Apex Health: Recovery Coach

Privacy Policy

Effective date: July 26, 2026

This policy covers the Apex Health: Recovery Coach app for iPhone and Apple Watch, including its widgets and Live Activities. It explains exactly what data the app touches, where that data lives, and what we will never do with it.

1. Who we are

Apex Health: Recovery Coach ("the app") is built by Truestep Solutions ("we", "us"), an independent software studio based in India. Contact: hello@truestepsolutions.in.

2. Health data the app reads

With your explicit permission through Apple Health (HealthKit), the app may read the following categories to compute your recovery, strain, sleep, stress, and energy scores, your daily verdict, and your Apex Age estimate:

• Activity and workouts: steps, active and resting energy, exercise time, workout sessions and routes, training load, VO2 Max
• Heart: heart rate, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, ECG recordings, irregular rhythm and AFib history notifications, blood pressure
• Sleep: sleep stages, time in bed, wrist temperature during sleep
• Respiratory: respiratory rate, blood oxygen
• Metabolic: blood glucose (from a connected CGM or manual entries)
• Body: weight, body composition measurements
• Cycle tracking data, where you choose to share it
• Environment: headphone audio levels, time in daylight
• State of Mind entries

You choose which categories to grant in the Apple Health permission screen, and the app works with whatever subset you allow. You can change or revoke any permission at any time in the Health app under Sharing.

3. Health data the app writes

When you log something in the app, it is saved to Apple Health on your device so your health record stays complete and portable:

• Water, caffeine, and alcohol
• Meals and their estimated nutrition
• Workouts, including GPS routes recorded during tracked sessions
• Mindful minutes from breathing sessions
• State of Mind entries from mood check-ins

4. Where your data lives

All health data stays in Apple Health and in the app's local storage on your device. We operate no backend for your data: there is no Truestep account database, no cloud copy of your metrics, and no server that ever sees your health information. If you use Apple's own iCloud sync for Apple Health, that sync is between you and Apple under Apple's terms; we are not part of it.

A small snapshot of your latest scores (for example, today's recovery number) is shared between the app, its widgets, and the watch app through an Apple app group container on your device, solely so widgets and your watch can display current values. This snapshot never leaves your device.

One small exception uses Apple's iCloud key-value storage, part of your own iCloud account and not any Truestep server. When you delete a logged drink, the app remembers that deletion by storing a short list of anonymous identifiers (random codes with no health data, no meaning outside the app, and no way to identify you) so the item cannot reappear after you reinstall the app or restore from a backup. This list is capped in size, contains only these deletion markers, and is governed by Apple's iCloud terms. You can wipe it by turning off iCloud Drive for the app or signing out of iCloud.

5. On-device intelligence

The coach, daily insights, training plans, and meal recognition run on Apple's on-device foundation models and the device's neural hardware. Your questions to the coach, its answers, and the health data it reads to answer them are processed on the device and are not transmitted to us or to any third party.

6. Camera and meal scanning

The camera is used only when you open the scanner to log a meal, a barcode, or a nutrition label. Frames are analyzed live on the device and are immediately discarded. The app does not capture, store, or upload photos, and nothing from the camera ever leaves your device.

7. Location

With your permission, the app uses your location to record GPS routes for outdoor workouts, including in the background during an active session so your route stays accurate. Routes are saved to Apple Health on your device. Location is also used as described in section 8 for local weather. Location data is never sent to our servers, because we have none.

8. The only network requests the app makes

The app makes exactly two kinds of network requests, both to public services, both free of any personal identifiers:

• Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org): when you scan a product barcode, the app sends the barcode digits, and nothing else, to look up the product's nutrition information. The request is not linked to you.
• Open-Meteo (open-meteo.com): the app sends approximate coordinates to fetch local weather so it can raise your hydration goal on hot days. No identifier accompanies the request.

Like any web request, these services technically receive the requesting IP address. We send them nothing about you, and the app includes no analytics, advertising, or tracking SDKs of any kind.

9. Sign in with Apple

The app offers Sign in with Apple to create your profile. Because we operate no account servers, the resulting identity is used only on your device to personalize the app. We do not receive or store your name, email address, or Apple ID on any server.

10. Notifications

Reminders such as morning readiness, hydration nudges, wind-down alerts, and weekly reports are local notifications, scheduled and delivered entirely on your device. They do not involve a push server.

11. What we will never do

• We will never sell, rent, or share your personal or health data.
• We will never use health data for advertising, marketing, or similar purposes, in line with Apple's HealthKit guidelines.
• We will never use your data to train machine learning models.
• We will never add third party analytics or tracking to the app.

12. Data retention, export, and deletion

Because your data lives on your device and in Apple Health, you are in full control:

• Export: the app can generate a clinician friendly PDF report of your data at any time, and Apple Health offers a full export of everything stored there.
• Delete specific data: remove individual entries in the Health app, or revoke the app's permissions under Health, Sharing.
• Delete everything: deleting the app removes the app's local storage and its snapshot container. Data previously saved to Apple Health remains yours in the Health app and can be deleted there. The anonymous deletion markers described in section 4 live in your own iCloud and are cleared by turning off iCloud Drive for the app or signing out of iCloud.

We hold nothing on our side to delete.

13. Children

The app is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. The app collects no personal information from anyone, but it is intended for adults managing their own health and fitness.

14. Your rights

Depending on where you live, data protection law such as India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act or the GDPR may give you rights of access, correction, deletion, and portability. Because the app keeps your data on your device, you can exercise all of these directly, as described in section 12. For anything else, contact us and a human will reply.

15. Changes to this policy

If our practices change, we will update this page, revise the effective date above, and where a change is material, tell you inside the app before it takes effect. We will never change the fundamentals quietly: on-device processing, no sale of data, and no advertising are permanent commitments.