In short
Your Health data stays on your iPhone. Athletica has no servers, no accounts, no analytics, no advertising and no trackers, and we never see your data. The only thing it sends us is feedback or a bug report, and only when you tap Send.
Who we are
Athletica is made by Sky Enterprises Australia Pty Ltd (ABN 36 679 004 767), a company based in South Australia ("we", "us" or "our"). This policy covers the Athletica app for iPhone. Visiting this website is covered by our website privacy policy.
This policy is intended to reflect the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles, and it also describes rights you may have under privacy laws elsewhere, including the EU and UK GDPR and Californian law.
What Athletica reads
With your permission, Athletica reads from Apple Health on your iPhone:
- Heart: heart rate, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, VO₂ max, breathing rate and blood oxygen.
- Sleep: when you slept and the stages.
- Workouts: each workout, its route, distance and energy.
- Body and energy: weight, steps, active and resting energy, wrist temperature, and food energy and macros if you log them.
It only reads. It never writes to Health or changes anything there. You choose what it can read, and you can change that at any time in Settings › Health › Data Access & Devices › Athletica.
Health information is sensitive, which is why it never leaves your iPhone. Athletica works it out on the device, and we never receive, store, sell or share it, or use it for advertising or marketing.
Erg photos
If you allow it, Athletica looks through your photo library for the photo you take of a rowing machine's screen just after an indoor row, and reads its distance, time and split. The photo is read on your iPhone. Athletica keeps only which photo it was and the numbers, never a copy of the photo, and it never changes or deletes your photos. You can change this at any time in Settings › Privacy & Security › Photos › Athletica.
What stays on your iPhone
So it opens instantly, Athletica keeps what it works out (scores, history, records and thinned routes) in its own storage on your iPhone. It also keeps your name, profile photo, settings, the places you add and the numbers read from erg photos.
- None of it is sent to us or anyone else.
- Widgets and notifications show some of these numbers on your Home Screen and Lock Screen, where anyone holding your iPhone can see them. Remove a widget, or turn notifications off in You › Settings, to stop that.
- If you share a workout card, it goes only where you send it.
- It's included in your iPhone's backups if you use iCloud Backup or back up to a computer, under Apple's protection.
- Deleting Athletica deletes all of it.
What we receive
Only the feedback and bug reports you choose to send (below). Your Health data, name, photos and places are never sent to us or to anyone else, never sold and never used for advertising. We don't sell or share personal information as those terms are used in Californian law.
Feedback and bug reports
When you send feedback or report a bug from Settings, Athletica sends what you write, any screenshot you attach, the app and iOS versions and, for a bug, the iPhone model. If you leave your email for a reply, it's sent too, and we use it only to reply about what you sent, including to tell you when it's fixed or built. Nothing else goes with it, and nothing is sent until you tap Send.
- What you write, with the app and iOS versions, can appear on Athletica's public feedback page, so leave out anything personal.
- Screenshots, your email address and the iPhone model are seen only by us.
- To stop spam, we keep a one-way scrambled form of your IP address, not the address itself.
Feedback goes to Frostbyte, our own product-planning service, which stores it with its hosting providers in the United States (Heroku, MongoDB Atlas and Amazon Web Services). Frostbyte's AI features, provided by Anthropic, may help us sort and summarise feedback; Anthropic doesn't train its models on it. We keep feedback while it helps us improve Athletica, and delete it when you ask.
We handle feedback because you choose to send it, and we keep the scrambled IP address because we have a legitimate interest in keeping spam out.
Apple services
A few things go through Apple, under Apple's privacy policy:
- Purchases. Apple handles payment for Athletica Pro. Apple tells us about sales, but not who you are.
- Maps. To draw maps of routes and places, and to search for a gym, Apple Maps receives the area shown or the search text.
- Crash reports. If you've chosen to share analytics with app developers in your iPhone's settings, Apple may send us anonymous crash reports.
Security
Everything Athletica keeps is stored in its own private storage on your iPhone, protected by iOS and your passcode. Feedback is sent over an encrypted connection. If a data breach involving feedback you sent were likely to cause serious harm, we would tell you and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner as the law requires.
Children
Athletica isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect information from them. If you think a child has sent us feedback, email us and we'll delete it.
Your rights
Apart from feedback you choose to send, we hold no personal information about you: it's all on your iPhone and in your control. For feedback you've sent, you can ask us to show you what we hold, correct it or delete it.
If you have a question, a request or a complaint, email athletica@skyenterprisesau.com and we'll reply within 30 days. If you're not satisfied:
- In Australia, you can contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
- In the EU or UK, you can contact your local data protection authority.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the date at the top will change, and the app will tell you about anything important.
Contact
Sky Enterprises Australia Pty Ltd, South Australia. Email athletica@skyenterprisesau.com.