Bayou Fitness Privacy Policy

1. Information We Collect

Bayou Fitness collects the limited information needed to run your account, support the features you choose to use, improve Bayou Fitness's training and nutrition systems, and respond when you contact us. Some information stays on your device, and some information is processed by Bayou Fitness servers when you use server-powered features.

Account Information

Bayou Fitness requires an account for normal app use. When you create or access an account, we collect:

• Your email address;
• Your user account identifier;
• Authentication information needed to operate your account;
• Information provided through Sign in with Apple, such as email address and full name, depending on what you choose to share with Apple.

Locally stored profile information, such as a display name or profile photo, stays on your device unless you choose to submit it to support or another server-powered feature. Bayou Fitness does not collect phone numbers, public usernames, public profiles, contact lists, or address-book information.

Workout and Fitness Data

Bayou Fitness collects information about your workouts, including:

• Exercises completed, sets, repetitions, weights, durations, distances, pacing, calories, heart-rate summaries, and exertion ratings;
• Training programs, routines, schedules, templates, and planned workouts;
• Custom exercises and exercise substitutions.

Bayou Fitness uses this data to provide workout features, improve dynamic programs and the exercise catalog, and identify what is and is not working well for users. Our aim is to collect and use data that is immediately useful for those purposes.

Bayou Fitness servers do not collect workout notes, images, or GIFs you create using the Share Workout experience. Bayou Fitness program analytics do not collect Apple Health workout identifiers or workout receipt images.

Nutrition Data

Bayou Fitness stores nutrition information you enter locally in the app, such as:

• Food journal entries;
• Calories or macronutrients;
• Saved foods, meals, or ingredients;
• Nutrition goals;
• Meal descriptions or other food-related text you enter;
• Meal photos you choose to save.

If you enable automatic calorie and macro-estimations for nutrition journaling, Bayou Fitness may collect and store user-submitted text and/or photos to provide the functionality and to improve Bayou Fitness's food and nutritional database. Nutrition information is for general fitness and tracking purposes only and is not medical or dietary advice.

Apple Health / HealthKit Data

Bayou Fitness integrates with Apple Health through HealthKit. HealthKit access is optional. The app can function without HealthKit access, although some features may be limited.

With your permission, Bayou Fitness can read the following types of HealthKit data:

• Heart rate;
• Active energy;
• Step count;
• Walking, running, cycling, and swimming distance;
• Workouts;
• Resting heart rate;
• Workout effort score.

With your permission, Bayou Fitness can write the following data to Apple Health:

• Workouts;
• Active energy;
• Heart rate;
• Workout distances;
• Workout effort score.

You control HealthKit permissions through Apple Health and iOS Settings. You may revoke Bayou Fitness's HealthKit access at any time.

Body metrics and health-related information added through HealthKit or local app settings, such as body weight, body fat percentage, lean body mass, and related progress metrics, stay on your device and are not sent to Bayou Fitness servers.

Bayou Gold Intelligence Inputs and Outputs

Bayou Gold Intelligence includes cloud-based features that parse or estimate information from user-submitted content, such as:

• Workout text parsing;
• Workout image parsing;
• Program parsing;
• Workout-history import parsing;
• Nutrition text parsing;
• Meal photo estimation;
• Nutrition repair or cleanup.

When you use Bayou Gold Intelligence, submitted content is sent to Bayou Fitness's cloud systems and intelligence service providers to return the requested result.

Bayou Fitness does not use your Bayou Gold Intelligence inputs or outputs to train Bayou-owned models. The request system records limited metadata to keep the service working, such as user ID, request type, request status, latency, model/provider, input size, token counts, and error code. This metadata is used to operate, secure, debug, and monitor Bayou Gold Intelligence.

Photos, Camera, and Media

Bayou Fitness may request camera or photo library access when you choose to use features involving images, such as:

• Meal photos;
• Workout or program parsing from images;
• Workout share images or GIFs.

Images you choose to save are stored in local app files unless you submit an image to Bayou Gold Intelligence or share it externally. Images submitted to Bayou Gold Intelligence are sent off-device for processing.

Microphone and Speech Recognition

Bayou Fitness can use microphone and speech-recognition permissions for dictation features you start in the app. Speech content is processed by Apple's speech-recognition systems and used to fill in the text or workout content you requested.

Heart-Rate Monitors and Bluetooth

Bayou Fitness may use Bluetooth to connect to external heart-rate monitors. The app may store a saved peripheral UUID locally so it can reconnect to the device.

Location and Route Data

Bayou Fitness collects distance, pace, duration, and related workout metrics for distance-based exercises such as running, cycling, walking, and swimming. For location-based workout features, Bayou Fitness collects precise location and GPS route data to provide distance, pacing, records, route review, and related workout metrics.

Website and Support Information

If you contact us for support, we collect the information you provide, such as your email address, message content, screenshots, diagnostic details, or other information needed to respond.

The Bayou Fitness website collects basic information needed to operate the website. Bayou Fitness does not use website advertising pixels or targeted-advertising cookies.

2. How We Use Information

Bayou Fitness uses information to:

• Create, authenticate, and manage your account;
• Provide workout tracking, nutrition tracking, progress tracking, exports, and related local app features;
• Read from and write to Apple Health when you grant permission;
• Process user-submitted text or images through Bayou Gold Intelligence when you choose to use those features;
• Generate workout, nutrition, and progress insights;
• Improve Bayou Fitness dynamic programs, the exercise catalog, and the food and nutritional database;
• Store app preferences and local app data on your device;
• Provide customer support;
• Secure, debug, maintain, and improve the app;
• Monitor Bayou Gold Intelligence reliability, latency, usage, and errors;
• Comply with legal obligations and enforce our terms and policies.

We do not use health, fitness, workout, nutrition, body metric, or Apple Health data for third-party advertising. We do not sell your health or fitness data.

3. How Information Is Stored

Bayou Fitness stores app data locally on your device using local app storage, UserDefaults, App Group UserDefaults, local files, and Apple Watch local storage. Local-only data includes items such as workout notes, Share Workout images and GIFs, body metrics, profile photos, and display names.

Bayou Fitness servers store account data, service metadata, Bayou Gold Intelligence requests and request metadata, automatic nutrition-estimation submissions, subscription status, and workout or program analytics used to improve dynamic programs and the exercise catalog. Network requests use HTTPS. We do not claim end-to-end encryption for Bayou Fitness data.

4. When We Share Information

We may disclose information in the following limited circumstances:

Service Providers

We use service providers to operate Bayou Fitness, including providers for authentication, backend functions, cloud infrastructure, intelligence processing, and email-based account functions such as verification or password reset. These providers process information for us so we can provide the app.

Bayou Gold Intelligence Processing

When you choose to use Bayou Gold Intelligence, the specific text, images, and related request information you submit is sent to intelligence service providers to generate the requested result.

Apple and HealthKit

When you grant HealthKit permission, Bayou Fitness may read from or write to Apple Health as described in this Privacy Policy and in Apple's permission prompts. You can manage these permissions through Apple Health or iOS Settings.

User-Directed Sharing

If you use the iOS share sheet or other sharing features, you choose where to send workout receipts, images, GIFs, exports, or other content. Information shared this way is handled by the destination app or service you choose.

Legal, Safety, and Business Transfers

We may disclose information if we believe it is reasonably necessary to comply with law, legal process, or enforceable government requests; protect the rights, safety, and security of Bayou Fitness, users, or others; investigate fraud, abuse, or security issues; or as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of assets.

5. Advertising, Tracking, and Sale of Data

Bayou Fitness does not show ads, use third-party ad networks, access the IDFA, use App Tracking Transparency for tracking, use targeted-advertising pixels, or sell personal information.

Bayou Fitness does not sell health, fitness, workout, nutrition, body metric, or Apple Health data. Bayou Fitness does not use that data for third-party advertising.

This is a core Bayou Fitness privacy philosophy. In the unfortunate situation that this ever changes, Bayou Fitness will explicitly notify users well in advance, update this Privacy Policy, and obtain any permissions required by law or platform rules before the change applies.

6. Payments and Premium Features

Bayou Fitness does not process payment card information directly. Paid and premium features are processed through Apple's in-app purchase system. Apple processes payment information, and Bayou Fitness receives information such as subscription status, product purchased, renewal state, trial eligibility, cancellation status, and transaction identifiers needed to provide premium features.

7. Your Choices and Controls

Account and Profile

You can manage account access in the app.

Workout, Nutrition, and Body Data

You can access, edit, and delete workouts and food entries in the app. You can export available workout, progress, and body metric data as JSON, CSV, or PDF.

Apple Health

You can grant or revoke Apple Health permissions through Apple Health or iOS Settings.

Photos and Camera

You can grant or revoke camera and photo library permissions through iOS Settings.

Bayou Gold Intelligence

You control whether to submit text or images to Bayou Gold Intelligence. If you do not want specific content processed by cloud intelligence providers, do not submit that content to Bayou Gold Intelligence.

Marketing Communications

Bayou Fitness does not send marketing emails. Account-related emails, such as verification and password-reset emails, are sent as necessary to operate your account.

8. Account Deletion

Bayou Fitness provides an in-app account deletion flow. When you delete your account, Bayou Fitness deletes your authentication account, signs you out, and clears account-related local app data controlled by the app.

Some information may be retained if necessary for security, legal compliance, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, or legitimate business records. Data stored in backups, logs, or service-provider systems may take additional time to delete.

Local workout notes, Share Workout media, body metrics, and other local-only app data may remain on your device until you delete it in the app or uninstall the app.

You may also contact help@bayou.fitness to request deletion or ask questions about your data.

9. Data Retention

Bayou Fitness keeps personal information for as long as needed to provide the app, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, maintain security, and enforce agreements.

Because local-only app data is stored on your device, that data may remain on your device until you delete it in the app or uninstall the app. Bayou Gold Intelligence request metadata, nutrition-estimation submissions, subscription records, and workout or program analytics are retained for operational, security, debugging, reliability, product improvement, and legal purposes. Support emails may be retained as needed to respond to and manage support requests.

10. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect information. For example, network requests use HTTPS, and access to production systems should be limited to people and service providers who need access to operate the app.

No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

11. Children's Privacy

Bayou Fitness is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without appropriate consent, we will take steps to delete it.

12. California Privacy Notice

This section provides additional information for California residents.

Categories of Personal Information We Collect

Depending on how you use Bayou Fitness, we collect:

• Identifiers, such as email address, account ID, and authentication identifiers;
• Customer records information, such as account information;
• Sensitive personal information, such as account-login information and health-related content you submit to Bayou Gold Intelligence or support;
• Commercial information, such as subscription status and premium-feature transaction information;
• Internet or electronic network activity information, such as request metadata and app-related service interactions;
• Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information, such as photos or dictated content you choose to submit;
• Intelligence-generated estimates, parsing results, or summaries based on content you choose to submit;
• User content, such as workout details, food logs, meal photos, and submitted prompts, when you choose to submit that content off-device.

Sources

We collect information from you, your device, Apple Health when you grant permission, compatible heart-rate devices when you connect them, Bayou Gold Intelligence when you submit content, and service providers that help operate the app.

Purposes

We use information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including account management, app functionality, HealthKit integration, intelligence processing at your request, support, security, debugging, and legal compliance.

Sale and Sharing

Bayou Fitness does not sell personal information and does not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

California Rights

Depending on applicable law, California residents may have rights to know, access, delete, correct, opt out of sale or sharing, limit certain uses of sensitive personal information, and not be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights.

To make a request, contact help@bayou.fitness. We may need to verify your identity before responding.

13. Consumer Health Data Privacy Notice

This section is intended to provide additional transparency for users in states with consumer health data privacy laws.

Categories of Consumer Health Data

Bayou Fitness processes consumer health data locally on your device. Bayou Fitness also collects or processes specific health-related content you submit to Bayou Gold Intelligence, program analytics, automatic nutrition estimation, or support, including:

• Workout and exercise data you submit;
• Heart-rate data and related workout metrics you submit;
• Nutrition, calorie, macro, meal, and food journal data you submit;
• Body metrics you submit, such as body weight, body fat percentage, and lean body mass;
• Fitness goals, training programs, workout schedules, progress statistics, and related information you submit;
• HealthKit data you choose to share;
• Photos, text, or other content you submit that relates to fitness, nutrition, or body metrics;
• Intelligence-generated estimates, parsing results, or summaries based on health, fitness, or nutrition content you submit.

Sources of Consumer Health Data

We may process consumer health data locally or collect submitted consumer health data from:

• You, when you enter data in the app;
• Your device;
• Apple Health, when you grant permission;
• Compatible heart-rate devices you connect;
• Bayou Gold Intelligence when you submit content and receive generated outputs.

Purposes for Collection and Use

We process or use consumer health data to:

• Provide workout, nutrition, body metric, progress, and export features;
• Read from and write to Apple Health with your permission;
• Process Bayou Gold Intelligence features you choose to use;
• Store app preferences and local history on your device;
• Maintain, secure, debug, and improve app functionality;
• Provide customer support;
• Comply with legal obligations.

Sharing Consumer Health Data

We share consumer health data with service providers only when needed to provide the cloud features you request, such as intelligence processing for user-submitted requests. We also share data at your direction, such as when you export or share a workout receipt.

We do not sell consumer health data.

Consumer Health Data Rights

Depending on applicable law, you may have rights to confirm whether we collect, share, or sell consumer health data; access that data; withdraw consent; and request deletion of consumer health data. You can make a request by contacting help@bayou.fitness.

This Consumer Health Data Privacy Notice is available through the Health Data link in the page navigation.

14. International Users

Bayou Fitness is operated from the United States. If you use Bayou Fitness from outside the United States, your information may be processed in the United States or other countries where we or our service providers operate.

Bayou Fitness applies this Privacy Policy to users of the Bayou Fitness app and website.

15. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will provide notice as appropriate, such as by updating the last updated date, posting the updated policy, or providing in-app notice.

16. Contact Us

For privacy questions or requests, contact:

Bayou Applied Engineering, LLC
Email: help@bayou.fitness