Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 3, 2026

SnipSmart is a local-first app. The design goal is simple: we collect as little as possible, and none of your health information ever reaches us. This is the same policy shown inside the app. Questions? Email privacy@snip-smart.com.

Last updated: October 3, 2026

SnipSmart is an app that guides you through the vasectomy journey, from deciding to fully recovered. It is made and operated by ArchnaCode LLC, a Missouri (United States) limited liability company ("SnipSmart," "we," "us," or "our"). This policy explains what information the app handles, where that information lives, and the choices and rights you have. It is written in plain English on purpose. If anything here is unclear, contact us at privacy@snip-smart.com.

1. The one thing to know first

Your health journey stays on your device. Everything personal you enter into SnipSmart, your dates, appointments, check-ins, pain and symptom logs, notes, clearance progress, gut-check answers, your name, and your profile details, is stored only on your phone. It is never uploaded to our servers, we never receive it, and it never leaves your device unless you choose to export or share it, or your phone includes it in your own device backup (section 3). Because we do not collect this information, we cannot read it, sell it, lose it in a breach of our servers, or hand it to anyone.

The only information that reaches us is anonymous usage counts, described in section 4. They carry no ID of any kind, so they cannot be traced back to you or your device, and they never include anything you typed or any health value.

2. Who this policy covers

This policy applies to the SnipSmart mobile app on iOS and Android, and to the SnipSmart marketing website. SnipSmart is intended for adults 18 and older and is not directed to children (section 12).

3. Information that stays on your device (we never receive it)

The app stores the following only on your device, in an app-private database protected by your device's security and, optionally, by App Lock (section 9):

• Profile: your first name (optional), age band, relationship status, number of children, and your country (the region your device is set to, noted automatically; you never type a location and we never use GPS, your IP address, or any precise location). These details are optional, stay on your device, and are only ever used there to tailor the app to you.
• Journey data: your current stage, procedure date, and appointments (consult, procedure, semen test, follow-up, and any details, locations, or notes you add).
• Health logs: daily check-ins (pain, swelling, activity, and free-text notes), recovery-care activity, semen-test and clearance progress, and your gut-check answers.
• Preferences: notification toggles, reminder settings, and App Lock on or off.

This is your consumer health data and, under some laws, special category data. We treat it as sensitive by design: it is processed entirely on your device, by you. We provide on-device tools to export a copy (to keep or share with your doctor) and to erase everything ("Start over"). There is no account and no server-side copy for us or anyone else to access.

If you use your phone's own backup (iCloud on iOS, Google backup on Android), an encrypted copy of the app's data is included in that backup, under your control and tied to your own Apple or Google account. That is how your journey survives a lost or upgraded phone; we never receive it. You can manage backups in your device settings.

If you export or share a copy yourself (for example, by AirDrop, email, or a saved file), that copy leaves the protection of the app and is governed by wherever you send it.

4. Information we do receive: anonymous usage counts

To understand whether the app is working and where people get stuck, we operate our own, first-party analytics. We do not use third-party advertising or analytics SDKs (no Google Analytics, no Meta, no PostHog, no ad networks).

There is one kind of analytics, and it is anonymous: simple counters with no identifier attached. The app adds to a tally; it never sends a record of you. There is no account, no user ID, no device ID, no advertising ID, and no session that ties one count to another.

Examples of what is counted:

• that the app was opened, and whether that was the install's first open ever, its first of the day, of the week, or of the month (this is how we count new and active users without identifying anyone: your device remembers that it already counted, and we never learn which device it was);
• which screens and features get used, and which buttons are tapped (for example "set a procedure date" or "browse Essentials");
• whether a visit to the Essentials tab included tapping through to a product, and whether a visit to the Learn tab included opening something to read;
• that a milestone happened, for example that a check-in or a clearance round was logged or an appointment was added, never the values you entered;
• coarse buckets that describe where devices are in the journey: the stage (exploring, pre-procedure, recovery), roughly which week of recovery, roughly how far away a procedure is, and how far along the clearance counter is;
• the app version, the operating system's major version, the platform (iOS or Android), your device's text-size setting as a bucket (small, default, large, extra large), and the country your device's region is set to.

Each of these is a separate total across everyone who uses the app. They are never combined to describe a person, and because nothing connects them they cannot be. Because this data is not capable of identifying you, it is not personal data, it is on for everyone, and there is nothing to opt out of.

Two coarse words ride along with each batch of counts so we can keep test traffic out of the totals: the app's build number, and whether the app is running on a real device or an emulator. Neither identifies you or your device.

Your IP address. Like any internet service, our servers see the IP address a request comes from for as long as it takes to answer it and to block abuse (for example, a flood of requests from one address). We do not keep logs of IP addresses, we do not store your IP address with the counts, and we do not use it to locate or profile you.

We removed the "usage flow"

Earlier versions of SnipSmart (before 1.1) also offered a more detailed, health-free "usage flow" tied to a random, pseudonymous ID. We have removed it from the app entirely. When we removed it, we permanently deleted everything it had collected. Older versions of the app that have not been updated may still try to send usage-flow data: our server discards it on receipt without storing it.

5. Other data interactions

• Content delivery. The app downloads its reading content (articles, FAQ, the Snip-o-Meter event calendar, the Essentials list, and this policy) from our content delivery network. These are ordinary requests for public content; we never send your personal or health data in them.
• Notifications. Reminders (appointments, check-ins, next steps) are scheduled locally on your device by the operating system. No reminder content is sent to a server, and we do not collect a push token. You control notifications in You, Push notifications and in your device settings.
• Essentials and affiliate links. The Essentials tab is a hand-picked Amazon storefront. Deciding which items to show you is computed on your device from your journey stage and recovery day; nothing about you is sent to Amazon or any advertiser. If you tap an item, you leave SnipSmart and open Amazon (or another retailer), and we may earn a small affiliate commission. Once you leave, that retailer's own privacy policy governs.
• App stores. The Apple App Store and Google Play distribute the app under their own privacy policies. We receive only aggregate, anonymized store statistics.

6. How we use information

We use the anonymous counts we receive (section 4) to understand overall usage and reliability, see where people tend to stop so we can simplify that step, and decide what to build next. We do not use any information to advertise to you, to build an individual profile, to make automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects, or to determine your insurance, credit, or employment.

7. How information is shared

We do not sell your personal information or your consumer health data, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, as those terms are defined under US state laws. We have no advertising trackers.

We rely on Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a service provider for hosting, content delivery, abuse protection, and storage of the anonymous counts described in section 4, in the United States, under contract.

We may disclose information if required by law, or to protect the rights, safety, and security of our users and the service. Because your health journey data never reaches us, we cannot disclose it; there is nothing on our side to produce.

8. How long we keep information

• On-device data: kept on your device until you delete it (per item, or all at once with "Start over"). We hold no copy.
• Anonymous counts (section 4): retained as totals, indefinitely. They are not linked to you.
• The former usage flow: deleted (section 4).

9. Security

• All network traffic uses encryption in transit (HTTPS/TLS).
• Data we store (the section 4 counts) is encrypted at rest and protected by network controls, access limits, and abuse protection.
• Your on-device data is protected by your device's own security and, if you enable it, by App Lock, which requires your device biometrics or passcode to open the app. App Lock uses your operating system's authentication; we never receive or store your biometrics.
• We practice data minimization: the strongest protection for sensitive data is not collecting it, and we do not.

No system is perfectly secure, but keeping health data off our servers removes an entire category of risk.

10. Consumer Health Data notice (Washington My Health My Data Act, and similar laws)

This section meets the Washington My Health My Data Act (MHMDA) and comparable consumer-health-privacy laws.

• What consumer health data is involved. Information about a vasectomy and your reproductive and recovery health is consumer health data. In SnipSmart, all of it is the on-device data in section 3.
• We do not collect, use, store, share, or sell consumer health data. It is created and kept on your device and never transmitted to us. The anonymous counts in section 4 contain no consumer health data and no identifier.
• No sale, no sharing, no targeted advertising of consumer health data. We will never sell it.
• No geofencing. We do not use geofences around any health-care facility, and we do not collect precise location at all.
• Consent. Because we do not collect consumer health data, no collection consent is required. The anonymous counts in section 4 contain no consumer health data and cannot be linked to you, so MHMDA consent is not triggered.
• Your consumer-health-data rights. You may confirm whether we hold such data (we do not), access it (it is on your device, and you can export it), delete it (use "Start over," which we cannot undo), and withdraw any consent. To exercise a right or appeal a decision, contact privacy@snip-smart.com. Washington residents may also contact the Washington State Attorney General.

11. Your choices and rights

Everyone, regardless of location, can:

• Access and export their data: it all lives on your device, and the app can export a full copy.
• Delete their data: "Start over" erases everything on the device. That is all of it: nothing about you is stored anywhere else. The anonymous counts on our servers carry no identifier, so there is nothing of yours for us to find, send you, or delete.
• Control notifications in-app and in device settings.

California (CCPA/CPRA): you have the right to know what we collect, to delete it, to correct it, and to opt out of sale or sharing. We do not sell or share personal information, and we hold none that is linked to you: everything personal stays on your device, and the counts we receive are anonymous. We will not discriminate against you for exercising a right.

EU and UK (GDPR), for future EU availability: if the GDPR applies to you, you have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection, and to withdraw consent, and to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority. For the anonymous counts, to the extent the GDPR applies to them at all, our legal basis is our legitimate interest in understanding aggregate usage. Our infrastructure is in the United States; where required, transfers rely on appropriate safeguards such as the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.

12. Children

SnipSmart is for adults 18 and older. A first-run age confirmation gates entry. We do not direct the app to children and do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If you believe a minor has used the app, note that no data leaves the device; deleting the app removes it.

13. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will update the "Last updated" date above and, for material changes, provide a clear in-app notice in your Inbox. Continued use after an update means you accept the revised policy.

14. Contact us

SnipSmart is operated by ArchnaCode LLC, Missouri, United States.

Questions, requests, or appeals: privacy@snip-smart.com. We aim to respond within the time required by applicable law (generally 45 days in the US, and one month under the GDPR).