Privacy Policy

This policy covers the kovaa website, mobile app, training plans, support, automated training features, Apple Health integration, and related services. Workouts recorded with Apple Watch may be imported through Apple Health; kovaa does not currently offer a watchOS app.

What kovaa collects

Account and plan setup

Name, preferred name, email, account identifiers, gender, goals, race dates, training level and history, preferences, weekly capacity, availability, injury notes, sleep inputs, and support messages you send us.

Training and performance

Plans, workouts, completed or skipped sessions, notes, race results, distance, duration, pace, speed, cadence, power, heart rate, HRV, sleep, recovery, exertion, and related performance metrics.

Connected services

kovaa 1.0 supports Apple Health and Strava as connected fitness-data sources. Each connects only when you authorize it, and you can disconnect either one at any time in the app or through the provider's own account settings. The current app does not request device Location Services access.

Device and diagnostics

Device model, operating system, app version, language, region, settings, logs, crash reports, diagnostics, performance data, feature interactions, pages viewed, referrals, and approximate location derived from IP address. Sentry processes limited crash and performance telemetry for us.

Payments

Apple and Google process in-app purchases. kovaa may receive subscription status, product identifiers, receipts, and transaction metadata, but not your full card number. RevenueCat helps synchronize subscription and lifetime-access status.

How the information is used

• Build, personalize, schedule, and adapt training plans and workouts.
• Understand completed training, recovery context, and progress.
• Import workouts and health context through Apple Health when you authorize it.
• Generate and adapt training plans and summarize workout performance using deterministic kovaa software.
• Manage trials, subscriptions, receipts, support, security, diagnostics, and service notices.
• Prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our terms, and meet legal obligations.

Apple Health and consumer health data

With your permission, kovaa currently reads workouts, heart rate, active energy, walking and running distance, cycling distance, swimming distance, resting heart rate, heart-rate variability (SDNN), VO2 max, and sleep analysis. kovaa does not currently write data to Apple Health.

Apple Health permission controls access on your iPhone. Before Apple Health data is uploaded to kovaa, the app also asks for separate consent to store and process it on kovaa's systems. Disconnecting Apple Health stops future imports and revokes that upload consent.

Apple Health data is used only for health and fitness functions such as plan personalization, recovery context, workout understanding, and progress analysis. It is not used for advertising, marketing, sale to data brokers, or use-based data mining.

Depending on where you live, training, biometric, fitness, sleep, recovery, or route information may be consumer health data. We process it to provide the service you request, maintain security, comply with law, and for other purposes with your consent.

Automated processing

kovaa uses deterministic software to create and adapt training plans and summarize workout performance. kovaa 1.0 does not send workout, health, profile, or plan data to OpenAI or another external generative-AI provider.

Who may receive information

We do not sell personal information, Apple Health data, or consumer health data. Information may be shared only as needed with:

• Supabase for authentication, databases, storage, and backend functions.
• RevenueCat, Apple, and Google for purchase status, subscriptions, and store transactions.
• Sentry for limited crash reports, diagnostics, and performance monitoring.
• Expo for app delivery services such as push-notification tokens, and Resend for service email.
• Vercel for website hosting and limited website analytics.
• Professional advisers, authorities, or parties to legal process when required or permitted by law.
• A successor in a merger, financing, restructuring, acquisition, or sale, subject to appropriate protections.

Processors must protect personal data consistently with this policy, our instructions, platform rules, and applicable law. We may also use aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably identify you.

Your controls

• Change Apple Health permissions in iOS Settings or the Health app.
• Manage notifications in device settings or in the app where available.
• Manage a subscription in your Apple App Store account settings.
• Delete your account in the app or follow the steps on our data deletion page.

Retention, deletion, and security

We keep personal information only as long as needed to provide the service, maintain your account, comply with law, resolve disputes, prevent abuse, and support legitimate operational needs. In-app deletion removes primary account records and associated user-owned data after confirmation. Limited backup copies may remain until normal backup cycles overwrite them.

Limited records may be retained where required or permitted for security, fraud prevention, tax, accounting, legal, or dispute obligations. We use safeguards including encryption in transit, access controls, monitoring, and least-privilege practices, but no storage or transmission method is completely secure.

Your privacy rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, obtain a copy of, restrict, or object to processing of personal information, withdraw consent, or appeal a denied request. EEA and UK residents may also have data portability rights and may complain to a local supervisory authority.

kovaa is intended for people 18 and older. We do not knowingly allow anyone under 18 to create an account. Information may be processed in the United States or other countries; where required, we use appropriate transfer safeguards.

We may update this policy. Material changes will be communicated in the app, on the website, by email, or by another reasonable method.

Contact

Questions or privacy requests can be sent to support@kovaasport.com. You can also visit Support or the account deletion guide.