LEGAL
The short version: your workouts are saved on your phone and stay there unless you turn on email backup. Nothing is sold, there are no ads and no tracking software, and you can have all of it deleted by asking.
Only what the app needs in order to work. There is no analytics product behind this, no advertising identifier, and no third-party tracking software in the app.
The website collects one thing: if you join the iPhone list, the email address you typed and the page you signed up on.
We do not collect your contacts, your location, your photos, your health records from other apps, or your browsing behaviour. The app does not use the camera or the microphone. We do not use advertising identifiers or embed analytics or attribution software. We do not sell data to anyone.
Every set you log is saved to a database on your phone first and shown immediately, so the app works in a gym with no signal. Without email backup, your workouts stay on that phone and are never sent to us.
With email backup turned on, your profile and workouts also sync to our server so a new phone can get them back. The server is a virtual private server run by Hostinger in Mumbai, India. A backup of the database is taken every night and kept on that server for fourteen days.
A small number of providers, each doing one job:
That is the full list. None of them are permitted to use your data for their own purposes.
Synced data stays for as long as your account exists, because a training history that gets trimmed is not a training history. Nightly backups roll off after fourteen days. Technical logs are short-lived. Data on your phone is yours to delete by deleting it in Settings or uninstalling the app. When you delete your account, everything goes on the schedule on the data deletion page.
You can ask for a copy of everything we hold about you, ask for a correction, ask for deletion, or object to a particular use. Depending on where you live, some or all of these are legal rights; we apply them to everybody. Write to support@barbellbowl.com and you get an answer within thirty days, usually much sooner.
Barbell Bowl is not for people under sixteen. We do not knowingly create accounts for them. If you believe a child has an account, tell us and it will be removed.
Traffic between the app and the server is encrypted in transit. The database is not reachable from the public internet, and access to the server is limited to the people who run it. No system is perfect, and if there is ever a breach that affects you, we will tell you what happened and what was exposed.
If this policy changes in a way that affects what we collect or who sees it, the date at the top changes and the change is explained here before it takes effect. We do not make material changes quietly.
Write to support@barbellbowl.com. A person reads it. For anything about your data specifically, put "data request" in the subject line and it gets handled first.