelated purposes.
- To platform providers, analytics providers, advertising providers, payment processors, or infrastructure providers necessary for the App to operate.
We do not sell your personal information.
11. Data retention and deletion
Because the personal app content and preferences you create or select in the App are stored locally on your device and do not leave your device, we generally have nothing on our own servers to delete on your behalf. To delete locally stored data, delete the App from your device.
Analytics, advertising, purchase, and crash data collected by third-party services is retained according to the default retention policies of those providers. If you have questions about technical data associated with your device, you may contact us at the address below.
12. Your choices
You can control the App's data practices in the following ways:
- Delete the App to remove locally stored data and stop further data collection.
- Disable notifications in Settings → Notifications.
- Manage tracking permissions in Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
- Manage ad personalization in Settings → Privacy & Security → Apple Advertising, where available.
- Manage subscriptions and purchases through the App Store or your Apple ID settings.
- Delete the App to remove locally stored data and stop further data collection.
- Disable notifications in your Android notification settings.
- Manage or reset your advertising ID in your Google settings.
- Manage ad personalization through your Google settings.
- Manage subscriptions and purchases through Google Play.
13. Children
The App is intended for general audiences and is not specifically directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided personal information through one of the third-party services integrated in the App, please contact us at nixgames44@gmail.com and we will take appropriate action.
14. Security
We take reasonable measures to protect the limited information processed in connection with the App. Data transmitted between your device and third-party services is generally encrypted in transit. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, however, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
15. Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time at our sole discretion. When material changes are made, we will revise the effective date below and publish the updated policy at this URL. We may also notify you within the App. Your continued use of the App after the effective date constitutes your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the changes, your sole remedy is to stop using the App and uninstall it.
16. Contact
Olena Gotsulyak
nixgames44@gmail.com
nixGames
nixgames44@gmail.com
This Privacy Policy is effective as of July 5, 2026 and supersedes any previous version.