Privacy policy
The short version. 7 minute Coach keeps your workouts on your own devices. There is no account, no sign-in, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking. We do not run a server, and we never receive your data unless you choose to send us something yourself.
What the app keeps, and where
Everything the app remembers is stored on your iPhone (and, for the watch app, on your Apple Watch). This includes:
- your workout history: when you worked out, which exercises you did, how hard it felt, and your heart rate and calorie figures when your watch or Apple Health provided them;
- your fitness level and weekly commitment progress;
- your settings, including your birthday month and day if you choose to add it for a birthday message (no year is asked for);
- for each workout, the weather condition and that day's sunrise and sunset times if weather coaching was on (your location itself is not saved);
- a technical activity log on each device, used only if you choose to export it (see Diagnostics below).
Your iPhone and Apple Watch exchange workout information directly with each other so they stay in step during a workout. Your data is included in your own device backups (iCloud Backup or a computer backup) like any other app's data, under your Apple Account. We cannot read those backups.
Apple Health
Connecting Apple Health is optional on iPhone and required for the Apple Watch app. You choose what to allow in the Apple Health permission screen, and you can change it at any time in the Settings app under Health.
| Device | Reads from Apple Health | Saves to Apple Health |
|---|---|---|
| iPhone | Body weight, to estimate the calories a workout burned. | Your completed workouts (warm-up, main workout and cool-down as three workouts) and the active calories they burned, when your iPhone runs the workout on its own. |
| Apple Watch | Heart rate and active calories during a workout, so you can see them on your wrist and in your workout summary; body weight, to estimate calories. | Your completed workouts (warm-up, main workout and cool-down as three workouts). |
Information from Apple Health is used only inside the app to coach you and show your results. It is never used for advertising, never sold, never shared with anyone, and never sent to us.
Location and weather
If you allow location access, the app asks for an approximate location (not your precise position), only while you are using it, to look up the local weather and sunrise and sunset times, so the coach can mention the weather and your share card can show the sky. That lookup goes to Apple's weather service (WeatherKit) and is handled under Apple's privacy policy. We never receive your location, and the app does not store it. You can turn weather off in Settings or deny location access; the app works fully without it.
What leaves your device
Nothing leaves your devices on its own, apart from three requests to Apple: the weather lookup described above, a one-time download of the Apple Weather logo (which sends no location), and the App Store's check of whether the unlock is active (see Purchases). Everything else happens only when you tap a button and choose where it goes:
- Share cards. When you tap Share Workout (or share a week where you kept your promise), the app makes an image or short video and opens the standard share sheet. You pick the app or person it goes to. A card shows your workout's exercises and a headline; it does not show calories or heart rate.
- History export. Settings, Your data, Export History creates a file of your workout history and opens the share sheet so you can save or send it wherever you like. The file includes heart rate and calorie figures, each day's sunrise and sunset times, and your birthday if you added one, which can be enough to place you roughly, so share it with care. The app also keeps a few automatic copies of your history on your iPhone so it can be restored if something goes wrong; those copies stay on the device.
- Diagnostics. Settings, Diagnostics, Export creates a text file describing what the app did recently (for example, when cues played and how the watch connection behaved), plus your app and system versions, device models, a short summary of your recent workouts and level, your purchase status (whether the free trial is running or has ended, whether the unlock is active, the App Store product and purchase date, and how a purchase or restore went), and any crash or hang reports that iOS has given the app about itself (which part of the app was running when it stopped or froze; these are created on your iPhone by Apple's MetricKit and are not sent anywhere). It contains no name, contact details, payment details, heart rate, calories, birthday or location. It opens the share sheet, and it reaches us only if you send it to us, for example by email. We use it only to find and fix problems, and we delete it when we no longer need it.
What we do not do
- No account or sign-in. We do not know who you are.
- No advertising, no ad networks, no analytics or crash-reporting services, no third-party code that collects data.
- No tracking across other companies' apps or websites.
- No selling or renting of any information.
Purchases
If you buy the one-time unlock, the purchase is handled by Apple through the App Store. We do not receive your payment details or your identity. The app checks with the App Store on your device to know whether the unlock is active.
Children
The app is not directed to children under 13 and does not knowingly collect any information from anyone, including children.
Your choices
- Turn Apple Health, location, weather coaching and birthday messages on or off at any time, in the app's Settings or the iPhone Settings app.
- Export your workout history whenever you want.
- Delete everything by deleting the app from your iPhone and Apple Watch. Workouts already saved to Apple Health stay in Apple Health until you remove them there.
Because we do not hold your data, there is nothing for us to access, correct or delete on a server. If you have sent us a diagnostics file or an email and want it deleted, write to us and we will delete it.
Changes to this policy
If the app ever starts handling information differently, we will update this page and its effective date before that version of the app is released.
Contact
Questions about privacy: privacy@culabs.co