Privacy Policy

Effective November 9, 2026

Sweatly is a workout check-in app for iPhone, made by an individual developer (“we”, “us”). You log workouts and body weight, track streaks and badges, and can ask Coach, an AI assistant, for training plans and summaries. This policy explains what information the app handles, where it goes and how long it is kept.

In short

• Your training log, including workouts and body weight, is stored on your iPhone. We do not receive, back up or sync it.
• Your account is created and checked on your iPhone. The current version of the app does not send your sign-in details to us or to anyone else.
• Coach is optional. Only after you agree on its consent screen, and only when you ask it something, the app sends your messages and, unless you turn it off, a summary of your training log to our server, which uses DeepSeek to write the answer.
• No advertising, no tracking across other companies’ apps or websites, and no sale of data.

Data stored on your device

Each account has its own private database in the app’s storage on your iPhone. It holds:

• workouts: type, start time, duration, effort (RPE), distance and pace, exercises with sets, reps and weights, notes, and calorie estimates;
• body weight entries (date and weight);
• your weekly goal;
• training plans, including plans created by Coach, and their planned sessions;
• your Coach conversation, including small thumbnails of photos you attached.

When a new account signs in for the first time, the app adds about eight weeks of sample workouts, body weight entries and a sample plan so you can explore it. You can edit or delete these like any other entry.

The app also stores the following in its settings on your iPhone: the profile of the signed-in account (account id, nickname, email address if any, sign-in method and creation date), which account is signed in, your Coach consent and log-sharing choice, whether you have seen the Coach tour, and a record of the last plan Coach added (used for Undo).

Several people can use separate accounts on one iPhone; each account sees only its own data.

Signing in

You can choose Apple, Google or email on the sign-in screen. In the current version of the app, all three create an account that exists only on your iPhone:

• Apple and Google: the app creates a local account on this device with a random account id and a placeholder name. It does not receive your Apple ID or Google account details.
• Email: the nickname, email address and password you enter are kept in the app’s settings on your iPhone. The password is stored only as a salted SHA-256 hash, never in plain text.

No sign-in information is sent to our server. If a future version connects sign-in to Apple, Google or a server, we will update this policy before that change takes effect.

Health and fitness data

Workouts, effort ratings and body weight are health-related information. We treat them as such:

• they are stored only on your iPhone, in your account’s private database;
• Sweatly does not read from or write to Apple Health (HealthKit);
• body weight is used on your device to estimate calories burned (65 kg is assumed until you log a weight) and to show your weight trend;
• they leave your device only as part of the Coach summary described below, and only if you have consented and kept log sharing turned on;
• they are never used for advertising or sold.

Coach, the AI assistant

Coach answers only when you ask it something, for example by tapping a command such as “Plan my week”, typing a message or attaching a photo. Before the first request on each account, the app shows a consent screen that explains what is sent and names DeepSeek as the AI provider. Nothing is sent unless you tap Agree & Continue.

Each request sends the following to our server:

• the most recent messages of your current Coach conversation (up to 16, including Coach’s replies);
• unless you turn off “Share my logs with Coach”, a summary of your training log: your weekly goal; your latest body weight; your current and best streak and last check-in date; days trained, sessions, minutes and average effort for this week and each of the last six weeks; rest days in the last 14 days; up to 30 recent workouts from the last six weeks (date, type, minutes, effort, distance, heaviest lift, and the first 80 characters of the note); your top 8 lifts (exercise, weight, reps and date); your workout type mix; and your current plan with which sessions are done;
• for photos you attach (up to four), only the text and image labels recognized on your iPhone by Apple’s Vision framework. The photo itself is never sent. If nothing can be read from a photo, nothing from it is sent;
• your random account id, used to identify the request for the daily message limit.

Our server adds instructions for Coach and forwards the conversation, summary and photo text to DeepSeek, a third-party AI provider that acts as our processor to generate Coach’s answer. DeepSeek processes this data on its servers under its own terms and privacy policy. Our server returns the answer to the app and does not save your messages, training summary or Coach’s answers to a database.

Our server counts Coach requests per account id per day to enforce a daily limit. This count is held only in the server’s memory. The server’s operational log records, for each request, a shortened account id, how long the request took and how many plans were returned. If the AI provider returns an error or an unreadable answer, the log may also include a short excerpt of that response for troubleshooting.

When Coach suggests a workout plan, the app adds it to your week on your device straight away and offers Undo.

Your choices for Coach

• Me › AI & Privacy › Share my logs with Coach: turn it off and Coach only receives your messages and any photo text.
• Me › AI & Privacy › Withdraw AI Consent: Coach stops sending anything until you agree again, and the conversation is cleared.
• Coach Board › eraser button (New chat): clears the conversation stored on your device.

Permissions

Sweatly does not ask for access to your location, contacts, camera, microphone, Apple Health or notifications. To attach a photo for Coach, you use the iOS photo picker; the app receives only the photos you pick and does not get access to the rest of your library. Photos are read on your device, and only a small thumbnail is kept with the conversation.

What we don’t do

• No advertising and no advertising identifiers.
• No analytics or tracking SDKs, and no tracking across other companies’ apps or websites.
• We don’t sell or rent your data, or share it with data brokers.
• Your training log is not uploaded to us. Only the Coach summary described above is sent with Coach requests.

International processing

Our server and DeepSeek may process Coach requests in countries other than yours, including in the People’s Republic of China, where DeepSeek is based. Data protection laws there may differ from those where you live. By agreeing to the Coach consent screen you choose to send this data for processing. If you don’t want this, don’t use Coach; the rest of the app works without it. Like any online service, our server and its hosting provider receive your IP address when the app connects to it.

How long data is kept

• On your device: until you delete it, delete the account in the app, or delete the app.
• Coach requests: our server does not keep them after the answer is returned.
• Coach daily message counts: held only in server memory and not written to a database.
• Server operational logs: kept only as long as needed to run and troubleshoot the service.
• Data processed by DeepSeek: under DeepSeek’s own retention policy.

Deleting your data

Me › Account › Delete Account removes from this iPhone the account and its entire database: workouts, body weight, plans, badges progress and the Coach conversation. A few small settings tied to the account, such as your Coach consent choice, whether you saw the tour and the record used for Undo, can remain in the app’s settings until you delete the app. Deleting the app removes everything Sweatly stored on your iPhone. See Account deletion.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete or object to the processing of your personal information. Because your training log stays on your device, you can view, edit and delete it directly in the app. For anything else, email Kiarajoglekar@icloud.com.

Children

Sweatly is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has used Coach, contact us.

Changes

We may update this policy as the app changes. The effective date at the top shows when it was last updated. Material changes will be reflected here before they take effect.

Contact

Questions or privacy requests: Kiarajoglekar@icloud.com.