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Lift Recorder — Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 18, 2026

Lift Recorder has no account, no server, and no analytics or crash reporting of its own. Your videos, any sound you choose to record, and the workout tags and personal records you enter are stored on your own device and are never uploaded by the app. The only third party involved is Google, through the ads and the in-app purchase described below.

Who is responsible

The app is published by Bálint Neuhausz (Hungary), the data controller under the GDPR. Contact: [email protected]. Full business details are in the Imprint.

Your videos

  • The app uses the camera only to record your sets, and saves each recording to your device's gallery, in the album you choose.
  • To show your clips in the app, it reads the videos in the albums it has recorded into, after Android asks for your permission to access videos. It lists only those clips.
  • Videos never leave your device through the app — no upload, no cloud. A clip only goes somewhere else when you share it yourself through Android's share sheet, and then only to the app you pick.
  • There is no account and no login, so the app does not know who you are.

Sound (version 1.1 and later; off by default)

  • Recordings are silent by default. With sound off, the app never opens the microphone, even if you granted the permission earlier.
  • If you turn on Record sound (in Settings, or with the microphone button on the camera), the app first explains what that means and then asks Android for microphone access. The microphone is used only while a recording is running.
  • The sound is saved only as the audio track of that clip, on your device. The app never uploads or analyses it; if you share a clip, its sound goes with it.
  • You can turn sound off at any time, and remove the microphone permission in your device's settings. Without the permission, the app switches sound off and keeps recording without it.

Workout tags and personal records (version 1.1 and later)

  • If you tag a set, the app stores what you entered — the exercise, the weight lifted, reps and RPE — together with the clip's file name and recording date. Exercise names you add, and personal records you type in by hand (with an optional date), are stored the same way.
  • This is used only to label and filter your clips and to work out your personal records, which happens on your device. Apart from these workout entries, the app records no body measurements, heart rate or other health data, and it does not connect to Health Connect or any other service.
  • It is kept in the app's private storage on your device and is never uploaded by the app, sent to us, or shared with anyone, including advertisers (apart from your own Android backup, below). It is not included when you share a clip.
  • You can change or clear a tag and remove records in the app. Deleting a clip in the app deletes its tag too — unless that set is one of your personal records, which is kept and marked "video deleted" so it stays on your records list. If you delete a clip outside the app, its tag is removed the first time you open your clips at least 30 days later with access to all your videos. Clearing the app's storage or uninstalling it deletes all of this.

Android backup

Like most Android apps, Lift Recorder lets Android include its private data — your tags, personal records and settings — in your device's own backup and when you move to a new phone. That backup is made by Android to your Google Account under Google's terms and is never sent to us; on Android 9 and newer with a screen lock it is end-to-end encrypted, and we cannot read it. You can turn backup off in your device's settings. Your videos are not part of this app backup.

How your data is protected

Everything the app keeps is in Android's app-private storage, which other apps cannot read, and the app itself sends none of it anywhere. Your clips live in your gallery under Android's normal media permissions. Google's advertising SDK sends its data over encrypted (TLS) connections, and Google keeps it according to its own retention policy.

Advertising (Google AdMob)

In the free version, ads are served by Google AdMob. To show and measure ads and to prevent fraud, Google's advertising SDK may collect device and usage information, including your device's Advertising ID and other device identifiers, approximate location derived from your IP address, how you interact with the app and its ads (such as app launches and taps), and diagnostic and crash information about the app's and the SDK's performance. The app gives it none of your videos, sound, tags or records. Google processes this as an independent controller under its own terms — see Google's Privacy Policy.

In the European Economic Area, the UK, and Switzerland, the app shows a Google-certified consent prompt before personalized ads are used, so you can accept or decline. You can change your choice any time from Settings → Ad privacy options in the app.

Removing ads

The one-time "Remove ads" purchase is handled by Google Play Billing — the app never sees your card or payment details. Each time it starts, the app asks Google Play whether you own the purchase, so it can restore it on a new phone. Once ads are removed, the app no longer initialises the advertising SDK or requests ads. (Right after a reinstall, an ad may still load until Google Play has confirmed your purchase.)

Children

Lift Recorder is a general-audience app and is not directed at children.

Your rights

There is no account and nothing stored on a server of ours, so there is nothing for us to access or delete — everything the app keeps is on your device. In the app you can clear tags, remove records, delete clips and turn sound off, and in your device's settings you can remove the camera, microphone or video permissions. Clearing the app's storage or uninstalling it deletes its data from your device (a copy in your own Android backup follows your backup settings), and your saved videos stay in your gallery until you delete them. For the ad-related data Google collects, use the Google links above and your device's privacy controls. You can contact us at [email protected], and under the GDPR you may lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

Changes

If this policy changes, this page and the "last updated" date above will be updated.