Rootiest Status app privacy policy
Last updated 10 November 2026
This policy covers the Rootiest Status app for Android and its Wear OS watch app (package dev.rootiest.status). The app shows the status page and lets you use the support desk. Each of those has its own notice, which applies to what you do through the app.
In short: the app has no ads, no analytics and no crash reporting, and it doesn't track you. It talks only to Rootiest's own servers. Your sign-in and settings stay on your device.
Who is responsible
Chris Laprade, who runs Rootiest, publishes the app and is responsible for the personal data described here. To contact us about your data, see Contact.
What the app does not collect
The app contains no advertising, analytics or crash-reporting code. It doesn't access your location, contacts, photos, files, camera or microphone, and it doesn't collect device identifiers.
What the app collects and why
Status information
The app fetches the service status from status.rootiest.dev, in the background as well as when it's open, so it can notify you when a service goes down or comes back. These notifications are made on your device from that status.
Signing in (optional)
Without signing in, you see the public status. If you sign in, the app opens RootiestID (auth.rootiest.dev) in your browser. When you finish, the app receives a sign-in token, which it keeps on your device and sends to our servers to show what your account may see. The status page token lasts 14 days, and the support desk's lasts 30 days. Signing out in the app deletes both. The app also shows your RootiestID display name and profile picture, which it loads from RootiestID.
Support tickets
If you open or read support tickets in the app, it sends and receives them from support.rootiest.dev. What the support desk keeps is described in the support desk notice.
Push notifications
To get updates without delay, the app uses UnifiedPush through a separate distributor app you install, such as ntfy. The distributor gives the app a random push address on our own notification server, and the app registers that address with the status page and, if you're signed in, the support desk. The address doesn't identify you. The pushes say only "refresh" or which ticket changed, and the app then fetches the details itself. The servers delete an address when it hasn't been renewed for 30 days, and the support desk also deletes yours when you sign out. Without a distributor, the app checks for changes on a schedule instead.
On your device
The app stores your sign-in tokens, the last status it fetched, your settings (such as muted services and how often to check) and the states it last saw, so it can tell what changed. All of this stays on your device. It's deleted when you clear the app's data or uninstall it.
The Wear OS watch app
The watch app shows the status your phone last fetched. The phone sends it to the watch through Google Play services' Wearable Data Layer, which may route it through Google's servers when the watch and phone aren't connected directly. What's sent is status information only, never your sign-in token. The watch app makes no network requests of its own.
Permissions
- Internet: to fetch the status and use the support desk.
- Notifications: to tell you when a service changes or a ticket gets a reply.
- Ignore battery optimisations (requested, and you can refuse): so background checks aren't delayed too much.
Google Play
If you install the app from Google Play, Google handles the download, updates and any data it collects as part of that, under Google's privacy policy. Google gives us only aggregated statistics, such as install counts and crash rates, which don't identify you.
Legal basis
For users in the EU, UK and similar jurisdictions: the app processes data to provide the features you use (GDPR Article 6(1)(b)), and because of our legitimate interest in keeping our servers secure (Article 6(1)(f)).
Where the data is kept
Rootiest's servers are in the United States. Where the status page and support desk keep data, and for how long, is set out in their notices: status page and support desk.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:
- ask what personal data we hold about you and get a copy;
- have it corrected or deleted;
- object to or restrict how we use it;
- complain to your local data protection authority.
You can delete everything the app stores by signing out and uninstalling it. To ask about data on our servers, contact us.
Children
The app is not aimed at children, and we don't knowingly collect data from them.
Changes
If what the app collects changes, we'll update this policy and the date at the top.
Contact
Open a request on the support desk under Privacy & Data Request: support.rootiest.dev/new?category=privacy (sign in with RootiestID).
No RootiestID? Use the email form at support.rootiest.dev/guest, choose General Questions, and say it's a privacy request.