Privacy Policy

Who runs FitPals

FitPals is made by Dhruv Chowdhary, an independent developer. Questions about this policy or about your data go to dhruvchowdhary7@gmail.com.

What FitPals collects

• Sign in with Apple. Apple gives FitPals an account ID, your name, and an email address. If you chose Hide My Email, it's a private relay address. FitPals doesn't send you email.
• Your profile. The name, username and profile photo you choose, your weekly goal, and your invite code.
• Your check-ins. Each one is two photos, one of you and one of the room you're in, plus the day it happened and a note if you add one.
• What you do as a pair. Who you're linked with, the wager you set, each week's result, whether a wager has been settled, and the reactions, comments and nudges you send each other.
• Your gym and reminders. If you set a gym, its name and the point you picked on the map, so it survives a reinstall. If you set reminder days and a time, those too.
• Notification settings. Which notifications you want, and the token Apple issues so your phone can receive them.
• Your subscription. What Apple reports about a FitPals subscription: the plan, whether it's active or in a trial, and when it renews or ends. Apple takes the payment, so FitPals never sees your card or billing details.
• The feedback board. Ideas you post, the ones you upvote, and any you report.

Your location

FitPals can remind you to check in when you get to your gym. Your phone handles that by itself: iOS watches a circle around the gym you set and wakes FitPals when you walk into it. Your live location never leaves your phone, and FitPals never stores it. The only place saved to your account is the gym you picked.

Searching for your gym on the map uses Apple Maps.

Your camera and photos

The camera takes your check-in photos, and your profile photo if you want one. FitPals only touches your photo library when you pick a profile photo from it, or when you ask it to save a check-in there. It never reads the rest of your library.

Who can see what

• Your partner sees your profile, your weekly goal, the name of your gym, your check-ins with their photos and notes, your reactions and comments, the wager, each week's result, and whether your subscription covers the two of you. If either of you disconnects, you stop seeing each other's check-ins.
• Other FitPals users can see your name, username, profile photo and weekly goal. That's how someone finds you from your invite code. Ideas on the feedback board are anonymous: everyone signed in can read them and their vote counts, but not who posted or who voted.
• Nobody else sees your check-ins. Their photos sit in private storage that only you and your current partner can open. Your gym's location, your reminder schedule, your notification settings and your email are for you alone.

Profile photos are stored at long, unguessable addresses, and anyone who has one of those addresses can open the photo.

What FitPals doesn't do

No ads. No selling or renting your data. No tracking you across other companies' apps and websites. No analytics or advertising code inside the app.

Services FitPals uses

A few companies handle data for FitPals, only so the app can work:

• Supabase stores your account, your data and your photos, and runs sign in.
• Apple provides Sign in with Apple, push notifications, App Store payments and subscription status, and the map search for your gym.
• Vercel hosts this website, including the pages invite links open.

On your phone

To open fast and cope with a bad connection, FitPals keeps a copy of your recent weeks and photos on your phone, and hands a small summary to its Home Screen widget. Both stay on the device and go when you delete the app.

How long it's kept

For as long as you have an account. Delete a check-in and its photos go with it. Delete your account and everything on this page goes with it, apart from copies in routine backups, which expire on their own soon after.

Deleting your account

In FitPals, tap the gear at the top of the home screen, then Delete account. Your account, profile, check-ins, photos and everything tied to them are deleted right away.

If you pay for a subscription, cancel it in your Apple Account settings as well. Apple runs billing, so deleting your account doesn't stop it.

Your rights

You can see and change most of your data inside the app. To get a copy of it, correct something, or have it deleted, email dhruvchowdhary7@gmail.com. Depending on where you live, laws like the GDPR or the CCPA give you further rights over your data, and FitPals honours them.

Children

FitPals isn't meant for children under 13 and doesn't knowingly collect their data. If you think a child has an account, email dhruvchowdhary7@gmail.com and it will be deleted.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version goes up on this page with a new date at the top.