Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 11, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Sweats Fitness ("Sweats", "we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, discloses, and protects information when you use the Sweats mobile application and related services (collectively, the "Service"). By using Sweats, you agree to the collection and use of information described here.

1. Information we collect

We collect information you provide directly, information generated by your use of the Service, and information from your device — only where you've granted the relevant permission.

Account & profile information

• Phone number, used to create and verify your account
• Name, username, profile photo, and bio
• Contacts you choose to upload, used only to help you find friends already on Sweats

Activity & fitness data

• Steps, workouts, routes, distance, pace, and duration you record in the app
• GPS location while you record an outdoor activity, and — if you enable background location — approximate location used to power features like nearby-tribe suggestions and proximity alerts
• Health and motion data read from Apple Health / HealthKit or equivalent platform APIs, where you grant that permission

Content you create

• Posts, comments, reactions, challenge check-ins, and messages
• Photos or videos you upload to your profile, posts, or challenges, and camera access used to scan QR codes

Device & usage information

• Device model, OS version, app version, and crash/diagnostic information
• Push notification tokens, used to deliver notifications you've enabled

Purchase information

• Subscription status and purchase history, processed by Apple's App Store or Google Play and our subscription infrastructure provider. We do not receive or store your payment card details.

2. Health & fitness data

Where you connect Apple Health, HealthKit, or an equivalent platform health service, Sweats reads limited data — such as step count and workout data — solely to power in-app features like activity tracking, streaks, challenges, and coaching feedback.

3. How we use your information

• To provide core features: activity tracking, challenges, leaderboards, tribes, messaging, and the social feed
• To power the AI Coach, which uses your logged activity to generate responses to your questions
• To personalize your experience, such as suggesting friends, tribes, or challenges
• To send notifications you've opted into (challenge updates, messages, achievements)
• To maintain safety and integrity — detecting fraud, abuse, spam, and enforcing our Terms of Service
• To process subscription purchases and verify Pro status
• To analyze aggregate, de-identified usage in order to improve the Service

We do not use your health, fitness, or precise location data to serve you ads, and we do not sell your personal information to third parties.

4. How we share information

We share information only in the following circumstances:

• With other users, as intended by the feature — your public profile, posts, challenge activity, and leaderboard standing are visible to other users according to your privacy settings.
• With service providers who process data on our behalf under contract, including our database and backend provider (Supabase), our subscription management provider (RevenueCat), and push notification delivery via Apple and Google.
• For legal reasons — if required by law, subpoena, or to protect the rights, safety, or property of Sweats, our users, or the public.
• With your consent — for any other purpose disclosed to you at the time we collect the information.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share your health or fitness data with advertisers or data brokers.

5. Data retention & deletion

We retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide the Service. You can delete your account at any time from Settings → Account → Delete Account inside the app. Deleting your account permanently removes your profile, posts, messages, activity history, and associated content, except where we're required to retain limited records for legal, security, or fraud-prevention purposes. Deletion may take up to 30 days to fully propagate across backups.

6. Your rights and choices

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, export, or delete your personal information, and to object to or restrict certain processing. You can exercise most of these rights directly in the app under Settings → Privacy, or by contacting us at the email below.

• You can revoke location, motion, camera, contacts, or notification permissions at any time from your device settings.
• You can disconnect Apple Health / HealthKit at any time from your device's Health app or from Sweats' connected-apps settings.
• You can control who sees your profile, posts, and activity through in-app privacy settings.

7. Children's privacy

Sweats is not directed to children under 13 (or the minimum age required by your country to consent to data processing without parental approval), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under that age. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact us and we will delete it.

8. Security

We use industry-standard safeguards — including encryption in transit, access controls, and row-level security on our database — to protect your information. No system is perfectly secure, and we can't guarantee absolute security.

9. International data transfers

Your information may be processed in countries other than the one you live in. Where required, we rely on appropriate safeguards for such transfers.

10. Third-party services

Sweats integrates with third-party services to operate, including Supabase (database and backend infrastructure), RevenueCat (subscription management), and Apple/Google platform services (push notifications, HealthKit, sign-in, and payments). Each provider processes data under its own privacy terms in addition to this policy. Sweats does not currently use third-party advertising or analytics SDKs.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we'll notify you in the app or by other reasonable means before the change takes effect. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision.

12. Contact us

Questions about this Privacy Policy or your data? Contact us at privacy@sweats.in or +91 96338 66066, or write to us at 2065, T2, Prestige Hillside Gateway, Kochi, 682030, India.