Animal Based Coach

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 3 September 2026

This policy explains what Animal Based Coach collects, why, and what we do with it. It is written to be read, not to be survived.

It applies to a health app that may hold your weight, your bloodwork, your medications and your conversations about all three. We have tried to write it the way we'd want it written for us.

The short version

What we collect, and where it lives

Everything you enter is stored on your device, and backed up to your account so it survives a lost or replaced phone. That includes:

Your account and the backup

Authentication and the backup are handled by Supabase, a hosted Postgres provider, acting as our data processor. The backup is protected by row-level security: on every single request, the database itself enforces that no other user can read or write your data. It is encrypted in transit and at rest. Running the service does require an administrative key that can technically reach the data, which is exactly why the promise below matters:

We do not sign in as you and read it. We do not mine it, profile you with it, or use it to train anything.

Sign in with Apple

If you use Sign in with Apple and choose to hide your email, we receive only Apple's relay address. We never see your real one, and we do not try to.

Apple Health

Connecting Apple Health is optional and read-only — we never write anything back to Health. If you connect it, we read only seven things: heart-rate variability, resting heart rate, steps, sleep, weight, body fat percentage, and active energy. We ask for nothing else. You can revoke it at any time in iOS Settings → Health → Data Access & Devices, and the app will simply stop showing those metrics rather than fill in the gap with a guess. Apple Health data is never used for advertising or marketing, is never sold, and is never shared with data brokers. It is used only to show you those metrics and to inform your coaching.

Health information

Some of what you can enter is sensitive: blood markers, medications, health conditions. You choose whether to provide any of it. The app works without it; the coaching is simply less specific. We do not ask about, and do not collect, any eating-disorder history.

Where your data is sent

To answer a question, build your meal plan, or read your week, the app sends the relevant parts of the above to an AI model provider (currently Google Gemini) through our backend.

The companies that help run the app

These are the service providers that may receive some of your data so the app can work. This is the complete list.

Nobody else receives your data, for any purpose.

If you use the restaurant finder, the app sends the city or approximate location you provide, so the coach can suggest places near you. We don't store your exact GPS position; if we can't turn your location into a place name, the app may store approximate coordinates — rounded to roughly 110 metres — with that feature and in your backup.

If you scan a blood test report, or photograph a meal so the coach can estimate what is on the plate, the photo is sent to the model to read it. It travels the same path as any other coaching request — through our backend — and is not stored on our server or used for training; the same note above about short-lived operational logs applies. Meal photos are downscaled on your phone before they are sent.

Tracking and the iOS "Allow tracking" prompt

Before your subscription starts, iOS asks whether the app may track you. This exists for one reason: measuring our own advertising. If you tap Allow, Meta and RevenueCat may use your device's advertising identifier, a per-app device identifier and your IP address to attribute the install or purchase to an ad. If you tap Ask App Not to Track, your advertising identifier is never collected and no identifier-based attribution runs; Meta's SDK still receives standard app-open events carrying an app-scoped random ID and, like any internet request, your IP address, and attribution uses only Apple's SKAdNetwork and Meta's aggregated measurement — neither of which identifies you to us or to Meta. Your choice changes nothing else about the app, and you can change it any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking. Health data, meals, photos and chats are never used for advertising, whatever you choose.

What we do NOT do

Payments

Subscriptions are handled by Apple's In-App Purchase system. Apple processes the payment. We never see your card number. Through RevenueCat we receive your subscription status and purchase history (which product, when it renews) — never your payment details.

Your rights

We keep your backup for as long as your account exists. Delete the account and it goes with it, immediately.

Children

Animal Based Coach is not intended for anyone under 13, and the app does not accept an age below 13. If you believe a child has used the app, delete the account in-app; that removes everything.

This is not medical advice

Animal Based Coach provides nutrition and lifestyle coaching. It is not a medical device, and it does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Nothing in the app is a substitute for advice from a qualified healthcare professional. Do not use it to make medical decisions, and speak to your doctor before making significant changes to your diet — particularly if you are pregnant, have a medical condition, or take medication.

Changes

If this policy changes materially, we will update the date at the top and notify you in the app.

Contact

Questions about your privacy, or this policy: carterpace26@gmail.com