Health Connect & Bailar
Why Bailar reads and writes Health Connect data, what stays on your device, and how to disconnect at any time.
Effective Date: May 24, 2026
Bailar is a Latin-dance social-discovery and community app operated by Bailar, Inc., a Delaware corporation (successor by statutory conversion effective May 4, 2026 to Bailar LLC, a Florida limited liability company): salsa, bachata, kizomba, zouk, merengue, reggaeton — every dance scene in your city, in one place.
This page explains why Bailar reads and writes data through Health Connect, where that data lives, and how to revoke our access at any time. Android shows you this page when you open Bailar’s Health Connect permissions screen — it’s the legally-required “rationale” notice.
Why Bailar uses Health Connect
Dance is real, sustained physical exercise. A typical Cuban-style salsa social runs 2–3 hours of continuous movement at moderate-to-vigorous intensity (90–140 bpm). Health Connect already recognizes running, cycling, and swimming — without our integration, every dance session is invisible to your fitness ledger, and a lot of dancers want it counted.
With Health Connect access, Bailar can:
(1) Log a “Dancing” exercise session when you mark “I went” on an event or check in at the venue.
(2) Track steps and calories during a live session, the way a workout app tracks a run.
(3) Show your dance activity on your Bailar profile (“12 sessions, 18 hours danced this month”), by reading back what you’ve already recorded.
Comparable apps that request Health Connect for similar reasons: AllTrails (hiking sessions), Calm (meditation), tennis-tracking apps. Dance is just as physical as any of those.
What we read and write
We request the smallest set of data types that delivers the user benefit. We do not request heart rate, weight, body composition, sleep, blood glucose, hydration, oxygen saturation, vital signs, mindfulness, menstrual or reproductive health, or body temperature.
| Data type | Read | Write | Why we ask |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exercise sessions (Dancing) | Yes | Yes | We write a Dancing session for each event you attend; we read your past sessions to show “X hours danced this month” on your profile. |
| Steps | No | Yes | While a session is live, the in-app tracker counts steps so you can see a real footprint of your activity. |
| Active calories burned | No | Yes | Estimated from session duration × the standard MET coefficient for dance (~5.5) × your weight. Computed on-device. |
Each data type has its own permission. The first time we need one, Android shows you a prompt — you can grant any subset, deny the rest, and Bailar’s UI degrades gracefully (the profile counters simply read 0 for any data type you’ve denied).
Where the data lives
Health Connect is a local, on-device service. Bailar reads and writes there directly through Android’s official Health Connect client library. Your dance-session records, steps, and calories stay on your device — they are not sent to Bailar’s servers, advertisers, analytics providers, or any third party.
Our analytics pipeline (PostHog, Sentry) explicitly excludes Health Connect content. The only signal that reaches Bailar’s servers about a Health Connect session is an abstract event name like dance_session_completed, with no duration, no calorie count, and no step total attached.
The “Tracking your dance” notification
When you tap “I’m here” at a venue, Bailar starts a tracker that counts steps and records your session. Android requires us to show a persistent notification while it runs — that’s the “Tracking your dance — 1h 23m, 4,231 steps” line in your notification shade, with an “End session” action.
The session auto-stops 6 hours after you start, as a safety net so a forgotten session can’t run overnight. You can also end it any time from the notification or from inside the app.
How to disconnect
You can revoke Bailar’s Health Connect access at any time, from either side:
From inside Bailar: Settings → Privacy → “Disconnect Health Connect”. This revokes every permission we hold and stops the tracker.
From the Health Connect app: Open the Health Connect app on your device → App permissions → Bailar → toggle off any data type, or remove all access. This works the same way for any app that uses Health Connect.
Disconnecting doesn’t delete the dance-session records you’ve already written to Health Connect. Those are managed through the Health Connect app itself (Data and access → Exercise sessions), where you can review or delete individual entries.
Questions
Email [email protected] with anything that isn’t covered here. The full Privacy Policy covers all data Bailar handles outside Health Connect; the Data Deletion page covers how to remove your account entirely.