Formline privacy policy

The short version

Your workouts, meals, and Health data stay on your iPhone and with Apple. None of it is sent to Formline. Formline does not require an account for training. We do not run advertising, sell personal information, or use your workout history to build an advertising profile.

Formline and private iCloud

Workout history, personal programs, training preferences, manually entered training-profile data, your food log, nutrition targets, water, and your streaks are stored on your iPhone and sync through your private iCloud account when available. Only you can open it; Formline cannot. Apple Health imports and Health-sourced measurements stay in Apple Health and are excluded from that sync.

Nutrition and food catalog searches

Nutrition entries, targets, water, and the foods you add or mark as favorites are stored on your iPhone and in your private iCloud. A food search sends the search term or scanned barcode to Formline’s food service. Workout, Apple Health, and profile data are not included.

The food service runs on Cloudflare. To rank the foods that match a search, it passes the search term, and nothing else, to Typesafe (Jev), an AI service. Barcode lookups stay in the food database. The service’s logs can include the search term or barcode and are kept only to fix problems and prevent abuse. These providers handle this data only to run the food service and protect it as this policy does.

Adding to the food catalog

When you add a product for a barcode the food database does not have, or link that barcode to a food, the barcode and the product’s name, brand, and nutrition values are sent to the food service so that other people can find it. Nothing that identifies you is sent with it, and the product stays in the database.

When you suggest a correction to a food, the food’s catalog ID and your values for it are sent to the food service, which keeps them for review. Nothing that identifies you is sent with them.

Apple Health

Apple Health access is optional. If you allow it, Formline reads workouts, heart rate, active energy, body weight, sleep, heart rate variability, and resting heart rate, and saves completed workouts to Apple Health. It uses this data on your device only, for your training, readiness, sleep, and weight. It is never sent to Formline, never copied to Formline’s iCloud sync, and never used for advertising or marketing. This information is handled through Apple’s HealthKit framework and stays subject to your Health permissions. You can change those permissions at any time in iOS.

Compete

Compete is optional and uses Sign in with Apple plus private iCloud sharing. Invited people can see your challenge profile, challenge dates, weekly points, and the length of your streaks. A season can count the days you logged food or met a target; what you ate and your targets are never shared. Foods, calories, exercise details, weights, body data, and Apple Health records are not shared in a challenge. Anyone can leave a season, and the owner of a season can remove a person from it.

News and offers

News and offers is an optional notification. It is off until you turn it on in Settings, under Notifications. It is delivered through Apple’s CloudKit push notifications. Apple keeps the subscription under your iCloud account, and Formline receives no personal data from it.

Subscription

Formline memberships are auto-renewable subscriptions purchased and managed through Apple’s App Store. Formline does not receive or store your payment-card details; Apple handles subscription billing for your Apple Account.

Support email

If you choose to contact support, we receive your email address and the information you include so we can answer and resolve your request. We keep it only as long as reasonably needed for that purpose. Please avoid sending sensitive health or payment information.

Retention and deletion

Local training and nutrition data remains until you delete it or remove the app. Private iCloud training and nutrition records remain until you use Delete Training Data or Delete Nutrition Data. Compete records remain until you delete or leave a season or delete your Compete profile; offline removals are queued and retried. Apple Health keeps its own records under your Health settings.

Your permissions and controls

You can change or revoke Health, camera, notification, and iCloud access in iOS Settings. In Formline, you can delete training and nutrition data, remove individual history items, or delete your Compete profile. Profile deletion removes owned seasons, leaves joined seasons, and clears the local Sign in with Apple identity only after those removals complete or are durably queued.

Contact

For a question about your data or a request to delete it, write to support@formline.elbantli.com.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes materially, the revised version will be posted here with a new last-updated date.