Who we are

Hotshot is built and run by Jimbo Works Ltd., a company registered in England and Wales. When we say “we”, “us” or “our” in this policy, that’s who we mean.

What Hotshot does

Hotshot is an iOS app that helps you track your caffeine intake. It’s deliberately simple — you log your drinks and we show you useful information about your caffeine habits.

Your data stays on your device

Hotshot doesn’t have accounts, and we don’t run servers that store your information. All of your caffeine data is stored on your device — in Apple Health and in the app’s own local storage. We don’t collect it, we can’t see it, and we don’t have access to it.

Apple Health

Every drink you log is written into Apple Health as a Dietary Caffeine sample. That’s the app’s record of your intake — Hotshot reads it back to build your day view and your weekly report. We ask for read and write access to Dietary Caffeine and nothing else.

Health data lives in Apple’s own encrypted store on your device, not in anything we control. Granting access is up to you, and you can change or revoke it at any time in Settings → Health → Data Access & Devices. Hotshot still runs without it, but it can’t save or show your drink history.

Alongside that, the app keeps some supplementary information locally on your device so the history means something: which drink each entry was (its name and icon), the days you marked as caffeine-free, and your settings such as bedtime, daily goal and favourite drinks. None of this leaves your phone.

Deleting your data

Deleting an entry in Hotshot deletes the matching sample from Apple Health too.

If you delete the app, the information Hotshot stored locally — drink names, caffeine-free days, settings — goes with it. Your caffeine samples stay in Apple Health, because that’s how iOS works: data written to Health belongs to Health, not to the app that wrote it. To remove those as well, open the Health app, go to your profile → Apps and Services → Hotshot, and choose Delete All Data from Hotshot. You can also delete individual caffeine entries there at any time.

Analytics

We use Apple’s built-in App Analytics to understand how the app is used in aggregate (things like how many people use a feature, or crash reports). This is provided by Apple as part of the App Store and only shares data with us if you’ve opted in via your device’s privacy settings. The app itself contains no third-party analytics, tracking or advertising SDKs.

TestFlight beta

If you join the Hotshot beta through Apple’s TestFlight, Apple collects your name and email address as part of the TestFlight service. This is managed by Apple, not by us. We can see the name and email you provided to TestFlight so we can communicate with beta testers. Once you leave the beta or the beta period ends, we no longer have access to this information through TestFlight.

Under U.K. data protection law (the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018), the lawful basis for processing this information is legitimate interests — specifically, being able to run and communicate about the beta programme.

Who we share data with

We don’t sell your data. We don’t share it with advertisers. The only third party involved is Apple, through the App Store, App Analytics and TestFlight services.

Your rights

Under U.K. law, you have the right to:

• Access any personal data we hold about you
• Ask us to correct anything that’s wrong
• Ask us to delete your data
• Object to how we’re using your data

In practice, we hold very little about you. If you’re a beta tester and want to exercise any of these rights, just drop us an email (see below). We’ll respond within one month, as required by law.

Changes to this policy

If we make meaningful changes, we’ll update the date at the top. We won’t quietly change things on you.

Get in touch

If you have questions about this policy or want to exercise your rights, contact us at:

Jimbo Works Ltd.
Email: hello@jimbo.works

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the U.K.’s data protection regulator.